蛊真人

蛊真人
"Supreme true inheritance!" Fang Yuan's pupils enlarged and his gaze burned brightly.

When the true inheritance light lump was still a thousand steps away, Fang Yuan felt
its surging aura.

This was a feeling which ordinary true inheritances and even unparalleled true
inheritances did not have.

Under the effect of this aura, thoughts started to gather in Fang Yuan's mind; countless
thoughts emerged out of thin air and his memories flashed past continuously.

If his mind was like a deep pond during normal times, then right now, the rapidly
increasing thoughts were like a huge waterfall crashing down into this deep pond.

Thoughts surged madly, creating waves after waves!

This feeling was incomparably wonderful, and Fang Yuan was not able to find an
accurate word to describe it.

The memories buried deep within his mind started to emerge one after another, the
dust on them removed as they realistically and vividly appeared in his mind.

Great numbers of inspirational lights flashed past and all sorts of lively ideas emerged
in Fang Yuan's mind. Some problems and doubts regarding cultivation were being
instantly solved under the inspirational lights.

An extremely strong self-confidence involuntarily arose in Fang Yuan's mind.

This was an indescribably wonderful feeling, as if everything was within his control,
as if there were no problems he could not solve……

This was a special 'power' that people could not help but be deeply addicted to.
"Lad, wake up quickly, I also know how intoxicating this feeling is, but if you don't want
to die, don't lose yourself in it! Look at yourself quickly!" Mo Yao shouted.

This voice awakened Fang Yuan, and when he looked at himself, he was pale with
horror!

In just a short moment, his body had become weak and exhausted, his glossy forehead
now had wrinkles, his strong arms gave a feeling of being old and decayed and were
turning even more weak.

If not for Mo Yao's reminder, Fang Yuan might have lost himself in that wonderful
feeling and overlooked the changes to his body.

"This Gu is…?!" Fang Yuan thought of an incomparably shocking answer, and at the
same time, used his movement Gu to quickly retreat!

True inheritance secluded domain did not prohibit the use of Gu worms.

The supreme true inheritance also was not chasing Fang Yuan and just continued to
fly on its path.

Fang Yuan rapidly pulled distance with it before fearfully looking at this supreme true
inheritance that was flying far away, cutting open the dark space.

"This is only the aura of a supreme true inheritance and it almost made me lose myself
and die. How difficult would its test be?" Fang Yuan exclaimed in shock.

He could not even get near human qi Gu, an unparalleled true inheritance. There was
no need to speak of supreme true inheritance; let alone approaching it, just by nearing
it a little, the aura it leaked out almost took his life.

Just like Mo Yao said, Fang Yuan as a mortal was too weak!

This inheritance was definitely a great thing but he did not have the strength to bear
it. It was like a bee picking honey, if the honey was as big as a fist, the bee would instead
drown to death.

"The Immortal Gu of this supreme true inheritance, could it be… that legendary Gu?"
Fang Yuan spoke with almost eighty percent certainty. But this answer was too
shocking, making him somewhat unable to believe it.
"Hehehe." Mo Yao laughed, "Lad, your guess is correct. Even I did not dare to believe it
back then, but the truth is right before your eyes, there is no choice but to believe it!
Right, the Immortal Gu contained in this supreme true inheritance is the rank nine Gu
of legend, wisdom Gu!"

Wisdom Gu!

It was recorded in <>.

This was a rank nine Immortal Gu which could give endless wisdom to the Gu Master!

But the price to use it was extremely high.

The legends of Ren Zu clearly recorded that Ren Zu and Desolate Ancient Moon had to
give their middle age to it to obtain its help.

In other words, using wisdom Gu meant using up lifespan!

Fang Yuan had not even approached it, but his lifespan had been worn down rapidly;
wrinkles appeared and his body aged in just a short period of time.

In regards to Fang Yuan, wisdom Gu was a true death god!

"I really don't know how Giant Sun Immortal Venerable obtained it back then and even
more, what heaven defying methods did he use to seal it here. No wonder Giant Sun
Immortal Venerable thought up all kinds of methods to extend lifespan, he must have
used wisdom Gu a lot." Fang Yuan was deeply moved.

Mo Yao instead sighed: "Giant Sun Immortal Venerable probably used wisdom Gu for
one reason - to extend lifespan. Unfortunately, the more wisdom Gu was used, the
shorter his lifespan became, and in the end, he did not obtain the solution he wanted
as well."

According to the historical records, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable lived for over eight
thousand years before dying.

Eight thousand years was already a result on the middle to upper level among rank
nine venerables. Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable who had the longest lifespan,
lived for twenty-five thousand years. The one with the shortest lifespan was Red Lotus
Demon Venerable who only lived for three thousand years.
Other venerables generally had a lifespan of around seven thousand years.

"There are three supreme true inheritances in true inheritance secluded domain. Tell
me, what are the other two like? I really want to experience them." Fang Yuan's eyes
let out an indescribable radiance.

Mo Yao felt something wrong with his tone, and quickly persuaded: "Lad, don't have
stupid thoughts, pick up an ordinary true inheritance quickly and leave! You have the
ten-edge owner token and can only take away an ordinary true inheritance anyway.
Even if you pass the test of an unparalleled true inheritance, you cannot take them.
Don't even mention supreme true inheritances, your weak body that can be blown
away by the wind cannot even endure their aura!"

Fang Yuan laughed loudly: "Your words make me even more interested to see them!
This opportunity is extremely rare, I am afraid I won't get another chance if I miss it
this time."

"Brat, have you gone mad? Do you not know you lost at least two years of your lifespan
just a few moments ago! If you continue squandering time like this, and the true
inheritances start flying with the speed of a meteor, you won't be able to get anything,
and you might even lose your life!" Mo Yao was anxious.

Fang Yuan kept on laughing without being moved.

He continued to wander, detouring far away when he saw ordinary true inheritances
and unparalleled true inheritances, with not even a bit of intention to take them.

Mo Yao's will became more anxious: "You lunatic! Heavens, what in the world are you
thinking in your brain? You are letting so many true inheritances go away just to
broaden your horizons? You idiot, if you die, what should I do? What about Water
Pavilion?"

"If I die, this will of yours will also not be able to survive, but you can rest easy, you
still have a will left in Water Pavilion. You can wait for a fated person and entrust this
precious task upon them." Fang Yuan unhurriedly replied.

Mo Yao tried to persuade him again, but Fang Yuan was adamant in doing things his
own way.

He kept on exploring non-stop, and after several days, the true inheritances were
moving faster; Fang Yuan went into dangerous situations every now and then.

Several times, he faced the danger of losing his life, but narrowly managed to escape
in the end.

Mo Yao had been trying to persuade him the whole time, the anxiety making her go
mad: "Lad, I surrender, you are truly stubborn! Alright, you don't have to continue, I
will tell you about the other two supreme true inheritances."

"The first is a luck path inheritance founded by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, using
his unique luck path attainment, he was able to become invincible in the world!
Second is the control rights of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. This tower was refined
by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Long Hair Ancestor; it can plunder the Gu
worms of a region, there would be endless Gu cultivation resources for one who
obtains it!"

She was truly anxious.

Normally, she might not necessarily be in the mood to provide such inside details to
Fang Yuan even if he asked. Now, however, she revealed it, afraid Fang Yuan would
continue acting foolishly.

But what she was afraid of happened.

Fang Yuan chuckled and as if he had not heard anything, continued to wander.

Several days later, the true inheritances' flying speed was already as fast as birds. It
was extremely easy for Fang Yuan to evade one or two, but true inheritance secluded
domain seemed to be shrinking and all sizes of true inheritances had to fly in the
narrowing space. The long tails of all sorts of colorful lights they dragged were almost
interweaving a thinly spread light web. Fang Yuan could only survive moving through
the cracks of it.

At this stage, Fang Yuan was using all his concentration and did not dare to relax for
even a moment, for a moment of carelessness would lead to the tragedy of his death.

"Leave quickly. You can't even take away ordinary true inheritances now. As long as
you continue to stay here, the danger will increase by each second. Sigh, you have
actually gone crazy in such a crucial moment!" Mo Yao was getting dispirited from all
the persuading.
Fang Yuan's gaze was burning, suddenly asking: "Tell me, is there a possibility I can
find an opportunity to reap benefits when two true inheritances collide?"

Mo Yao was stunned upon listening to this.

But soon, she shouted in a shrill voice: "You fool, you idiot! Would the grand Giant Sun
Immortal Venerable commit such a clear mistake? So you were thinking like that, I
overestimated you! I overestimated you too much! You have clearly become a victim
of your own ingenuity, how could there be such an obvious loophole for you to exploit?
You have thought too wishfully, you are too naive!"

"Eh, so it was just my wishful thinking." Fang Yuan chuckled, his expression undisturbed
as he continued to explore.

Actually, he had already known this, but intentionally said it to provoke Mo Yao.

"Why are you still not leaving? Are you looking to die?!" Mo Yao was provoked and was
completely driven mad by Fang Yuan.

"Whether I die or not is my matter, it is none of your concern. You have already died,
why is a dead person making such a din?" Fang Yuan indifferently ridiculed her; his
expression still tranquil as if the one in danger was not him.

"Damn it! Scoundrel! Idiot!" Mo Yao's face flushed with rage and started hurling out
curses.

Rumble…

Right at this time, an explosion suddenly occurred a great distance away.

Fang Yuan gazed at the source of the sound, seeing two true inheritances colliding
which then sprang towards different directions.

Fang Yuan was dumbstruck.

He had not expected his nonsensical words to come true, true inheritances actually
collided!

Especially when one of the inheritances seemed to be a supreme true inheritance!!

Mo Yao was also dumbstruck.

"How is this possible?" Her voice rose an octave higher into an ear-piercing sound that
had no demeanor of a refinement path grandmaster, "Back then, when I explored this
place, why did not I encounter such a good thing?!"

But soon, her eyes opened wide, coming to a realization: "So it was like that! That is
the luck path supreme true inheritance, back then I did all I could to open up a crack
in it to obtain the fortune rivalling heaven Gu, but in the end it flew away. I could only
use the other inheritances I obtained to settle for the second best option, refining
calamity beckoning Gu!"

Mo Yao had created a crack in this supreme true inheritance, because it was no longer
in a perfect state, the original balance was tilted, allowing true inheritances to collide
into one another.

Boom!

Another sound of a collision.

Fang Yuan's eyes opened wide, this collision seemed to have caused a Gu to fly out
from the luck path supreme true inheritance?

Fang Yuan was stumped: "What is that?"

Mo Yao was also stupefied before shouting: "That is a luck path Gu worm, what are
being dazed for, aren't you going to take it?"

Fang Yuan, however, hesitated: "If I try to take this Gu, wouldn't I be met with the luck
path true inheritance's test?"

Luck path true inheritance was a supreme true inheritance, Fang Yuan would never
be able to endure its test.

"What damned test! The collision has enlarged the crack in the true inheritance light
lump, it is breaking down. Take it and leave quickly, if you don't leave now, you are
going to die here!" Mo Yao shouted.

Fang Yuan chuckled and moved forward, dodging here and there, before being able to
approach with great difficulty and pick up that Gu worm.
This was a rank five mortal Gu and not an Immortal Gu.

"Lad, you are still not leaving?!" Mo Yao was almost howling by now.

"Haha, what's the rush." Fang Yuan laughed heartily, but did not leave, instead staying
within true inheritance secluded domain, observing everywhere.

"Looking at the time, with the current chaos, it is almost ready." he mumbled.

"Lad, what did you say?"

Mo Yao had just spoken when Fang Yuan sprinkled many Gu worms which activated
together to form a whirlpool.

The whirlpool let out a majestic force of attraction, absorbing all the true inheritance
lights.

Several breaths later, the whirlpool slowed down and crumbled with a loud sound,
revealing a door.

"All according to plan!" Fang Yuan threw himself in without hesitation.

The next moment.

He saw the land spirit!

The scene before one's eyes was that of a grand and elegant white jade hall.

Four huge pillars were holding up the roof, on the ground, light casted shadows on a
person.

Be it the walls, pillars, or roof, they were pure and white as snow, they were all created
using white jade stones.

At the center of the hall, there was an elevated area with twenty-three steps of stairs.

On the elevated area, there was a green copper divine bird statue. The divine bird was
looking up, and spreading its wings, but there were countless black chains, each with
the size of an ancient tree, coiling around the divine bird's body, tangling around its
long neck, its slim legs, and even piercing through its feathers and lodging itself into
its body.

The divine bird's eyes were sharp as daggers, it was frowning and had its mouth wide
open, almost as if screaming out loud. Its expression was very moving, it looked so real
with delicate details, and there was an indomitable spirit of resistance oozing from it,
this spirit could leave a firm impression after a single gaze.

Fang Yuan appeared on the stairs, looking at the tall and huge green copper divine
bird statue covering his vision, his dark pupils seemed to have flames burning within.

"This, this, this!" The sudden turn of events shocked Mo Yao to the point of stuttering.

She gulped as she pointed her finger, shouting: "This is actually the Frost Jade Peacock,
Imperial Court blessed land's land spirit!!"

"Ah, what's there to be surprised about?" Fang Yuan's lips curled into a smile, he said:
"Imperial Court blessed land originally had a land spirit, otherwise it would not have
recognised Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and made him its master. The land spirit is
formed by the combination of an obsession and the blessed land's heavenly power, to
get rid of the land spirit, you will have to deal with the entire blessed land. If the land
spirit dies, the blessed land will be destroyed. If the blessed land is destroyed, the land
spirit will die too. Currently Imperial Court blessed land is still in good shape, it means
the land spirit is still alive."

His words made Mo Yao shout in anger: "You bastard, such obvious reasoning, how
could I not know this!"

Mo Yao had done all she could to research Eighty-Eight True Yang Building for her
lover Bo Qing, in an attempt to get the fortune rivalling heaven Gu, and help Bo Qing
advance to rank nine.

Eventually, although she succeeded in entering the true inheritance secluded domain,
because of her insufficient power she could not obtain fortune rivalling heaven Gu.
Instead she had to settle for something else, using her inheritance information and
her own foundation as a refinement grandmaster to refine the calamity beckoning Gu.

Because of this, she understood the value of the land spirit of Imperial Court blessed
land extremely clearly!

Back then, when Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was not rank nine, he had won in the
competition for Imperial Court blessed land's inheritance, and became the owner of
Imperial Court blessed land.

When he became rank nine and was invincible in the world, he had the superior
grotto-heaven, Longevity Heaven, and thus Imperial Court blessed land became one
of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's multiple residences within the world.

Giant Sun Immortal Venerable created Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and set it up
within Imperial Court blessed land.

This formed a relationship — if one was targeting Eighty-Eight True Yang Building,
they would need to first enter Imperial Court blessed land. Imperial Court blessed
land thus became a protective shell for Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

After Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's arrangement, this shell had been exerting great
use, in that Gu Immortals could not enter.

But in this setup, there was a huge flaw, any Gu Immortal could see it clearly!
That was the existence of the land spirit of Imperial Court blessed land!

This flaw did not exist when Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was still alive. Because
Giant Sun was the master of the land spirit, the land spirit would obey and do
whatever he told it to do.

But after Giant Sun Immortal Venerable died, Imperial Court blessed land became
ownerless. As long as one could meet the land spirit's expectations, anyone could
become Imperial Court blessed land's new owner.

And Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was situated inside Imperial Court blessed land,
thus whoever controlled Imperial Court blessed land would have Eighty-Eight True
Yang Building in their grasp.

As long as one was a Gu Immortal, they would understand this from just a small
amount of thinking.

In Mo Yao's lifetime, when researching Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, she had spent
a huge amount of time and effort in this field.

But eventually, she made no progress.

All the hard work and effort she put into this resulted in nothing.

What sort of person was Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, how could he be unaware of
this loophole? He dealt with this perfectly, sealing the land spirit deep within, and in
Mo Yao's eventual exploration, she could not even find a single feather of the land
spirit.

"To think that the land spirit was hidden inside the true inheritance secluded domain!
Only when the true inheritances fly at a certain speed would this loophole appear, and
allow for the possibility of opening this gateway!" Mo Yao's heart was shaken, at this
moment, she understood what had happened.

The more she thought about it, the more she viewed Fang Yuan with a new and higher
level of respect.

"This lad, I underestimated him! What sort of background does he have, he actually
knew this method of entry?" Mo Yao was shocked and curious.
Fang Yuan's performance was very shocking, it greatly exceeded her expectations.

What she did not know was, this was inside the video from central continent's Gu
Immortals in Fang Yuan's previous life.

In fact, the deep research of central continent's Gu Immortals was actually built upon
the foundation of Mo Yao's findings.

Mo Yao was an impressive refinement grandmaster, for her lover, she researched the
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, and charged in alone. After she died, the previous
research material that she left behind was in the hands of Spirit Affinity House.

For the ten thousand years after that, generations after generations of geniuses within
Spirit Affinity House continued their research on it. At the same time, Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building had been corroded by the power of time, showing more and more
loopholes over the years, becoming easier to exploit.

But Spirit Affinity House knew that to take down this juicy meat called Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building, it was not something a super force could do alone. Thus, Spirit
Affinity House secretly worked with several other central continent sects and planned
this for thousands of years.

Spirit Affinity House took the lead as they controlled the most important research
materials from beginning to end. Later, good preparation would be the key to success,
when central continent's Gu Immortals attacked, the group was led by Spirit Affinity
House's fairy of that generation, Black Moon.

As he walked up the stairs, Fang Yuan arrived at the foot of the green copper divine
bird.

This tall statue was Imperial Court blessed land's land spirit, Frost Jade Peacock!

Except that it was sealed tightly by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, and could not move.
Since hundreds of thousands of years ago, throughout the ages, it had been standing
here without any movement.

As they got closer, Mo Yao had a discovery: "Heh, lad, your plan will be hard to execute.
The green paste on the Frost Jade Peacock's body is created by the rank seven
Immortal Gu Earth Prison. The black chains that are coiling around its body are made
from the rank seven Immortal Gu Earth Net… Eh!"
While saying this, Mo Yao thought of something and her words stopped.

At once, in Fang Yuan's mind, she was staring with her eyes wide open, like she had
seen a ghost.

Because she had suddenly remembered: Not long ago, Fang Yuan summoned two
Immortal Gu, one of them was Gruel Mud!

Earth prison Gu, earth net Gu, although they were rank seven Immortal Gu and were
higher than Gruel Mud by one rank.

But they were one time expenditure Gu, they vanished after one use.

The two rank seven Immortal Gu worked together to seal the land spirit, but after
hundreds of thousands of years of corrosion from time, this strength had weakened
greatly.

And Gruel Mud was a direct counter to this strength!

"Hahaha, it seems you have already thought about it, you are not too stupid." Fang
Yuan laughed heartily as he took out the gruel mud Immortal Gu from his pocket.

Although this Gu was rank six, because it was an expenditure type Gu, it was
comparatively easier to use, there was no need to inject immortal essence into it, he
just needed to squeeze it.

Fang Yuan squeezed lightly and it shattered.

The Gu worm burst and oozed out a brown-green light that was like liquid.

The light followed Fang Yuan's will and flew up, fusing into the divine bird statue.

Throughout the process, Mo Yao watched in a daze, unable to say a word.

After the light fused into the statue, a slight tremor occured, but this tremor was
simply too light, it was almost like an illusion.

But soon, this tremor became larger.

The entire divine bird statue starting shaking. Cracks were forming on the green paste
covering the divine bird statue, next, the chains starting colliding with one another,
making a loud and sharp noise.

"Su… success?! Don't tell me, after hundreds of thousands of years of wear and tear,
the powers of the two Immortal Gu were used up?" Mo Yao muttered to herself, she
had a complex expression, there were disbelief, surprise, suspicion, and denial…

But afterwards, the tremors became smaller.

The divine bird statue became silent, and the chains stopped clashing, the entire white
jade hall became quiet once again.

Mo Yao was deeply disappointed, she sighed: "Failed in the end! There was the
difference of a rank, plus this was the setup of an Immortal Venerable."

"Hehehe." But at this point, Fang Yuan laughed lightly: "Mo Yao, look at the divine
bird's head?"

Mo Yao's will looked over and was shocked: "The green paste on the land spirit's head
is slowly melting! That's right, this is the gruel mud Immortal Gu's real effect, I was
too caught up with the commotion and got carried away, I lost my bearings and did
not think of this. Hehe, laughable, how laughable."

Mo Yao suddenly shook her head and sighed, immediately afterwards her expression
had vanished completely, restoring the demeanour of a legendary Gu Immortal, a
refinement grandmaster.

Actually, she could not help but briefly lose her cool.

In her life, she had paid too huge of a price for Imperial Court blessed land, for Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building.

Right now, earth prison Gu and earth net Gu, the powers of these two Immortal Gu,
although corroded mostly by the power of time, they still had a portion remaining.

Although gruel mud Immortal Gu was effective against them, it was only rank six, it
was still very difficult to get rid of the remaining power.

But don't forget about the existence of the land spirit!

The tremors earlier were due to the land spirit.

It was the one which exerted strength, causing the two Immortal Gu to divert the
majority of their power to suppress it, allowing the gruel mud Immortal Gu's power
to sneak in.

As the green paste melted, it turned into gruel mud on the white jade floor, the green-
black mud was a great contrast to the white tiles on the ground.

Drop by drop, they fell on the ground.

The Frost Jade Peacock's head was released, but after getting to its neck, the speed of
melting greatly reduced.

Evidently, earth prison and earth net Gu's remaining power reacted and started to
resist Gruel Mud, causing the efficiency to reduce greatly.

"Heh, just like in the video in my previous life, it is exactly the same." Fang Yuan
laughed as he looked at the land spirit, Frost Jade Peacock: "Oh Imperial Court land
spirit, look down at your feet, I was the one who released you. How does it feel to
breathe again after hundreds of thousands of years? As long as you recognise me as
your master, I will help you to regain freedom!"

Frost Jade Peacock's angry expression was still fixed on its face, hearing Fang Yuan's
words, it laughed arrogantly: "I am one with the blessed land, all the things that
happened in the blessed land for the last hundreds of thousands of years are clear in
my heart. If you want to be my new owner, you will need to fulfill one condition."

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's fulfilled this land
spirit's request and became Imperial Court blessed land's owner.

Today, Fang Yuan was facing this request as well.

At this point, the video in his previous life had no more value. Fang Yuan laughed as
his eyes shone, asking —

"What condition?"
"No, don't abandon me…”

"Save me, save me, benefactor!"

The voices were reverberating in Tai Bai Yun Sheng's ears, he opened his eyes
suddenly and sat up on his bed.

Huff, huff…

He was panting, with his body covered in sticky sweat, it was very uncomfortable.

Another nightmare!

Under the dim light, this rank five peak stage expert's face showed an old and weary
expression befitting his age.

In the silent room, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's breathing sounds became softer, as his frown
slowly eased.

Sitting on his bed, he fell into deep silence, like he was in a daze, there was an extreme
fatigue hidden in his gaze.

Ever since he failed the round, he had been in deep guilt and self-blame for causing
Gao Yang and Zhu Zai to be sacrificed due to his own greed.

Almost every night, he had the same nightmare.

In the nightmare, blood was pouring everywhere, the smell was overbearing. All sorts
of ugly blood beasts bared their claws and fangs as he was encircled, facing Gao Yang
and Zhu Zai's pleas.

They called him benefactor, they asked him to save them.

But every time, even though Tai Bai Yun Sheng had an aperture full of primeval
essence, he would be unable to move, watching Gao Yang and Zhu Zai get surrounded
by blood beasts and eventually consumed, leaving behind their pale white bones.

Throughout the process, Gao Yang and Zhu Zai would sometimes beg him, sometimes
they would protect him, or curse furiously, or taunt him.

Eventually, when they turn into pale white skeletons, lying in the pool of blood, they
would still say with their remaining skulls—

"I believe in Lord Tai Bai, he is so kind and righteous, he will definitely never abandon
us!"

"Mm, I believe in him too! Even if I die, I will believe…”

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was in pain, he felt sadness, helplessness, and regret!

Especially at the end, he would kneel on the ground helplessly in his dream, letting the
blood dye his white hair red as he cried profusely.

He felt that he was no longer Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

This experience made him reevaluate himself.

But every time he examined, it resulted in a severe negative answer.

Sometimes when he looked in the mirror, he felt that he was looking at a stranger!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was not the only person who had a sleepless night.

It was late at night.

Imperial Court blessed land's night was dazzling with silver light, shining on the land.

Hei Lou Lan looked out of the window, above the sacred palace, Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building was still forming new floors, the dazzling aurora was shining brightly in the
sky, creating a beautiful scenery.

"Damn it! The owner token went missing, what in the world happened?" Thinking
back to the time when he challenged the round, Hei Lou Lan gritted his teeth, he
clenched his fists as his eyes shone with ruthlessness, ready to devour people with
one glance.

Throughout history, there had never been any Lord of the Imperial Court who lost
their owner token, but this had to happen to Hei Lou Lan.

"Forget it! So what if I don't have the owner token, so what if I cannot use the Grey
Meltdown killer move? Whatever the difficulties, they cannot stop me from getting the
strength path Immortal Gu! Mother, if you can watch this from the afterlife, see how I
take revenge for you!"

Fang Yuan was slowly walking in the sacred palace's garden.

His expression was not nice, he had a grim look on his face.

In the flower garden, there was a jade fountain and a stone bridge, with flowers
blooming and flourishing like it was spring, this beautiful environment was not
something he could currently enjoy.

Right after coming out of the white jade hall, Fang Yuan was feeling vexed about the
matter of subduing Imperial Court land spirit.

In his mind, Mo Yao's will chuckled: "Hehehe, to think that Imperial Court blessed
land's condition for ownership was like that. Lad, with your gloomy personality, it will
not be easy for you to find a woman that you love, while she also has to be deeply in
love with you."

Not long ago, Fang Yuan faced Imperial Court land spirit Frost Jade Peacock, and was
told the condition to become the owner of Imperial Court — true love!

To make the Frost Jade Peacock willingly submit to a master, and obey every
command, one person was not enough, it had to be a Gu Master couple who were
deeply in love.

It was very easy for Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to fulfill this condition.

But for Fang Yuan, it was filled with difficulty.

Not mentioning the other parts, just requiring Fang Yuan to be truly in love with a
certain woman was a near impossible matter.
"If this was in my previous life, I would be able to fulfill it. But now…” Fang Yuan took
a few steps and stopped at the stone bridge, he rested on the railing and looked at the
jade lake below the bridge, laughing coldly.

The lake was like a mirror, under the radiance of the silvery night sky, it was a dazzling
sight.

What he did in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building that night was really a scary
experience, but that was over now.

At this moment, he was basking in the beautiful scenery around the sacred palace,
compared to the dangerous predicament he was in earlier, this truly felt like a dream
or illusion.

"Life is like a dream, like morning dew and nocturnal flower, like the shadow of a
bubble…” Fang Yuan muttered, going into a daze.

The light breeze caused ripples on the surface of the lake.

Among the ripples, a blurry image of a woman's figure seemed to appear in Fang
Yuan's absent-minded gaze.

That was the woman he had buried deep in his memories.

In Fang Yuan's previous life, he had faced disaster and was a destitute wanderer,
during the lowest time of his life, he had met her, the world's encounters were just so
amazing, and the toying of fate was simply cruel and merciless.

"If we are talking about true love… why am I thinking of her?" Fang Yuan's fingers
which were holding the railing exerted force unknowingly.

He frowned suddenly, and his gaze turned ice cold, the woman's figure silently
vanished, and the surface of the lake appeared before him once again.

Fang Yuan fell into deep thought.

The current situation was not looking good!

Frost Jade Peacock was formed from the obsession of the blessed land's original
owner, although it was arrogant, it would acknowledge true love.
But it was near impossible for Fang Yuan to meet its requirements.

If he could not subdue the land spirit, then Fang Yuan's plan for taking over Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building would fail completely, he would have to stop here.

"No wonder the central continent Gu Immortals in my previous life chose to destroy
Imperial Court blessed land, and destroy Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Gu
Immortals have lots of deep secrets and often have extreme personalities, it is harder
for them to experience true love than mortals."

"After using Gruel Mud, even though the melting is slow, the land spirit's seal is getting
weaker. After being sealed for hundreds of thousands of years, the land spirit is filled
with hatred and desires freedom badly, it will definitely try to break the seal. Although
Giant Sun's will is still slumbering, when the seal melts to a certain degree, or if the
land spirit continues to resist, it will definitely awaken!"

This was Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's will!

When an Immortal Venerable rages, blood would flow like a river, all beings would
mourn. But the land spirit has the territorial advantage, as long as the blessed land
remains intact, it would have a continual source of strength.

When the two contest, it would be scarier than deities fighting. At that point, those
who were mortals like Fang Yuan would suffer.

Especially when Fang Yuan was the culprit who released the land spirit, if he was
targeted by Giant Sun's will, he would face a terrible end, there was no way out!

Fang Yuan's original plan was like this.

First, he would enter northern plains and make his way into Imperial Court blessed
land.

He achieved this flawlessly, using his previous life's memories, he killed the Wolf King
Chang Shan Yin who was at his last breath, taking over his identity and becoming a
higher-up of Hei tribe army. Next, he hid within the alliance army and got into Imperial
Court blessed land.

The second step was to get into Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and gain the most
benefits for himself. Using the video from the central continent Gu Immortals in his
previous life, he would subdue the land spirit and without alerting the Immortal
Venerable's will, he would become the new owner of Imperial Court blessed land.

The third step, after becoming the owner of the Imperial Court, he would not be in a
rush to take down Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, instead he would hide in the
background and develop in secret.

Within Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, there was an Immortal Venerable's will, it was
not easy to deal with. Imperial Court blessed land was a sacred place in the hearts of
northern plains' Gu Masters, it could not be defiled or tainted.

If he was discovered, Fang Yuan would face the assault of the entirety of northern
plains!

Such frightening power, even if Fang Yuan escaped to other places, it would be
pointless. There would not be a single super force that would protect him from the
pressure of the whole of northern plains' forces.

Unless it was during the chaotic five regions battle, when no one had the spare energy
to bother with him, and when all five regions suffer setbacks, Fang Yuan would survive
even if he was exposed.

After becoming the land spirit's owner, Fang Yuan would order the land spirit to stay
inside the white jade hall, while cooperating with Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's
operations.

This way, everything would progress smoothly.

First, he could use Imperial Court blessed land's strength to deal with the Gu Immortal
Tai Bai Yun Sheng. This way, he would have a greater chance of success, and regardless
of how their battle end up, Fang Yuan would not lose. Even if he failed to take the
Immortal Gu Landscape as Before, Fang Yuan would not be in any mortal danger due
to the land spirit's protection.

Secondly, Fang Yuan could use Fixed Immortal Travel to move between Hu Immortal
blessed land and Imperial Court blessed land freely. Hu Immortal blessed land was
being covetously eyed by Immortal Crane Sect, and every once in a while, there would
be an earthly calamity, it would be the centre of many struggles and not the ideal place
to cultivate peacefully.
By becoming the owner of Imperial Court blessed land, he could use Hu Immortal
blessed land as his cover and Imperial Court blessed land as his true base. While
cultivating, he could scheme against Immortal Crane Sect to gain the most benefits. If
it failed, he could discard Hu Immortal blessed land and retreat into Imperial Court
blessed land.

Imperial Court blessed land was protected by an Immortal Venerable's setup, it was
hard for wisdom path Gu Immortals to make deductions involving it. Moreover, Fang
Yuan would continue to fix and repair the loopholes in the future, thus it would be
much safer than Hu Immortal blessed land!

Thirdly, Fang Yuan would own this precious resource, every time True Yang Building
opens up, he could collect all these vast amounts of resources including Immortal Gu
without putting himself in danger. When the time comes, he would do what he did in
his previous life, subduing a blood path Gu worm and becoming a blood path Gu
Immortal. It would be slow and steady, safe and sound.

But though the plan was perfect, reality was not.

Fang Yuan put in his best effort, but he was stuck at the second step.

Unable to become the land spirit's owner, he could not borrow its strength, as a mortal,
there was nothing much he could do.

The situation was progressively getting worse, Giant Sun's will was definitely going to
awaken. If Fang Yuan wanted to escape, he could use hole earth Gu and connect to Hu
Immortal blessed land to flee. But he could not bring these few Immortal Gu with him!

Moreover, even if he obtained landscape as before Immortal Gu, how would he quickly
and safely return to Hu Immortal blessed land?

Without the land spirit's help, as a mortal, Fang Yuan could not do that.

"At present, the plan can only be to first think of every possible method to convince
the land spirit. If I am on its side, we can deal with Giant Sun's will together, and I
might be able to borrow some of its strength. Sigh… I really do not want to use that
final method."

Fang Yuan thought about it for a while, but could not think of any better ideas.
Half a month later.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

The wind scythe birds were densely packed together, a great number of them engulfed
the sky as they charged towards the alliance army.

These wind scythe birds had beaks as sharp as swords, their wings were curved and
razor-edged, like that of a scythe. They flew extremely fast, leaving behind afterimages
in the air, and had no fear when they charged towards their enemies.

"Kill, kill, kill!" Hei Lou Lan shouted, the black smoke around his body was rolling,
creating multiple black tentacles as they captured the surrounding wind scythe birds
one after another and devoured them.

The battle of the army fighting against the wind scythe birds had been ongoing for an
hour, with both sides suffering heavy casualties.

The floor was littered with bird corpses, but there were also many dead Gu Masters.

"Ahhhhh…” Hei Lou Lan screamed, he was going berserk from fighting, stretching out
his right hand.

His right arm was in a claw shape, as a dark spiral was formed, it rotated in the air and
converged at the center of his right claw.

In the blink of an eye, thousands of dark streams gathered like they were flowing into
the sea, into Hei Lou Lan's right claw like a black light ball.

The light ball was dark and mysterious, it spun on its own and gave out a thunder like
sound.

"Go!" Hei Lou Lan's eyes suddenly opened wide as he shouted, using all his strength
to point his claw at the sky.

He grabbed the round ball of black light like he was lifting heavy weight, his movement
was very slow and strenuous.

Following this movement, the light ball slowly flew into the air.

In the air, it rapidly expanded, in a few breaths' time, it expanded to the size of a
mountain.

At once, the black light ball occupied the sky covering half the alliance army's surface
area.

Countless wind scythe birds were engulfed by it, melting and corroding, not even their
bones were left intact.

The entire process was silent and strangely overbearing, people's hearts were turning
cold from seeing this.

This was Hei Lou Lan's signature killer move — Dark Vortex!

After lasting for six breaths' time, the vortex killed tens of thousands of wind scythe
birds.

The numbers of the wind scythe birds were too huge, and because they gathered
above the alliance army, they were a terrifying threat.

After the dark vortex vanished, a huge clear hole appeared in the sky, but soon, the
wind scythe birds flooded in like a tide, covering up the hole again. Above the alliance
army, there were countless wind scythe birds again.

This was the twenty-fifth round of the sixty-eighth floor of Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building.

The numbers of wind scythe birds were too great, among them were large numbers
of bird kings, their assault was too powerful.

Actually, according to their experiences, they knew there had to be an easier way to
challenge this round, but Hei Lou Lan directly charged in and mobilized all his strength
to overwhelm the birds.
This attracted the revenge and counterattack of the frenzied wind scythe birds.

"Hahaha, kill all these damn birds!" At one side, Ye Lui Sang laughed. Hei Lou Lan's
explosive strength triggered his fighting spirit.

Ye Lui tribe was on the same level as Hei tribe, they were both super forces, having Gu
Immortals backing them. Ye Lui Sang and Hei Lou Lan had the same status, they were
both the tribe leader of their respective super tribes.

When he saw Hei Lou Lan's killer move that killed countless wind scythe birds, he was
not willing to hold back anymore.

"Look at my newly developed killer move — Flame Demon!"

Ye Lui Sang shouted loudly as his sleeves fluttered, and his primeval essence rushed
into the Gu worms in his hands.

With a loud thud, his body was clad in flames as the flames burst out, all Gu Masters
near him moved away.

Within the radius of a few hundred steps, he was the only person left.

His body trembled and the flames that could rise to heaven split to form a ten metre
bronze ape that was completely made of flames.

The flaming bronze ape had an ugly appearance, with teeth like a gorilla, strange horns
and bulging muscles. This was the flame demon!

The flame demon rose into the sky, crashing around as all the wind scythe birds that
collided with it were ignited, screaming from being burnt alive.

Along its path, flames were burning, causing a straight line of them to form in the sky.
Large numbers of wind scythe birds were roasted, falling to the ground.

The flame demon rampaged arrogantly, attracting the attention of many birds, it
greatly reduced the pressure of the Gu Masters in the grand army.

"What fire demon, it is nothing much!" Far away, Hei Lou Lan laughed loudly, showing
his smug arrogance.
Ye Lui Sang laughed as well: "Hei tribe leader, take another look!"

In saying this, his body shook as the flames fell off him, forming another flame demon.

Hei Lou Lan's expression changed, not just him, even Fang Yuan who was in the army
took a serious look. The flame demon had great strength, but to think he had more
than one.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building gave lots of opportunities, it was not just Fang Yuan
and Hei Lou Lan who were improving, other Gu Masters were gaining many rewards
as well.

When six flame demons entered the battlefield, the flames on Ye Lui Sang were finally
extinguished.

"Six flame demons, thankfully…” Fang Yuan retracted his gaze.

Hei Lou Lan's expression soothed as well.

Ye Lui Sang had true capability, this killer move was really extraordinary, but that was
as far as it got. In terms of power, it could only be on par with dark vortex.

The flame demons rampaged for an hour as their strength fell more and more,
eventually perishing among the wind scythe birds.

But soon after, Fang Yuan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Xi Xue, Pei Yan Fei, Tao You, Gu Guo Long
and others attacked, using all their killer moves. The great strength of rank five experts
quickly changed the battlefield, tilting the scales of victory towards the alliance army.

Eventually, they succeeded, getting into the twenty-sixth round.

"Reporting to lord tribe leader, thirteen tribe leaders have submitted a letter of
request, they are asking for a temporarily halt of advancement. They are worried
about the huge casualties, they need to rest and recover." Before Hei Lou Lan had
finished probing this round, his attendant Hei Shu had already reported.

Hei Lou Lan frowned immediately, shouting: "Begrudging already despite such few
casualties! These useless bums, they are all useless cowards! Return this request to
them, and tell them we will advance no matter what. Whoever dares to escape or run
away from the alliance army will have their entire tribe and any related tribes
executed, none will be spared!"

Saying so, he held the letter in his hand and tore it into pieces immediately.

"Continue advancing, charge!" Hei Lou Lan waved his hand, shouting as he commanded
the army.

He was anxious.

These days, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building would emit a strange tremor every few
days.

Coupled with the disappearance of the owner token, Hei Lou Lan felt that this was not
a simple matter, his instincts were telling him that something unthinkable was about
to happen.

To avoid any accidents in the future, he had to quickly get the strength path Immortal
Gu now. Only after advancing to a Gu Immortal would he have the strength to control
this changing situation.

The challenge this time lasted until the twenty-eighth round. Only after everyone was
unable to continue and the casualties were too heavy did Hei Lou Lan have no choice
but to retreat and recuperate.

In his room, Tai Bai Yun Sheng showed a bitter smile as he held several east window
Gu in his hand.

These east window Gu contained the cultivation experience of previous generation Gu

Masters, among them, most were time path attainment!

These were all the round rewards obtained from Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

"Don't tell me, this is the arrangement of destiny, for me to advance to Gu Immortal
realm?"

Back then, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had failed in searching for a lifespan Gu, after wasting all
his life's savings, he had to become Hei tribe's external elder.
He was a time path Gu master, rank five peak stage, with his sensitivity towards time
he knew that he had little time left since a few years ago.

Although advancing to Gu Immortal realm could allow a Gu Master's life to improve

qualitatively, it could not increase his lifespan. But Tai Bai Yun Sheng's situation was a
little special.

His time path inheritance was extraordinary, it was a Gu immortal inheritance.

The core of his inheritance had three Gu, river as before Gu, mountain as before Gu,
and man as before Gu.

The inheritance has theorized long ago: When he becomes an immortal, using the
supreme opportunity of the resonance of heaven and earth, he could advance his man
as before Gu into an Immortal Gu.

The mortal man as before Gu could only be used on others.

Immortal Gu Man As Before, could be used on himself.

"If I have the man as before Immortal Gu, I can use it on myself and extend my lifespan.
Unfortunately, man as before is not like the Spring Autumn Cicada, I cannot save Gao
Yang and Zhu Zai. Sigh…”

Thinking of this, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heart was worried, the intense regret and guilt
assaulted him once again.

Fang Yuan stood at the peak of the tall tower, looking at Hei tribe.

Luck inspection Gu had been activated for a while, it gave him a different field of vision
from others.

This rank five mortal Gu was the sole, unexpected gain that he obtained inside the true
inheritance secluded domain.

Luck inspection, as the name suggests, could be used to inspect luck. It was an
investigative Gu worm.
In his vision, in the living quarters of Hei tribe, there were countless smoke-like luck
strands. But among them, two were extremely thick, like cranes among chickens, even
the palace's rooms could not hide them.

One came from Hei Lou Lan, his luck was like a huge pillar, with an azure color, it was
thick and long. The other came from Tai Bai Yun Sheng, his luck was like the flames
burning during sunset, red and bright, it accumulated above the roof of his house, it
was like the feeling of dazzling flames.

"The luck of these two are extremely high, but they are different. Hei Lou Lan's luck
has a lasting feeling. Tai Bai Yun Sheng's luck is like a pile of old firewood, burning at
the last moment. In recent days, I secretly manipulated the rewards and placed many
time path attainment experiences as rewards to give them to Tai Bai Yun Sheng. Every
time he gets one, the firey red luck above him turns brighter by a bit. The possibility
of becoming an immortal also increased slightly."

Fang Yuan thought about it for a long time, he sighed in his heart when he thought
about the mysterious and unfathomable luck path.

But he had only obtained a single luck inspection Gu, he did not know the details of
the inheritance, it was like opening a new window, towards this new path, he could
only explore it slowly.

He used the luck inspection Gu on himself.

Fang Yuan's body was shrouded in black ink-like luck. This luck gathered and formed
a huge coffin shape, completely covering his body, they were emitting a dense death
energy, the energy of great misfortune.

Even though Fang Yuan had looked at this many times, his heart always sank when he
observed this.

"My luck is not looking optimistic. But these days, all my talks with the Imperial Court
land spirit have had no progress. This land spirit is too arrogant, it only wants to break
the seal and regain its freedom. True Yang Building has already shaken thirty-eight
times, eventually, Giant Sun's will would awaken."

"Eh?" Fang Yuan gasped, he looked at a group of Gu Masters, they were all shrouded
in a black coffin-like luck, heading in the direction of Hei tribe.
A moment later, they all entered Tai Bai Yun Sheng's residence.

Fang Yuan thought about briefly before understanding their intentions.

"This is a good opportunity for me to understand the meaning of this black coffin luck."
Fang Yuan's gaze was dark, he gave a deep glance towards Tai Bai Yun Sheng's location.
"We implore you to help us, old sir Tai Bai!"

"I am sincerely asking old sir to go forward and plead for us."

"The whole of my tribe, our elderly, the weak, the women and children too, the future
of all of our tribesmen are in lord's hands…”

In the room, a group of Gu Masters were kneeling on the ground, crying profusely or
showing a sad expression, they were desperately asking Tai Bai Yun Sheng for help.

These Gu Masters had rather special identities, they were all the tribe leaders of their
respective tribes.

Lou tribe, Lu tribe, Xi tribe… all of these tribes were middle sized tribes or small sized
tribes, during the process of challenging Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, they
suffered the greatest numbers of casualties, if this were to continue, they might face
the threat of being wiped out for good.

The previous few times, they had as a group written letters of request, asking to
retreat, but they were all harshly rejected by Hei Lou Lan.

Survival was the number one priority.

Hei Lou Lan's oppressive and all out tactics had already severely harmed the survival
and development of these small and middle sized tribes.

But because of the Black Tyrant's fierce reputation, these tribe leaders did not dare to
approach Hei Lou Lan himself. After discussing among themselves, they decided to
jointly approach Tai Bai Yun Sheng for help.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was the current number one healing master in all of northern plains,
he was well known to be kind and merciful, his reputation in northern plains was
second to none. Now that he had become Hei tribe's external elder, he was greatly
trusted and depended on by Hei Lou Lan.

If they could obtain Tai Bai Yun Sheng's help, their respective tribes might very well
gain the precious time to rest and recuperate.

"Please get up and speak." Tai Bai Yun Sheng urged them.

"Old sir, if you do not accept our request, we will not get up!"

"Please go take a look at our tribes, you will understand our pain and grief then. Our
injuries and casualties are simply too great, our women have lost their husbands, our
children have lost their parents, and our elderly have lost their children…”

"Old sir, please go and talk to Lord Hei Lou Lan, if this carries on, our tribe is going to
perish for good."

"Hmph, we did not die in the Imperial Court contest, but instead, we are facing
extermination within Imperial Court blessed land, if word gets out, where would Hei
tribe's reputation go to? This is simply too ironic!"

The tribe leaders talked one after another, they held a firm attitude and refused to get
up from the kneeling position.

"Sigh…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng heaved a long sigh, he had already been very unhappy with
Hei Lou Lan's actions to begin with.

There was enough time to go about this slowly, why did he have to be so anxious and
rush their advancement?

Causing such grave and severe casualties, he could not bear to see this in his heart.

From Tai Bai Yun Sheng's perspective: Most likely, losing the owner token during the
challenge of the second round had triggered Hei Lou Lan. Another reason was that the
supreme elders of Hei tribe were pressuring him greatly. Because of this pressure, Hei
Lou Lan had no choice but to give it his all in challenging the rounds.

"My servants, quickly come and serve tea to the tribe leaders." Tai Bai Yun Sheng
instructed his servants.

He next turned around and consoled the band of tribe leaders: "This old man will do
his best to talk to tribe leader Hei Lou Lan, but all I can say is, I will try my best."

"Old sir, you are truly a kind person, you are so benevolent."

"Gaining old sir's help, it is truly our tribe's greatest fortune!"

"Old sir, this is a letter of request that we have written collectively, we will be waiting
for old sir's good news patiently."

All the tribe leaders were filled with gratitude and joy.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng received the letter of request from them and kept it in his pocket,
after bidding farewell to the tribe leaders, he came to the grand hall and looked for
Hei Lou Lan.

Hei Lou Lan was not settling the administrative matters of the army in the grand hall,
instead, he was relaxing in the flower garden.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng hurried over quickly and when he saw Hei Lou Lan, the latter was
playing chess in the lake pavilion.

Hei Lou Lan heard his intentions and first rejected him strictly, but when Tai Bai Yun
Sheng urged him with reasoning and kind words, Hei Lou Lan slowly became less
strict as he said: "How about this, I can let these tribes rest and recover temporarily,
but they must lend out all of their Gu worms. My army will continue to advance, but
we cannot reduce our strength just because of their absence! Every Gu worm that they
lend will entitle them to one person who can rest, rank two Gu worm will exempt a
rank two Gu Master. A rank three Gu worm will exempt a rank three Gu Master, and so
on."

"Lord tribe leader is wise and merciful, I will thank tribe leader for his magnanimity
on behalf of all the different tribes and their tribesmen." Tai Bai Yun Sheng knew this
was the best result he could get, thus he returned and informed all of the tribe leaders
about this result.

The tribe leaders looked at each other as they pondered over this, eventually accepting
this condition.

Gu worms were the foundation and base of a Gu Master. Gu worms that were lent out
were easy to get damaged, but it was much better than losing their own lives.
The casualties that these tribes were facing were simply too severe.

The next day, Hei Lou Lan ordered the black banner army to go to the respective tribes'
resting area and collect their Gu worms, being late was not an option. He also sent Tai
Bai Yun Sheng to control the situation and settle the relevant administrative matters.

After three days, this matter was finally settled.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng returned and reported to Hei Lou Lan, who invited him to a banquet.

During the banquet, Hei Lou Lan lifted his wine cup as he said: "Old sir, please have a
drink! It was our great fortune that old sir joined our tribe, allowing the army to face
much fewer casualties and injuries. Old sir, you revived countless people, you have
accomplished great deeds."

"I am not worthy of such praise, but we have to try our very best at things, whether
we succeed or not is up to heaven. With Longevity Heaven watching us, we can only
do our best." Tai Bai Yun Sheng showed a look of shame, replying as he raised his cup.
Hei Lou Lan's praise reminded him of Gao Yang and Zhu Zai.

In truth, every since he returned from the blood hall, every word of praise that he
heard felt like an insult, like sarcastic comments that were whipping at his soul.

But today, after settling this matter, he resolved the conflict between Hei tribe and
many small and middle sized tribes, in a way, he saved the lives of many Gu Masters.

This made him feel slightly better.

"With Longevity Heaven watching us, we can only do our best…” Hei Lou Lan drank
his wine in one gulp, putting it down as he muttered, sighing: "Old sir's words are very
accurate and articulate, it is truly well said. Longevity Heaven is watching us, the road
to the future is filled with mystery and unexpected circumstances, as mortals, we can
only do our best. Elder Tai Bai had already done his best, I, Hei Lou Lan, should do the
same as well!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng heard this and suddenly felt that Hei Lou Lan had some additional
meaning in his words, he immediately asked: "Lord tribe leader, what do you mean by
that?"

Hei Lou Lan laughed heartily, he was about to speak when Hei Shu came in with a
report.

His body was covered in blood, his expression was respectful and cautious, he came
to Hei Lou Lan's side and said: "Reporting to lord tribe leader, the black banner army
has not failed your expectations, we have already settled it appropriately."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng felt the killing aura around him and had a very ominous feeling, he
quickly asked: "What do you mean by settled it appropriately? Hei Shu! What did you
guys settle?"

Hei Shu did not speak, he raised his eyebrows as he gave Tai Bai Yun Sheng a passing
glance, showing disdain in his eyes towards Tai Bai Yun Sheng's compassionate and
benevolent attitude.

"Hahaha, elder Tai Bai! It is exactly like what you said — we can only do our best! You
are doing your best, and I am doing the same! I have to do all I can to break through
the rounds, and accomplish the mission given to me by the supreme elder. Tell me,
these people ran away in the middle of our task, what crimes have they committed?
They were able to develop to this extent because they relied on me. Taking advantages
when they can, and hiding when there is trouble, is there such an easy and simple
thing in this world? Hmph! If everyone was like that, would my army need to exist
anymore? Will there be anyone left who would challenge the rounds with me?" Hei
Lou Lan said this with a sharp and resolute tone, his eyes were shining with a ruthless
light.

Saying this, there was no need to mention what the task given to the black banner
army was!

"Hei Lou Lan, you!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng stood up in a flash.

He stared at Hei Lou Lan with a furious gaze, he showed shock, anger, and even hatred
on his face.

"Insolent!" Hei Shu was unhappy and was about to strike, but Hei Lou Lan stretched
out his hand and stopped him.

"Elder Tai Bai, do not forget your current status." Hei Lou Lan kept away his ruthless
expression and poured another cup of wine indifferently.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng clenched his fists, his body was shivering from pure anger.
He stared at Hei Lou Lan fixatedly, he wanted to scold him, but no sound came out of
his mouth.

Hei Lou Lan chuckled, pouring a cup of wine for Tai Bai Yun Sheng personally: "Old sir,
take a seat, such beautiful and relaxing scenery paired with good wine and food, we
should not let it go to waste."

"Screw your good wine and food!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng swept his sleeves furiously, with
a loud crash, all the wine cups fell onto the floor.

Hei Lou Lan was unmoved, instead he pointed at the dishes on the table as he laughed
loudly: "Elder Tai Bai, this is a banquet to celebrate your success. If not for your
support, why would they trust us so much and lend out their Gu? As they did not have
their Gu worms with them, my black banner army could quickly swoop in and take
them down, easily obliterating them. I have no one but you to thank for this."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng heard this and felt like lightning had struck him, he staggered three
steps back as his face turned completely pale as paper.

"Hei Lou Lan, you are really an unscrupulous scoundrel!"

"Unscrupulous? I cannot believe this, you are saying such naive things? Elder Tai Bai,
you were also once the young tribe leader of a tribe, after living for so many years,
have you not seen the reality of this world? These so called political affairs have always
been dirty."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng wanted to rebuke him, but there were no words he could say.

He snorted coldly, turning around and leaving, walking out of the hall quickly without
even turning back once.

"Lord tribe leader, should I send people to surveil Tai Bai Yun Sheng?" Hei Shu
inquired.

Hei Lou Lan raised his wine cup, his expression was plain, without a bit of
nervousness. He glanced at Tai Bai Yun Sheng's back as he laughed coldly: "Tai Bai Yun
Sheng is merely a healing Gu Master, what's there to be afraid of? His reputation?
Hehe, after this matter, who would dare believe in him again? Good deeds go
unnoticed, while bad deeds travel a thousand li…”
Hei Shu heard this and his heart jumped: "Anyone who holds a high political position
is an unfathomable schemer indeed!"

At this point, he could see that Hei Lou Lan's actions were killing three birds with one
stone.

Firstly, by causing bloodshed in these small and middle tribes, he was creating an
example to show the others. Secondly, he could suppress Tai Bai Yun Sheng, making
him understand what status he is currently holding. Thirdly, it is to attack Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's reputation, in order to strengthen his own political power.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng walked quickly towards the scene of the incident.

The slaughter had ended, in order to create more fear in people, Hei Lou Lan did not
order his men to clean up the area.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked around, his expression turning white, and his heart was
shivering.

The sacred palace was dyed in blood, corpses were everywhere on the ground.

Not just strong adult men, there were even the old, the weak, women and children.
Some of them had their eyes wide open, dying an indignant death; some of them had
their arms and legs chopped off, some were cut in half, it was a gruesome sight; some
had messy clothing, their expressions were twisted and in agony, it was evident that
they had been humiliated in an inhuman way before they died…

All of this… all of this…

"It was all caused by me. If not for me trusting Hei Lou Lan, if not for me trying to
mediate the tension between the two… I was too foolish, I was too naive! I did not
manage to see Hei Lou Lan's ugly and evil intentions! All these people, they all died
because they placed their trust in me!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's body was shivering, the intense smell of blood was assaulting him,
and the scene of a sea of corpses lying on the ground was causing a huge impact on his
fragile state of mind.

His back was hunched, the mild wind blew at him and caused his beard to move
slightly, he had deep wrinkles and a dazed expression, his fists were tightly clenched,
soundlessly expressing the grief, agony, regret, and self blame that he was feeling deep
in his heart!

Plop.

He kneeled on the ground weakly, holding himself up with his hands as the blood dyed
his palms, his knees, and his pants bright red.

"Sorry, I am sorry…”

Tai Bai Yun Sheng wept profusely, at once, his face was like an overflowing river.

"This is a good person… even though there is also darkness in his heart, in the end,
there is great terror when one is between life and death. Facing death, which normal
person would not lose themselves?" Far away, at a hidden corner, Fang Yuan had been
observing this intently and silently.

He watched the scene unfold with his very own eyes.

It turned out that the black coffin luck represented a severe disaster that would
threaten his life. The extermination of these tribes was the best proof of that.

Meanwhile, the death energy on his body was more than dozens of times thicker than
these tribes' members, even a hundred times as thick!

"Hehe, this is so interesting. Luck huh…” Fang Yuan's lips curled into a cold and
arrogant smile, he wanted to see if this so called bad luck could stop him in his steps.

"In this life, there is no person, any reason, or any difficulties that can affect my
determination in moving forward!" His gaze was cold and still as ice, looking towards
Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

"Who said that kind people will be rewarded?" Thinking of this, Fang Yuan's cold
expression turned into one that had a trace of sarcasm: "Then let me give you a hand."

He activated his Gu worms in secret, forming an illusory voice that was untraceable,
as the soundwaves entered Tai Bai Yun Sheng's ears one by one.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's state of mind was close to collapsing, his mind was extremely
susceptible to influences.
At this moment, he could hear a voice, it sounded just like Gao Yang and Zhu Zai.

"I believe in you! You will definitely save us, isn't that right?"

"Old sir, you are our benefactor. We are grateful to you, we are willing to risk our lives
in order to come forward and help you!"

"Ah!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng screamed suddenly, opening his eyes abruptly.

With his blurred vision due to his tears, he looked at the blood puddle on the ground.

The blood puddle rippled, as the nightmare that haunted him appeared once again,
the image of Gao Yang and Zhu Zai dying from the sea of blood beasts!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's body shuddered, he was still like a statue, but the next moment,
he raised his head and screamed with all of his energy.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!"

His shrill and hoarse voice resounded in this bloody slaughterhouse.

"Hehehe, hihihi, hahaha!"

When his screaming ended, Tai Bai Yun Sheng started laughing like a maniac.

His laughter contained the feeling of madness, but also anger and sadness, there was
also a trace of mockery towards himself, towards the mortal world.

"Crazy? He's crazy!"

"Elder Tai Bai has gone mad!!"

The surrounding Hei tribe Gu Masters were shouting in shock.

Meanwhile, Fang Yuan was curling his lips and smiling, he was a transmigrator, and
had also undergone rebirth, his rich life experience had allowed him to grasp the
psychology of people to a very precise degree.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a very good person.

But his subconscious action in the blood hall was akin to betrayal.

This action created suspicion, doubts, and denial that he felt towards himself in terms
of his personal values.

If a person denied himself, and suspected himself, then he would no doubt fall into a
deep abyss of agony.

Very evidently, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was in great pain, he felt guilt in his heart, almost
every night, he was tormented by a similar nightmare.

For him to accept that he had some kind of despicable and lowly character as a fact, it
would be impossible to do so. His entire life revolved around justice and benevolence,
he had walked on this road for too long, he wanted to return to it, but he knew that in
the deepest part of his heart, this action formed a barrier that he could not cross.

He was stuck in the abyss of agony, sinking deeper and deeper the more he struggled.

The tribe leaders' request towards him was a chance that he had towards salvation,
and a redemption for his mistakes.

If he could really succeed, it was undeniably the best medicine for him to pay for his
sins, and he would be able to forgive himself.

But the truth was, Hei Lou Lan ordered a mass slaughter, not leaving even a single
woman or child behind. This in turn caused Tai Bai Yun Sheng to become the biggest
assistant in this murder spree.

His medicine turned into a heart piercing poison, the intense toxins caused him to lose
himself, his mental state was close to breaking down.

At this juncture, Fang Yuan pushed him lightly, finally causing Tai Bai Yun Sheng to
explode, breaking from the deepest part of his heart.

Perhaps only Fang Yuan could understand him at this point.

To put it in another way, after searching through his soul, Fang Yuan, who had seen Tai
Bai Yun Sheng's entire life, could be said to know him intimately.

But the cruel reality was, this person was not his kin or his friend, he was an enemy
plotting against him.

Fang Yuan, who was hidden in the darkness listening to Tai Bai Yun Sheng's laughter,
looked on with an expression of appreciation, smiling lightly.

This was a respectable and pitiful old man, he screamed his lungs out, in his laughter,
on his face full of tears, he was questioning himself, he was questioning the cruelty of
this mortal world, fate was toying with him and he was helpless to resist.

"If you deny even yourself, what can you do?" Fang Yuan muttered lightly, his gaze was
as deep as night.

"Go to the blood hall again and try to challenge the round? No, if you are there, your
mind will be full of Gao Yang and Zhu Zai's images. Go seek help? Who can help you
now? Hei Lou Lan? It can be assumed that you have just fallen out with him. Or rather,
even if you manage to get the lifespan Gu, will you be able to use it with peace of
mind?"

"Hehe, the current you, what options do you possibly have? What choices can you still
make? Denying yourself, wallowing in self pity, feeling intense pain and grief, you, a
person who is facing a trial of your conscience, what option do you have?"

In Fang Yuan's heart, an answer was becoming clearer.

"Thus, go ahead and make your decision, I hope you will not let me down!" In the
darkness, Fang Yuan's gaze was shining as he looked at the crazy Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was laughing wildly, his voice was bitter like he was wailing.

He tore his clothes, as tears and mucus were mixing on his face, he did not have the
demeanour of a rank five peak state expert at this point.

He was someone who feared death, but he was also a good person who was pushed
into a corner by this cruel and ice cold mortal world.

In truth, he was more like a —

Pitiful person.

Since some time ago, a mild wind had started blowing.

The wind gradually grew bigger and bigger, as clouds were forming in the sky.

With Tai Bai Yun Sheng as the center, the surroundings were quietly and rapidly
transforming

Some sort of mystical change had started, heaven and earth were beginning to
tremble.

"You did not disappoint me in the end…” Fang Yuan was extremely excited, he took his
leave and vanished without a trace.

He rapidly travelled far away, retreating.

Because…

It was no joke when a Gu Master advances into an immortal.

Soon, the wind and clouds went wild, as heaven and earth changed!

The dark and thick black clouds looked like they were about to collapse at any time,
destroying the sacred palace.

In and out of the sacred palace, shouting could be heard everywhere.

"What is going on?"

"What in the world is happening?!"

Countless people did not know what was happening, they fell into a panic.

"This… could it be?!" Some people with greater knowledge and experience stared at
this grand scene with a dumbfounded expression.

"Go investigate, go investigate! Who is it?!" In the hall, Hei Lou Lan was furiously
screaming.

"Lord, it is Tai Bai Yun Sheng!" Hei Shu was full of sweat as he stumbled his way into
the hall and reported this.

Hei Lou Lan's expression froze, he was as still as a statue for a moment.
A few breaths later, he reacted and shouted with a twisted expression: "Retreat! Order
everyone to leave the sacred palace. Of course, those who wish to die can stay here!"
The sky turned dark and gloomy, and the wind howled.

A formless heavenly power slowly lifted Tai Bai Yun Sheng into the air.

He laughed maniacally, his white beard fluttering in the wind. There were no signs of
the usual warmth and benevolence on his face, it was replaced by a crazed and
distorted look.

Everyone in the sacred palace was in panic; Gu Masters fled in a hurry, forming a huge
stream of people that was fleeing for life towards the outside.

Only after running an immense distance, did the crowd anxiously stop.

Expert Gu Masters moved toward the peaks of hills or directly flew to the sky, and used
investigative Gu worms to observe the scene above the sacred palace with different
thoughts going through their minds.

Other Gu Masters also raised their heads to gaze at the floating Tai Bai Yun Sheng with
looks of respect, reverence, affection, worry, envy and so on.

The news of Tai Bai Yun Sheng advancing to Gu Immortal had already spread amongst
everyone.

Advancing to Gu Immortal!

This was something that most people would not experience in their whole life, and
unexpectedly it was happening before everyone's eyes at this very moment.

"Inconceivable, Tai Bai Yun Sheng has yet to use any Gu worms but he actually caused
such a change in weather!" Looking at the surging clouds and hearing the raging
winds, many Gu Masters shouted out in surprise.

Soon the surprised voices surged into a commotion.

Because it was not only the weather that had changed, even the ground under their
feet was beginning to shake.

At first, it was only a negligible tremor, but soon vast smoke and dust started to rise
from the ground.

"This is the turbulence of earth qi!"

"According to the records in the tribe, Gu Masters have to first break their aperture to
advance to Gu Immortal! After breaking their aperture, they can attract heaven qi and
earth qi!"

Ye Lui Sang, Hei Lou Lan and some others were from super tribes, and knew a lot more
than normal people. At this moment, shock could clearly be seen in their eyes.

The first step in advancing to Gu Immortal was breaking the aperture.

Using primeval essence in an all-out assault to completely shatter one's own aperture.
Like this, the sealed aperture that was covered by the crystal wall would turn into a
hole in the Gu Master's body.

"Just this first step needs extremely great courage. Because there is no turning back
after shattering the aperture." Gu tribe leader Gu Guo Long said with a sigh.

"Advancement to a Gu Immortal is extremely difficult, with miniscule chances of

success! Tai Bai Yun Sheng is too courageous, actually daring to take this step. He truly
leaves us in admiration." Nie tribe leader Nie Ya Qing was deeply moved.

Hei Lou Lan's expression was complex.

He knew some inside details, a part of the reason why Tai Bai Yun Sheng was
advancing to Gu Immortal was probably due to his actions.

"I was the one who provoked Tai Bai Yun Sheng, leading to him choosing to take the
risk to advance in his crumbling mental state. This is good, although I learnt about
immortal ascension from records, I really want to personally observe it. Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's advancement into Gu Immortal will provide a great reference and be helpful
to me. It is just that… so be it if he fails, but if he really successfully advances into a Gu
Immortal, how should I treat him?"
Hei Lou Lan immediately frowned at this thought, feeling a headache.

Fang Yuan observed the scene while sitting on a back of an azure wolf king,
surrounded by an azure wolf group.

"Advancement to Gu Immortal…” His dark gaze had excitement and also showed an
expression of recalling the past.

He again used luck inspection Gu to examine Tai Bai Yun Sheng, the luck on him was
now like a raging wildfire, originally it had been like flames with a growing red glow.
Now, it was even more flourishing, blazing like an inferno!

"His luck is blazing, he had successfully advanced into a Gu Immortal in my previous

life, that should not be a big problem for him in this life." Fang Yuan inwardly nodded.

Unlike Hei Lou Lan with his doubts and hesitation, Fang Yuan already had a plan to
face the Gu Immortal Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

He tried to look once more, but the luck inspection Gu actually suffered injuries from
the extreme pressure.

His own eyes also felt a burning pain.

Fang Yuan immediately stopped the activation, not surprised at all.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had already broken his aperture, attracting heaven and earth qi in
a huge surrounding range. Using Gu worms in this range will naturally create chain
reactions, making the heaven and earth qi surge and trigger a backlash.

If one was stubborn and forcibly activated their Gu, even an Immortal Gu would be
injured and might even die, not to mention mere mortal Gu.

Fang Yuan had not considered using Gu worms at this time to plot against Tai Bai Yun
Sheng because of this reason.

If he rashly made a move in this period, he himself might be implicated.

In an instant, the dark clouds in the sky surged, and together took the shape of a giant
vortex.
In response to this, yellow-brown dust churned endlessly on the ground, creating a
vortex that resembled the formation of a loophole.

"This Tai Bai Yun Sheng has deep foundation and accumulation, his human qi is so
majestic, actually attracting so much heaven and earth qi! This scene is actually more
spectacular than when my tribe's supreme elder advanced." Ye Lui Sang was endlessly
shocked.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had an immortal inheritance and roamed northern plains his whole
life, gaining extremely rich experience. By now, he had almost run the course of his
entire life, thus his accumulation was incomparably deep.

The two giant vortexes covered miles of range.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng gazed up and saw the majestic and fierce vortex which looked like
a giant beast opening its mouth.

In comparison, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's body was small, like a tiny insect near a pond.

But Tai Bai Yun Sheng still kept on laughing maniacally.

"Come, come!" He shouted, his body shook with fear and excitement, but also relief.
Even if he failed, he would at least be freed from this nightmare.

Seemingly hearing his shout, the brewing vortex began to slowly rotate.

In the sky and on the ground, two giant vortexes rotated like a millstone.

Lightning flashed in the dark and cloudy vortex in the sky, with the thunder rumbling
repeatedly. On the ground, the dusty vortex caused purple smoke to ascend with
violent explosive sounds.

Like grinding stone, the dark and cloudy millstone sprinkled down a clear and bright
aura. While from the dusty one below, rose a golden aura.

They were heaven qi and earth qi!

Heaven qi was clear and moved freely; earth qi was profound and dense.

And Tai Bai Yun Sheng's body released a white human qi.
This human qi was extremely dense and like a cocoon, it formed a large sphere that
tightly covered Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Heaven qi was raining down while earth qi was bubbling up, both intertwined in the
air with human qi.

Heaven, earth and human, the three qi converged together and began fusing.

"First step is breaking the aperture, the second step is taking in the qi." Hei Lou Lan
mumbled.

"Breaking the aperture is a point of no return, the only possibility of survival is in

success and failure means certain doom. And taking in qi tests the nature of the Gu
Master and their ability to control it. This step is extremely crucial and is like walking
between cliffs on a tightrope. If the balance is even a little off such that the human qi
is slightly in excess, it will lead to self-detonation! If heaven qi is slightly more, the Gu
Master will dissolve into the sky! If earth qi is slightly more dense, the Gu Master will
turn into a fossil and suffocate to death! Difficult, truly hard, truly difficult!" Ye Lui
Sang lamented while shaking his head, even as a spectator, his heart shook at this
sight.

One can only move forward when they begin the advancement to a Gu Immortal, there
is no going back. The danger is extremely high, thus many rank five peak stage Gu
Masters, even if they knew the method to advance to a Gu Immortal, would not choose
to take the risk unless as a last resort.

The expert observes the process while the layman simply enjoys the show.

Most people only watched the sight while bustling with noise and excitement.

But the few expert Gu Masters who knew the inside details were dripping with sweat,
their hearts palpitating with fear from the sight.

Fang Yuan was the one with the most experience regarding this.

The process of charging to Gu Immortal realm and becoming a blood path Gu

Immortal in his previous life had left behind an extremely deep impression on him.

"This second step is extremely difficult, it not only tests the Gu Master's ability to
control the balance, what it tests even more than that is the Gu Master's nature." He
inwardly sighed.

Heaven qi and earth qi attacked the body, and the three qi converged; this was the
process of a mortal blending with heaven and earth.

An ordinary person would never have such a moment where they are this intimately
close to heaven and earth.

Heaven and earth were the cornerstones to nurture all living beings, the resonance
between heaven qi and earth qi would fill the Gu Master's mind with the wonders of
the Great Dao.

Experiencing the Great Dao was an extremely rare opportunity and the Gu Master
could easily lose themselves in it, not being able to extricate themselves. This could
very easily lead to an imbalance between the three qi.

Even more crucially —

The higher the amount of heaven qi and earth qi taken in, the higher the chance of
advancing to a Gu Immortal. At this crucial time, the Gu Master would often get greedy
and take in too much heaven qi and earth qi, leading to an imbalance between the
three qi and perishing.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not disappoint Fang Yuan, he persevered and stabilized the
situation, controlling the three qi perfectly and progressing slowly.

"This Tai Bai Yun Sheng probably received an expert's guidance!"

"Tai Bai Yun Sheng actually accomplished it, the second step could not stump him at
all. This man really is not simple…”

"We need to keep on watching. Being able to do it now does not mean he can maintain
the state until the end."

Hei Lou Lan and Ye Lui Sang were feeling bewildered.

Rumble!

Right at this time, a change occurred.

As the aurora in the sky shook, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building experienced intense
tremors. As its cornerstone, the sacred palace started shaking as well, dust rose and
many beautiful courtyards collapsed.

"What is going on?"

"Eighty-Eight True Yang Building!"

Everyone shifted their gazes in shock.

"Hmph, it is here." Fang Yuan sneered, but was well aware of this.

Inside the True Yang Building, the land spirit was furious!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng advancing to a Gu Immortal meant he was taking in heaven qi and
earth qi. But this world was not the outside world of northern plains, but was Imperial
Court blessed land, a small world of its own.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was using up this small world's heaven qi and earth qi which was
akin to weakening Imperial Court blessed land and was basically extracting the source
of the land spirit's strength.

Could the land spirit not be angry?

It had been imprisoned for countless years and now finally had the hope of obtaining
freedom.

Although it was formed from an obsession and did not know how to tell lies, but it had
intelligence and understood the strategy of concealing itself.

The land spirit had originally planned to restrain itself, fearing Giant Sun's will. It
would wait till Gruel Mud had corroded the shackles on it to a certain degree before it
broke out in one violent move.

But now that Tai Bai Yun Sheng was charging into Gu Immortal realm, he was not only
extracting the strength of the land spirit, but was sure to awaken Giant Sun's will! The
land spirit would then have all its hopes dashed.

Even more likely, it would be forcibly suppressed by Giant Sun's will again.
With no choice, it could only make a quick decision and take advantage of Giant Sun's
will still being in hibernation at the moment, to resist and avoid giving Giant Sun's will
time to be prepared!

Thus, everyone looked on as the True Yang Building shook, bringing destruction to the
fish in the ponds as many structures in the sacred palace collapsed.

In the True Yang Building, the land spirit Frost Jade Peacock let out a loud cry.

Its attack was extremely effective as the green paste covering its body immediately
melted until below its neck and five to six black chains on its body also broke!

"Huh?"

A light mumble, as if just waking up from a dream, echoed out from the depths of the
True Yang Building.

"Who has such guts to awaken me from my slumber?" From the infinite and eerie
darkness, a giant will resembling the sun slowly woke up.

It was originally only a small glimmer, but soon brightened up to the extent that it
could pierce through ten layers of the underworld, sweeping past every corner of the
True Yang Building.

Fang Yuan's will that had refined the guest halt stele simply could not defend itself and
was immediately wiped out. The glass owner token he held also started becoming
boiling hot!
A will blazing like the sun passed through the glass owner token and attacked Fang
Yuan's mind.

The will was like a golden flood as it rampaged directly into Fang Yuan's brain!

Will was formed from large numbers of specific thoughts, if Giant Sun's will was
allowed to erode his mind, Fang Yuan could very likely turn into a demented amnesiac.

"This is bad! Quickly throw away that damned owner token!!" Mo Yao's will appeared
in his mind, and screamed.

She was the will of a Gu Immortal who had reached rank seven before death; her
background knowledge of will was much deeper than Fang Yuan's.

Her own gains and losses were linked to Fang Yuan, like two locusts tied with a thread.

The mind was a vital place, Fang Yuan would not want to start a battle in there.

"No need to worry." he sneered. He was already prepared so he was not concerned,
soon activating the special will Gu.

The special will Gu received the primeval essence and directly flashed into Fang Yuan's
mind, blocking the will of Giant Sun.

The golden-like will came to an abrupt stop, completely halted by special will Gu!

The special will Gu then burst out with a strong absorption force, devouring Giant
Sun's will unceasingly. The small will swallowed the big will, as if an ant swallowing
an elephant, but Giant Sun's will had no ability to resist.

"This is…” Mo Yao's will was stumped for a while before coming to a realization, "So
Giant Sun's will was a special will!"
Wisdom path had developed for a long time since its start at the Remote Antiquity Era,
continuing to this day.

Will was classified under wisdom path and naturally the contents regarding it were
plentiful. Not only was will divided into many types, there were also all sorts of effects.

Back when Fang Yuan had just ventured into it, he had already bought many wisdom
path Gu worms. For example, special will Gu, deliberate will Gu, play will Gu, keep will
Gu and new will Gu which were specially used to condense special will, deliberate will,
play will, keep will and new will.

These five types of will had their advantages and disadvantages, requiring the Gu
Master themselves to choose the appropriate will according to the situation.

Among them, special will could be arranged in advance and automatically trigger
under special conditions.

To explain this in a simple fashion, let's take a rat trap as an example. When a rat comes
in contact with the trap (fulfilling the special condition), the rat trap will then activate,
trapping the rat (the prior setup is triggered, activating the trap).

Giant Sun Immortal Venerable considered dangerous situations occurring in the

future, and for the benefit of his descendants, he chose to use the most suitable special
will Gu to create a will of himself and placed it in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

As long as the danger reached a certain degree, the special condition would be fulfilled
and the special will would trigger Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's prior setup. As for
what the activation requirement of this prior setup was, outsiders did not know. Even
Fang Yuan who had been reborn was not clear about it.

But from the video clips in his previous life, he knew Giant Sun's will was a special will.

Knowing this made it easier for Fang Yuan.

Giant Sun's will was an Immortal Venerable's will, but it must also follow the laws and
Great Dao of the world. The will was condensed by a Gu worm, and similarly could be
subdued by the corresponding Gu worm.

Thus, Giant Sun's special will was greatly restrained by special will Gu. Within Fang
Yuan's mind, Giant Sun's will had yet to show its might before it was swallowed by
Fang Yuan's special will Gu.

After swallowing this will of Giant Sun, special will Gu's belly immediately bulged like
a fatty who had stuffed himself to the limit.

"Haha, what a great will." Fang Yuan praised it but was inwardly shocked, 'That was
dangerous! Although it was restrained, it was after all an Immortal Venerable's will.
Even if it was only a strand, it was really not easy to deal with!"

The glass owner token was a part of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Giant Sun's will
attacked Fang Yuan through this owner token. But if the owner token was compared
to a passage, this passage was way too small and could only allow a strand of Giant
Sun's will to pass.

If the passage was just a bit bigger, the situation would be completely different.

This strand of will that special will Gu had eaten was simply negligible compared to
the Giant Sun's will in True Yang Building.

Falling prey to Fang Yuan's small scheme, Giant Sun's will could not contain its anger:
"Swindler, you dared profane my, Giant Sun's, honor! I will crush you to pieces!"

Rumble!

True Yang Building started shaking, giving off all kinds of lights which infused the sky,
a peerless power seemed to manifest, shaking heaven and earth.

Even though Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had already died and was unable to
mobilize Eighty-Eight True Yang Building using just his will, but within Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had left behind a large amount of
rank nine yellow apricot immortal essence!

Wild Gu could directly absorb the primeval essence in the air, but would lose this
ability when they are refined and have to absorb the Gu Master's primeval essence.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was an Immortal Gu House and was under the
command of Giant Sun's will, it could activate by absorbing the immortal essence left
behind by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable; it was extremely simple and easy, as if it was
natural!
"Run!" Looking at Eighty-Eight True Yang Building about to show its power, Mo Yao's
will anxiously warned Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan was a despicable thief who had refined a part of True Yang Building, and
now that Giant Sun's will had awakened, it classified him as an enemy.

Fang Yuan did not have Giant Sun's bloodline, this enmity was too big, Fang Yuan was
directly marked down and an unprecedented killing intent was about to befall upon
him!

"There's no hurry." Calamity was coming right for him, but Fang Yuan appeared
indifferent and relaxed.

He tightly held the glass owner token.

This particular token was not simple!

It was a product created by expending an Immortal Gu using an owner token as the

base. It was a crucial key for which central continent's Gu Immortals and several large
forces had prepared with meticulous care over thousands of years.

"Still causing trouble after death, hmph, what era are we living in now!" Fang Yuan
snorted and with no fear sent a thought through the glass owner token, launching an
ambush.

True Yang Building shook intensely, the aurora that filled the sky instantly collapsed
by over half. The phantom image that appeared when condensing the floors was like
a candle in front of a great wind, as it collapsed and dissipated.

Everything came to an abrupt stop.

In True Yang Building, Giant Sun's will let out a frightening and furious howl as it was
besieged and attacked by countless special will Gu.

These special will Gu were the preparation of central continent's Gu Immortals which
had been accumulated for thousands of years, a trump card specially arranged to deal
with Giant Sun's will.

Giant Sun's will's weakness was thoroughly targeted, like a sheep surrounded by a
pack of wolves.
It had immediately wanted to activate Gu worms to massacre these special will Gu.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was an Immortal Gu House, a solidified killer move
formed from many Immortal Gu and mortal Gu. Naturally, it had methods to clean up
the enemies.

But central continent's Gu Immortals had researched deeply and already calculated
this.

Coordinating with special will Gu's attack were other shocking methods, actually
sealing all of the yellow apricot immortal essence Giant Sun Immortal Venerable left
behind.

True Yang Building was not able to move without the immortal essence and
immediately stopped all actions. Even though Giant Sun's will was seething with rage,
it did not have any method to instantly resolve this, thus landing in a predicament.

True Yang Building sank into deathly stillness as Fang Yuan put his mind at rest.

In his previous life, central continent's Gu Immortals relied on this method to slay
Giant Sun's will and destroy Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

"A pity I am still a mortal and not a Gu Immortal, there is no way for me to reap profits
from this." Fang Yuan felt a slight regret.

This was Giant Sun's will, even at its weakest moment, it was not something he could
meddle with.

In truth, even if he advanced into a Gu Immortal, with just one Gu Immortal's battle
strength, the result would not be good. When the central continent Gu Immortals
attacked Imperial Court blessed land, they had altogether eleven Gu Immortals, each
of them an elite expert, but even then only three were able to return in triumph.

However, the sacrifices were worth it as they received rich battle spoils.

True Yang Building was a spiritual symbol of northern plains and when it was
suddenly destroyed, the whole of northern plains suffered heavy impact, their morale
fell to the abyss and they were forced into retreat continually in battles. If not for the
Gu Immortal Ma Hong Yun who repeatedly playing a vital role as a pillar during the
most crucial times, northern plains would have already been annexed by central
continent.

As for the current Fang Yuan, he was safe for at least a period of time.

"What happened to True Yang Building just now?"

"Could it be the influence of Tai Bai Yun Sheng advancing to a Gu Immortal was too big
and even Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was affected?"

"Imperial Court blessed land prohibits the entry of Gu Immortals, advancing to a Gu

Immortal here like Tai Bai Yun Sheng is an extremely rare event. Does this violate the
arrangements made by old ancestor Giant Sun back then?"

True Yang Building's abnormal changes caused this crowd of people who did not know
the truth to be bewildered and start making guesses.

True Yang Building fell into a deathly stillness and did not show any movement for the
moment. Soon, everyone's gazes were attracted towards Tai Bai Yun Sheng again.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was floating in between the sky and the ground, continually taking
in heaven qi and earth qi, combining them with his own human qi.

The balanced three qi were pouring into the space where his aperture had once been.

An extremely mysterious transformation was happening to his body.

Whether it was his physical body or soul, they were both being tempered by heaven
and earth qi. The essence of his life itself was elevating to a higher level.

There were three steps in advancing to a Gu Immortal; the first was breaking the
aperture, the second was taking in the qi.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had an intact Gu Immortal inheritance and thus had a clear
understanding of the key concerns in the process. So far, he was able to stabilize with
no major hindrances.

But how could advancing to a Gu Immortal only have these obstacles?

Compared to the majestic heaven qi and the vast earth qi, human qi originated from
only Tai Bai Yun Sheng himself.
Thus, there were endless amounts of heaven qi and earth qi, but human qi was limited
in quantity.

The three qi needed to be in balance, there was no way to take in the surplus heaven
qi and earth qi, so they were excluded and left to the side.

As time passed, these heaven and earth qi accumulated in the sky and on the ground,
gathering and condensing, the sheer quantity causing a qualitative change.

"Tai Bai Yun Sheng had too deep of an accumulation, he was able to draw in so much
heaven and earth qi. Now the extra heaven and earth qi are condensing into calamity
and tribulation!" Ye Lui Sang's eyes flashed with burning light.

The deeper the accumulation of the Gu Master, the greater the difficulty in advancing
to a Gu Immortal. But if they succeeded, their potential future accomplishment would
be that much higher.

The risk and profits in this were directly proportional.

Hei Lou Lan watched on tightly without saying a word, putting all his effort in
observing and gaining reference.

Heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities, how did they form?

The scene in front of them was displaying the whole process before everyone's eyes.

Golden earth qi continued to become denser and the turbid qi condensed into shape,
gradually forming a one-horned great tiger. And the green heaven qi condensed into
countless giant green willow leaves. Every willow leaf was the size of a boat.

The one-horned great tiger was as large as a hill; it raised its head while crouching
down, taking a jumping posture.

The green willow leaves swayed as they spread in the sky, ready to strike.

"This is the earthly calamity lofty tiger and the heavenly tribulation willow wind!"
Fang Yuan's gaze flashed with a sharp light.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng stopped his crazed laughter, a grave expression filling his face.
The crowd who were so far from all this could feel the endless power of the earthly
calamity and the heavenly tribulation, then what about Tai Bai Yun Sheng who was at
the center of this, the target of the earthly calamity and the heavenly tribulation?

The spectating crowd was silent, the atmosphere turning heavy.

Imperial Court land spirit, however, laughed loudly: "The opportunity to break free
from my captivity has appeared!"
Inside True Yang Building.

The land spirit was using all of its strength to attack the seal on it.

Bang bang bang!

Three soft explosive sounds could be heard consecutively, as three black chains
binding it were broken.

The green paste on it had thoroughly melted from its neck and even to the tips of its
two wings, revealing the bright and lively feathers.

"Little sparrow, you dare!" Giant Sun's will was bursting with fury.

"Giant Sun, despite being dead, you actually still imprisoned me for hundreds of
thousands of years. Today, I will definitely break out of your damn cage!" Frost Jade
Peacock let out a shrill scream, similarly furious.

Trapped for so many years, unable to even budge, the suffocation and indignance from
being in captivity turned into the strength needed to break its seal.

Giant Sun's will gave a deep shout, the sun like will suddenly flared up, rushing in all
directions like a majestic golden flood.

Ten thousand special will Gu were already surrounding him in layers after layers. They
were like a dam blocking the flood, which was Giant Sun's will.

Giant Sun's special will was completely restrained by the special will Gu. The whole
dam held tight without any cracks, but the situation only lasted for a few breaths of
time; the special will Gu had already been swallowing Giant Sun's special will to the
limit and started to burst one by one.

Several breaths later, the 'dam' formed by the special will Gu trembled, broke down
and shattered apart!

Giant Sun's special will might have been subdued but the size of it was extremely large,
having originated from Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. Even after the wear and tear of
over hundreds of thousands of years, this was still not something ten thousand special
will Gu could suppress.

Restraint was relative.

Water could extinguish fire, but if the fire was fierce enough, it could directly
evaporate the water pouring on it.

Giant Sun's will that was like a sun was extremely grand and large, although there was
a lot of consumption when he attacked special will Gu, it was still able to destroy the
ten thousand special will Gu in the end.

Without the besiegement of special will Gu, Giant Sun's will was like a tied up prisoner
who had broken out of the shackles, and immediately tried to control True Yang
Building.

But the next moment, a full fifty thousand special will Gu rushed out and gathered
again, forming a new encirclement!

Central continent's Gu Immortals had researched very deeply and would never
underestimate Giant Sun's will, thus they had made sufficient preparations. Special
will Gu was not an Immortal Gu, its quantity could be piled up.

Giant Sun's will who had just obtained freedom was again sealed off, letting out a
furious roar.

He started attacking again, his momentum as vast as a rapidly flowing river, breaking
apart the encirclement of special will Gu.

But soon, the third wave of special will Gu surrounded it. The quantity was even more
this time, reaching over a hundred thousand!

Central continent's Gu Immortals had spent thousands of years for this; several great
super forces had joined hands making large purchases, refining Gu non-stop, and
spending an astronomical amount of Gu refinement resources.
They had paid such an astonishing price and now they were all being used by Fang
Yuan, displaying extraordinary effects.

Being trapped once again, Giant Sun's will did not shout or roar.

Giant Sun's will was the will of an Immortal Venerable and knew how to think.

When he realized he had fallen into a scheme and the enemy side had made sufficient
preparations, he became calm again.

He began to think and soon discovered a flaw in the encirclement!

Although Giant Sun's will was surrounded tightly in all directions by special will Gu
with no area neglected, this did not signify there was no flaw in this encirclement.

These special will Gu were refined by Gu Immortals and refined Gu worms were
unable to directly absorb the primeval essence from their surroundings, and there was
no supply of primeval essence for them in here.

Then, where did the primeval essence used to activate these special will Gu come
from?

There were so many special will Gu, and there could even be more, their primeval
essence requirement would be gigantic. Giant Sun's will slightly thought over it and
realized — what these special will Gu absorbed was not primeval essence but
immortal essence!

A bead of the lowest grade rank six green grape immortal essence could convert to
what was practically an almost unlimited amount of primeval essence!

Immortal essence was the source of fuel for these special will Gu.

And these immortal essence were concealed very well; clearly, there were other
supporting Gu worms coordinating with special will Gu to form an enormous and
hidden Gu formation.

"So long as I break their connection with the immortal essence, these special will Gu
would not be of much threat." Giant Sun's will soon thought of this method.

However, to break the connection between the special will Gu and the immortal
essence, he had to fully grasp this Gu formation first.

Just like how central continent Gu Immortals sealed all the yellow apricot immortal
essence left behind by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to suppress Eighty-Eight True
Yang Building, Giant Sun's will also had a similar idea.

On the spot, Giant Sun's will thought rapidly and soon found over ten clues.

Following these clues and making deductions, the vague structure of the Gu formation
began to gradually become clearer.

The land spirit naturally would not sit and wait for its death.

When it had sensed Giant Sun's will being suppressed, it mustered all its strength to
break the seals on it.

Gruel Mud had terrifying effectiveness against these seals; the green paste on its body
was full of cracks and the edges were rapidly melting down. The black shackles on its
wings once again consecutively collapsed and four broke apart.

The land spirit, Frost Jade Peacock, gave a shrill cry, its whole body shook intensely,
shaking away most of the green paste on its two wings, shortly afterwards it
impatiently unfolded them.

Cold aura permeated out from all over its spotlessly white body as it raised its head
high, appearing noble and beautiful. But it had yet to completely unfold its large wings
when they were tightly pulled in by the black chains.

Its movement came to a sudden stop, the intense pain making it even more furious.

Although there were only three chains left, they still tightly shackled its freedom.

"Break them!" Frost Jade Peacock suddenly turned around its elegant neck, its sharp
brows flickering with terrifying cold light.

"Damn it!" Giant Sun's will who had been thinking intensely, could not help but stop
his thoughts as he sensed this situation.

If the land spirit broke his control, then Eighty-Eight True Yang Building could be
thrown out from Imperial Court blessed land at any time.
Without Imperial Court blessed land's protection, countless Gu Immortals would start
rushing over to loot True Yang Building.

At that time, it would be the case of an army of ants devouring an elephant; even more
yellow apricot immortal essence would not be able to stop the consumption from the
dauntless advance of countless Gu Immortals.

But Giant Sun's will was powerless to stop the land spirit at this moment.

He had been making several probing attacks while thinking at the same time, and
although there were some results and he was able to recover some methods, they were
still very limited and were not enough to suppress the situation.

………

At this moment, outside the True Yang Building…

Roar!

Lofty tiger roared and jumped.

The world trembled as the hill sized lofty tiger jumped into the air. Its enormous and
malevolent tiger claws slammed towards the insignificant insect-like Tai Bai Yun
Sheng.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng gave a light shout as he dodged quickly!

The tiger claws could not strike him, but the huge wind force from it was still able to
make Tai Bai Yun Sheng feel uncomfortable.

At the same time, the willow winds in the sky fluttered down.

These willow winds were as large as a canoe, and their descent was graceful,
resembling falling leaves. But the movement that felt slow was actually fast, and the
destructive power contained within them was terrifying.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was bathed with blood, paying close attention to the movements of
the willow winds. Previously, he had carelessly come into contact with three willow
winds, but just that had already destroyed all the defensive Gu on him.
Right now, when he saw the willow winds falling down, he quickly evaded them.

From the earth, the malevolent tiger pounced up; while from the sky, the willow winds
fluttered down one after another. Tai Bai Yun Sheng was already finding it difficult to
continue after a while, he was in a sorry state and was facing the danger of losing his
life.

"Sigh, it bodes ill for Tai Bai Yun Sheng!"

"His accumulation is very robust, but he has not made sufficient preparations to
advance to Gu Immortal."

"Lord Tai Bai Yun Sheng, you can do it!"

Even Fang Yuan could not help but feel nervous at this scene: "Is Tai Bai Yun Sheng
going to fail in advancing to a Gu Immortal in this life?"

He suddenly had a thought and disregarding the backlash, forcibly activated luck
inspection Gu. But the luck on Tai Bai Yun Sheng was still burning and raging like
boiling water, and was still blooming.

But the next moment, a quarter of this flaming luck had suddenly dissipated!

"What's going on?" It was the first time Fang Yuan was seeing such a change in luck.

And right at this time, a light pillar suddenly erupted from True Yang Building.

The light pillar that was as thick as an ancient tree, charged straight to the sky.

The willow winds were pierced through by this light pillar, immediately crumbling
apart and turning back into clear heaven qi, pure and warm.

The light pillar swept through repeatedly, shattering most of the willow winds in the
sky, before shooting towards the lofty tiger. The lofty tiger dodged while howling in
grief, but the light pillar followed it like a shadow, impossible to avoid!

The earthly calamity lofty tiger continued to decrease in size the more the light pillar
touched it, till it vanished into thin air!

"What's going on?" Everyone was shocked.

"Eighty-Eight True Yang Building has made a move! Old ancestor protected lord Tai
Bai Yun Sheng!!" Many people cheered.

But there were also some who scoffed: "Nonsense, Tai Bai Yun Sheng does not have
Giant Sun's bloodline, why would old ancestor protect him?"

"This! Could it be the workings of the rumored divert disaster Gu?" Ye Lui Sang was
endlessly shocked.

Hei Lou Lan was even more excited: "The luck path's divert disaster Gu can divert
heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities, greatly reducing their might, even
directly obliterating them! If I can obtain this Immortal Gu…”

Divert disaster Gu was one of the cornerstones of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. It
was also one of the limited methods Giant Sun's will could mobilize currently.

Giant Sun's will's actions did not stop at this.

He had forcibly extracted a trace of yellow apricot immortal essence by rampaging

multiple times. After activating divert disaster Gu, Giant Sun's will mobilized the
human qi Immortal Gu in true inheritance secluded domain.

Right under Fang Yuan's sight, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's burning luck aura suddenly
decreased by another quarter.

Human qi Immortal Gu was activated which similarly let out a ray of of white light.

This white light, however, directly shone on Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Human qi Immortal Gu could increase the Gu Master's human qi, raising their future
potential after advancing to a Gu Immortal. When Tai Bai Yun Sheng obtained its help,
the human qi on him instantly inflated by ten times!

With the increase in human qi, he naturally needed even more heaven qi and earth qi.

However, heaven qi and earth qi were drawn out of Imperial Court blessed land.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed heartily, True Yang Building's help had been out of his
expectations, but he still quickly accepted it and absorbed large amounts of heaven qi
and earth qi, merging the three elements into one; not only averting danger, his
potential had also greatly increased, and his future prospects had turned much better!

The land spirit Frost Jade Peacock gave a shrill, furious cry.

Heaven qi and earth qi were extracted in large amounts, causing an intense feeling of
weakness to fill its body.

"Little sparrow, you are still too green." Giant Sun's will snorted, he had used all the
immortal essence he was able to extract on the most crucial area, acquiring the
greatest results, greatly relieving the dangerous situation.

Giant Sun's will was after all a will that originated from an Immortal Venerable, its
wisdom was extremely high.

The situation had turned around quickly now and it was advantageous to Giant Sun's
will.

The weakening of the land spirit gave Giant Sun's will plenty of time to grasp the Gu
formation of the special will Gu surrounding him. Once Giant Sun's will breaks apart
this encirclement, he would regain control of the situation, and it would be extremely
easy for him to undo the seal on the immortal essence then.

As long as the seal on the immortal essence was broken, Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building would be able to display the supreme might of a rank eight Gu House in all
its glory!

"This is bad, I still underestimated an Immortal Venerable's will. I have less than half
the expected time left." Fang Yuan was able to understand the situation in True Yang
Building through the glass owner token.

His heart sank: "Now, I can only put my hopes in Tai Bai Yun Sheng. Hopefully, he can
quickly become a Gu Immortal and refine landscape as before Gu…”
At the center of the scene, the three qi were fusing.

With the help of Giant Sun's will, the thick qi flows had almost formed a cocoon around
Tai Bai Yun Sheng!

All his injuries were long gone without any trace, his body, soul and consciousness
were all being refined to a higher level.

He looked back on his life, the scenes of the past quickly flashing through his mind.

The mysteries of the Great Dao circulated in his mind, inspirations came to him
without pause, he was obtaining perfect solutions for the difficult problems in
cultivation that had restrained him in the past.

At this moment, heaven and earth were like selfless teachers, imparting all their
knowledge to Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

However, the mysteries of heaven and earth were too vast and profound, the more Tai
Bai Yun Sheng knew, the more he realized his minuteness.

He had no choice but to focus on his time path, refining and developing his knowledge.

His understanding towards time path reached the peak of his lifetime!

Inspiration from nature!

Man is the spirit of all livings beings, Gu is the essence of heaven and earth. Gu Masters
used Gu, refined Gu and raised Gu; this was actually an unending process of learning,
exploring and studying the world.

In the process of advancing to a Gu Immortal, a Gu Master need not use Gu worms to

indirectly understand the world, instead it was a direct interaction with heaven and
earth.
This was probably the only chance in one's whole life before becoming a Gu Immortal
to have such a precious opportunity.

Rank five peak stage was the finishing line of mortal Gu Masters. But rank six Gu
Immortals were beyond mortal, becoming a Gu Immortal was only a new starting
point.

At this crucial starting point, every Gu Immortal's future achievements would be

different depending on the potential they accumulated.

"Such a beautiful experience, but my human qi is not sufficient…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng
wished to continue immersing himself in this feeling but could not do so, a regretful
expression appearing on his face.

His human qi was already nearly exhausted, and this was after obtaining the help of
human qi Immortal Gu, otherwise the time would have been even shorter.

The qi cocoon dispersed and Tai Bai Yun Sheng's silhouette was revealed again.

The three qi had merged and shrunk down to a mass of tri-colored primordial qi,
condensed into where Tai Bai Yun Sheng's aperture had originally been.

This step signified the completion of the second step in advancing to a Gu Immortal,
receiving qi.

Next was the final step of becoming a Gu Immortal -- releasing Gu!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was being extremely serious, as he took out river as before,
mountain as before and man as before Gu.

These three Gu were his core Gu worms and he was exceedingly familiar with them.
Moreover, man as before Gu was even his vital Gu.

"Finally, the most crucial moment…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng first sent his vital Gu to the
mass of tri-colored primordial qi in his body.

BOOM!

All of a sudden, a mystical sound like that of thunder storm echoed in Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's ears, causing his whole body to intensely shake.
The tri-colored mass of qi was originally merged together and constantly flowing in
circulation. But after Man As Before intruded in, it was like it had ignited an explosive;
the primordial qi mass immediately exploded loudly.

There can be no creation without destruction, in death there is new life!

This moment was when a mortal could ascend to a Gu Immortal!

The explosive sound was truly mystical, exploding out the marvels of life, exploding
out a whole new world!

The mortal aperture was broken, an immortal aperture was being formed!

The immortal aperture was like a small world; the sky was azure like crystals and the
ground was a desolate wilderness filled with yellow stones.

It was like a newborn baby and intensely demanded nourishment, erupting at the
outside world with an extremely strong force of suction and absorption.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh…

Heaven qi and earth qi madly poured into Tai Bai Yun Sheng, flowing non-stop into the
immortal aperture.

In the immortal aperture, the ground quickly expanded; two thirds of a thousand
square kilometres, four thirds of a thousand, two thousand square kilometres…

And time flow also rose from the one to one ratio to one to ten, one to twenty…

The immortal aperture was gradually starting to become unstable from the mad flow
of qi.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng then sent in River As Before and Mountain As Before, stabilizing the
situation.

The immortal aperture was expanding continually, and a tributary of the river of time
flowed in the darkness, causing the time flow to increase steadily.

Time passed, Tai Bai Yun Sheng kept on placing Gu worms to maintain the stability of
the immortal aperture.
Three and one third thousand square kilometres, four thousand, four and two thirds
of a thousand!

One to thirty, one to thirty-one, one to thirty-two, one to thirty three!

The immortal aperture had reached its extreme at this point, as if it had drunk and
eaten to its fill, abruptly stopping its growth.

But the clear heaven qi was still pouring in from the sky, and golden earth qi was still
surging up from the ground.

At this moment, the immortal aperture absorbed heaven qi and earth qi much slower
than before. At first, it was drinking in big gulps, while now it was taking slow sips.

Heaven and earth qi converged into the immortal aperture, green and golden mists
and clouds filled the whole immortal aperture.

The dense qi flow was brewing beads of immortal essence within.

They were precisely the green grape immortal essence of a rank six Gu Immortal,
thirty six of them in total.

The tribulation clouds in the sky and the calamity dust in the ground, began to
gradually dissipate.

The mist like heaven qi and earth qi in the immortal aperture, however, had yet to
dissipate.

They condensed around Man As Before, River As Before, Mountain As Before and
other Gu worms, causing a dense qi cocoon to form over these Gu worms.

The two qi mixed; heaven and earth interacted.

Within the qi cocoons, each Gu worm was beginning to ferment mysterious changes.

"It is time." A Gu recipe flashed in Tai Bai Yun Sheng's mind.

This Gu recipe was only a theoretical Gu recipe of an Immortal Gu, it was from the old
beggar's Gu Immortal inheritance.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng could not guarantee whether this theoretical Gu recipe could
succeed.

But he no longer had another option.

His lifespan was near its end, about to exhaust completely. After advancing to a Gu
Immortal, his senses reached a whole new level, especially the sense regarding time
had heightened the most, it was precise to within a single breath.

This novel sensation did not put him in a cheerful mood for long before he fell into
silence, feeling oppressed and even afraid.

Because he could sense that the time he had was truly not much, just like a small
puddle under strong sunshine, with his lifespan being the thin layer of water left in
the puddle.

He had planned to get lifespan Gu but it failed because of Fang Yuan's secret
manipulations. The bloody road he had experienced in reaching the great hall even
became a knot in his heart.

Now, his only hope was in man as before Gu.

According to what the theoretical Gu recipe showed, when man as before Gu was
advanced to rank six, it could be used on oneself.

"Refine!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng gave a soft shout, countless thoughts emerging in his mind.

These thoughts formed the theoretical Gu recipe which directly poured into the
immortal aperture and then into the thick cocoon covering the man as before Gu.

These heaven and earth qi were the source of all living beings. As the two interacted,
they evolved into all things in heaven and earth.

These two qi were the origin of all living beings and could replace any Gu refinement
materials.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's thoughts were like keys that directed the heaven and earth qi in
the proper direction.

The thoughts entered the cocoon and immediately brought upon a violent change.
Although it could not be compared to the explosion of the three qi in the first step of
releasing Gu, its effect was not small either.

The qi cocoon erupted with devouring force, swallowing the remaining heaven and
earth qi in the immortal aperture without pause.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh…

The qi flow surged non-stop, forming a screaming gale.

Man as before Gu turned into the eye of the storm, large amounts of heaven and earth
qi poured into it, turning into Gu refinement resources.

"This it it, this is it…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng mumbled softly in the air, his tone carried
gratification and also expectation.

After so much effort and risk, he was now finally seeing the hope of success.

Although the process had been filled with inconceivable events.

If True Yang Building had not made a move, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was sure to fall in the
second step.

As he thought of this, he glanced at the True Yang Building.

He was not of Giant Sun's bloodline, but True Yang Building had actually helped him;
this was a fact.

"Did Giant Sun's will wake up?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng inwardly guessed. He had a Gu
Immortal inheritance, his experience and knowledge were not lacking compared to
people like Hei Lou Lan and Ye Lui Sang.

"Giant Sun Immortal Venerable prohibits the entry of Gu Immortals, I have already
violated this taboo by advancing into a Gu Immortal here. So, why would Giant Sun's
will still help me?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was puzzled.

Even with his plentiful experience, he could not anticipate the things occurring in the
True Yang Building.

Within the True Yang Building, Frost Jade Peacock gave shrill cries, the green paste on
its body kept on shaking and bouncing, the iron chains also shook, producing clanking
sounds when they collided with each other.

The powers sealing it were melting down from the corrosion of Gruel Mud.

But Frost Jade Peacock showed no signs of joy, instead it was filled with fear and
anxiety.

Giant sun's will, however, laughed brightly: "Little sparrow, your struggle is of no use."

Through Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Giant Sun's will was able to exploit some methods to
ingeniously strike the Imperial Court land spirit, weakening its strength at its
foundation.

Despite the powers binding Frost Jade Peacock weakening constantly, Giant Sun's will
had already bought some time.

He had already seen through most of the special will Gu formation that had besieged
him.

How could an Immortal Venerable's arrangement be so simple?

As long as Giant Sun's will was completely free, he naturally had large numbers of
methods to choose from like metal path, water path, fire path and so on, to seal the
land spirit again.

"I have slept for too long, but it doesn't matter. I will first put this disobedient land
spirit in its place, then I shall completely eliminate the minute loopholes in True Yang
Building; at that time, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building will once again be like an iron
bucket, standing tall for hundreds of thousands of years longer!" Giant Sun's will's
tone was deep and profound.

"I won't let you have your way even if I die!!!" After hearing 'standing tall for hundreds
of thousands of years', all the hairs on Frost Jade Peacock stood on their ends.

A land spirit was formed from an obsession and the matter of recognizing the master
was not a flexible one. Frost Jade Peacock was distinct in this even from other land
spirits; it was incomparably proud and would not yield even a little.

But Frost Jade Peacock did not struggle anymore, instead it strangely lay down
dispiritedly. However, its gaze was still sharp as a knife, filled with hatred completely.

Giant Sun's will was stupefied before suddenly realizing something as he shouted in
rage: "Little sparrow, you dare to do this!"

Outside the True Yang Building.

"The tribulation clouds and calamity dust are gradually dispersing, has Lord Tai Bai
Yun Sheng succeeded in advancing to a Gu Immortal?" Those who did not know the
truth felt excited at this sight.

"I had never expected Tai Bai Yun Sheng to actually reach the third step! Looking at
his appearance, the immortal aperture has already formed. I wonder what grade of
blessed land he has formed?" Ye Lui Sang mumbled.

In advancing to a Gu Immortal, after passing the second step, the Gu Master could form
an immortal aperture.

Immortal apertures of rank six and rank seven Gu Immortals were blessed lands; rank
eight and rank nine Gu Immortal apertures were grotto-heavens!

"Blessed lands are divided into three grades, corresponding to large, medium, and
small in size; the more heaven, earth and human qi are fused, the higher the grade of
the blessed land. Small blessed lands have an area of up to two thousand square
kilometres, they can draw in a small tributary of the river of time, and form over ten
beads of immortal essence; there are few resources. Medium grade blessed lands can
range from two and two thirds to four thousand square kilometres, they can draw in
a slightly bigger tributary of the river of time, and form over twenty beads of immortal
essence; they have plentiful resources. High grade blessed lands can range from four
and two thirds to six thousand square kilometres, and draw in a large tributary of the
river of time, the quantity of immortal essence formed surpasses thirty, and there will
be plenty of heaven and earth qi remaining which can mutually interact and refine a
mortal Gu into an Immortal Gu!"

Hei Lou Lan's gaze was fixed directly ahead, the relevant information flashing in his
mind.

His brows slightly furrowed, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was able to pass the second step with
True Yang Building's help, reaching the third step. And now, it looked like there was a
great chance for him to succeed in becoming a Gu Immortal.
'If Tai Bai Yun Sheng becomes a Gu Immortal, then what stance should I take, how
should I treat him?' Hei Lou Lan pondered over this issue.

'If nothing unexpected happens, Tai Bai Yun Sheng will no doubt obtain a high grade
blessed land. However, refining an Immortal Gu carries risk, forming calamities and
tribulations in the immortal aperture.' Fang Yuan's gaze continuously flickered.

For a mortal to advance to a Gu Immortal, there naturally were special risks.

Gu Masters were like this, it applied to Gu worms too.

Humans took in heaven and earth qi, fusing with human qi, the fusion of the three qi
would lead to heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities. Gu worms took in heaven
and earth qi, and also would induce calamities and tribulations.

It was hard for outsiders to interfere in the calamities and tribulations within one's
own blessed land.

True Yang Building could influence Tai Bai Yun Sheng, but it could not influence the
blessed land, the immortal aperture in his body.

In another words, Tai Bai Yun Sheng could only rely on himself.

"Huh?" Fang Yuan suddenly looked at the sky.

Regarding the sky of Imperial Court blessed land, in daytime, golden light glittered,
while at night, warm silver radiance shone down.

But right now, pitch-black scars appeared in the golden sky from which specks of
starlight shone down.

This was the night sky of the outside world of northern plains.

The whole of Imperial Court blessed land began to tremble.

Everyone started crying out in surprise and shock.

The tribulation clouds and calamity dust which had almost dissipated condensed
again. Large amounts of heaven and earth qi poured into Tai Bai Yun Sheng's body
non-stop, directly entering his immortal aperture like moths to a fire.
"What's going on?!" Hei Lou Lan was dumbstruck.

"What the hell happened!" Ye Lui Sang held his head, shouting involuntarily.

"Too much heaven and earth qi were absorbed from Imperial Court blessed land, its
foundation was injured, thus it is revealing the outside world, in linking up with
northern plains!" Fang Yuan's mind shook, his gaze moved from Tai Bai Yun Sheng to
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

He had guessed the truth.

Frost Jade Peacock was actually so proud, it would rather die than be suppressed by
Giant Sun's will any longer.

It lived up to its words!

When a Gu Master advances to an immortal, their aperture will transform into an
immortal aperture.

The immortal aperture is a qualitative evolution of the aperture, it is like the creation
of a whole new small world.

Rank six and seven Gu Immortal apertures were known as 'blessed lands'. Rank eight
and nine Gu Immortal apertures were called 'grotto-heavens'.

If a Gu Immortal's lingering obsession was left behind when they died, it would
combine with the heavenly power inside the immortal aperture and become the land
spirit.

Every immortal aperture is unique, it is a part of the Gu Immortal's body. In some

ways, even if a Gu Immortal dies, the land spirit and immortal aperture that they leave
behind could still be considered a strange form of life extension for them.

Precisely because the land spirit is formed from obsession, it is rigid and not flexible.

In history, there were many such cases. For example, if a Gu Immortal forcefully takes
down a blessed land, but did not meet the requirements to become the owner, the land
spirit would reject them, in the end, the land spirit may directly self-detonate, causing
the Gu Immortal's efforts to be for nothing.

Giant Sun's will forcefully sealed Imperial Court blessed land's Frost Jade Peacock, this
had accumulated hundreds of thousands of years of anger in the latter. Now that he
wanted to continue sealing it, Frost Jade Peacock's resolute heart was finally ignited.

"What is going on?"

"Lord Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal ascension caused a loophole to form in the blessed
land?"
"Imperial Court blessed land is currently being exposed to the outside world, this is
unbelievable, this has never happened in the past!!"

"This is bad, I have a very bad feeling. Do you think the blessed land is going to be
destroyed?"

In the blessed land, everyone was shouting in fear, they were panicking and their
doubts were spreading.

In the sky, countless cracks were formed. The sky of the blessed land, which was silver
and gold, had lots of cracks now, from these cracks, one could see the starry sky of
northern plains.

Fang Yuan's gaze was still calm as ever.

"Imperial Court blessed land would not self-destruct so easily." He muttered in his
heart, regarding this he was extremely confident.

In history, there were many cases of the land spirit suiciding, destroying the blessed
land along with them, but that was not going to happen here.

This was Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's arrangement, how could it be broken so
easily? This was the hard work of a rank nine Gu Immortal, this set-up covered the
entire region of northern plains!

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was the biggest obstacle.

"If this was in the past, how could the land spirit cause such trouble? Except that now,
Giant Sun's will had just awakened, he was caught off guard and had to waste time to
resolve this mess. Meanwhile, the seal that imprisoned the land spirit had weakened
drastically because of my gruel mud Immortal Gu, this allowed the land spirit to
struggle so violently."

In his analysis, Fang Yuan could not help but internally praise Giant Sun's resolution
and methods.

He had used the chess piece Tai Bai Yun Sheng, and with his limited methods, he
managed to fight for precious time and allow the scales of victory to tilt towards
himself.
"However, even though the land spirit cannot self-destruct, it could still do the most
basic thing like absorbing its own heaven and earth qi."

Thinking of this, Fang Yuan directed his gaze towards Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Above Tai Bai Yun Sheng's head, the scattered tribulation cloud formed once again,
and the calamity dust on the ground also started spreading.

Large amounts of heaven qi and earth qi gushed out, they were about to form a new
heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity!

"This, what is going on? Why are there still heavenly tribulations and earthly
calamities?! Wasn't it over already?" Seeing this, Ye Lui Sang's eyes were wide open in
shock.

"This is different from what is in the records. There is something strange going on with
Tai Bai Yun Sheng, why are there two heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities in a
row?" Hei Lou Lan was very confused as well.

Even they had no idea, not to mention the others.

Looking at the imposing heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity forming once again,
many people were lost for words as they felt very worried regarding Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's situation.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression was ashen.

"Why is there still a heavenly tribulation forming?! My inheritance did not state that
this would happen!" He was shocked and furious.

Because not just on the outside, at the same time, the immortal aperture inside his
body was also forming another heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity!

When a mortal Gu becomes an Immortal Gu, it is like a Gu Master becoming an

immortal, it is a dangerous process to make a qualitative change that defied heaven.
When Gu worms were refined into Immortal Gu, they would need to involve heaven
and earth qi, this way, the corresponding heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities
would form.

Being faced with trouble both internally and externally, Tai Bai Yun Sheng could
neither advance nor retreat, he could not attend to one problem while neglecting the
other, his situation was very worrying!

Fang Yuan used the gruel mud Immortal Gu to awaken the land spirit.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal ascension became a crucial chess piece in the fight
between the land spirit and Giant Sun's will.

This immortal ascension had already gone out of his control.

Other than Fang Yuan, everyone else was kept in the dark, they were unaware of the
truth.

Only Fang Yuan knew the land spirit's intention!

In a race against time, the land spirit could not compete with Giant Sun's will, thus it
placed its attention on Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

The heaven qi and earth qi were extracted by sacrificing the land spirit's own
foundation. Its intention was to form the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity
that would destroy Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

What benefits would the land spirit gain from killing him?

This would involve the devouring of the immortal aperture.

Mortal apertures were not easy to devour and combine, but after ascending to
immortal, the immortal aperture was a small world. Between worlds, they could be
devoured and assimilated, there were great benefits to Gu Immortals.

On Tian Ti mountain back then, Fang Yuan discarded a portion of Hu Immortal blessed
land's territory, which were quickly taken by the other Gu Immortals. Swallowing
other immortal apertures and strengthening one's own immortal aperture, there was
much to gain from this.

If the land spirit destroyed Tai Bai Yun Sheng, after he dies, his immortal aperture
would remain. It would then be absorbed and assimilated by Imperial Court blessed
land.

After devouring the aperture, the blessed land's foundation would rise, and the land
spirit would become much stronger. This would be a great help for it to break through
Giant Sun's seal.

In the sky, dark clouds were rumbling as lightning and thunder resounded.

Countless purple lightning bolts formed into balls of lightning.

On the ground, the calamity dust settled down, exposing the bare earth.

A crack formed on the ground, it was hundreds of meters wide, exposing red hot
flames from within, it resembled a desolate beast opening its bloodthirsty mouth.

The flames rose up, forming many traces of restraining smoke as they gushed up.

"Chaotic lightning balls, restraining smoke!" Fang Yuan frowned slightly.

The chaotic lightning balls not only had great power, they could even ruin the Gu
Master's mind and will, inducing a chaotic effect. Restraining smoke could seal away
the environment, as long as the Gu Master was trapped within, they would lose their
five senses, like falling into a maze or an abyss, they would not be able to get free.

Chaotic lightning balls were not fast, but together with the suppression from
restraining smoke, they were perfect partners and could unleash the greatest effect!

Fang Yuan could not help but feel some worry.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's failure was not what Fang Yuan wanted to see.

Holding the glass owner token in his hand, Fang Yuan tightened his grasp as his gaze
turned dark: "Still too weak, too weak! With my current strength, I am very heavily
affected by circumstances…”

Howl, howl, howl!

The chaotic lightning balls flew through the air, emitting a strange and shrill noise.
They sounded like a woman screaming and crying at the same time, it was very painful
to the ears.

At the same time, the restraining smoke was rumbling, surging towards Tai Bai Yun
Sheng.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression turned pale.

The chaotic lightning balls changed their directions randomly, sometimes they
traveled right, sometimes left, it was hard to dodge them. Furthermore, there were
traces of restraining smoke around him, like he was in the middle of an ancient forest.

"If I come into contact with the restraining smoke, I'll be finished! Oh no, the heavenly
tribulation and earthly calamity in my immortal aperture is also forming, moreover I
have already lost my defensive Gu!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng gritted his teeth, his gaze was
shining with resolution.

Risk it!

His body gave off a shining light, using several movement Gu, his body flew into the
air.

The intense wind blew this old man's hair towards the back, showing an unrestrained
demeanour.

Shocked screams could be heard coming from the crowd.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng charged towards the tribulation cloud, above him, there were
countless chaotic lightning balls, looking from afar, he was like a moth flying towards
a fire.

"Is Tai Bai Yun Sheng seeking death?" Ye Lui Sang frowned deeply.

"Good!" Hei Lou Lan, however, gave high praise.

Fang Yuan's eyes also shone.

Restraining smoke might seem harmless without any attack power and could only
trap enemies, but it held much greater threat than the chaotic lightning balls.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng understood the situation and made the best decision.

Only to see that after he charged into the thunder cloud, countless lightning balls shot
down like fish swimming in water.

Bam bam bam…

The lightning balls continued to explode, but it did not affect Tai Bai Yun Sheng at all.

He flew left and right, trying to find a survival chance in the barrage of attacks, his
movement speed was fast at times and slow at others, he had great control over the
situation!

"Amazing! What level of flying attainment is this!"

"To think that Lord Tai Bai Yun Sheng is actually a flying master!!"

"He hid himself too deeply, I only found out now…”

Everyone was overjoyed to find out that Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a flying master!

"To think that Tai Bai Yun Sheng was skilled at using cloud path Gu worms." Ye Lui
Sang praised, he was not very surprised at the display of flying.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a healing Gu Master, these years when he roamed northern
plains, he had encountered many dangers. He had to have a secret ability in order to
survive till now.

In truth, most healing Gu Masters were either skilled in defense or movement.

When these Gu Masters were nurtured, they were specially trained in this manner.

That was because in the battlefield, healing Gu Masters were usually the first to be
targeted, many times they could not receive protection from their teammates. Thus,
healing Gu Masters needed to have certain ways to protect themselves.

"As the number one healing Gu Master in northern plains, Tai Bai Yun Sheng is not
skilled in defense, with his age, it is no wonder he has such flying attainment." Hei Lou
Lan thought about this and turned his head, looking at the sky far away.

There, Fang Yuan seated on the azure wolf king's back, observing Tai Bai Yun Sheng
closely.

Compared to Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Chang Shan Yin who was also a flying master was
much younger.

"Little sparrow, you are really enjoying yourself." In True Yang Building, Giant Sun's
will laughed instead of raging.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was shaking intensely, the aurora was wavering in the
sky as a huge pillar of light shot out.

Immortal Gu — Divert Disaster!

The light of Divert Disaster shone around Tai Bai Yun Sheng, piercing through the
lightning balls and restraining smoke.

"Old ancestor is really blessing Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he struck once again!" Amidst the
shocked screams, there were jealous and envious people too.

"This is too weird, Tai Bai Yun Sheng is not part of Giant Sun's bloodline, to think he
could receive such blessings as well!" Someone was suspicious.

"As expected, he struck." Fang Yuan sighed internally, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had already
become a crucial factor in the contest between the land spirit and Giant Sun's will, the
land spirit wanted to harm him, while Giant Sun's will wanted to protect him!
"Luck inspection Gu!"

Fang Yuan's heart moved, quickly sending his primeval essence into the Gu.

The next moment, his vision changed.

Luck inspection Gu, a rank five luck path investigative Gu, it could allow him to see
luck despite its formlessness.

Looking at Tai Bai Yun Sheng's luck now, his previous fiery red luck that was originally
burning with a glowing red glow had shrunken by a bit.

"Earlier, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's will was helping him, thus his luck was being
expended. Now that he helped once more, Tai Bai Yun Sheng has only a third of his
initial luck left." Fang Yuan evaluated.

Looking at his own luck, it was still the black coffin luck, as rich and dense as ink, and
even larger than before.

Fang Yuan's heart jumped, but quickly snickered to himself, looking at the people in
the blessed land.

The people who were watching Tai Bai Yun Sheng ascend to immortal realm had
changes to their luck as well.

The overwhelming majority of the Gu Masters had unwittingly developed a small layer
of black coffin luck.

Except for Hei Lou Lan, he still had his unchanged profuse azure luck.

Looking around, Fang Yuan felt his eyes hurting, he quickly stopped using the luck
inspection Gu.
When a Gu Master ascends, there would be endless heaven and earth qi, using Gu
worms in such an environment would cause a backlash.

If he forcefully continued to use them, both he and his Gu worms would suffer injuries,
or even face death.

As his vision returned to normal, Fang Yuan looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng again.

He was swimming in the thunderstorm, flying through the crevices of the clouds,
showing off his master level flying attainment.

His body had no more defensive Gu, he was relying on his movement to evade the
chaotic lightning balls, it was like walking on a tightrope, he was in great danger.

In order to avoid the earthly calamity of restraining smoke, he charged into the
thunder clouds, this was a wise decision when weighing the two difficulties, but it was
also a helpless choice.

"If not for the fact that I have green grape immortal essence, and can dilute it to form
endless primeval essence, such an insane flying speed would have drained my
aperture dry long ago." Tai Bai Yun Sheng was breathing roughly, his hair was in a mess
and his body was feeling weak, the situation was getting more dangerous.

Swoosh!

Suddenly, a chaotic lightning ball changed directions and charged towards him.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng wanted to evade it, but it was too late, he could only stare
indignantly with a furious gaze.

In the moment of crisis, a white light pillar shot over, directly hitting this chaotic
lightning ball.

The lightning ball quickly melted from the ray of light, turning into pure heaven qi.

Divert disaster Gu!

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's help came once again, saving Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

"So close, even though I became a Gu Immortal, I do not have any defenses on me, if I
was hit by the chaotic lightning ball, I'd be heavily injured, the consequences are
unthinkable!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng swallowed his saliva, feeling some lingering fear.

After becoming a Gu Immortal, the foundation of his life had been elevated. If he was
still a mortal, a chaotic lightning ball could easily kill him. Gu Immortals however, were
tougher, even without any defensive Gu, they could endure over a dozen lightning balls
without any problems.

But the thing was, these lightning balls had special effects.

After being hit, they would cause Tai Bai Yun Sheng's thoughts to be chaotic, once his
mind is in chaos he would not be able to think properly.

At this crucial moment, as long as Tai Bai Yun Sheng stops in the air for a moment, he
would be attacked by countless lightning balls at once.

If he was hit by these lightning balls consecutively, Tai Bai Yun Sheng would have no
chance to gather his thoughts, he would just be drowned under the endless lightning
balls.

"Quickly look, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building saved Tai Bai Yun Sheng once again."

"That's right, this has already happened at least ten times."

"With True Yang Building's help, it seems Tai Bai Yun Sheng's tribulation will succeed
without fail!"

Outside, everyone saw this with amazed and envious expressions.

"Such intensive assistance, will it really work?" Hei Lou Lan's eyes were shining
brilliantly, he saw the situation with a different perspective.

In such an environment, when heaven and earth qi were rampaging, usage of any Gu
worm would create a huge backlash.

Divert disaster Gu was no exception.

In the history of Gu Masters, there were many instances of Gu Immortals helping out
during the tribulation, and eventually the backlash destroying their Immortal Gu.

Except that most people were ignorant and did not know such secrets.

"Divert disaster Gu is one of the foundational pieces of Eighty-Eight True Yang

Building, it is used for Imperial Court blessed land to divert away disasters. Without
it, Imperial Court blessed land would face terrifying earthly calamities and heavenly
tributations. Giant Sun's will would not sacrifice such a precious Gu for Tai Bai Yun
Sheng, that means the reinforcement of Giant Sun's will is limited… What happens
now is most crucial, it will depend on Tai Bai Yun Sheng, whether he can quickly
survive the calamity and tribulation in the immortal aperture." Fang Yuan was
expressionless as he sat on the azure wolf king's back, watching with growing tension.

After all, landscape as before Gu was one of his main goals in coming to northern
plains.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's speed started to slow down.

He was facing troubles both in his aperture and outside of it, the land spirit was
causing him harm, while the calamity and tribulation was forming in his own
immortal aperture due to his mortal Gu's ascension.

This internal threat especially, it was taking away much of his attention, thus his
reactions toward the outside world were getting slower.

Suddenly, his body shook, completely stopping his movements.

Immediately after, countless chaotic lightning balls flew towards him.

Divert disaster light pillar was shining brilliantly, it burst out and surrounded Tai Bai
Yun Sheng.

"Now is the most crucial time!" Fang Yuan, Hei Lou Lan, Ye Lui Sang and others could
see clearly that this was it, their eyes were shining.

At this moment, in Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal aperture, bright light exploded,
engulfing the entire small world.

The aura of the Immortal Gu was spewing out like a fountain.

In that bright light, an Immortal Gu was rising up slowly.

It looked like a ladybug, it was fist sized and had a jade body. On its round back, there
were natural markings, half was of rivers and seas, while the other half was of valleys
and mountains.

"So this Immortal Gu was created by combining River as Before and Mountain as
Before. It seems the effect is also the product of River as Before and Mountain as
Before, but elevated." Tai Bai Yun Sheng analyzed.

This was refined during the resonance of heaven and earth, it was not refined by him
personally, thus, he was still unclear towards the effect of Landscape as Before.

After looking at it for a few breaths' time, Tai Bai Yun Sheng placed his attention on
the most central area of the blessed land.

Immortal Gu Landscape as Before, it was not part of his goal, only an additional
surprise.

Now at the center of the blessed land, man as before Gu had turned into a huge cocoon,
but cracks were starting to develop on it. Dazzling rainbow light was leaking from the
cracks.

Breaking the cocoon and becoming a butterfly!

As the thick cocoon vanished, a colorful butterfly fluttered into the sky. Wherever it
went, rainbow light rained down, trailing behind the butterfly's path as a curvy
rainbow was formed behind it.

"Success, Immortal Gu Man as Before! Ahahaha…” Seeing this, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was
extremely happy, he laughed maniacally.

So many years of accumulation, so many years of anticipation and worry, so many

times he had fallen into grave danger, but at this moment, he obtained a perfect result!

But his internal threat still remained.

In the immortal aperture, the azure tribulation cloud was rumbling, forming a huge
green scaled snake, the snake had a silver horn on its head, and its body was hundreds
of metres long, the snake tail had turned into qi, fusing with the tribulation cloud.
As for the ground, it started shaking, making loud sounds that resembled thunder,
causing pain to the eardrums.

The newly formed earth burst out with cracks, as lava spewed out of it, the smoke was
thick as trees as the surroundings withered.

"Heavenly tribulation — silver horn green scale python, earthly calamity — molten
earth!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heart shook, facing both the heavenly tribulation and
earthly calamity alone at the same time, he felt an immense pressure.

He placed his hopes on the Immortal Gu Landscape as Before.

"Come." He willed, as a bead of green grape immortal essence flew out, fusing into the
landscape as before Gu.

The ladybug-like landscape as before Gu immediately flapped its wings, flying away
like a flash of lightning.

Everywhere it went, in the surroundings, the land returned to spring as the landscape
was restored to normal, back to the moment before the earthly calamity struck.

"Good Gu, good Gu!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heart settled, with landscape as before
Immortal Gu, he had no fear towards the earthly calamity.

Hisss—!

The silver horn green scale python opened its mouth, making a shrill sound.

It shot out abruptly, its huge body bringing along a draft of wind, as it pounced on the
landscape as before Immortal Gu.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was nervous, although Immortal Gu had huge capabilities, those
which were not defensive Gu were usually fragile. Landscape as before Gu was the
same, if it was destroyed by the silver horn green scale python, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's
situation would turn bad.

Thankfully, landscape as before Gu was born from his aperture during the resonance
of heaven and earth, he could control it like moving his limbs.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had deep foundations accumulated in his life, he quickly mobilized
landscape as before Immortal Gu and escaped. The silver horn green scale python
behind him had attacked dozens of times, it destroyed mountains and rivers, the earth
was pierced and rocks were sent flying, as savage winds ravaged the land.

"Oh no! At this rate…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng was concentrating intensely, after a few
breaths' time, sweat started forming on his forehead.

His eyes were shut tight, his body was still floating in the air, as the chaotic lightning
balls crashed towards him.

But thankfully, due to the divert disaster Immortal Gu's light pillar, his body was
protected.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was unable to care about the outside world since long ago, but he
had not forgotten his external threat.

This terrible situation forced him to cut his losses decisively.

"Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's reinforcement is limited, it might stop anytime. I

can only do this… With man as before Immortal Gu in my possession, as long as I have
time, there is hope! Cut, cut it off!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng shouted in his heart.

Abandoning the territories to protect his headquarters, he gave up a portion of his

immortal aperture, the sky began to cut apart.

The blessed land was the foundation and base of a Gu Immortal, cutting off the blessed
land was like self-mutilation, it reduced their own strength and potential.

But Tai Bai Yun Sheng had no other choice.

Just like how Fang Yuan survived the earthly calamity back in Hu Immortal blessed
land, in order to get rid of the blue charm lightning shadow, he discarded a portion of
the blessed land, Tai Bai Yun Sheng also had to make such a sacrifice!

The blessed land's sky was shaved off layer by layer.

Along with the thick tribulation clouds, they were all sent out of his body.
Outside his body, it was Imperial Court blessed land, Frost Jade Peacock joyfully
chirped as it devoured these blessed land fragments, to increase its own strength.

Giant Sun's will shouted in anger.

He was trying to protect Tai Bai Yun Sheng's life, but the latter was now fueling his
enemy's strength!

Giant Sun's will had to protect him, because if Tai Bai Yun Sheng died, his entire
immortal aperture would be devoured by Imperial Court blessed land.

Most importantly, divert disaster Immortal Gu was already full of cracks, if he

reinforced Tai Bai Yun Sheng any more, the Gu might get destroyed from the backlash.

Divert disaster Immortal Gu was one of the foundation pieces of Eighty-Eight True
Yang Building, it could not be lost!

But if Tai Bai Yun Sheng died, it was similarly disadvantageous for Giant Sun's will.

At once, Giant Sun's will fell into a difficult predicament.

The sky in the immortal aperture started to peel off layer by layer, the dense
tribulation clouds thinned out along with it. The devastating silver horn green scale
python's body decreased to one-tenth of its original size, its might extremely
weakened.

The situation was taking a turn for the better for Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

"Success is at hand." Tai Bai Yun Sheng's eyes were filled with tears when he opened
them. The situation in the immortal aperture was already stabilizing, and he had the
room to pay some attention to the external crisis.

The light of Divert Disaster was covering him, preventing the calamity and tribulation
from touching him; Tai Bai Yun Sheng felt gratitude from the depths of his heart: "This
is all thanks to Eighty-Eight True Yang Building helping me, otherwise I would find it
difficult to even have a hope of succeeding… Eh!"

The light of divert disaster suddenly dissipated!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was caught off-guard and was bombarded by the chaotic lightning
balls, his mind immediately turning chaotic. He flew around in disorder, knocking into
large numbers of chaotic lightning balls as he was unable to act for himself with not
even a trace of reason left.

Everyone was shocked but before they could express it, Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building burst out with an absolutely powerful absorption force again, directly
capturing the hysterical Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Giant Sun's will could not sacrifice divert disaster Gu and also could not let Tai Bai Yun
Sheng die.

The best method was, of course, to throw Tai Bai Yun Sheng out of the blessed land.
Unfortunately, only Frost Jade Peacock could do that in this situation.
Helplessly, Giant Sun's will could only use this inferior method.

This was indeed an inferior solution.

Under everyone's shocked gazes, the tribulation clouds and calamity dust surged
explosively, shrouding Eighty-Eight True Yang Building! Countless chaotic lightning
balls crashed down like a violent storm; while restraining smoke coiled around the
tower like an immemorial giant python, continually seeping inside.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had brought in Tai Bai Yun Sheng, thus becoming the
target for the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity.

To protect Tai Bai Yun Sheng's life, Giant Sun's will chose to forcefully resist the
heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity!

"How could this happen!"

"Lord Tai Bai Yun Sheng was brought into Eighty-Eight True Yang Building!!"

"How on earth does he deserve such assistance from old ancestor? This is a heavenly
tribulation and earthly calamity we are talking about, they are extremely dangerous
to True Yang Building!"

Everyone looked on with stupefied and shocked gazes.

Under the presence of the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity, using Gu worms
was asking to suffer backlash.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was a rank eight Immortal Gu house; in its essence, it
was an integrated body of many Immortal Gu and countless mortal Gu. And now, it
was forcefully resisting the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity, the pressure on
it was already enormous. And because of the force of the backlash, the coordination
between the Gu worms had been affected!

It was clear, this was by no means a wise course of action.

However, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had become a crucial key in the fight between Giant Sun's
will and Frost Jade Peacock; Giant Sun's will, forced by the situation, could only settle
for such a method.
Inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Frost Jade Peacock rapidly moved its wings,
continuously dodging in between the gigantic trees.

Five Immortal Gu, with all kinds of flaming tails trailing after them, were pursuing and
obstructing it.

Frost Jade Peacock was not willing to be sealed again and used all its strength to run
away, gradually it lost its head and was unable to take the exact path, crashing into
countless giant trees on the way.

Under Giant Sun's will's control, True Yang Building was a natural cage that could
utilize the strength of any round, while Frost Jade Peacock was the bird in the cage.
The giant trees turned into treemen, opening their arms to block it.

Caaaw—!

Frost Jade Peacock screamed shrilly as it suffered damage.

It tore apart the defense line of three old treemen, but its speed lowered greatly by
this, and was caught up by a metal path Immortal Gu from behind.

A golden stream of light rapidly flowed on its body. The golden light condensed into a
thick golden shell wherever it touched, firmly covering Frost Jade Peacock.

Frost Jade Peacock sensed it could not budge in any areas covered by the golden light;
it was instantly startled and furious.

It hurriedly flapped its wings to increase its speed again. But the next moment, it was
attacked by the second Immortal Gu.

An intense sleepiness invaded its mind, causing its eyes to turn hazy as it felt an
intense urge to sleep.

Boom.

It crashed down head-first onto the ground, unable to fly any longer.

It had a premonition that its fate was to be sealed again; two rows of tears filled with
grief and indignance involuntarily fell down from its eyes.
"Don't… even… think…” Frost Jade Peacock mumbled to itself, trying to use all its
remaining strength to resist.

Although there was still the remaining power of Immortal Gu Gruel Mud on its body,
the two Immortal Gu sealing it again were not restrained by Gruel Mud.

"Even if I die, I won't let you prevail!" Frost Jade Peacock gave off an intense suicidal
will, and disregarding everything, it drew out the foundation of Imperial Court blessed
land — heaven and earth qi, to intensify the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity.

And it was rapidly weakening.

Imperial Court blessed land was born from a space path Gu Immortal, thus the blessed
land's territory was vast, far surpassing any at an equivalent level.

Later, it was developed by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, becoming a top-notch

blessed land and also obtaining the ability to transit between day and night; it could
be said to be at the doorstep of transforming into a grotto-heaven.

If it could swallow the time path Gu Immortal Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal aperture,
space and time could converge which was the greatest supplement to Imperial Court
blessed land. It was extremely likely for there to be a qualitative change which could
allow Imperial Court blessed land to advance to a grotto-heaven!

If that happened, Frost Jade Peacock could break apart most of the arrangements of
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. Although it could not suppress Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building, it would have the power to expel it out of the blessed land.

However, Giant Sun's will was truly too resolute and would rather suffer the damage
from the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity to protect Tai Bai Yun Sheng's life.

Frost Jade Peacock was only an obsession left behind after a Gu Immortal's death, how
could it scheme against Giant Sun's will?

But it was also because of its obsession, it was brave and unyielding!

On the verge of being sealed again, it would rather be exterminated, and disregarding
the consequences, it drew out large amounts of heaven and earth qi from Imperial
Court blessed land.
These heaven and earth qi were like adding fuel to the fire; as they assimilated into
the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity, the sky rumbled with lightning, the
chaotic lightning balls immediately expanded tenfold in quantity, and the restraining
smoke had even more changes, its body inflated and its dark color turned even deeper.

Crack crack crack!

Lightning balls rained down like a storm, fiercely striking Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building.

Bursts of explosions sounded out; Eighty-Eight True Yang Building became filled with
scars, the eaves of the tower collapsed piece by piece, and a crack even appeared on
the outer wall.

Restraining smoke turned into an even bigger problem, becoming a deadly smoke
calamity; it was much more powerful and seeped everywhere on Eighty-Eight True
Yang Building's surface, gradually dying it black.

The pitch-black walls of the building seemed to have eroded for a thousand years, as
they started to peel off.

"The heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity have become stronger!"

"This is too terrifying, retreat, retreat!"

"What is happening? Even the wind and snow from the outside world are pouring in!!"

Everyone started shouting in shock.

Frost Jade Peacock extracted large amounts of heaven and earth qi, injuring Imperial
Court blessed land's foundation. If Imperial Court blessed land was originally a strong
house, now the tiles and bricks were taken out, only leaving behind the framework of
the house.

This caused countless holes to appear in it, connecting to the outside world.

And the outside world of northern plains was currently experiencing the blizzard of
every ten years.

Divert disaster Gu was dormant, causing Imperial Court blessed land to suffer the
invasion of the blizzard calamity as well.

Imperial Court blessed land was no longer a refuge; large amounts of wind and snow
poured in, the temperature quickly dropped as the heavy snowfall flew inside.
Although it had not reached the level of forming snow monsters, it was not too far
away.

"Little sparrow, look at what a big mess you have caused." Giant Sun's will shouted in
annoyance.

Blessed lands and grotto-heavens would attract all sizes of calamities and tribulations
in every set interval of time. The larger their fortune, the stronger the calamities and
tribulations.

The great snow disaster that wreaked havoc over the whole of northern plains every
ten years was actually the calamity and tribulation of Imperial Court blessed land.

Imperial Court blessed land had Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and was also a peak
level blessed land with territory that was at the size of a small world; the fortune it
contained was gigantic, thus the calamities and tribulations it attracted were
extremely terrifying.

Right now, divert disaster Gu was hibernating, while Imperial Court blessed land had
connected outside to northern plains, causing the once in ten years blizzard to return
into it.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building could forcibly resist the frenzied attacks of lightning
balls, the invasion of the black smoke, but it was unable to contend against the blizzard
that could wreak havoc over the whole of northern plains.

If this situation continued, Imperial Court blessed land would erode and crumble
apart due to the snow disaster.

Frost Jade Peacock did not need Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, but Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building needed Imperial Court blessed land.

There was one way to salvage this situation.

That was to use divert disaster Gu to eliminate heavenly tribulations and earthly
calamities and turn them into heaven qi and earth qi. Making Imperial Court blessed
land take in these heaven and earth qi to stabilize its foundation, and close the
connection with the outside world of northern plains.

Giant Sun's will could take the risk in forcibly activating divert disaster Gu. But to make
Imperial Court blessed land take in heaven and earth qi required Frost Jade Peacock's
cooperation.

"Asking this little sparrow to cooperate is simply an impossible dream!" Even if it was
Giant Sun's will, this was a difficult problem.

He helplessly thought of the only way —"Unless Frost Jade Peacock acknowledges a
pair of new owners…”

Giant Sun's will did not know that Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal aperture contained
landscape as before Immortal Gu which could conveniently deal with this trouble.

He thought of another Immortal Gu he had — false emotion fake will Gu!

The condition for Frost Jade Peacock to acknowledge its owner was a couple who had
true love for each other.

However, nothing was absolute, even the land spirit could be hoodwinked.

Giant Sun's will knew as long as he found two candidates to use false emotion fake will
Gu on, he could hoodwink the land spirit and make Frost Jade Peacock recognize new
owners.

Once Frost Jade Peacock was controlled, each problem could be easily resolved.

Moreover, this method was very favorable to Giant Sun's will.

If a couple who had true love for each other became the owners of Imperial Court
blessed land, what would Giant Sun's will do if this couple did not obey his commands?

Instead of that, he would hold onto the initiative if he found two unconnected people
to use false emotion fake will Gu on and satisfy the requirement to become the owners.

Because false emotion fake will Gu contained Giant Sun's will!

False emotion fake will Gu was subjected to Giant Sun's will's control. Even if the two
unconnected people were disloyal in the future, as long as Giant Sun's will still held
false emotion fake will Gu, at worst, he could once again select two new candidates.

'Little sparrow, you are a long way from being able to fight with me.' Giant Sun's will
was shrewd and wise, inheriting some of the main body's intelligence; the seemingly
desperate situation could not hold him back. With just some thinking, he thought of a
way to resolve it.

He immediately mobilized Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's strength to inspect the

candidates.

Right now in Imperial Court blessed land, everyone was running away from danger
here and there, with many casualties appearing.

The situation was quickly worsening, it was so cold that one's spit could instantly
freeze into a piece of ice. The majestic blizzard was pouring in without any pause, tall
and formidable snow monsters started standing up from the depths of the snow,
selecting targets to devour.

But this did not pose any difficulty for Giant Sun's will.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building could plunder resources from the whole of northern
plains, let alone two people that were right in front of it.

These two people would naturally be those with Giant Sun's bloodline, Giant Sun's will
soon selected two candidates who satisfied it.

"Eh?" Hei Lou Lan's vision rapidly changed, he was at rank five peak stage, but he did
not even have the strength to resist as he was absorbed into True Yang Building.

"Ahhhhh, save me!" Not far away, Ma Hong Yun was still running frantically and did
not realize the changes in his surroundings.

Thud.

He bumped head first into a giant tree in front.

"Don't tell me this kid was running with his eyes closed…” Hei Lou Lan was speechless.
"Painful, painful!" Ma Hong Yun rubbed his forehead that had turned red, pouting as
he got up from the floor.

"Eh! What is this place?" He discovered that the blizzard had vanished without a trace,
he was surrounded by a spring-like warmth; it was not a world of ice and snow, instead
it was a vast ancient forest.

Around him were gigantic ancient trees, hundreds of metres tall, so thick that even a
dozen adults joining hands could not surround it.

The ancient trees were very tall, and their lush leaves covered the sky; rays of sunlight
penetrated through the small gaps, forming a tranquil scene under the shade.

Compared to the outside world, this was practically a paradise.

"You are in the center of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building." A voice suddenly echoed
within Ma Hong Yun and Hei Lou Lan's ears.

"Who is this?" Hei Lou Lan's pupils contracted.

Ma Hong Yun cried out in fear: "Ghost!"

He panicked and subconsciously ran to the side of Hei Lou Lan.

"Ghost? I am no ghost, if I could become a ghost, my affairs would be much easier to

settle. Unfortunately I am merely a remnant will, inferior to even a ghost."

Giant Sun's will gave a sigh, and suddenly in mid-air, golden speckles of light appeared.

These speckles of light rotated slowly and suddenly condensed, transforming into an
imposing body of light and shadow, similar in appearance to Giant Sun.

"Ah, you are!?" Ma Hong Yun stammered, his finger pointing towards the will of Giant
Sun in endless shock.

Hei Lou Lan's pupils contracted, as the head of Hei tribe, he knew a lot. His complexion
turned solemn and respectful; placing his hands on his chest, he spoke dutifully:
"Descendant pays respect to Ancestor Giant Sun!"

Giant Sun sighed once again, and said: "I know the two of you are feeling confusion
within your hearts. To make a long story short, this man broke into True Yang Building,
undid the seal on the Frost Jade Peacock land spirit, and thus put Imperial Court
blessed land on the brink of crisis."

As he said that, the golden speckles condensed into the image of Chang Shan Yin.

"Ah, it's Lord Wolf King!" Ma Hong Yun immediately recognized.

"It was actually him?!" Hei Lou Lan also could not help but cry out.

But Giant Sun's will immediately continued: "What you see is not his genuine
appearance."

As he spoke, the image of Chang Shan Yin changed, gradually turning into Fang Yuan's
true appearance.

"This is the true face of that person." Giant Sun's will spoke.

Fang Yuan disguised himself as Chang Shan Yin using the human skin Gu. This Gu was
a mortal Gu, it was able to deceive people like Hei Lou Lan, but it failed to deceive Giant
Sun's will.

Even though when Fang Yuan explored the true inheritance secluded domain in secret,
Giant Sun's will was asleep. But within the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, there were
many Gu worms that had recorded his actions.

Seeing the true face of Fang Yuan, Hei Lou Lan and Ma Hong Yun were unable to
recognize him.

"So it turn out that this Chang Shan Yin was merely a fake! To actually infiltrate
Imperial Court blessed land, he is extremely daring!" Hei Lou Lan let out a cold snort,
sensing such a huge conspiracy, he could not help but be both startled and furious at
once.
"He not only has guts, but he had also made ample preparations. Looking at the two
methods he used to scheme against me, these are not something that one can
accomplish on their own, there surely must be a larger force backing him. You two are
my descendants; True Yang Building has been infiltrated by outsiders and is in deep
trouble, I now need your strength." Giant Sun's will spoke.

Hei Lou Lan and Ma Hong Yun glanced at each other, both expressing their desire to
cooperate with Giant Sun's will.

Giant Sun's will spoke concisely, in a short period of time, he was able to give a clear
explanation.

"So it was like this." Hei Lou Lan came to a realization, and was now able to understand
why True Yang Building helped Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

His heart jumped, Giant Sun's will's idea was for him to become Imperial Court blessed
land's owner, that involved tremendous benefits.

"Imperial Court blessed land's ownership condition is special, the blessed land
actually requires two owners. No wonder back then, when Giant Sun Immortal
Venerable set up the sacred palace, he made it so that his empress could stay in it. He
loved his empress very much, now it seems that the empress also had half the
ownership of Imperial Court blessed land."

"Using false emotion fake will Gu to deceive the land spirit, this is quite a good idea.
But this kid, how could he be selected to become Imperial Court blessed land's owner
alongside me?"

Hei Lou Lan's eyes sparkled, shooting a glance toward Ma Hong Yun, concealing his
deep disdain.

"Could it be that Ancestor Giant Sun thinks that he is an easier pawn to control?" Hei
Lou Lan's gaze trembled, with Giant Sun's will present, he did not dare to do anything
reckless.

Differing from Hei Lou Lan, Ma Hong Yun suddenly remembered something and
shouted: "Wait a moment! Lady Xiao Yun and my wife Xiao Li are still outside, I do not
want to be the owner of the blessed land, quickly let me out, I need to save them!"

Lady Xiao Yun naturally referred to Zhao Lian Yun.

His wife Xiao Li was Chang Li. Originally, Chang Biao, in order to coax Ma Ying Jie,
allowed his adopted daughter Chang Li to be married off to Ma Hong Yun,
consequently turning her into Ma Hong Yun's wife.

Giant Sun's will seemed to have taken a fancy to Ma Hong Yun, he laughed heartily:
"Hahaha, caring for beautiful women, you are truly my descendant. Boy, once you
become the owner of this blessed land, this will become your domain. Then, you will
be able to have all the women you desire."

Ma Hong Yun stared blankly, before quickly shouting: "No, it's very dangerous outside,
I have to go and save them both. No matter what this affair is, we can discuss it later.
Release me outside, quickly let me go!"

"Foolish boy, relying on your own strength, you can barely defend yourself, how can
you defend other people?" Giant Sun's will laughed. "Be obedient and stay here,
cooperate and become the owner of Imperial Court blessed land. I will be the one to
save your women."

Giant Sun's will moved rapidly without delay, starting to act the moment he finished
speaking.

Great numbers of Gu Masters were in the True Yang Building, and almost all of them
were Giant Sun's descendants.

These were his descendants, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was built for their sake,
as an inheritance for his descendants.

Naturally, not all of his descendants had the aptitude to become Gu Masters, Giant
Sun's will had not made a move to save those.

Fang Yuan had a panoramic view of this scene.

"Giant Sun's will made a move, this time, many people were taken into the building."
Within his mind, Mo Yao's will spoke.

Fang Yuan sat still on the back of an azure wolf king, floating at a high altitude in the
sky, gazing at the distant sacred palace.

But it was a huge distance away from his original location.

The power of the calamities and tribulations getting more fearsome, Fang Yuan, in
order to avoid the disaster, could only retreat.

In the surroundings of the sacred palace, the heavenly tribulations and earthly
calamities continued to increase in power, the area was already extremely dangerous.
This Frost Jade Peacock was putting in a last ditch attempt, even the once in ten years
blizzard of the northern plains was attracted over.

Now the sacred palace had mostly been destroyed, the broken walls scattered in the
wind, its former splendor nowhere to be seen.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was in a terrible state, it was wrapped in layers of
heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities. Inside it were the chaotic lightning balls
and restraining smoke, while outside was the raging blizzard that was getting
stronger.

"Giant Sun's will has already awakened, he definitely wants you dead, it's a blessing
that he isn't targeting you now; he absolutely won't come and save us. We should
retreat and return to Water Pavilion. Within Water Pavilion, there is some immortal
essence that I have left behind in the past, you can use them to move the Gu House.
You can return to central continent, and when you return Water Pavilion to Spirit
Affinity House, you will receive more benefits than you can imagine, there is no need
for you to take a risk here." Within his mind, Mo Yao continued to coax him.

Things had already progressed this far, the entire Imperial Court blessed land had
been affected, Giant Sun's will had already awakened, Water Pavilion was still hidden;
while True Yang Building was suppressed by the heaven tribulations and earthly
calamities, it was a great opportunity to retreat.

"Retreat?" Fang Yuan's eyes were cold and detached, his line of sight turning towards
the glass owner token in his hands as he sneered softly.

He gripped the glass owner token tightly.

This was a crucial trump card he had not expended yet.

Central continent Gu Immortals left behind three methods to deal with Giant Sun's
will.

The first was the Gu formation of special will Gu, effective in dealing with Giant Sun's
will. The second method was a sealing Gu formation, which could temporarily seal the
yellow apricot immortal essence left behind by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.

The third method was even more hidden but had greater power, it could temporarily
expel Giant Sun's will from the True Yang Building!

The glass owner token was the key to all three of these methods.

Now, both the first and second methods were already used, only the third method was
left.

But this third method was much stronger compared with the first two methods, it
could be said to be a trump card!

Especially at this moment.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was wrapped in heavenly tribulations and earthly
calamities, once Giant Sun's will gets temporarily separated from the building, he
would definitely suffer the fearsome attack of the heavenly tribulations and earthly
calamities!

Mo Yao's plan was indeed mature and stable, but great risks come with great rewards.

Meanwhile, in True Yang Building.

Chang Li and Zhao Lian Yun were brought into the building by Giant Sun's will,
appearing in front of Ma Hong Yun.

"Lady Xiao Yun, my wife Xiao Li!" Ma Hong Yun was jubilant, and dashed towards them.

"Husband!" Chang Li was happy to have escaped danger, and threw herself into Ma
Hong Yun's arms.

Zhao Lian Yun also moved quickly towards Ma Hong Yun's side, her face also full of joy
from having returned from death's door, she lightly kicked Ma Hong Yun's leg: "Foolish
kid, unexpectedly, you were useful for once."

"Hahaha, it's only natural." Ma Hong Yun loosened his hug and cordially looked
towards Giant Sun's will floating in midair, and expressed his gratitude, "Thank you,
old ancestor."
Just as he said that, suddenly, a violent tremor occurred.

For a moment, the entire forest shook.

"What's going on?" Chang Li and Zhao Lian Yun both turned pale.

"Alright, enough nonsense, the heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities are getting
more and more severe, eventually, even Eighty-Eight True Yang Building will no longer
be able to resist. You must become Imperial Court blessed land's owners as soon as
possible." The complexion of Giant Sun's will's changed as he spoke.

Bam bam bam…

A group of large treemen moved slowly, each footstep they took sounding like thunder.

The treemen lowered their waists, opening their branch-like palms, revealing the
giant immobilized peacock.

"This is the land spirit of Imperial Court blessed land, Frost Jade Peacock!" Giant Sun's
will introduced, while at the same time, false emotion fake will Gu flew towards the
Frost Jade Peacock.

Hei Lou Lan and Ma Hong Yun stood before the Frost Jade Peacock, as the false
emotion fake will Gu let out a yellow light that resembled a fog, gradually enshrouding
Hei Lou Lan, Ma Hong Yun and the Frost Jade Peacock.
"Listen to my instructions. Hold your breath, be calm, be relaxed, and discard any
superfluous thoughts…” Giant Sun's will spoke in a pensive tone.

Hei Lou Lan closed his eyes and slowed his breathing.

Zhao Lian Yun and Chang Li stood to the sides and did not dare to speak.

A light breeze blew, and the tree leaves rustled, creating a tranquil atmosphere.

Ma Hong Yun looked left and right. Suddenly seeing the Frost Jade Peacock, he was
amazed, shouting: "Look quickly, the peacock is alive, it actually shed tears!"

The tranquil atmosphere was disrupted, and the voice of Giant Sun's will's stopped.
Hei Lou Lan held his irritation, and angrily opened his eyes. He berated: "Nonsense, of
course the land spirit is alive. When the land spirit dies, the blessed land will be
finished as well. Why do you care if it is shedding tears or not, quickly follow the
instructions!"

"Oh, oh. So, it's like this, my bad, my bad." Ma Hong Yun was shocked by the Black
Tyrant's anger, he nodded quickly.

"Concentrate, clear your mind, don't think excessively, this is the best way to display
false emotion fake will Gu's power to its limit." Giant Sun's will continued to instruct.

Hei Lou Lan closed both of his eyes and breathed gently, a light breeze blew, bringing
with it the sweet fragrance of vegetation.

"Wait a moment, wait a moment!" Ma Hong Yun suddenly screamed.

"You despicable fellow, are you courting death!" Hei Lou Lan clenched his fist, an
immense rage was building in his heart, he was outraged and anxious.

"Old ancestor, I am a man, he is also a man. Creating feelings between the two of us,
I… I am unable to accept it!" Ma Hong Yun was afraid of Hei Lou Lan's terrifying aura,
he whispered while being on guard against Hei Lou Lan, pleading with Giant Sun's will.

"You scoundrel…” Hei Lou Lan gnashed his teeth and clenched his fist until they made
cracking noises, his eyes revealing an ominous glint.

Were it not for Giant Sun's will being right by his side, according to his brutal nature,
he would have already sent a punch over, blowing Ma Hong Yun's brains out.

"Idiot! Saving the blessed land is the most urgent matter right now. So what if you're
both men, just be free and relax, there will not be a problem! I will always support
you!!" Zhao Lian Yun called out, she was fearful of Hei Lou Lan, yet simultaneously her
eyes showed some unexplainable excitement.

"That's right, husband, look at the big picture, I… I do not mind it," Chang Li spoke
softly in agreement.

Ma Hong Yun rolled his eyes and shouted: "Hey, this does not involve you so you can
talk about it casually! Old Ancestor, I have an idea, how about you let me and my wife
do it. Our love is genuine and sincere, you can even save up on using the false emotion
fake will Gu."

Ma Hong Yun was straightforward, not giving much thought to the complex
circumstances.

As far as Giant Sun's will was concerned, not using false emotion fake will Gu was out
of the question.

Hei Lou Lan's killing intent burst out, Ma Hong Yun's proposal greatly encroached on
his benefits, his anger was about to explode, almost reaching his limit, but he did not
dare to attack in the presence of Giant Sun's will, he did not dare to flare up.

As expected, Giant Sun's will rejected Ma Hong Yun's proposal: "Boy, you are too
young, true love, is it so easy to find? When calamity strikes, all the birds fly in different
directions, human couples are also the same. Do you think this young lady truly loves
you? Hehehe."

The words of Giant Sun's will made Chang Li's complexion pale.

Indeed, Chang Li had never sincerely loved Ma Hong Yun, originally, she was looked
upon as a political bargaining chip by Chang Biao and delivered to Ma Tribe, intended
to be used to form good bonds with Ma Ying Jie, but in the end, Chang Biao died, and
Chang Li lost her backing. She could only accept her fate and stay by Ma Hong Yun's
side.

Fortunately, Ma Hong Yun could cultivate to rank three, becoming a Ma Tribe elder, the
resources he had available to him were incomparable to before, and as he also had Ma
Ying Jie's trust, he could provide Chang Li with a good life.

Ma Hong Yun was to become one of Imperial Court blessed land's owners, and since
he was close to Chang Li and Zhao Lian Yun, Giant Sun's will began to investigate them.

His investigative method was simple, direct, and effective.

He separated a portion of his will, and ventured into Chang Li and Zhao Lian Yun's
minds, looking over their memories and thoughts.

With True Yang Building's support, along with the method of an Immortal Venerable,
Chang Li and Zhao Lian Yun were not even aware that, at this time, each of their secrets
were rapidly being learned by Giant Sun's will.

"Old Ancestor, what do you mean?" Ma Hong Yun pursed his eyebrows, he was foolish
and brazen, while Hei Lou Lan did not dare to offend Giant Sun's will, he dared to ask
a direct question.

Giant Sun's will laughed: "You are indeed a fool, boy. Your mind isn't that sharp, but it
is excusable, I will now give you a lesson. This little wife of yours approached you with
an ulterior motive, her adoptive father deliberately ordered her to come. Even your
heroic action of saving this beauty was merely a show."

Chang Li's complexion immediately turned deathly pale and she trembled from head
to toe.

Hei Lou Lan was indifferent, he was already accustomed to these dirty political games.

"How could that be?" Ma Hong Yun's eyes widened, unable to believe this.

Giant Son's will then said: "And there is also your little female companion, called Zhao
Lian Yun. Hehe, she had matured young and gained some wisdom, she was forced by
circumstances to had no choice but to be with you. From the very beginning she had
looked down on you, only wanting to protect herself… Of course, now that you have
grown stronger, she has gradually become dependent on you."

Zhao Lian Yun's heart went cold, her thoughts were exposed on the spot, making her
feel extremely unpleasant, as if the clothes on her body had been forcibly stripped off
by someone.

But facing Giant Sun's will, she did not dare to refute anything. She wasn't a normal
child, she was a transmigrator, the suffering she had experienced in this life had made
her aware of the mystery and cruelty of this world.

"Eh!?" Suddenly, Giant Sun's will's words came to a stop, and his image in the air
showed an expression of shock and fear with his eyes wide open.

"To think, to think that!" Giant Sun's will's tone changed abruptly, he stared at Zhao
Lian Yun with a hateful gaze, causing her to take a few steps back in fear.

"To think that you are an otherworldly demon! You are actually lurking by Ma Hong
Yun's side! Hehehe, you have such guts, you are really daring. Unfortunately… you met
me." Giant Sun's will exuded a strong killing intent.

"Otherworldly demon, what is that?" Hei Lou Lan was astonished, as it was his first
time hearing this term despite his status and experience.

He looked at Zhao Lian Yun but could not see anything extraordinary about her.

"Old Ancestor, what are you trying to do!" Ma Hong Yun, no matter how stupid, could
recognize something was wrong.

He sprinted to the front of Zhao Lian Yun, spreading both of his arms, protecting her
behind his body.

"Boy, you want to protect an otherworldly demon?" Giant Sun's will raised his tone,
his expression becoming ice-cold.

"What otherworldly demon! I don't know any otherworldly demon, I only know she is
Lady Xiao Yun, without her help, I would likely have been killed already." Ma Hong Yun
tried his best to defend Zhao Lian Yun.

Giant Sun's will shook his head and sneered. He had no interest in explaining, yet for
some reason, he had to explain: "Killed? Boy, you are a person destined to become a
Gu Immortal. Had she not helped you, there would definitely have been others who
would have given you assistance. Otherworldly demons are enemies of the entire
world, they are a huge menace! If we let them grow, the consequences would be
unthinkable. In the past, there was an otherworldly demon who managed to grow
successfully, the five regions were almost destroyed as a result!"

Hei Lou Lan's eyes widened.

The words of Giant Sun's will were too sensational. Listening to his words, it seemed
as if the otherworldly demons could rival rank nine venerables.

How was it possible?

But the one who said these words was someone Hei Lou Lan had no choice but to
believe.

For a moment, Hei Lou Lan looked Zhao Lian Yun in the eyes, killing intent emerging.

"No, Lady Xiao Yun is innocent, you must not harm her!" Ma Hong Yun was extremely
determined, he wholeheartedly wanted to protect Zhao Lian Yun.

Zhao Lian Yun was stunned.

She looked towards Ma Hong Yun's lonely and powerless back, her eyes glistening with
tears.

She did not know what bullshit otherworldly demons were, but could surmise that
perhaps it was related to her own transmigration.

She forced herself to wipe her tears, the corners of her lips raising into a determined
arc.

Since Ma Hong Yun wholeheartedly defended her, disregarding his own life, she
consequently must not implicate Ma Hong Yun!

She took a step forward, stopping in front of Ma Hong Yun, she looked at Giant Sun's
will, speaking resoundingly: "You want to take my life, come and take it."

"Good." Giant Sun's will had a ferocious smile, killing intent boiling with no trace of
sympathy.

He was a huge will congealed by special will Gu, the difference between special wills
and other wills were that: they could be given a special command by the Gu Master
that would be triggered if specific circumstances were met.

And Giant Sun's will, during its formation, was given a profound resolve by the main
body —— if it discovered an otherworldly demon, no matter the circumstances,
killing the otherworldly demon must take priority!

Giant Sun's will had to kill Zhao Lian Yun, to have been able to restrain himself until
now was already really remarkable.

"No——! Ma Hong Yun saw the situation going south, he shouted out in a moment of
desperation, extending both his arms and hugged Zhao Lian Yun within his bosom.

"Otherworldly demon, you deserve to die without pity!" Giant Sun's will sneered, and
started to make his move.

Yet the next moment, his expression became rigid, and shortly after he faced towards
the sky and bellowed: "Damn it——!"

The roaring voice suddenly came to a spontaneous end, and the image of the will
abruptly disappeared in mid-air.

Giant Sun's will could sense a formidable, hard to resist force, that pulled it outside of
the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

"What is going on?"

"What happened?!"

No matter if it was Hei Lou Lan or Ma Hong Yun, both stared blankly at the spot,
surprised by the turn of events.

Just a moment ago, Giant Sun's will was still brilliant and mighty, how could he
suddenly disappear?

Outside the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, the golden speckles of the majestic will
enveloped the entire True Yang Building.
Rumble!

Large amounts of chaotic lightning balls bombarded in succession, the lightning balls
could cause one to sink into confusion and in essence attacked wills.

Giant Sun's will was restrained by the chaotic lightning balls, in no time the explosions
put him in a tough spot, a portion of his will was damaged and destroyed.

Meanwhile, the restraining smoke took advantage of the situation, swallowing up the
pieces of Giant Sun's will.

Giant Sun's will really was too majestic, though the outer shell suffered the bombardment
of the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity, the inner layer desperately tried to enter
the building.

Eighty-Eight True Yang building, presided over by Giant Sun's will, was now an empty
building, although the structure was intact, the Gu worms stopped functioning.

Like an army of soldiers suddenly losing their commander-in-chief, they can only rely
on their instincts to act.

At this moment, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had become exceptionally fragile.
"You little pest, I will kill you!"

Giant Sun's will was naturally furious at being subjected to such a scheme once again.

A portion of the majestic will was immediately sent flooding towards the distant Fang
Yuan.

However, this torrential portion of will was weathered down by the chaotic lightning
balls and restraining smoke in the inner layer, shrinking by thirty percent. And after
being ground down by the outer layer's blizzard, it decreased by another twenty
percent.

By the time it approached Fang Yuan, it had already been reduced by more than half.

"This can only last for about fifteen minutes." Fang Yuan turned a blind eye to the
rapidly approaching attack, his mind was cool as ice, as he silently estimated the
duration of this third method.

His thoughts moved while tightly clenching the glass owner token, and the next
moment, he teleported inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

This was a feature of the glass owner token.

Fang Yuan had been able to move in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building without anyone
knowing of it, because of this.

He appeared on an ice mountain, causing the torrential will to strike empty air.

It was a scene of white, the icy-cold wind brushed past his face.

Grrr!

Three-eyed snow rabbits, at the size of adult men, with bulging muscles, drilled out
from the depths of the snowy land, surrounding Fang Yuan in a few moments!

This was the round that Tai Bai Yun Sheng had been transported to in Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building.

The snow rabbits kept on appearing endlessly and soon there were tens of thousands
of them glaring at Fang Yuan.

Just based on close-quarter combat capability, these snow rabbits did not lose to wind
wolves or turtleback wolves. Under the environment of ice and snow, their battle
strength even surpassed ordinary wolves.

The large numbers of wild Gu living in their body further increased their ferocity.

One had to spend a lot of time and energy to break through their obstruction.

But Fang Yuan was in control of the glass owner token and did not need to use such a
forceful method.

His thoughts moved and the glass owner token gave a faint glimmer.

The crowd of snow rabbits suddenly appeared to be at a loss, their killing intent
instantly dissipating.

Fang Yuan waved his hand and they dispersed in confusion, drilling into the thick
snowy ground, and before long, they were gone.

Fang Yuan was able to control many floors of True Yang Building with the glass owner
token. He had intentionally held back before and did not use up the quota completely,
saving several uses for later. Right now, he used it and immediately obtained control
over this floor.

Without the obstruction of Giant Sun's will, he was this round's true controller and it
was very easy for him to disperse these snow rabbits.

Crack…

A glacier split open, revealing a tunnel.

The tunnel directly extended down the inner part of the ice mountain.
Fang Yuan moved quickly in this tunnel and soon saw Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was sealed inside an ice block, seemingly in a deep sleep.

He had been bombarded by chaotic lightning balls when he tried to pass the
tribulations before, his mind sunk into chaos and he was not able to think. Thus, he
was easily absorbed into the tower by Giant Sun's will.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was not of Giant Sun's bloodline, and moreover was a Gu Immortal,
therefore he could not be easily controlled. To prevent him from causing trouble and
to seize the moment to handle the land spirit, Giant Sun's will took advantage of this
to seal him here.

With a thought from Fang Yuan, the ice block dissolved and Tai Bai Yun Sheng slowly
woke up.

"Chang Shan Yin…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng gradually regained his consciousness, he glanced
around and recalled, before gazing at Fang Yuan.

Although he found Fang Yuan's cruel way of doing things very repugnant, he was
grateful at this moment: "You saved me?"

Fang Yuan arrogantly smiled: "If not me, who else could it be? Tai Bai Yun Sheng, do
you know you are facing imminent catastrophe?"

"Imminent catastrophe?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression changed, but he was a famed
character and was not scared by Fang Yuan's frightening words.

Instead, he slowly stood up and lightly smiled at Fang Yuan: "Please explain."

Fang Yuan looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng with indignance and explained: "I was ordered
by master to infiltrate into True Yang Building and release the seals on the land spirit,
to overturn True Yang Building and take control of Imperial Court blessed land!
Master gave me a glass owner token which can use three methods to deal with Giant
Sun's will. But something unexpected happened midway, you suddenly advanced to a
Gu Immortal and it was used by Giant Sun's will to weaken the land spirit, leading to
the current peril. Did you think you were favored by Giant Sun's will? Hmph, he was
only using you to protect True Yang Building! Now that you have lost your value, you
were sealed up, and if not for me saving you, you would definitely fall into the control
of Giant Sun's will, and end up in extreme misery!"
"What?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's brows furrowed as he revealed a bewildered expression.
Fang Yuan's words not only contained a lot of information but also were very
impactful.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng stared at Fang Yuan, his gaze flashing with a bright light as his brows
furrowed deeper: "I had been doubting why I suddenly received the help of Giant Sun's
will, but later absorbed into True Yang Building and sealed up for no reason. Your
words explain everything. But if so, who are you? Why did you save me? You might
have released me from imprisonment, but it doesn't mean I will believe you
unconditionally!"

Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "Who am I? Look carefully!"

He then took a step back and right in front of Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he used a knife to
slowly cut his skin starting from his forehead.

A bloodstain extended down to his stomach, following the tip of the knife.

"What are you…?!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was shocked.

Fang Yuan chuckled, he then held the knife behind his head and cut downwards. Using
his hands in turn, he cut down a long wound smoothly.

The two long wounds soon exuded scarlet blood.

An intense pain attacked him, but Fang Yuan's expression did not change.

Next, he started slicing at his arms, thighs and other crucial areas.

His hand was steady as a rock during the whole process, his expression was indifferent
as if the one being cut was not him but someone else, not expressing even a trace of
pain.

"What are you doing?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng felt a chill down his spine and took a step
back, doubts forming in his mind.

But the next moment, his pupils shrunk and his shock could not be concealed on his
face.

He saw Fang Yuan clenching his teeth and peeling his skin off like stripping clothes.
His movement was neat and efficient, there was almost not even an inch of skin
remaining on his whole body. Like a blood monster, there was only a terrifying human
shape with scarlet muscles and snow white teeth left behind.

Next, Fang Yuan activated healing Gu.

Under the emerald light, new tender skin started to grow over his body.

The skin gradually covered all his body and after the emerald light dispersed, the one
before Tai Bai Yun Sheng was Fang Yuan with his real appearance.

"Ahh! So you were not Chang Shan Yin, but were just disguised as him. You, who are
you?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng might have a benevolent character, but he was not foolish; he
immediately realized the truth when he saw this scene.

His heart was filled with extreme trepidation.

Looking at Fang Yuan in front of him, he saw the appearance of an ordinary youth, but
the presence he emitted was beyond ordinary, especially that pair of dark eyes, like an
ancient lake with unfathomable depths.

He was giving off the intense aura of rank five peak stage, his gaze as chilling as a
knife's edge; Tai Bai Yun Sheng had seen countless people and one look at Fang Yuan
told him, the latter was a genius character who was lofty, resolute and did not fear any
challenges.

Even in all his life, the number of such people Tai Bai Yun Sheng had seen could be
counted with his fingers.

"Who am I?" Fang Yuan chuckled, the corners of his lips curled up to reveal a smile, his
expression was proud and vivid.

His burning gaze looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng, his tone serious, containing an
earnestness that made people want to subconsciously believe in them: "My true name
is Fang Yuan, I came to northern plains from central continent because of an important
assignment from master, we are fellow disciples."

"Fang Yuan? Fellow disciple?" Shocked and astonished feelings attacked Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's mind: "What do you mean?"
"Hmph, you don't even understand the meaning of fellow disciple? It means my master
and your benefactor is the same person, our relation is of fellow apprentices!" Fang
Yuan's brows furrowed and his tone revealed some impatience.

There was no language barrier between Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Fang Yuan, he naturally
understood the term, but he was not able to accept the great significance of it at this
moment.

After he heard Fang Yuan's explanation, an image appeared in his mind.

It was an image of an old beggar.

With disheveled purple-red hair, occasionally he was insane, occasionally he was in a

stupor, but when he was clear-headed, his gaze revealed one who had experienced
vicissitudes over time and an awe-inspiring aura manifested in him.

When he was young, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had given the old beggar a bowl of water out
of kindness.

When the old beggar became clear-headed, he gave Tai Bai Yun Sheng three Gu
Immortal inheritances to choose from. The young Tai Bai Yun Sheng chose the third
inheritance in the end.

This was the most profound memory in Tai Bai Yun Sheng's life and he had never
forgotten it in all his life.

Many times, he had recalled the old beggar's image.

It was him who saved the lost Tai Bai Yun Sheng, pulling Tai Bai Yun Sheng from his
lowest point. It could even be said the old beggar created Tai Bai Yun Sheng. Without
the old beggar's help, there would not have been the current Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

"Master…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng mumbled, he had always regarded the old beggar as his
supreme benefactor!

His whole body involuntarily trembled.

He had tried to scout out the traces of the old beggar, and had never given up on this.
But so many years had gone by and he had almost roamed the whole of northern
plains without making any progress in his search.
The old beggar was mysterious; suddenly appearing before disappearing again.

Now when Tai Bai Yun Sheng suddenly heard of the news of his benefactor, his heart
was filled with excitement, joy and naturally was even more in disbelief.

"Listen well." Fang Yuan pointed at Tai Bai Yun Sheng and spoke bluntly, "Benefactor's
name is Purple Mountain True Monarch, master has six great disciples. I, Fang Yuan,
am ranked at fifth, I cultivate strength and enslavement path, both are from Gu
Immortal inheritances."

"Purple Mountain True Monarch, Purple Mountain True Monarch…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng
pondered over Fang Yuan's fabricated name like a treasure, his mind involuntarily
thinking of the old beggar's disheveled purple hair.

"Master doesn't care about his appearance and likes to wander around, exploring the
unknown. Before I came to northern plains, I heard him mention you and how he gave
you three choices but you chose the most useless time path inheritance. Hmph, if it
had been me, I would definitely choose the first inheritance, that fire path inheritance
that could burn seas and mountains, it has such extreme power." Fang Yuan's tone was
filled with anger, yearning and regret, his expression was sincere and vivid as if this
had really happened.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's mind shook. He had never mentioned this experience to outsiders.
Fang Yuan, however, described the situation back then so accurately!

He naturally did not know Fang Yuan had once searched his soul to confirm if he had
landscape as before Immortal Gu recipe.

"Then, you, you are my apprentice brother?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's gaze towards Fang
Yuan was a whole lot different now.

"Hmph!" Fang Yuan twitched his mouth in dissatisfaction, "At most, you can only
barely qualify as a disciple in name, benefactor has actually taken in many disciples,
but they cannot be compared to legacy disciples like me. But according to master's
rule, as long as a disciple in name can advance to a Gu Immortal, they can become his
legacy disciple. According to ranking, you are my… uhh… that… fifth senior brother."

"Huh?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's brows slightly furrowed.

"Hmph, what are you being proud for! It is only because of your Gu Immortal identity,
that you are ranked ahead of me." Fang Yuan coldly looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng, "Wait
till I become a Gu Immortal, with my enslavement and strength path dual cultivation,
I will push you down and I will be your fifth senior brother! But looking at your elderly
appearance, you clearly don't have much lifespan. I might not even need to become a
Gu Immortal, I just have to wait for you to die of old age."

Fang Yuan's attitude was extremely rude, even revealing obvious resentment.

This was where the brilliance of his plan lied.

If he just spoke eloquent words and made a vow, that might not make Tai Bai Yun
Sheng believe him too much. But it was because his words contained an attitude of
rejection and also deep emotions, that made Tai Bai Yun Sheng quietly put down his
guard and gradually choose to believe him.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng might be quite old, but his experience paled in comparison to Fang
Yuan who had five hundred years of experience in his previous life.

Fang Yuan did not openly explain but using just a few words, he made Tai Bai Yun
Sheng interpret the whole story himself and see a glance of his master's origin.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng muttered: "Then, sixth junior brother…”

Fang Yuan immediately put out his hand: "Don't call me that, I am not close to you! My
task had been going smoothly but it was destroyed by you. Do you know how much
time master had spent to make all the arrangements in Imperial Court blessed land?
Now, the situation has changed like this, how do I explain it to master? You can just
call me Fang Yuan!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was not angry at Fang Yuan's interruption, instead a guilty feeling
emerged in his heart; he chuckled and cupped his fists towards Fang Yuan, asking
sincerely: "Then… Fang Yuan, things have already reached this point, how should I
help you to recoup the losses for master as much as possible?"

Success.

"Hehehe, spectacular, this is too spectacular, kid! You are truly insidious, tsk tsk,
swindling a Gu Immortal to your side using just a few words!" Mo Yao had all along
been observing this, and at this moment, she could not help revealing herself in Fang
Yuan's mind to praise him.
Fang Yuan sneered inwardly, on the surface however, he showed an unhappy
expression: "Heh, after such a long time, you have finally spoken sense! Master has a
discerning eye, he did not nurture a thankless wretch. Knowing to repay kindness is a
trait we should have. Hmm… the situation right now is very bad, the crucial thing is
there is not much time left. I have already used the third method master left behind,
you must cooperate with me now. It will all depend on the two of us!"

"Please instruct me." Tai Bai Yun Sheng bowed.

"First use this." Fang Yuan grinned and tossed out a fifteen year lifespan Gu.

"This!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression changed, an astonished expression appearing
on his face at the sight of this lifespan Gu.

"Use it, you may have Immortal Gu Man as Before, but that thing expends a lot of
immortal essence. I don't want you to suddenly end up dead at the crucial moment."
Fang Yuan spoke viciously, with an indifferent expression.

But Tai Bai Yun Sheng instead felt a warm feeling in his heart. In his previous five
hundred years of life, Fang Yuan's grasp of the human heart was able to reach to
pinnacle after experiencing many trials and hardships…

"This lifespan Gu…”

"My glass owner token can control only a small number of the rounds. True Yang
Building only has a single lifespan Gu, quickly use it, stop wasting time!"

But Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not use it, he kept it in his pocket.

He thought of Gao Yang and Zhu Zai.

Until now, he was still feeling guilty.

The lifespan Gu in his hand had a scent of blood that was very familiar to him.

"What is going on with you?" Fang Yuan acted furious, pretending not to know.

"There are reasons…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng's eyelids drooped, he raised his gaze, looking
at Fang Yuan with a determined look: "All in all, don't worry, I can provide you the
greatest assistance!"
Fang Yuan grabbed onto Tai Bai Yun Sheng, gritting his teeth: "Bastard, do you know
that I disregarded the consequences in using the glass owner token just to obtain this
lifespan Gu?"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was silent, his expression was gentle as jade, but he was very
determined.

Fang Yuan's words made his heart feel great warmth, his last lingering trace of
suspicion vanished like smoke.

After looking at each other for a while, Fang Yuan seemed to have felt Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's determination as he retracted his gaze: "Hmph, if you did not become a Gu
Immortal and are also a legacy disciple, I would not care if you died. Alright, according
to the details of your inheritance and your tribulation performance, you should have
the Immortal Gu Landscape as Before now, right?"

"Mm." Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded: "Yes, that is correct."

Fang Yuan's eyes shone, his mouth cracked open to show his snow-white teeth, he did
not conceal his joy: "Very good, come with me!"

Saying so, a large number of starlight firefly Gu flew out of his aperture.

"Oh, that's right, hold these two for me, put it on your aperture, I cannot bring them
along." Fang Yuan tossed casually.

"Immortal Gu!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's pupils shrunk.

A moment later, Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Fang Yuan entered Hu Immortal blessed land
using the stargate.
"Master, you are finally back!" Little Hu Immortal was already waiting before the
stargate and when Fang Yuan appeared, she immediately jumped towards him and
hugged his leg, rubbing it with her cute rosy cheeks.

"Hehe, you have worked hard during these days when I was not here." Fang Yuan
smiled warmly and lightly stroked Little Hu Immortal's head.

Little Hu Immortal's fox ears shivered slightly, a blissful expression appeared on her
face and her snow-white tail started shaking lightly behind her.

"This is… a land spirit? So this is a blessed land!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng stepped out of the
stargate closely after Fang Yuan, and was startled at seeing Little Hu Immortal.

He had heard Little Hu Immortal addressing Fang Yuan as 'master'.

Fang Yuan was only a mortal, but he already possessed a blessed land! In history, there
were some people who had such fortune. The most famous one was Giant Sun
Immortal Venerable. He had luckily inherited Imperial Court blessed land when he
was still just a mortal. And in his later cultivation journey, Imperial Court blessed land
was of huge assistance.

"Haha, this blessed land's name is Hu Immortal blessed land. I seized it forcibly from
several sects of central continent, under master's order." Fang Yuan proudly replied.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's gaze immediately changed.

There was a difference between immortal and mortal, but right now, he was looking
at Fang Yuan as an equal, asking: "I would assume that the process of snatching this
blessed land was very dangerous, right?"

"Naturally, even now when I think of it, I still have some lingering fear." Fang Yuan
laughed heartily, "But in the end, winner takes all, everything is just that simple. I
obtained the blessed land, becoming the final winner. The greater the risk, the greater
the profits!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded, sighing inwardly: this profit is simply too immense!

A blessed land with a land spirit was the immortal aperture of a fallen Gu Immortal.
Possessing such a blessed land was akin to inheriting the Gu Immortal's immortal
aperture and cultivation resources!

Simultaneously, the impression of Fang Yuan's audacious nature deepened by another

level in Tai Bai Yun Sheng's mind.

"Master, who is he? His aura is strong." Little Hu Immortal sensed Tai Bai Yun Sheng
brimming with Gu Immortal aura. She could not help but be tense, gripping on Fang
Yuan's pants, appearing somewhat nervous and on guard.

"Relax, he is on our side, and is here to help us save Dang Hun mountain." Fang Yuan
comforted Little Hu Immortal, "Take us to Dang Hun mountain."

Little Hu Immortal's eyes brightened upon hearing this. She trusted her master's
words unconditionally.

She immediately let down her guard and disappeared on the spot, taking Fang Yuan
and Tai Bai Yun Sheng with her.

The next moment, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were teleported to the center of
the blessed land, the location of Dang Hun mountain.

Dang Hun mountain had already been deformed completely from the corrosion of
Gruel Mud. Only a small mound remained of the lofty Dang Hun mountain.

Dang Hun Palace, which was on Dang Hun mountain previously, had naturally been
destroyed.

"Master, if you arrived any later, you would not have been able to see Dang Hun
mountain." Little Hu Immortal said with a sorrowful voice.

Fang Yuan lightly petted her head, then looked towards Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a smart man and from this scene along with Fang Yuan's
previous words, he could guess Fang Yuan's intention in bringing him here.
He nodded towards Fang Yuan, before taking out landscape as before Gu from his
aperture.

Immediately, the surging aura of an Immortal Gu filled the surroundings.

"This is?" Little Hu Immortal's bright eyes opened wide upon this first encounter with
landscape as before Gu.

Landscape as before Gu was like a ladybug, it was the size of a fist and had the color of
green jade.

Its round shell was engraved with natural patterns; half of the patterns portrayed
rivers and lakes that twisted and turned, flowing continuously, while the other half
was of mountains and hills, precipitous and overlaid upon one another.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng gave a soft shout; a bead of green grape immortal essence turned
into a stream of light that instantly poured into landscape as before Gu.

The Immortal Gu suddenly burst out with green jade light that soared to an extreme
height, giving off a radiance that people could not look at intently.

The light radiance covered the remaining Dang Hun mountain.

The corrosion of Gruel Mud on Dang Hun mountain immediately paused under the
illumination of the green light. Immortal Gu Gruel Mud's power was quickly
neutralized and then vanquished.

The green light gradually dimmed; Tai Bai Yun Sheng then threw in another bead of
green grape immortal essence.

The green light brightened again, covering the devastated Dang Hun mountain and
continually cleansing it.

The small mound sized Dang Hun mountain started to grow and strengthen at a visible
speed under the radiance.

"Dang Hun mountain is changing back!" Little Hu Immortal clapped her little hands,
prancing around happily.

But the good scene did not last long, Dang Hun mountain only recovered by twenty
percent when the green light weakened again.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression changed slightly: "What kind of mountain is this? It
actually exhausted a green grape immortal essence!"

He was able to create thirty-six green grape immortal essence beads in his ascension
to Gu Immortal. But later, using movement Gu crazily to dodge chaotic lightning balls
expended one bead of immortal essence. Then in his own immortal aperture, to resist
the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity after the formation of Immortal Gu, he
had continuously activated landscape as before Gu to restore his aperture to its
previous condition, spending three whole beads on it.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had a clear understanding of how precious immortal essence was;
now he had just started to restore Dang Hun mountain but had used up two beads of
immortal essence.

At this rate, he would have to at least expend five to six beads of green grape immortal
essence!

Fang Yuan smiled: "Dang Hun mountain."

"Dang Hun mountain?" When Tai Bai Yun Sheng heard the name, his expression
underwent a great change, his eyes opened wide and he spoke with a shocked tone,
"Could it be?"

"It is indeed the one in <>, how could there be another Dang Hun mountain?" Fang
Yuan laughed.

"To think, to think I would actually be able to see the legendary Dang Hun mountain!
This is the sacred land of soul path cultivators that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable
had praised endlessly." Tai Bai Yun Sheng was extremely moved as he kept on
exclaiming in admiration.

It was the first time even for him to witness a thing of such legend.

When he glanced at Fang Yuan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's gaze had another subtle change.

He did not say anything else but quietly used a third bead of immortal essence to
maintain the activation of landscape as before Gu.
This time, Dang Hun mountain was restored to forty percent before the green light
dimmed.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng used a fourth bead, then a fifth bead and finally a sixth bead before
Dang Hun mountain fully recovered.

"It is truly Dang Hun mountain, requiring six whole beads of green grape immortal
essence to recover completely." Tai Bai Yun Sheng mumbled while looking at the tall
mountain in front of him.

Dang Hun mountain was magnificently beautiful; ordinary mountains could not even
compare to it.

It was a pink crystal mountain, emitting an unforgettably dreamy radiance.

"Mast… Master, Dang Hun mountain's disease has been treated." Little Hu Immortal's
eyes had turned red, "Sob sob sob…”

She cried tears of joy, before lowering her head and using her delicate little hands to
wipe the tears.

Fang Yuan also let out a breath of turbid air when he gazed at Dang Hun mountain.

Now, the objective for infiltrating into northern plains was finally achieved!

So many days and nights of effort, taking risks in the battlefields, disguising, racking
his brains to scheme; they were all not in vain.

At this moment, a soaring fire burned in Fang Yuan's heart.

This burning fire had a name — ambition!

Restoring Dang Hun mountain could no longer satisfy his appetite. There were still
opportunities left in Imperial Court blessed land!

Especially now, Giant Sun's will was expelled out of the tower; Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building had become akin to an ownerless object.

Even if false emotion fake will Gu was an Immortal Gu and was difficult to capture,
Fang Yuan had used his silver tongue to obtain Tai Bai Yun Sheng's trust, succeeding
in roping in the crucial battle power that could influence the situation.

When the time comes, using a Gu Immortal's will, forcefully refining false emotion fake
will Gu was not an impossible matter.

"Let's go, back to northern plains." Fang Yuan came and left just as quickly, with Tai
Bai Yun Sheng in tow.

Before leaving, he handed burial soul toad to Little Hu Immortal.

Burial soul toad was a storage Gu used to store souls. There were souls of humans and
beasts, and they had mostly been gathered by Fang Yuan from the battlefields.

These would turn into large numbers of guts Gu through Dang Hun mountain.

When they returned to Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, the starlight firefly Gu
supporting the stargate were already spent by over half; Fang Yuan quickly stored
what remained into his aperture.

It was extremely difficult to accumulate starlight firefly Gu. The current amount could
only support one more activation of the stargate.

"We are back again." Tai Bai Yun Sheng was deeply moved.

In this trip, he had directly gone from northern plains to central continent and back to
northern plains from central continent. It was truly a travel disregarding distance, he
felt like he was free to go anywhere in the world!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had only heard of hole earth Gu and connecting heaven Gu in
methods that could allow one to connect between blessed lands and grotto-heavens;
he had never heard of the method Fang Yuan used.

"Probably only people like sixth junior brother are worthy of such mystical methods.
Maybe this was imparted to him by master." Tai Bai Yun Sheng trusted Fang Yuan even
more after the trip to Hu Immortal blessed land.

Fang Yuan was only a mortal at the moment, but he possessed a blessed land, this by
itself was sufficient to prove many issues.

Dang Hun mountain's magnificent scene was even more deeply imprinted in Tai Bai
Yun Sheng's mind.

Seeing is believing!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had no choice but to believe it.

Fang Yuan first revealed his true appearance, then used lifespan Gu, revealing secret
information to obtain Tai Bai Yun Sheng's trust. Fang Yuan had also resolved the doubt
in Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heart — why True Yang Building had helped him endure the
tribulation for no rhyme or reason.

Fang Yuan's words and the evidence he showed to Tai Bai Yun Sheng were almost all
true, except the lies at the crucial points.

Nine truths and one lie; the lie would eventually become the truth. Especially when
this lie involved the deepest secret of Tai Bai Yun Sheng. Tai Bai Yun Sheng had never
revealed it to outsiders while Fang Yuan knew it by soul searching.

Among all these, the true marvel lied in Fang Yuan grasping Tai Bai Yun Sheng's
psychology completely.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had been feeling extreme guilt after betraying Gao Yang and Zhu
Zai; he denied the value of his own existence. Under stimulation, he went through Gu
Immortal ascension and even charged towards tribulation, thinking of ending it all.

But when he successfully passed the tribulation and became a Gu Immortal, he stood
at a whole new height, looking at a different scene.

His mind came back to life, and after passing the tribulation with much difficulty as
well as getting his immortal aperture blessed land, he did not want to die anymore.

He wanted to make a fresh start.

But he had an unresolved matter tugging his heart.

He needed hope, he needed acknowledgement!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng himself was not aware of this psychological need. But Fang Yuan
was aware and gave him this acknowledgement.
Fang Yuan's acknowledgement, in a certain way, represented his master's
acknowledgement.

And Tai Bai Yun Sheng respected his benefactor deeply. His master's acknowledgement
made him feel there was value in him being alive. A mysterious force and a completely
new environment attracted his interest.

He had been at the peak of mortals and had experienced all that the mortal world
could provide, but in the journey of immortals, he was a child that had just begun to
move.

The fifteen year lifespan Gu was in his pocket. He was no longer worried and guilty.
He chose to believe Fang Yuan, not only because Fang Yuan explained everything and
there were not many pieces of evidence he could contest, but even more importantly
—

In the very depths of his heart, he wanted to believe in Fang Yuan!

Every single person who was cheated, was it because they were stupid?

No, it was only because they wanted to believe in it from the depths of their heart.

"Here, your Immortal Gu." Tai Bai Yun Sheng tossed Fixed Immortal Travel and flying
bear phantom Gu to Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan nonchalantly accepted them; this casual attitude towards Immortal Gu
caused another ripple in Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heart and trust.

But he received a great shock when Fang Yuan brought out the glass owner token, as
at the next moment, he appeared in another round.

Tall and ancient trees were everywhere. Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were within
a dense forest.

Roars and howls interlinked together, giant trees pulled out their roots and stood up,
turning into tall treemen.

Within a few moments, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were surrounded by treemen
one after another.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng had a grim expression; one treeman was nothing to him, but the
number of treemen here was extremely astonishing, and to completely exterminate
them would require him to pay a significant price.

But the next moment, Fang Yuan lightly waved his glass owner token, and this round
immediately became under his control.

The treemen stopped moving forward, their killing intent gone as if it was never there.

While Tai Bai Yun Sheng was wearing a stupefied expression, Fang Yuan grabbed his
arm and directly teleported in front of Hei Lou Lan and Ma Hong Yun.

There was already an enormous change in the situation here.

Frost Jade Peacock was half-lying on the ground, with Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun
turtling up under its wings. Surrounding it were layers after layers of treemen
unfolding mad attacks.

Hei Lou Lan was fighting nearby with false emotion fake will Gu resting on his
shoulder.

He blocked the attacks of the treemen while also launching attacks at Ma Hong Yun
and Zhao Lian Yun at the same time.

But these attacks were blocked by the light barrier from Frost Jade Peacock before
they could even reach their targets.

"Lord Hei Lou Lan, you are also being attacked by the treemen, your situation is the
same as ours! We have neither hatred nor grievance between us, why must you try to
kill us?" Ma Hong Yun shouted.

Hei Lou Lan snorted: "Didn't you hear what old ancestor said? Your girl is an
otherworldly demon with a mysterious background and will be a cause of endless
disasters, she must be eliminated! Who knows if she and the Chang Shan Yin
impersonator are on the same side! Old ancestor was about to attack her just earlier,
but suddenly disappeared due to some mishap. You have Giant Sun's bloodline, you
are a person of northern plains; you are actually not able to distinguish right and
wrong, you dare to shield an otherworldly demon!"

Ma Hong Yun was furious and immediately retorted: "She is not an otherworldly
demon that you all claim, she is innocent! Lord Hei Lou Lan, don't waste your strength
in vain, we have already received the land spirit's recognition; with the land spirit with
us, you can't kill us!"

When Giant Sun's will was thrown out of the tower, this round did not have any
controller and operated by itself; the treemen treated the land spirit, Ma Hong Yun
and others as challengers challenging the round.

Hei Lou Lan wanted to kill Zhao Lian Yun in place of Giant Sun's will. Ma Hong Yun was
ready to give up his life to save her, which strongly shook Zhao Lian Yun's heart and
she started feeling true love for him.

Ma Hong Yun had already treated Zhao Lian Yun with earnest feelings; the two loved
each other, and the land spirit acknowledged them as its masters by its own accord.

In this dangerous situation, the land spirit raised a defensive barrier around them,
protecting them from the fatal attacks of the treemen and Hei Lou Lan.

As for Chang Li, she had already died miserably under the attacks of the treemen.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng appeared on the crown of a treeman, observing the
battle situation.

"Ma Hong Yun… he actually obtained the land spirit's recognition. Hmph, this kid's
dogshit luck is truly powerful." Fang Yuan mumbled with a complex expression.

"You know him?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was somewhat astonished as he had not thought
the grand Fang Yuan would actually recognize this rank three initial stage minor
character.

"It is you!" Hei Lou Lan quickly sensed the distant Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng;
his eyes opened wide as he swiftly jumped back like he was facing a great enemy.

His eyes twitched and his heart had already sunk.

Giant Sun's will had suddenly disappeared, and the mysterious man impersonating
Chang Shan Yin appeared with Gu Immortal Tai Bai Yun Sheng standing beside him,
and the two seemed to have a very close relation at that! This was extremely
unfavorable to Hei Lou Lan.
Ma Hong Yun, however, did not sense anything. The defensive barrier raised by the
land spirit was shrinking constantly as it was attacked by the innumerable treemen.
His and Zhao Lian Yun's sight were blocked by the dense amount of trees and leaves.

"What do we do now?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng asked calmly while casting a glance towards
the gloomy Hei Lou Lan.

Fang Yuan sneered: "We need Imperial Court blessed land's land spirit, Frost Jade
Peacock's strength to topple True Yang Building! Frost Jade Peacock might have
already recognized its masters, but because Giant Sun's will is not present, the seals
on it are not being manipulated and it is barely surviving. Most of its strength had
already been sealed again. The defensive barrier is also on the brink of collapse and
simply won't be able to block me. I will go kill Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun. You go
deal with Hei Lou Lan and seize the false emotion fake will Gu, I trust that it won't be
a problem with your Gu Immortal battle strength. Let's move, we don't have much
time!"

"Immortal and mortal are vastly different, it is just like a wide chasm separates them.
You don't need to worry." Tai Bai Yun Sheng lightly smiled, moving elegantly towards
Hei Lou Lan.

Fang Yuan directly shot forward towards Ma Hong Yun.

The surrounding treemen followed him under his control.

"Such a pity… Ma Hong Yun, I originally wanted to use you as a key to control the events
of the future. But who told you to block my way? No matter how good your luck is,
your death is certain today!" The brimming killing intent in his heart surfaced as a
malevolent smile on Fang Yuan's face.
Bam bam bam!

Three ten meter tall treemen raised their hammer-like fists as they attacked time and
time again, crashing on the light barrier.

Frost Jade Peacock cried out sorrowfully.

Its huge wings were sealed by gold, only the land spirit's head was still exposed.

"My masters, I cannot hold on anymore." The land spirit sighed, its long eyelashes
trembling slightly. The light barrier was getting weaker, and under the treemen's
endless attacks, it was on the brink of collapsing.

What was more scary was, Fang Yuan was closing in!

Imperial Court blessed land was already in bad shape, and the land spirit, Frost Jade
Peacock, was sealed, the remaining strength of the barrier was not a problem for Fang
Yuan, he could break through it any moment.

The fatal threat had already arrived, but Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun still had no
idea.

Even though they could not sense Fang Yuan, the thick aura of death was suffocating
them.

Zhao Lian Yun was silent and did not speak, she hid in Ma Hong Yun's arms as she shut
her eyes.

After all, she was an ordinary woman.

Ma Hong Yun continually comforted her in a soft voice, even though he felt no hope
himself.
"It's over." Fang Yuan shot out like lightning, stepping on twigs and branches as he
entered the innermost layer of the treeman encirclement.

But just when he was about to execute the finishing blow, as he was charging, Mo Yao
shouted in his head: "Eh? This aura! Wait… stop quickly!"

"What is it?" Fang Yuan's momentum was lost, he stopped at a high area on a tree as
he asked in suspicion.

Ever since Mo Yao's will entered his head, he had never felt such intense emotions
from her before!

At this moment, Mo Yao showed herself in Fang Yuan's mind.

She had tears all over her face as her slim body was shivering, she was muttering:
"This aura, this aura… there's no mistake, there's absolutely no mistake! This is the
aura of fortune rivalling heaven Gu!"

"Fortune rivalling heaven Gu?!" Fang Yuan's heart jumped, as he immediately recalled.

Mo Yao had researched deeply about Eighty-Eight True Yang Building in her lifetime,
taking a huge risk to enter the true inheritance secluded domain for her lover Bo Qing.

Her original motive was to obtain the supreme true inheritance of luck path, she
wanted to steal the fortune rivalling heaven Gu in it.

But in the end, she only succeeded partially.

As she spent a lot of effort and exerted all her strength, she was able to create a crack
in the luck path true inheritance.

However, fortune rivalling heaven Gu flew into this crack and vanished into thin air.

But Mo Yao did not return empty handed, she obtained a portion of the luck path
inheritance's details. Combined with her refinement path grandmaster foundation,
she eventually refined calamity beckoning Gu.

But calamity beckoning Gu was inferior to fortune rivalling heaven Gu, Mo Yao used it
to help Bo Qing with his tribulation, and in the end both of them died.
Eventually, Fang Yuan found Mo Yao's inheritance and refined calamity beckoning Gu
once again, accepting Mo Yao's request to return the rank seven Gu House Water
Pavilion to Spirit Affinity House.

Now, Mo Yao felt the aura of fortune rivalling heaven Gu, this was a crucial Immortal
Gu that she had failed to obtain after spending her entire life and putting in
immeasurable effort.

It was understandable that she had become so agitated and emotional.

"Fortune rivalling heaven Gu's aura is on this lad! I can't believe it, I, Mo Yao, spent my
entire life and nearly died in the secluded domain, but eventually the fortune rivalling
heaven Gu escaped and this mortal lad got it by chance. Hehehe, is this life?" Mo Yao
raised her head and sighed, as she laughed and cried, her tone was extremely dejected.

Fang Yuan squinted, his eyes glowing with cold light.

He asked in his heart: "That means fortune rivalling heaven Gu is currently on Ma

Hong Yun? Can you confirm that?!"

"Of course, I can never forget the aura of fortune rivalling heaven Gu!" Mo Yao replied
unhesitatingly.

She continued and said: "Fortune rivalling heaven Gu is a one time expenditure rank
eight Gu. It is formless and ethereal, being in essence a lump of luck, it is extremely
difficult to capture with ordinary methods. Back then, my main body could not capture
it, thus it managed to fly away from the scene and vanish without a trace. Even True
Yang Building could not trap it. It must've escaped to northern plains, roaming until it
landed on that lad!"

"So it is a one time expenditure Gu…” Fang Yuan was extremely disappointed.

Fortune rivalling heaven Gu was the greatest treasure in Giant Sun Immortal
Venerable's luck path inheritance, it had extremely great value.

Fang Yuan was unable to gain benefits in the true inheritance secluded domain, but if
he could take fortune rivalling heaven Gu away from Ma Hong Yun, that would be the
best.

But unfortunately, fortune rivalling heaven could only be used once before it vanished.
"Fang Yuan, you have to be careful! Fortune rivalling heaven Gu is extremely special,
back then Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had fortuitous encounters endlessly, time
after time he would turn disasters into blessings, he unceasingly had great luck, and
he relied on this Gu to a great extent. Ma Hong Yun is affected by fortune rivalling
heaven Gu, he is a true child of luck! His luck could be said to be ranked at number one
in the five regions!! The luck that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had back then would
very possibly be replicated in him. Although luck is formless and ethereal, it is a part
of strength and cannot be underestimated!" Mo Yao quickly said anxiously.

"I know what to do." Fang Yuan held in his killing intent, his expression turning cold
as he stopped on the tree branch, not attacking abruptly.

He looked down from above, at Ma Hong Yun and others, allowing the treemen below
him to attack.

Actually, the two were not too far from each other, but even Frost Jade Peacock did not
discover him.

This showed how weak the land spirit was right now.

It was obvious at one glance that the two sides had great difference in strength, it
seemed that victory was in sight, and killing Ma Hong Yun was extremely easy.

But Fang Yuan did not think so, he was once a Gu Immortal, his vision surpassed
mortals.

He understood: These so called paths — wisdom path, refinement path, metal path,
time path and others, they looked like they were combinations of complex series of Gu
worms gathered together, but in actuality, they were the deciphering of one's
understanding towards heaven and earth, towards the mysteries of the universe.

Luck path was the same.

Based on Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's example, one could see that luck path, even
compared to other paths, could more deeply explain the mysteries of heaven and earth
in some aspect.

Fang Yuan had never looked down on Ma Hong Yun, he had always been vigilant
towards him.
Because his previous life's memories made him understand how high Ma Hong Yun's
future achievements would be.

In his previous life, Ma Hong Yun became the pillar of northern plains, the leader that
resisted the attack of central continent Gu Immortals! When Fang Yuan was killed by
the barrage of Gu Immortals, he was still growing and developing.

Fang Yuan knew about Ma Hong Yun's growth, and now he finally understood the
origin of Ma Hong Yun's heaven defying luck.

That was, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's greatest achievement in luck path —
fortune rivalling heaven Gu!

And the cause of all this was Mo Yao who was residing in his mind!

Luck did not have any physical form, and it could not be touched, but Fang Yuan knew
the ability of this mystical power.

"No wonder Giant Sun's will purposely chose Hei Lou Lan and Ma Hong Yun as the
people to become the land spirit's master. Hei Lou Lan is the strongest person among
his bloodline descendants, while Ma Hong Yun had fortune rivalling heaven Gu."

Fang Yuan felt that this situation was troublesome.

Although Ma Hong Yun was a tiny rank three Gu Master, he had the power of a rank
eight Immortal Gu protecting him!

A rank eight Immortal Gu, only inferior to rank nine, such as the wisdom Gu and
strength Gu of legends. It had absurd and unimaginable strength, anyone who
underestimated it would face a pitiful end.

Fang Yuan was only a mortal, back then in the true inheritance secluded domain, he
could not even get close to the rank seven human qi Gu, not to mention the rank eight
fortune rivalling heaven Gu.

Ma Hong Yun looked harmless, but in all his experiences, when did he ever suffer a
true loss? Every time, he benefited from difficulties and had endless fortuitous
encounters, all those who wished to harm or kill him faced a terrible end.

Although every time he did not personally take action, but there would always be an
external force or accident, along with a series of small coincidences, all of these added
together to form a shocking power!

Fang Yuan suddenly thought of Giant Sun's will.

Earlier, Giant Sun's will wanted to exterminate Zhao Lian Yun, but Ma Hong Yun
protected her with his life. This was as if Giant Sun's will had become an enemy of Ma
Hong Yun.

Just as Giant Sun's will was about to strike, Fang Yuan appeared, pulling out True Yang
Building and causing the heavenly tribulation to strike him.

"Even Giant Sun's will fell prey huh…” Fang Yuan looked at this from another angle and
was shocked.

"I have the glass owner token, I can check the situation inside the entire Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building. Why did I not strike earlier? Actually, it was completely
unintentional! Or maybe… I heard that Zhao Lian Yun was an otherworldly demon and
wanted to protect her, I was curious and wanted to investigate this?" Fang Yuan
recalled the scene.

Giant Sun's will's was expelled from True Yang Building, he could be said to be the
culprit. But the timing was too coincidental, it allowed Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian
Yun to escape death.

"If I suddenly attack Ma Hong Yun, would I be like Giant Sun's will, will an outside force
intervene, or will an accident occur?"

Fang Yuan grabbed his glass owner token, considering his plans again.

"Wait!" Fang Yuan thought about it again: "What I've heard on this matter was only Mo
Yao's statement. It seems to be credible, but what if she lied to me due to some special
reason?"

Fang Yuan suddenly thought of this.

Thus, he asked Mo Yao in his heart: "Strange, earlier when I used luck inspection Gu, I
observed the luck of everyone in the sacred palace. If Ma Hong Yun had the fortune
rivalling heaven Gu, why did I not discover it? I could only see that the two with the
highest luck were Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng."
Mo Yao seemed to have predicted this question, she immediately answered: "What's
so strange about this? Fortune rivalling heaven Gu is a rank eight Immortal Gu, your
luck inspection Gu is only a rank five mortal Gu, an investigative Gu that can allow a
Gu Master to see luck despite its formlessness. How can a rank five investigative Gu
discover the luck created by a rank eight Immortal Gu?"

"If I cannot see it, how can I be sure that Ma Hong Yun has fortune rivalling heaven
Gu's influence on him?" Fang Yuan did not relent, he continued asking.

"Oh Fang Yuan, you are too suspicious." Mo Yao sighed, immediately answering: "There
is a method to make sure. That is to use investigative Gu and check your own luck.
Every time you act against the child of luck, because of the mutual influence between
luck, your luck will become bad, or even worse. If you do not believe me, you can check
it that way."

Time was limited, Fang Yuan immediately used luck inspection Gu.

His vision changed abruptly.

Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun's luck were rather tiny, they were the same as
ordinary people.

Meanwhile, there was a massive black luck, almost three hundred meters tall, high
enough to pierce heaven and earth!
This black luck aura was so dark that it reached the point of being extremely
oppressive. The coffin shaped aura was tightly covering Fang Yuan.

Since an unknown time ago, the black aura on Fang Yuan had become much larger and
much deeper.

Far away, Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Hei Lou Lan were engaged in an intense battle.

The luck aura of the two were exceptionally clear.

Above Hei Lou Lan was still the azure luck aura that gave a lasting feeling like a
towering tree. The luck on Tai Bai Yun Sheng, however, was smaller than before, not
even one-sixth of the original amount; it was no longer the brightly burning red cloud,
instead it was a shade of heavy evening mist that almost looked like a dark cloud.

Fang Yuan looked back above himself and started testing as Mo Yao had mentioned.

Just like Mo Yao said, whenever he thought of attacking Ma Hong Yun, the black coffin
luck on him enlarged a little and its dark shade seemed to become even gloomier.

"Fang Yuan, you should leave this troubled place as quickly as possible. The black
coffin luck on you right now is too dense and too frightening. Your life is under great
threat now! Don't underestimate luck just because it is ethereal, just think of Giant
Sun Immortal Venerable's unrivalled powers. You are in deep danger right now, the
black coffin luck has yet to erupt itself, but the consequences will hit you eventually, it
is only that the time is not ripe."

Mo Yao continued to persuade Fang Yuan.

But Fang Yuan coldly snorted and replied with a resolute will: "Asking me to retreat?
Being scared off by merely bad luck? Hehe, how could that be possible!"

He narrowed his eyes, his lips slightly curled up, revealing his snow-white teeth as he
looked down from the cover of the treetop: "No matter how bad the luck becomes, it
cannot attack me directly. It will need to rely on external influences to kill me. Right
now, at this moment, at this place, I want to see who can obstruct me!"

Killing intent surged and bubbled in Fang Yuan's heart.

He believed in the power of luck path, but he believed in himself even more!

He needed to kill Ma Hong Yun!!

He had to try!!!

If Fang Yuan cowered just because of luck, would it conform to his style?

Ordinary people would feel regret after facing the consequences, but he, Fang Yuan,
would not feel any!

"Have you gone crazy? That is a rank eight Immortal Gu!" Mo Yao screamed when she
felt the dense killing intent in Fang Yuan.

"Hehehe, precisely because the enemy is this strong, the battle would be even more
interesting, wouldn't it?" Fang Yuan instead laughed freely. Right now, he no longer
had short hair of Chang Shan Yin, but had long black hair that fluttered freely with the
wind and his countenance revealed a crazed recklessness.

He was never against bullying the weak, but even more than that, he had the bravery
to fight the strong.

How could one obtain a tiger cub without entering the tiger's den?

If he did not stake it all at this moment, then when should he?!

"Fate teases the turbulent sea, cowardly insects avoid waves and flow along the
current. A brave man does not need much wisdom, there is not regret or pain even if
his body crumbles." Fang Yuan mumbled before restraining his crazed mood, his
expression turning tranquil.

"Lunatic, you have gone mad…” Mo Yao continued to mutter.

Right now, Fang Yuan's killing intent had accumulated to the peak.
The black coffin luck aura above him subsequently inflated, expanding by three times
within moments!

"Let me see who will save you! Fortune rivalling heaven Gu, let me look at your might."

Fang Yuan made a motion to attack.

BOOOM!

An explosion occurred; the majestic wind current it created formed into a strong gale
that pressed on from a distance.

Hei Lou Lan was standing unstably; while Tai Bai Yun Sheng got up from the crater,
fresh blood flowing from his mouth.

He looked at Hei Lou Lan who was floating in the air, shock apparent on his face: "You
are actually…”

Before he finished his words, Hei Lou Lan charged at him again.

BOOM!

Ground shook and dust surged everywhere.

"Ten extreme physiques." Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk as he muttered the answer in
place of Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

He had never imagined Hei Lou Lan to actually have one of the ten extreme physiques.
And from the looks of it, it was extremely likely to be the Great Strength True Martial
Physique of the ten extreme physiques!

Several breaths later, a shadow flew out from the dust.

It was Tai Bai Yun Sheng!

His hair was a mess, dust covered his face; his chest was caved in till it revealed the
deathly white bones.

Blood sprayed out like a spring.

But a green light soon covered his body and the flow of blood immediately stopped;
the heavy injuries on his body also quickly recovered.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng had exchanged intel back at Hu Immortal blessed
land. And he knew Tai Bai Yun Sheng possessed two Immortal Gu, landscape as before
Gu and man as before Gu.

However, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was clearly not using the Immortal Gu Man as Before, but
instead ordinary healing Gu.

Immortal Gu Man as Before required immortal essence to be activated, and had

extremely great effects, but it was not easy to gather immortal essence. Thus, unless
as a final resort, Gu Immortals would not easily use Immortal Gu.

"Tai Bai Yun Sheng, you are a grand Gu Immortal but are afraid of me, a mortal?" A
roar shook the sky and earth.

Hei Lou Lan flew to the sky and started hunting down Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

"Such an intense aura of the ten extremes… terrifying! Hei Lou Lan not only has one
of the ten extreme physiques, he is also already on the verge of self-detonation!" Fang
Yuan was able to decipher many details right now.

Back then at Qing Mao mountain, Fang Yuan had relied on Bai Ning Bing's Northern
Dark Ice Soul Physique to cross realms in fighting a strong enemy, and overturn the
situation.

Bai Ning Bing was only rank three back then!

As one of the ten extreme physiques' cultivation increased, the power of their self-
detonation would increase sharply by many times.

The self-detonation of the rank five peak stage Hei Lou Lan would be beyond compare,
so terrifying that even killing Gu Immortals would not be a problem!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had a bitter expression on his face, with not even the slightest battle
intent.

Previously, Hei Lou Lan had been under the seal of Immortal Gu Dark Limit, not
leaking out even a trace of its aura.
Now that he had torn off the seal, his majestic aura would cause terror to emerge in
one's heart.

He was now a large human shaped bomb, who would dare to approach him? What if
he exploded!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had just advanced to a Gu Immortal, wouldn't it be injustice if he
was killed by the desperate Hei Lou Lan in his impending death?

"I had never thought Hei Lou Lan would actually have Great Strength True Martial
Physique of the ten extreme physiques. And he has actually managed to grow to this
extent!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng fled with astonishing speed.

He was a flying master and his cloud path Gu was also one of the better movement Gu.

Hei Lou Lan was hunting him down from behind but could only look helplessly as the
distance between them increased further and further.

Rumble!

Hei Lou Lan was furious, suddenly throwing a punch.

This punch had terrifying momentum as it directly broke the sound barrier and burst
the surrounding air!

Following this punch, a fist qi suddenly flew out, forming into a strength path phantom
figure.

Fang Yuan had also attacked with many beast strength phantoms back in southern
border, but the phantom that Hei Lou Lan summoned was not beast shaped, instead it
was human shaped.

And this human strength phantom was a vivid image of Hei Lou Lan.

The obese body like that of a bear, the jagged snow-white teeth that were like daggers.
A pair of triangular eyes which flashed with malevolent glint. It was truly a second Hei
Lou Lan!

"Even if I combine all the beast strength phantoms I used back at southern border,
they might not be the human strength phantom's match!" Fang Yuan's eyelids
twitched.

He had extraordinary appraisal ability and immediately saw the extremely high battle
strength that this human strength phantom possessed. It was full of spirituality; once
it was summoned, it could chase the enemy of its own will.

This was the strength of rank five peak stage Great Strength True Martial Physique!

Simply terrifying!

But how powerful this strength was, Fang Yuan could not estimate it easily. Unless he
personally went to battle and experienced it for himself.

But he was sure this terrifying battle strength had already surpassed the mortal realm.

It could even be said that Hei Lou Lan was currently at a state that was half a step to
Gu Immortal realm.

The ten extreme physiques broke conventions, they were existences that could shatter
opponents at the same realm!

Back at Qing Mao mountain, Fang Yuan used one of the ten extreme physiques to
survive an ordeal. But this time, one of the ten extreme physiques was his enemy.

"If not for the fact that Gu Masters obtain a qualitative improvement in their body's
defense when they advance to Gu Immortal, Tai Bai Yun Sheng would be in greater
danger!"

"Tai Bai Yun Sheng had advanced to Gu Immortal just now, he has yet to accumulate
the foundation of a Gu Immortal. Moreover, he is a healing Gu Master, but has to face
against this tyrannical and battle-hungry enemy like Hei Lou Lan…”

For a moment, thoughts shone in Fang Yuan's mind like sparks.

"The strongest advantage of a Gu Immortal over mortals lies in their unlimited

primeval essence. But Hei Lou Lan's main cultivation path is strength path which relies
on primeval essence the least among all paths and has the lowest primeval essence
consumption. This advantage is thus almost non-existent."

"There is also Hei Lou Lan's killer move, it actually went in an innovative new
direction, creating such a sentient human strength phantom. In just a short period, he
has already created five to six human strength phantoms. These phantoms are
anything but ordinary, filled with spirituality, they actually flanked and blocked Tai Bai
Yun Sheng's retreat paths; this is truly unimaginable!"

Unleashing human shaped phantoms was not a surprising thing.

The crucial point was that he could create such intelligent human shaped phantoms!

Moreover, all of these human shaped phantoms had astonishing strength. The might
of their strength and wisdom made even Fang Yuan feel apprehensive.

"No wonder Hei Lou Lan died suddenly in my previous life. So it was because he had
one of the ten extreme physiques!" Fang Yuan suddenly realized.

Although he had been reborn, it did not mean he knew everything.

Right now, this unexpected twist disrupted his plans.

"Damn it…” Fang Yuan subconsciously tightened his grip on the glass owner token.

According to his original plan, he would have gone with Giant Sun's will's train of
thought, using false emotion fake will Gu to subdue the land spirit and become
Imperial Court blessed land's owner.

He needed to subdue false emotion fake will Gu first to accomplish this.

However, false emotion fake will Gu was one of the ordinary true inheritances and it
contained a portion of Giant Sun's will in it. How could a mere mortal like Fang Yuan
refine an Immortal Venerable's will?

Only a Gu Immortal's will had such a possibility.

Therefore, Fang Yuan used his eloquence to dupe Tai Bai Yun Sheng into becoming his
ally; it was to make use of his will to refine false emotion fake will Gu.

But when he returned to True Yang Building, the situation had already changed
beyond his expectations.

Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun obtained Frost Jade Peacock's recognition, becoming
Imperial Court blessed land's owners.

Frost Jade Peacock's condition for recognizing its masters was a Gu Master couple who
had to have true love for each other.

Ma Hong Yun was a rank three Gu Master, but Zhao Lian Yun was still a young girl and
had not begun her cultivation journey yet.

However, she was still recognized as a master!

This showed the condition of 'Gu Master' was only speaking of aptitude. As long as the
person had the possibility of becoming a Gu Master, they could receive recognition. In
Fang Yuan's previous life, Zhao Lian Yun was a wisdom path Gu Immortal, she
naturally had strong cultivation aptitude.

These small details were not worth bickering over. In Fang Yuan's opinion, what he
needed to do were two things.

First was seizing false emotion fake will Gu. It was on Hei Lou Lan, and Fang Yuan had
given this task to Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Second was killing Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun. As long as he killed them, Imperial
Court blessed land would return to an ownerless state.

After completing these two matters, Tai Bai Yun Sheng could help Fang Yuan to refine
false emotion fake will Gu and take control of the land spirit. Even if Giant Sun's will
returns then, Fang Yuan had the capital to contend against him.

However, right now, neither of these two goals were achieved.

Hei Lou Lan revealed his true trump card, displaying he had one of the ten extreme
physiques and was close to self-detonation, it had shocking battle strength, with him
managing to suppress the Gu Immortal Tai Bai Yun Sheng, and he was chasing after
him.

This was quite a shock, but after some consideration, it was nothing strange.

"If he doesn't defeat Hei Lou Lan, he would not get false emotion fake will Gu. Without
false emotion fake will Gu, how will I subdue the land spirit? Damn it…” Fang Yuan
gritted his teeth.

His plan was ruined.

"Is this the power of fortune rivalling heaven? The moment I wanted to strike, such an
accident occurred!" Fang Yuan took a look at Ma Hong Yun, his expression turning
grim.

For some reason, the killing intent in his heart intensified.

He crossed his arms, standing high up in the tree as his mouth showed a cold smile:
"It is getting more interesting, fortune rivalling heaven… hmph, now that Hei Lou Lan
and Tai Bai Yun Sheng are fighting, if I really want to kill you, what can you do to resist
me?"

This time, Fang Yuan did not go personally, but instead manipulated the treemen.

The treemen at the most inner layer raised their hammer-like fists highly in the air.

Under Fang Yuan's manipulation, they slammed down at the same time.

Bam!

With a loud bang, Frost Jade Peacock cried out pitifully as its raised head fell onto the
ground.

The defensive barrier that it had erected with all its effort was smashed, it turned into
golden dust as it quickly vanished into nothingness.

Even the last obstacle was removed.

The closest treeman took a huge step forward, it stretched out its huge arm as it
rapidly grabbed at Ma and Zhao.

Zhao Lian Yun shouted shrilly, while Ma Hong Yun held her in his arms, his back facing
the treeman's palm.

"Die." Fang Yuan muttered, completely ignoring the black coffin luck above his head
that was rapidly growing.

The treeman's palm was towering over Ma and Zhou, it only needed to squeeze lightly
and Ma and Zhao would turn into meat paste.

But at this moment!

A huge tremor occurred in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

The entire place was shaking!

"Scoundrel, you dare to chase me out, quickly accept your death!!" A loud voice could
be heard, piercing heaven and earth, and causing Fang Yuan's eardrums to feel slight
pain.

Hearing this familiar voice, Ma Hong Yun raised his head in joy, saying: "It's old
ancestor, old ancestor did not die, he is back again!"

Hei Lou Lan expressed joy similarly on his face.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression was pale, if Giant Sun's will returned, Eighty-Eight True
Yang Building would display the might of a rank eight Immortal Gu House, it could
definitely trap a Gu Immortal, this was no joke!

"How can this be! Even though I spent some time inside Hu Immortal blessed land, but
fifteen minutes was far from over." Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk to the size of a pin, he
was very stunned.

He quickly used the glass owner token and checked the situation.

Outside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, there were layers and layers of golden sand-
like light particles.

That was the colossal Giant Sun's will.

He was still growling furiously, as he resisted the assault of the heavenly tribulation
and earthly calamity, he constantly exerted pressure and attempted to barge into
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

"The Giant Sun's will that is outside did not come in. Then who is this Giant Sun's will
here? Where did he come from?!"

Fang Yuan was very perplexed.

But this Giant Sun's will that just appeared did not want to give him time to think.

Heaven and earth shook, those which were running, those which were helping Tai Bai
Yun Sheng, those which were standing in place, those which were trapping Ma Hong
Yun, all the treemen stopped their actions, standing still like statues.

Fang Yuan's face was red, the glass owner token in his hand was hot like fire!

Cracks started appearing on the owner token, in just a moment, the glass owner token
was on the brink of collapsing!

"Damn it!" Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, this mysterious Giant Sun's will was getting rid
of the central continent Gu Immortals' arrangements rapidly.

The third arrangement that central continent Gu Immortals made was extremely
hidden, it was not easy for Giant Sun's will to find it.

But right now, Fang Yuan had completely unleashed it, there was no way to hide it, this
mysterious Giant Sun's will found it easily.

Once the glass owner token breaks, the third arrangement would lose effect, and the
Giant Sun's will outside would be free to enter and exit True Yang Building!
By that time, even if Giant Sun's will did not use Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, he
could easily kill Fang Yuan using his own ability.

An unprecedented danger had descended upon Fang Yuan!

"Don't tell me I need to use Spring Autumn Cicada? No! The risk of using Spring
Autumn Cicada is too high, I am not at that stage yet! I have to persevere, I can still go
on!" Fang Yuan growled angrily, he sent his will into the glass owner token.

Bam.

The next moment, through the glass owner token, his will clashed with the Giant Sun's
will that had appeared out of nowhere.

Ugh.

Fang Yuan's body shuddered, he spurted out a mouthful of blood as the will he injected
was completely obliterated!

His head hurt intensely, like it was going to break apart. His mind suffered a huge blow,
as Mo Yao's will screamed continually.

Fang Yuan's body shook, he felt dizzy and could not stand, after enduring for a few
breaths, he fell from the tall tree branch.

Swoosh!

Wind blew, as the three closest treemen suddenly stretched out their tree vine hands,
grabbing at Fang Yuan with ill intent.

Fang Yuan lost the contest, Giant Sun's will had regained control of this round, thus,
the treemen also became Fang Yuan's enemies, they would not rest until they killed
Fang Yuan!

Because of this sudden event, Ma and Zhou escaped death, under the influence of their
will to live, they started escaping blindly among the chaotic tree roots.

At the moment of danger, Fang Yuan was barely able to regain awareness.

He shouted lightly, injecting his primeval essence into his Gu worms, mustering his
strength and punching and kicking the large tree hand that was coming for him.

Bam bam bam!

After three explosive sounds, the fists were shattered as Fang Yuan adjusted his
balance in the air, landing hastily.

The aftermath of competing against Giant Sun's will remained, his ears were buzzing
and his hearing was nearly completely gone.

But Fang Yuan had no regret.

In fact, he opened his mouth, laughing loudly: "Excellent!"

The earlier clash of wills was not elegant in the least, but it not only allowed Fang Yuan
to keep his glass owner token, he even found out the truth about Giant Sun's will.

This newly appeared and mysterious will was not as powerful as expected.

He did not expect Fang Yuan to make such a choice either.

This will was split into three, the largest portion of it was dealing with the third
arrangement, a small portion was busy fighting for the control rights of this round,
while the last portion was victorious in the contest against Fang Yuan through the
glass owner token.

In the end, Fang Yuan's injected will exterminated the victorious Giant Sun's will, and
combined with the third arrangement, although his will was wiped out, he
successfully caused harm to that large portion of Giant Sun's will.

Thus, Giant Sun's will was only left with a small portion that was controlling this
round.

Giant Sun's will fell into extreme anger, he did not expect this tiny mortal to have the
guts to challenge his will directly.

He did not expect that this mortal had stored so many wills in his mind either.

This was all thanks to Mo Yao honestly.

In order to deal with Mo Yao, Fang Yuan stored large amounts of wills in his mind as a
back up.

He had special will, play will, deliberate will, keep will, heart will and others, he had a
variety of many wills.

Giant Sun's will greatly underestimated Fang Yuan's capacity, and as he was anxious
to save the situation, he was counterattacked by Fang Yuan and in the end, was caught
off guard and suffered a great loss.

"Scoundrel, I will decimate your corpse!" Giant Sun's will was angered to his boiling
point, he continued to manipulate the treemen to attack.

Fang Yuan dodged left and right, using all his effort to heal his injuries.

These treemen had thick skin and flesh, even if their branches, arms and legs were
broken, they would not die, they had very strong vitality. It was not a good idea to fight
them head on.

While he dodged, Fang Yuan's injuries recovered rapidly.

He quickly realized that the treemen were not only attacking him, but also Tai Bai Yun
Sheng and even Ma Hong Yun.

More accurately, they were attacking Zhao Lian Yun who was beside Ma Hong Yun.

Ma and Zhao escaped under the pursuit of the treemen, they were in a dangerous
situation.

They frantically escaped without a goal, but they actually got near to Fang Yuan.

"Please save us!" Ma Hong Yun finally saw Fang Yuan, shouting loudly for help.

"So naive." Fang Yuan laughed sinisterly, immediately going closer to him.

As the two sides got closer, Fang Yuan shouted loudly: "Giant Sun's will is trying to kill
you, we have a common enemy, come here!"

"Be careful!" Zhao Lian Yun who was running showed hesitation and worry.
But the current situation was, only Fang Yuan could protect them.

They were unable to hold on much longer.

If they stayed, they would definitely get killed by the treemen, if they went to Fang
Yuan, they at least had a chance of survival.

"Save, of course we'll save them! Quickly save them!!" In his mind, Mo Yao's will
suddenly shouted.

"What?" Fang Yuan thought he heard wrongly.

Mo Yao spoke quickly: "Do you still not understand? Giant Sun's will is a huge special
will, he knows the power of fortune rivalling heaven Gu, his intention is not to deal
with Ma Hong Yun. But when he was first formed, his main body had placed a rule on
him, that was to exterminate any otherworldly demon he sees!"

"She's an otherworldly demon, don't tell me you are not interested! But the most
important thing is — if you save that Zhao Lian Yun, it will be the best weapon against
Giant Sun's will. Since Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun are truly in love, they will
definitely be enemies with Giant Sun's will. By then, Giant Sun's will would be dealt
with using the power of fortune rivalling heaven Gu."

Mo Yao's words were very moving.

At once, the hidden killing intent that he had towards Ma Hong Yun shrunk.

"Wait! Ma and Zhao are in grave danger now, they might get squashed or trampled by
the treemen at any moment! If I appear now, wouldn't I be saving them?" Fang Yuan
suddenly thought of this, becoming stunned!

Although Ma Hong Yun was rank three, he was too hard to kill!

The first time Fang Yuan's killing intent appeared, Hei Lou Lan showed his trump card,
he unleashed his extreme physique and chased after Tai Bai Yun Sheng!

The second time he had killing intent, Giant Sun's will came out of nowhere and
gravely injured Fang Yuan.

And now, his ears were buzzing and his mind was weakened by at least thirty percent.
Even though he protected the glass owner token and caused harm to Giant Sun's will,
he lost control over this round.

Now, Fang Yuan had his third wave of killing intent, and Mo Yao was the one who
stopped him! But the problem was, she made perfect sense! Even Fang Yuan himself
was convinced!

The reason Fang Yuan wanted to kill Ma Hong Yun earlier was to change the land
spirit's ownership.

But now that Hei Lou Lan showed his true battle strength and protected the false
emotion fake will Gu, thus Fang Yuan did not have it. What use was there in killing the
two?

"Don't tell me that this third time, the one stopping me is actually myself?" As he was
struck by reality, Fang Yuan was tongue-tied!
Fang Yuan truly experienced the might of fortune rivalling heaven Gu now.

This was a form of helplessness, like being played by destiny, where one would not
know whether to laugh or cry, and the more they struggled, the deeper they would fall
into despair!

Forced by the situation and in order to avoid calamity, it seemed Fang Yuan could only
choose to maximize his benefits.

The distance between the two sides rapidly shortened.

To save them, or not to save them?

Mo Yao repeatedly screamed in Fang Yuan's mind: "Save, save them!"

Reason also told Fang Yuan that saving Ma Hong Yun would make him stand on the
same side as Fortune Rivalling Heaven and he could borrow its strength to deal with
Giant Sun's will.

However!

There was a voice in Fang Yuan's heart. This voice growled, shouted and roared!

"Save!? Am I going to surrender? Am I going to lower my head? I can kill him with one
slap! What am I afraid of? Afraid of these two trash? Even Fortune Rivalling Heaven
cannot obstruct me!!"

Fang Yuan's ears were buzzing non-stop, but this voice kept on getting louder,
gradually suppressing every other sound.

He felt bursts of intense headaches.

He felt his mouth go dry in front of these choices.

That voice in his heart, however, was getting louder and clearer till his heart started
to tremor!

Every howl, every roar, every shout, seemed to throw a bundle of firewood into the
fury in Fang Yuan's heart.

The burning flames surged!

That was the fire of ambition, his fighting spirit, his unyielding, obstinate spirit of
challenging the strong!

The flames soared; Fang Yuan's eyes turned bloodshot, his blood boiled and surged
like the surging waves!

"Come, let me send you off personally!" Fang Yuan spoke, his voice hoarse like sand
gritting on iron.

He did what he would normally not do, going against his style of prioritizing benefits.

With a malevolent expression and eyes shining with sharp killing intent, he smashed
apart the giant treemen in front of him, tearing the countless twisting and coiling
vines.

He reached Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun.

Then…

He lifted his fist!

Before his punch even struck out, the terrifying fist aura already condensed into solid.
The brutal killing intent almost solidified even the air!

"Ahhh!" Ma Hong Yun's eyes opened wide, never having expected Fang Yuan to have
such resolute killing intent. He turned pale with fright, and in his panic, he
unexpectedly stumbled and fell to the ground.

"Ouch!" Zhao Lian Yun had been holding hands with Ma Hong Yun, and was thus also
pulled down to the ground.

This unforeseen event shocked Fang Yuan.

He was already extremely vigilant because of the repeated accidents. But he soon
found that this small accident only prolonged the time he struck them by a little.

At the same time, two giant treemen also reached Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun.

No matter which treeman it was, it would only need one foot to crush these two to
pieces. But Giant Sun's will truly did not want to harm Ma Hong Yun, and could only
mobilize vines to scuttle to Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun, to separate them and
then kill Zhao Lian Yun!

Five treemen suddenly pierced out of the ground at this moment and coincidentally
blocked Fang Yuan's way.

This strong defense required Fang Yuan to waste at least a dozen breath of time.

Giant Sun's will was using his previous tactics again.

At present, the extremely weak land spirit was already booted from the playing field.

False emotion fake will Gu was safe as it was being protected by Hei Lou Lan.

Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun might have become the owners of the blessed land,
but as long as Zhao Lian Yun was killed, this connection would be cancelled.

At that time, it would not be too late to salvage the situation by using false emotion
fake will Gu to make Hei Lou Lan and Ma Hong Yun the owners of Imperial Court
blessed land.

Thus, Giant Sun's will was obstructing Fang Yuan from killing Ma Hong Yun.

"Damn it! This kind of feeling again, always at the crucial place and at the crucial
time…” Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, and used all his strength to forcibly break through
the defensive line.

Thud thud thud…

Thunder-like collisions occurred one after another. Fang Yuan was like a tiger let loose,
his fierce offense directly breaking the treemen's defense.

The whole process only lasted less than ten breaths!

However, Fang Yuan also had to pay a heavy price. Three enormous wounds were
added to Fang Yuan's body; one ran through his chest, another pierced his back, and
another formed a bloody hole on his stomach with the size of a baby's fist.

His right forearm was severely fractured, his left leg was twisted grotesquely to the
side.

"Hahaha!" Fang Yuan, however, howled with laughter!

He could not use his hand and leg for a while, but he still had movement Gu, he could
still fly!

He rapidly chased after Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun through the air.

Ma Hong Yun hunched over, protecting Zhao Lian Yun tightly under him. Vines were
coiling around them from outside.

These vines wanted to separate the two without harming Ma Hong Yun.

Ma Hong Yun faced off against the vines. But naturally, he was weaker and looked on
as he and Zhao Lian Yun were forcibly separated. He bit his lips and glared with furious
eyes, but he was powerless!

"No—!" He roared with bloodshot eyes. Despair and pain filled him as he saw his lover
about to die in front of him, appearing like a beast forced into a corner.

"Save him quickly, now is the best time to save him! As long as you save them, Ma Hong
Yun will definitely feel grateful to you, you can then borrow the strength of his fortune
that rivals heaven! Just think, why is Giant Sun's will not killing Ma Hong Yun - it is to
use his luck!!" Mo Yao shouted again, persuading Fang Yuan.

"You really speak a lot of nonsense." Fang Yuan replied with ruthless coldness.

Success was in front of him, but he instead calmed down, he had no expression on his
face, not even the previous malevolent look.

"Die!"

When Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun was in his range, Fang Yuan immediately struck
out with a fatal attack.
This attack had earth-shattering power, bursting all the air in front of it.

The incomparably violent power was like an evil dragon rising to heaven, as it
shrouded over Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun.

"No!" This time, it was Giant Sun's will who let out a helpless and desperate shout.

He immediately mobilized the surrounding treemen to use their own bodies to protect
Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun.

The tree vines no longer separated the two, instead they attempted to rapidly evacuate
them.

But Giant Sun's will was still feeling dejected.

He knew all these would be of no use. This strike filled with Fang Yuan's pent-up
wrath, how could it be so easily blocked and avoided?

The treemen's trunks were smashed apart, the vines also did not have enough time to
evacuate Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun. In the end, the attack that still had its peak
offensive power was about to directly smash them into pieces.

Even though there were countless treemen filling the vast forest, it was all too late!

Fang Yuan was resolute, erupting with all his strength to break through the defensive
line and succeeded in grabbing the crucial moment.

The treemen's movement was slow and they were not good at providing swift
reinforcement.

Ma Hong Yun was definitely dead meat!

At this moment, not only Fang Yuan, even Giant Sun's will also thought this so.

Not only did they think so, even Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun did not have any hope
of surviving the attack.

Any factors that could influence the situation had seemingly already played their part.

Hei Lou Lan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Giant Sun's will, Frost
Jade Peacock, Fang Yuan, Mo Yao…

All these people or things had shown all their strength by this point.

Time seemed to slow down, Fang Yuan's lips curled up to reveal a smile: "Now, is there
anything left that can save Ma Hong Yun?"

However, at the next moment!

Rumble—!

A loud sound rang out, causing huge tremors and making countless trees creak.

Dazzling golden rays of light shone over the whole round.

"Has Giant Sun's will entered True Yang Building?!" Fang Yuan turned grave, but soon
discovered that was not the case.

Giant Sun's will was still taking a beating outside the building. Central continent's Gu
Immortals had planned for countless years to create the third method; it could never
be underestimated.

If not for this, central continent's Gu Immortals would not have been able to overthrow
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and return victorious in Fang Yuan's previous life.

The enormous golden light lump moved like a meteor and before the sound even
registered in one's ears, it crashed onto the ground, instantly destroying the
surrounding treemen and protecting Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun within it.

"This, isn't this — that luck path supreme true inheritance!" Mo Yao was so shocked
she involuntarily screamed out.

"What's going on? Shouldn't this supreme true inheritance be in true inheritance
secluded domain, how did it suddenly crash into this round and throw itself towards
Ma Hong Yun's body?!" With no choice, Fang Yuan could only stop his footsteps.

He had already experienced the might of a supreme true inheritance in true

inheritance secluded domain.

This was not something he could touch.

'But why, Ma Hong Yun is covered by this light, but why has nothing happened to him?'

For a moment, Fang Yuan could not help but feel extremely dejected.

He had used all his strength in his third attempt to kill Ma Hong Yun; he had even seen
hope a moment ago, the success had seemingly been right in front of him, but he still
failed in the end.

"Why did the supreme true inheritance move to Ma Hong Yun? Impossible, this is
impossible!" Mo Yao completely lost self-control as she scratched at her head, causing
her long hair to become messy, resembling a crazed woman.

This was not surprising.

She had suffered untold hardships, expended all her energy and effort but was only
able to open a crack in the luck path true inheritance from which fortune rivalling
heaven Gu escaped. Finally, she had no choice but to refine calamity beckoning Gu.

But this calamity beckoning Gu was not able to assist her husband, Bo Qing, causing
her and Bo Qing to perish.

But at this moment, she was watching this luck path supreme true inheritance
throwing itself at a rank three mortal!

Even if you had fortune that rivalled heaven, isn't this going overboard?!

'Why was it not me, I put in so much effort, paid such a huge price, why was it not me?'

'Why was it this mere mortal, a fool, a kid!'

It is a comparison that could make one die from anger!

Fang Yuan forcibly calmed down and tried hard to remove the unneeded emotions,
reflecting on this event.

A bright flash of inspiration seemed to roam around in his mind, but was extremely
hard to get a grasp on.

"I understand!" Suddenly, Fang Yuan's body shook as he grasped this flash of
inspiration, and understood this seemingly impossible event.
This supreme true inheritance recognized Ma Hong Yun and not others as its master
of its own accord. This was because, Ma Hong Yun had the power of fortune rivalling
heaven Gu on him.

Fortune rivalling heaven Gu was the true essence of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's
luck path, the quintessential crystallization of luck path. To the supreme true
inheritance, it was the leader and the emperor.

But why did the supreme true inheritance not come earlier or later, but chose this
exact moment?

Luck path supreme true inheritance was located in true inheritance secluded domain,
how could it come here for no rhyme or reason?

These two questions actually pointed to the same factor — Giant Sun's will!
In the true inheritance secluded domain, all of the true inheritances had Giant Sun's
will in them. Otherwise, how could all these fated individuals succeed in taking these
inheritances, especially those Immortal Gu?

It was just like charging through rounds in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

In every one of the rounds that had Gu worms as rewards, these Gu worms were all
refined by Giant Sun's will in advance.

When these Gu Masters succeed and obtain the Gu worms, they are able to refine these
Gu worms instantly and keep them in their aperture because Giant Sun's will was
purposely letting them have the Gu.

Because of this reason, as long as a Gu Master is willing to give his Gu worm away to
someone else, they can always create a phenomenon of 'instant refinement'.

Earlier, when Giant Sun's will was slumbering, the refinement of wild Gu worms was
extremely slow. When Fang Yuan first ventured into True Yang Building, he made use
of this loophole.

Every true inheritance was governed by Giant Sun's will.

The reason why the luck path supreme true inheritance did not fly towards Ma Hong
Yun earlier was due to this.

But now the true inheritance flew into Ma Hong Yun's arms and made him its master,
this was not Giant Sun's will's intention.

What Giant Sun's will wanted was to control Ma Hong Yun, why would he allow him
to grow stronger and become more uncontrollable?

Thus, the truth was revealed!

Within the luck path supreme true inheritance, there was no Giant Sun's will.

Giant Sun's will retreated on his own, this allowed the supreme true inheritance to act
on its own.

Thereafter, the newly created wild Gu will went towards Ma Hong Yun.

This created another question.

Why would Giant Sun's will retreat for no reason?

Fang Yuan thought about the second time he struck and was about to kill Ma Hong
Yun, but out of nowhere Giant Sun's will appeared!

At this point, it was no longer a mystery.

Fang Yuan used the third method, temporarily expelling Giant Sun's will out of True
Yang Building.

Afterwards, he entered True Yang Building and successfully convinced Tai Bai Yun
Sheng to revive Dang Hun mountain.

After that he came back, attempting to control Imperial Court blessed land. During the
second attempt when he tried to kill Ma Hong Yun, he was obstructed by a sudden
burst of Giant Sun's will.

At that point, Fang Yuan was very confused.

But now, he understood.

This mysterious Giant Sun's will was pulled out of those true inheritances.

Giant Sun's will was anxious at that time, in order to salvage the situation, he took this
step.

He almost succeeded by doing this, but unfortunately, Fang Yuan was too resolute, he
directly faced off against him.

Eventually, this forcefully extracted Giant Sun's will was left with a final small portion
that controlled this round.
"This means, the luck path supreme true inheritance was able to save Ma Hong Yun
because of me? If I did not expel Giant Sun's will out of the tower, if I did not face off
against Giant Sun's will, why would this happen now?"

"To think that this third attempt was thwarted by myself after all!"

Thinking so, Fang Yuan sighed deeply as his killing intent towards Ma Hong Yun
vanished without a trace.

The current Ma Hong Yun was protected by the luck path true inheritance. As a mortal,
it was impossible for Fang Yuan to break through this defense.

"Sigh, I told you to save him earlier, you refused to listen!" In his mind, Mo Yao calmed
down and sighed in pity.

Her tone carried some grievance: "If you had saved them, you would gain Ma Hong
Yun's recognition and become protected by the luck path true inheritance just like
Zhao Lian Yun. The current luck path true inheritance is a newborn wild will, it is like
a baby without any internal defenses. If you are inside the luck path inheritance, you
will be able to learn about the details of this true inheritance! This is an immense
opportunity, but you gave it up…”

Helping Ma Hong Yun would result in benefits. Dealing with Ma Hong Yun would result
in Fang Yuan's current heavy injuries.

Fang Yuan snickered.

He already did it, there was not a bit of regret in his heart.

He quickly retreated while healing his injuries, meanwhile replying to Mo Yao: "Even
if I cannot do anything to this luck path true inheritance, do you think Giant Sun's will
would do nothing?"

This luck path true inheritance is one of the three supreme true inheritances inside
the true inheritance secluded domain. Why would Giant Sun's will allow it to
acknowledge a new master like this?

In Giant Sun's will's heart, it was not unacceptable to pass this luck path true
inheritance to Ma Hong Yun.
But Ma Hong Yun's heart was with an otherworldly demon, that was a huge taboo!

Giant Sun's will was a special will, when the main body first created it, he assigned a
special meaning for it to 'do its best to slaughter any otherworldly demon it comes
into contact with'.

Now that Zhao Lian Yun was protected by the luck path true inheritance, if Giant Sun's
will wanted to kill this otherworldly demon, he would need to remove the luck path
true inheritance's hindrance.

Thus, the entire forest flew into a rage.

Countless treemen were uprooted, encircling the luck path true inheritance.

Large numbers of treemen were entangling with each other, all of their roots and vines
were coiling around each other to form huge treemen, each were at least three
hundred meters tall, their aura was shocking to Fang Yuan.

Giant Sun's will put in all its effort in order to kill Zhao Lian Yun!

Fang Yuan managed to retreat successfully.

Exterminating the otherworldly demon was Giant Sun's will's most important
mission. With the appearance of the luck path true inheritance, his attention was
drawn over.

Fang Yuan was a threat that ranked much lower than them.

Giant Sun's will also knew that he could do nothing to Fang Yuan now. Weighing the
two sides, and because Giant Sun's will had limited strength, he decided to focus solely
on dealing with the luck path true inheritance.

Very soon, Fang Yuan got close to the place Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Hei Lou Lan were
fighting at.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was suppressed, but Hei Lou Lan had no ability to claim victory
either.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a healing Gu Master and a flying master, the former allowed him
to specialize in drawn out battles, while the latter allowed him to escape like a slippery
eel, he was hard to pin down.

The two's battle had turned into a stalemate.

The two fought from the sky to the ground, their attacks were fierce and the battle
brought disaster to the nearby trees, causing the surroundings to be full of fallen trees
and debris.

"Senior brother Tai Bai, let me help you!" Fang Yuan shouted.

'Senior brother', these two words triggered Hei Lou Lan as he immediately thought of
central continent. That was because in the five regions, the other four regions were
overwhelmingly family based inheritances, only central continent was dominated by
a sect based system.

Hei Lou Lan's eyes were staring wide, as he screamed like a bear: "You are a scoundrel
that had planned for a long time indeed! You two sect brothers have hidden yourselves
deeply! Right now, since you are seeking your own death, I will grant you your wish!"

Saying this, he aimed at Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng and sent four punches at
them.

The fist qi burst out, transforming into a human strength phantom in midair, having
Hei Lou Lan's appearance.

The four fist shadows split up, one of them charged towards Tai Bai Yun Sheng, while
the other three went towards Fang Yuan!

Fang Yuan was a mortal, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a Gu Immortal, targeting the weakest
link was a common strategy.

Three human strength phantoms attacked Fang Yuan, and the last one was to prevent
Tai Bai Yun Sheng from reinforcing him.

"Quickly retreat!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was shocked, he gave a quick warning.

He was very familiar with this strength path killer move's power.

He had obtained a lot of defensive Gu worms in Hu Immortal blessed land thanks to

Fang Yuan's gift.
But after battling for so long, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's defensive Gu worms were mostly
dead, he even suffered heavy injuries several times, it showed the power of Hei Lou
Lan's strength path killer move!

Three human strength phantoms flew over with an imposing aura, whipping up a
fierce wind.

"What a strong killer move!" Even Mo Yao's will in his mind praised upon seeing this:
"Be careful, Hei Lou Lan's strength path killer move definitely surpasses your four arm
earth king killer move!"

Fang Yuan snickered, he showed no fear but instead, oozed with battle intent, ready
to fight.

"Of course I won't use four arm earth king, because I have an even stronger strength
path killer move." Saying this, he paused for a while, before shouting: "Come, six arm
heavenly zombie king!"

Bam!

A formless aura burst out.

The horrifying pressure flooded the surrounding area.

Intense pain could be felt, like surging waves, they attacked one's heart!

Fang Yuan however, felt immeasurable pleasure, his body expanded rapidly, his skin
lost its gloss and moisture, becoming dark and hard.

His defense rose rapidly!

In just a moment, he transformed into a six metre tall giant.

On his back, six huge monstrous arms grew out, the fingers were thick and scary, each
having their own distinctive appearance, it made people feel fear upon seeing them.

Three human strength phantoms arrived before Fang Yuan.

"Good timing." Fang Yuan muttered, facing them head on with no fear!
As fists and legs clashed, they fought directly!

Bam bam bam…

Thunderous explosions occurred endlessly.

Be it Fang Yuan, or Hei Lou Lan's three human strength phantoms, they had great
power and each of their blows tore through the air.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had a worried expression, but after watching for a few breaths' time,
his eyes expanded.

Fang Yuan was a mere mortal, but he could face off against three human strength
phantoms at once.

The two were evenly matched!

But the three human strength phantoms had sentience, after failing to take him down,
they started cooperating, pincer attacking Fang Yuan from his front, upper left corner,
and lower right corner.

"Be careful!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng shouted to warn him, he had previously suffered
greatly due to this.

Fang Yuan laughed heartily, displaying his grand demeanour.

He had previously activated his killer move, growing six monstrous arms, with his own
two arms, he had eight arms.

The eight arms moved in a circular motion, the punches were executed like a fierce
rain, it defended him tightly. He managed to completely block the three human
strength phantoms attacking from all directions without a single weak point.

"He actually blocked it, this killer move…” Hei Lou Lan's heart jumped, his expression
turned grim.

"Sigh, half an immortal's battle strength, this guy is a monster…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng saw
this and sighed. He was surprised, and yet not surprised.

Thinking of his master, everything could be explained.

Thus, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heart was at ease, he could concentrate on dealing with the
human strength phantom fighting against him.

He waved his sleeve, and countless lights flew out from it.

Chainsaw wind blade, flame sword flash, azure blue water python, golden silk net…

Up to a hundred Gu worms were activated at once, they gave off a dazzling rainbow
light, resembling fireworks.

The human strength phantom was covered by the smoke, its speed became slower,
thus it immediately changed directions and shot out like lightning.

But Tai Bai Yun Sheng's attacks followed after it, it was unceasing.

A fireworks-like display of attacks were unleashed endlessly.

The human strength phantom had the ability to think, it knew how to fly in an arc,
attempting to get close to Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

But Tai Bai Yun Sheng also retreated at the same time, while his attacks showed no
signs of slowing down.

He was a Gu Immortal with near limitless primeval essence. If not for the fact that he
had just become a Gu Immortal and had not made any accumulations, resulting in a
low quantity of Gu worms, he would have hundreds and thousands of Gu worms, once
used together, they would create a terrifying attack.

Human strength phantom could block most of the attacks, but under the flurry of
attacks, it continued to be weakened, and the phantom was turning lighter and more
transparent.

But Hei Lou Lan's motive had been achieved.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not have a strong attacking method, he could only weaken the
human strength phantom slowly.

He was old and wise, but because he was vigilant and had never charged ahead
courageous, it was difficult for him to be an effective reinforcement for Fang Yuan.
This was because of his nature, otherwise, back then, he would not have chosen the
'as before' time path inheritance from the three immortal inheritances.

However, even though Hei Lou Lan achieved his goals in this battle, he was unable to
be happy.

That was because he realized — Fang Yuan did not need reinforcements!

Over there, Fang Yuan was fighting three human strength phantoms at once, both sides
used attacks to counter attacks, the six arm heavenly zombie king's defense was truly
astounding.

"Hahaha!" Fang Yuan got more ferocious as he fought, his punches and kicks were
lively and their speed was increasing. In the end, his fist shadows turned into a black
afterimage from his sheer speed!

The three human strength phantoms were expended greatly in the battle.

Bam, bam, bam.

Three explosions occurred, the three human strength phantoms could not sustain
themselves anymore and were smashed to bits, turning into fist qi and vanishing.

Hei Lou Lan's pupils shrunk, but the battle intent in his heart surged like raging tides.

"Interesting, this killer move is very powerful, it is almost on par with my killer move.
But most importantly, he has such rich battle experience, his physical combat skills
can be said to be at a master's level! If it were others, they might not be able to unleash
the power of this killer move to such an extent!"

Hei Lou Lan licked his lips, his eyes were shining with ruthlessness and excitement.

The earlier attack was not his full strength, he was only probing.

The battle with Tai Bai Yun Sheng was very annoying, because Tai Bai Yun Sheng was
escaping most of the time, while Hei Lou Lan could not catch up to him, thus he could
not use any of his strength.

Now that this Fang Yuan who was a tough opponent appeared, his battle intent
naturally surged.
After destroying three human strength phantoms, Fang Yuan did not attack rashly, but
instead floated in the same spot.

The two were about a thousand steps away, and their vicious gazes were colliding.

"Stop fighting, come over here and help!" At this time, Hei Lou Lan heard Giant Sun's
will's instructions.

"But, old ancestor…” Hei Lou Lan hesitated, his battle intent was wavering.

Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's status in his heart was still very high.

This was not about personality, but because he had been influenced to feel the pride
of his bloodline since he was young. This was a significant element in Hei Lou Lan's
self worth.

"Forget about them. Killing the otherworldly demon and taking back the luck path true
inheritance is most important!" Giant Sun's will replied quickly: "This is the only
record of this luck path true inheritance that I left behind in the entire world. Even in
Longevity Heaven, I did not leave behind any details regarding it. I am about to open
the entrance to the true inheritance secluded domain, you will go and help push this
luck path true inheritance into the secluded domain."

This round was already controlled by Giant Sun's will, the treemen filled the area like
a sea. However, even though Giant Sun's will had the ability to break apart the luck
path true inheritance by force, he could not do so.

Firstly, it took too much time, that could lead to unexpected consequences.

Secondly, breaking apart the luck path true inheritance was the same as destroying
the supreme true inheritance.
The situation in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building twisted and turned with no end in
sight.

Once the invincible being dominating the entire world, the ruler of an era, the rank
nine Immortal Venerable Giant Sun; the terrifying will that he had specially left behind
to take charge of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building…

The winner of the last Imperial Court contest, the current tribe leader of a super force,
Hei tribe, possessing the Great Strength True Martial Physique of the ten extreme
physiques, Hei Lou Lan…

Standing tall above the centre of northern plains as countless years of change were
experienced, and yet imprisoned for hundreds of thousands of years - the land spirit
Frost Jade Peacock…

A living legend, helping the injured for almost all his life, his benevolence and his name
renowned far and wide, owning a Gu Immortal inheritance, advancing to a rank six Gu
Immortal, possessing two mysterious Immortal Gu, Tai Bai Yun Sheng…

As well as.

The owner of Spring Autumn Cicada, ranked seventh amongst the top ten mystical Gu,
the owner of Hu Immortal blessed land, a mortal who has possession of multiple
Immortal Gu, a reborn five hundred year old demon, Gu Yue Fang Yuan…

Favored by rank eight fortune rivalling heaven Gu, a Gu Immortal in Fang Yuan's
previous life who had successively inherited Giant Sun's inheritance and an
opportunity left behind by Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, becoming a great hero
of northern plains who resisted the invasion of central continent, Ma Hong Yun…

Viewed as an 'otherworldly demon' by Giant Sun's will, Ma Hong Yun's wife in Fang
Yuan's previous life who became a wisdom path Gu Immortal and provided an
innumerable amount of assistance to her husband, the legendary woman Zhao Lian
Yun…

And also.

The former rank seven Gu Immortal, a refinement path grandmaster, the thirty-sixth
generation fairy of Spirit Affinity House - Mo Yao who had schemed against Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building; the mysterious will she left behind following her death…

All these existences had their own thoughts with their respective goals. And on this
platform of the collapsing Imperial Court blessed land, they collided and contended
with each other.

They had their own advantages, abilities and also had their respective weaknesses and
flaws.

These were all individuals overflowing with talents, they were elites or heroes of their
generations. They were either proficient in scheming and strategizing, being master
tacticians, or had immense strength or absurd luck.

The intense stimulation of life and death, the enticement of enormous benefits, caused
these existences to perform to their full strength, using all their abilities and trump
cards, perhaps betting it all and risking everything in a single moment, or strategizing
to control the situation.

Thus, the state of affairs became clear from time to time, while turning indistinct at
the next moment.

They had contended till now, but the situation was still chaotic. Only Frost Jade
Peacock was pulled out of the game, while the others could tilt the whole set of
circumstances with their every move and were not existences that could be
underestimated in their influence to the final outcome.

Now —

The main part of Giant Sun's will had been forced out of Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building for the moment by Fang Yuan's trump card, suffering the intense assaults of
the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity.

Giant Sun's will was the most powerful existence among those present. On one hand,
his main portion tried to return to Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, and on the other,
he took the risk of drawing out the sub-wills from true inheritances to seize back the
control of the round, and then wholeheartedly tried to eliminate the otherworldly
demon Zhao Lian Yun.

Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun had become the masters of Imperial Court blessed
land by some twist of fate; they were also being protected by the luck path true
inheritance and were safe for the moment.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng had made a temporary alliance, engaging in a round
of probing confrontation with Hei Lou Lan.

Hei Lou Lan's battle intent soared violently and he was just about to fight Fang Yuan
head-on, when Giant Sun's will asked him to leave and deal with Ma Hong Yun to take
back the luck path true inheritance.

Hei Lou Lan hesitated, but chose to listen to Giant Sun's will in the end.

"I will let you guys off for the moment!" He glared at Fang Yuan before turning around
and leaving quickly.

Fang Yuan looked on as Hei Lou Lan left, floating in the sky without giving chase.

"Huff huff…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng let out a breath of turbid air, flying towards Fang Yuan.

He might be a Gu Immortal, but he only specialized in healing and lacked large

numbers of mortal Gu; his battle strength compared to ordinary Gu Immortals still
had a great discrepancy. Through a prolonged battle, he had slowly worn down that
human strength phantom to death.

"Hei Lou Lan is going to deal with Ma Hong Yun to retrieve the luck path true
inheritance! Should we intervene in this?" Mo Yao's will immediately suggested.

This luck path true inheritance was a supreme hidden treasure left behind by Giant
Sun Immortal Venerable. Back then, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable used it as part of
his journey in becoming the ruler of an era, invincible within the world.

This luck path true inheritance held extremely large temptation to any Gu Master!

Fang Yuan's gaze slightly flickered, but he did not move, instead turning his sight to
look at his left.
Not far from him, a whirlwind was forming.

"Careful, Hei Lou Lan's fist qi can still condense back even after being destroyed!" Tai
Bai Yun Sheng warned.

Fang Yuan snorted, and with one step, appeared before the hurricane, punching it.

Boom.

A muffled sound rang out and the fist qi was scattered again.

The first aura was mostly dissipated, but the remaining fist qi still persisted in
condensing back. But this quantity was rather small and was not able to condense into
form.

"This strength path killer move…” Fang Yuan's expression was heavy.

Strength path phantoms were the long range attacking method of strength path,
however this was the first time Fang Yuan had seen human strength phantoms
possessing such spirituality.

This seemed to be an innovation of which no records existed in all the Gu Master

history Fang Yuan knew of.

It could be even called as 'Hei Lou Lan's strength path phantom'.

More importantly, this 'Hei Lou Lan's strength path phantom' could condense back
even after being destroyed.

This gave the feeling of a 'never-ending source of harassment'!

"Hei Lou Lan has certainly not used his full strength, if he can attack with twenty
human strength phantoms at the same time, and the remaining fist qi can condense
again, that power would be terrifying. If he can send out thirty human strength
phantoms, then this strength path killer move can absolutely contend with your six
arm heavenly zombie king!" Mo Yao's will evaluated with a grave tone.

"What killer move is this, do you have any impressions of it?" Fang Yuan asked.

Mo Yao's will slowly shook her head: "I am not a strength path Gu Immortal, this killer
move also greatly involves soul path and qi path, in addition it has other pivotal
mechanics. It should be a modern innovation as it is greatly different from ancient
styles, I am guessing that this is an innovation of the current generation."

Six arm heavenly zombie king was researched by Fang Yuan and perfected by Mo Yao.

But there were no lack of geniuses in this world, it was not just Fang Yuan alone who
could innovate a strength path killer move.

Of course, Fang Yuan specialized in blood path in his previous life, and had only
cultivated strength path on the side.

Treemen flocked one after the other, forming a majestic green wave that attempted to
drown Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun.

However, Giant Sun's luck path true inheritance was like a giant golden egg that firmly
protected the two.

Giant Sun's will was concerned about the consequences of his actions; he truly wanted
to kill the otherworldly demon Zhao Lian Yun, but also wanted to protect this unique
existence that was Giant Sun's luck path true inheritance.

When he saw Hei Lou Lan near, he hurriedly transmitted his voice: "I will open the
passage to true inheritance secluded domain, help me push the luck path true
inheritance into it!"

Hei Lou Lan nodded. His whole body shook as he punched out with both his fists; fist
qi surged out violently!

Boom boom boom…

Muffled explosions rang out in the air non-stop, the fist qi condensing one after
another into Hei Lou Lan's strength path phantoms.

Ten, twenty, thirty… forty!

Fang Yuan's pupils could not help but shrink upon seeing this.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression turned pale, revealing intense fear in his eyes.
Forty of Hei Lou Lan's strength path phantoms moved down together and surrounded
the luck path true inheritance in just a moment.

A dark crack slowly appeared in the air above the luck path true inheritance. The crack
enlarged till it formed a large and round passage.

This deep, dark passage was directly linked to true inheritance secluded domain.

Strength path phantoms shouted together before actually lifting Giant Sun's true
inheritance slightly!

The surrounding treemen also moved their large hands to help. The python-like green
vines coiled around together to assist in this.

Giant Sun's True Inheritance erupted with an intense and dazzling light; the treemen
melted like snow, the coiling vines could not even last for two breaths before being
destroyed completely.

Strength path phantoms also continued to crumble but condensed back a short while
after.

Hei Lou Lan stood at the outer periphery; he was like an endless source of strength,
striking out with large numbers of strength path phantoms one after another.

Under his effort, Giant Sun's true inheritance slowly left the ground.

At the same time, the round passage in the air also erupted with an intense force of
suction, like a giant mouth attempting to take back Giant Sun's true inheritance into
its belly.

"He can actually form so many strength path phantoms simultaneously! What kind of
killer move is this?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng cried out involuntarily at this astonishing sight.

Mo Yao's will also said to Fang Yuan: "Your strength path killer move is specialized for
close combat. Hei Lou Lan's killer move, however, is the exact opposite of yours,
specializing in long range combat! This killer move is equally matched with your six
arm heavenly zombie king. But in Hei Lou Lan's hands, the strength it can erupt with
far surpassess yours by several times."

Hei Lou Lan was the possessor of Great Strength True Martial Physique of the ten
extreme physiques, and Fang Yuan was not.

In the legends, Gu Masters who had Great Strength True Martial Physique not only had
immense strength, their stamina would also never run out. At the same time, their self
recovery ability was also extremely astonishing!

Any strength path killer move would erupt with strength that far surpassed their usual
strength under the hands of Great Strength True Martial Physique.

"What should we do now?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng stood beside Fang Yuan, fixing his gaze
at the contest of strength between Hei Lou Lan and Giant Sun's true inheritance.

He continued with a regretful tone: "This is a supreme true inheritance! Giant Sun's
will is taking it back to true inheritance secluded domain, unfortunately Hei Lou Lan
is there, so we cannot get a share of the action."

His tone contained the meaning of not being able to contend with Hei Lou Lan.

This was not surprising, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had a passive nature; a wise man looks
after his own hide, he would not take extreme measures unless forced into a corner.

Fang Yuan looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng and smiled.

"What to do?" He asked and answered himself, "Of course we go to true inheritance
secluded domain!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was surprised: "True inheritance secluded domain?"

Mo Yao's will shook before reacting, almost slapping her own thigh at the sudden
realization: "Right, there is no more of Giant Sun's will remaining in true inheritance
secluded domain. Those true inheritances have become masterless objects!"

Previously, these true inheritances contained Giant Sun's will, thus one could only
obtain the qualifications for the true inheritances by using an owner token.

But it was different now, Giant Sun's will had moved away all the sub-wills. Young wild
will grew soon after in the true inheritances, and they only needed to be manipulated
appropriately to refine them easily.

"But you don't have much time, Giant Sun's main will outside the tower is going to
return soon. You will only be able to choose one true inheritance in this time." Mo Yao's
will reminded, "Fang Yuan, you must quickly consider which inheritance you are going
to choose!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng also realized this and asked another crucial question: "This round
is already controlled by Giant Sun's will, how do we enter true inheritance secluded
domain?"

He had not even finished speaking when Fang Yuan took out Fixed Immortal Travel
Immortal Gu.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had held this Immortal Gu for safekeeping before, thus he was not
surprised; but his gaze turned serious as he looked at Fang Yuan: "If I am not wrong,
Fixed Immortal Travel can only carry one person, right?"

"You are right." Fang Yuan nodded, "So open up your immortal aperture and let me in.
I will send you the image of true inheritance secluded domain through thoughts
transmission."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng suddenly realized: "I almost forgot that I am a Gu Immortal!"

The immortal aperture of rank six and rank seven Gu Immortals was called a 'blessed
land'.

Imperial Court blessed land, Lang Ya blessed land and Hu Immortal blessed land were
immortal apertures; they had vast space and were akin to a small world. Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's Tai Bai blessed land was naturally not an exception.

Fang Yuan lent Fixed Immortal Travel to Tai Bai Yun Sheng and entered his immortal
aperture, then sent his thoughts that recorded the image of true inheritance secluded
domain.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng activated Fixed Immortal Travel, Giant Sun's will had no spare
energy to stop him and could only let him go to true inheritance secluded domain one
step earlier.

Within the true inheritance secluded domain was a scene of chaos.

The dozens of true inheritances were ruled by new wild wills and were like headless
chickens, flying around chaotically. From time to time, they collided with each other,
letting out sparks and causing unceasing wear and tear.

Mo Yao felt great heartache at this scene: "Make your choice quickly. These true
inheritances are destroying each other, if the situation gets worse, even if you can get
an inheritance, it might have already lost its essence."

Fang Yuan did not have much time left and could only pick one true inheritance. He
had already made a plan for this.

He said in a deep voice: "Mo Yao, I need your help."

"Speak quickly."

"Point me the location of the final supreme true inheritance!"

Mo Yao was stumped at Fang Yuan's words.

Soon, her eyes and mouth opened wide, her mind was greatly shaken!

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building contained three supreme true inheritances. Mo Yao
was extremely clear about them and she had introduced them to Fang Yuan when he
had charged into true inheritance secluded domain before.

The first supreme true inheritance was rank nine wisdom Gu.

The second supreme true inheritance was Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's luck path
inheritance.

The third supreme true inheritance was Eighty-Eight True Yang Building itself!

That is to say the one who obtains this true inheritance could control Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building!!

"Why did I not think of it?" Mo Yao mumbled in a daze, "Giant Sun's will had
transferred all the sub-wills away, now is the best time to seize the authority over
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building!"

"Right! Giant Sun's will had neglected this in fulfilling his desire to deal with Zhao Lian
Yun, thus exposing his greatest flaw, and giving us the opportunity to turn around this
crisis!" Fang Yuan's eyes shone with a sharp brilliance.
He looked at his surroundings, the fire of ambition soaring ever so high in his heart.

He acutely grasped the flaw in the enemy!

Win or lose, it all depended on this move; as long as he could take Eighty-Eight True
Yang Building for himself, he would have the territorial advantage!

By that time, even if Giant Sun's main will were to be more formidable, he would only
be a despondent dog locked out of the house, standing at the door and barking
helplessly!
Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng moved forward in the true inheritance secluded
domain.

In the dark true inheritance secluded domain, there was no more of the order and
serenity from before.

Because Giant Sun's will had been extracted fully, the dozens of true inheritances here
were ownerless inheritances, wild wills formed in them within a short time.

These true inheritances were like shooting stars of all colors, flying extremely quickly
in this dark space, they weaved a beautiful huge net with their trails.

Swoosh!

Another true inheritance flew quickly past Fang Yuan's left side.

This true inheritance was only the size of a bowl, it was giving off a silvery light and
was very dazzling.

It almost touched Fang Yuan's body as it flew past, the silvery light shone on Fang Yuan
and Tai Bai Yun Sheng's faces.

Their expressions were quite ugly, their gazes were full of anxiety and nervousness.

These true inheritances were powerful and had special abilities, most of them had
Immortal Gu among the Gu worms in them. Be it Fang Yuan or Tai Bai Yun Sheng, they
could not endure an attack from them.

Especially now, when the true inheritances were guided by the newly birthed wills,
who knew when they would display their Immortal Gu abilities?
This could not be predicted!

Moving around this place was like walking on a tightrope above death.

"These true inheritances are getting faster, have you found the target yet?" Tai Bai Yun
Sheng shouted at Fang Yuan, his voice was trembling.

"Soon." Fang Yuan answered.

He also felt the pressure intensifying, even though he was a flying master and had
exceptional skill, the pressure now was tremendous.

Bam!

Just at this moment, there was a loud explosion.

"Oh no, quickly dodge!" In Fang Yuan's mind, Mo Yao reminded.

Not far away, two true inheritances collided, from the intense sounds produced by
them, several Gu worms were destroyed on the spot.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had yet to feel pity at this, when his expression paled.

The collision changed the two true inheritances' directions, one of them which was
bright yellow flew towards them.

During the moment of crisis, Tai Bai Yun Sheng quickly activated all of his defensive
Gu, setting up a hundred lines of defense around him and Fang Yuan.

The incoming true inheritance came with a strong force, destroying all of the defensive
lines without any difficulty.

But during this period, Tai Bai Yun Sheng managed to earn some precious time for him
and Fang Yuan to escape.

The shrill sound almost burst their eardrums, as the meteor-like true inheritance flew
away with a blazing tail.

In the blink of an eye, it was more than ten thousand steps away from the two of them.
"My defense Gu were almost all destroyed!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression was pale:
"Where there is life, there is hope, we should retreat."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had the intention of leaving already.

Fang Yuan frowned, he was very clear on Tai Bai Yun Sheng's nature.

The older one was, the more cowardly they become.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng lacked the enthusiasm and spirit to take risks now, it was fine to ask
him to heal others, but he was not an expert at putting himself into life and death
situations.

Just as Fang Yuan was thinking of what to say to spur Tai Bai Yun Sheng's fighting
spirit, Mo Yao screamed in his mind: "Quickly look, just above you guys, we found it!"

Fang Yuan's mind became sharp, he quickly looked up.

Indeed, a supreme true inheritance was flying slowly, the speed of the light lump was
not fast, it was a stark contrast to the other ordinary true inheritances.

It was the size of an adult person, glowing with an orange and red light, giving off the
feeling of warmth.

The surrounding true inheritances, when they got close to it, took detours and
changed their directions.

Between Gu worms, there was absolute authority when they had a difference of two
ranks.

The authority of a supreme true inheritance was not something ordinary or

unparalleled true inheritances could offend.

"Go!" Fang Yuan was overjoyed, he shouted at Tai Bai Yun Sheng before flying over.

"Hold on! All of you hold on!" Ye Lui Sang's eyes were red, he shouted loudly as he
activated his Gu worms, emitting fierce flames.
The flames burned, quickly spreading.

The golden horn leopard group that was attacking them had good resistance to high
temperature. But Ye Lui Sang's flames used the power of an Immortal Gu, the golden
horn leopard group quickly melted in the flames, turning into puddles of golden mud.

Seeing this, the surrounding Gu Masters cheered loudly.

"Lord Ye Lui Sang is incredible!"

"Thankfully lord is here, otherwise we would be dead meat."

Ye Lui Sang breathed roughly, he was exasperated, helpless and angry.

"Damn it, what is going on? First, Tai Bai Yun Sheng became an immortal, next Imperial
Court blessed land was facing destruction, ravaged by the once in ten years blizzard.
Now even Eighty-Eight True Yang Building has come into the picture. I thought we
could leave the trap, but the building's rounds suddenly triggered! If I knew this, I
would not have entered the last Imperial Court contest!"

Ye Lui Sang was scolding in his heart.

Not just him, Ma Ying Jie, Luo Bo Jun, Gu Guo Long and the other survivors were all
kept in the dark, they did not know the truth.

These people were all northern plains Gu Masters who had entered Imperial Court
blessed land.

After Imperial Court blessed land was torn with several holes, the once in ten years
blizzard entered and wreaked havoc, killing almost all the mortals. Large numbers of
low rank Gu Masters were injured or dead.

But later, Giant Sun's will's found some time, despite being busy, to save some of the
blood related descendants.

Ye Lui Sang and the others were placed into the golden leopard round.

When Fang Yuan activated the final trump card and sent Giant Sun's will out of Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building temporarily, without Giant Sun's will controlling the round,
the large golden horn leopard group started attacking Ye Lui Sang and the others
fiercely.

Outside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

The golden sand-like Giant Sun's will was covered the building like a thick layer of
armor.

Meanwhile, the terrifying heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity had combined
into one, fusing to connect heaven and earth, it was pure white like snow, like a giant
cocoon, enveloping the entire Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and Giant Sun's will in
it.

Outside the cocoon, wild winds blew, sharp blades made of ice were flying around
everywhere. Inside the cocoon, lightning flashed and the snow poured like a storm.

Crack!

A snow-white lightning flash was formed abruptly, in the shape of a trident.

The strange lightning descended from heaven, stabbing into Giant Sun's will.

"Snow war tribulation lightning!"

Giant Sun's will howled, this attack destroyed a large portion of Giant Sun's will. There
was a huge injury appearing on the golden sand-like armor.

This snow war tribulation lightning had amazing strength, it was extraordinary. Even
Gu Immortals would be moved when they see it, because it was one of the publicly
recognised top ten catastrophes!

Just this hit alone destroyed countless numbers of Giant Sun's thoughts.

But Giant Sun's will was left behind by an Immortal Venerable, its foundation was
immensely thick. The will that was like a golden sand armor quickly repaired itself.

But other than the snow war tribulation lightning, there were also flying needle rain,
explosive thunder hail, cruel wind scythe and others.
These did not exist earlier, they were formed from Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heavenly
tribulation chaotic lightning balls and earthly calamity restraining smoke, fusing with
the once in ten years blizzard.

Heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities continued to rain down carrying the
intense rage of heaven and earth.

Giant Sun's will resisted them desperately, his losses were great.

"Soon, very soon! In just several minutes, I will be able to break free of this obstacle
and enter Eighty-Eight True Yang Building again… You actually dared to expel me from
the building, and keep me outside! I will tear your tendons and bones out, I will grind
you to ashes, I will make you suffer a fate worse than death!" Giant Sun's will had
already transcended anger when he thought of Fang Yuan.

Inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, there was still a small portion of Giant Sun's
will.

Right now, he was controlling the treemen round, manipulating them in trying to push
Giant Sun's inheritance back to the true inheritance secluded domain.

"Softly, don't be too rough, this is the only one in the world!" Giant Sun's will paid close
attention to Hei Lou Lan.

Hei Lou Lan was extremely irritated, but he could only reduce his strength.

This was the one and only record of this luck path true inheritance that Giant Sun
Immortal Venerable had left behind, once it was destroyed, it would be irrecoverable.

Precisely because of this consideration, Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun who were
inside the luck path true inheritance were able to survive.

The two of them were hugging each other closely, they had no choice but to watch the
giant light ball that was the luck path true inheritance slowly pushed towards the
round tunnel.

Even though they were famous and powerful characters in Fang Yuan's previous life,
both Gu Immortals, right now, they were still too weak.
One was a newly advanced rank three Gu Master, while the other was a mortal who
had not even started her cultivation journey.

"Tai Bai Yun Sheng and that Chang Shan Yin have gone missing." Success was at hand,
as Hei Lou Lan could not control it anymore, saying.

Ever since Fang Yuan vanished, he had felt a vague sense of unease.

"Forget about them, in just a moment my main will is going to return. By then, even if
two or three more Gu Immortals come, they cannot do anything. The important thing
now is to get this luck path true inheritance into the true inheritance secluded
domain! Most luck path Gu worms are formless and ethereal. Only that place can
contain these Gu worms." Giant Sun's will's voice resounded in Hei Lou Lan's ears.

Hei Lou Lan nodded, shouting lowly as he mustered his strength.

At once, he unleashed fifty strength path phantoms.

These strength path phantoms had superior wisdom, they quickly rushed towards the
luck path true inheritance. Enduring the blazing light, they pushed.

The luck path true inheritance was finally completely pushed into the true inheritance
secluded domain by this force.

The tunnel closed.

"Success." Giant Sun's will breathed out a deep sigh.

Almost at the same time, the giant main will charged into the building.

Giant Sun's will which was controlling the treemen round fused with the main will,
sharing their memories together.

"Fang Yuan, where are you?!" The main will screamed loudly with deep hatred.

"Greetings to old ancestor." Hei Lou Lan bowed deeply, showing great joy.

The main will was like a small sun, it shone brightly and was very domineering.

It could be said that Hei Lou Lan had helped Giant Sun's will in many ways.
Giant Sun's will was just about to praise him, but suddenly shouted in anger: " You are
all courting death! You dare to refine my Eighty-Eight True Yang Building!"

Inside Giant Sun's secluded domain, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng stretched out
their palms, pressing the true inheritance light lump forcefully, their expressions were
pale and their bodies were shivering.

"Quickly! Just one last bit and we would succeed!!" In his mind, Mo Yao's will shouted
anxiously.
In true inheritance secluded domain, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were firmly
holding a supreme true inheritance from its left and right.

Thanks to the guidance of Mo Yao's will along with Giant Sun's will being emptied out,
Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were able to get close to the true inheritance.

The most crucial point was there was no primeval energy in true inheritance secluded
domain.

Wild Gu worms could absorb primeval energy directly from the surrounding air for
their use. Without primeval energy, most Gu worms would lose their threat. This was
also one of the reasons Giant Sun's will was trying to push Giant Sun's Luck Path True
Inheritance back into true inheritance secluded domain.

The supreme true inheritance had been letting out a warm orange light before, but in
Fang Yuan's and Tai Bai Yun Sheng's hands, it let out three colors.

Silver-white light occupied the bulk of it; caused by the refinement from Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's Gu Immortal will. The second color was grey from Fang Yuan. The third was
black light from Mo Yao.

Silver-white light was the most abundant, grey came second and black was in the least
amount.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was a rank eight Immortal Gu House, formed from
extremely large numbers of Gu worms. Fang Yuan's group had to use all their strength
to quickly refine Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

It could be said, whether it was Fang Yuan or Tai Bai Yun Sheng, they had both spent
all their strength.

"Just a little left, just a little more effort!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng anxiously yelled.
The main portion of Giant Sun's will had returned to True Yang Building, the three had
heard its furious roar.

The round light lump with the size of an adult had only a final trace of orange left on
it. As long as this light was eroded, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building would completely
change its master and the situation would greatly incline towards Fang Yuan's side!

However, Giant Sun's will furiously made his move at this final moment.

The will left by an Immortal Venerable could not be looked down upon!

And this will was the original master of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building! Thus, in just
an instant, the final trace of orange was replaced by dazzling golden light.

Fang Yuan's group immediately felt gloomy at this color.

This color meant that Giant Sun's will had refined the final remaining trace of the
supreme true inheritance's will!

"Juniors, you are really audacious, you dare to go after my Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building! I will make you pay the most terrible price in the world!" From within the
light lump, a roar from Giant Sun's will sounded out.

"Quick! There is only a meagre trace of Giant Sun's will, we need to move together and
destroy it, spare no energy!!" Fang Yuan shouted.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's forehead was filled with sweat; he did not need any reminder to
be aware of the utmost importance of this matter.

The two gave a deep shout and moved together, mobilising their wills to form a huge
army of thoughts that unfolded a fierce assault towards the last trace of will.

Giant Sun's will's roar stopped abruptly as he poured all his energy in defending
against the assault.

Its main body was enormous, but it had only refined a trace of the true inheritance
and controlled the smallest portion. Even if it possessed majestic strength that far
surpassed the allied thoughts army of Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, it did not have
the room to display its might, and the power it could let out was an insignificant
fraction compared to that of the main body.
The newborn wild will that had been born just recently in the supreme true
inheritance had already been thoroughly extinguished.

The tranquil true inheritance light lump became an unconventional battlefield that
pitted Fang Yuan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Giant Sun's will.

Contest between wills involved profound techniques and skill.

But be it Fang Yuan or Tai Bai Yun Sheng, they were not truly soul path Gu Masters.
Fang Yuan could be considered to have started it just recently while Tai Bai Yun Sheng
was truly a novice, relying on nothing more than the instinct to move his thoughts.

As for Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, his soul path attainment was definitely out of
this world. Unfortunately, the one confronting the enemy was only the special will he
had left behind.

Thus, in this battle of wills, there were no fancy skills; it was only a head-on collision,
a bloody fight.

After a dozen or so breaths later, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng's wills suffered
disastrous losses.

The quantity of Giant Sun's will might be small, not even filling one percent of the true
inheritance light lump, but it stood lofty and majestic.

The main Giant Sun's will was vast, its power flowed without pause. Every bit of loss
it suffered was immediately replenished.

By contrast, Fang Yuan's group might have occupied the advantage of vast quantity,
but they did not have high battle strength and were soon lacking the fuel to continue.

"Damn it! We can't expel Giant Sun's will, the situation has gone south!" Tai Bai Yun
Sheng was deathly pale, the combined attack earlier was their most powerful method,
but it showed no effect.

Giant Sun's will was laughing heartily.

Fang Yuan and the group lacked the energy to continue the attack, and after Giant
Sun's will had resisted their most intense attacks, he began to expand his territory.
In the true inheritance light lump, the part occupied by golden light began to expand
bit by bit.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked on with wide eyes; they staked all their
energy, but were only able to slow down Giant Sun's will's speed of expansion.

Giant Sun's will was truly terrifying.

Even when it was schemed against repeatedly before, and most of its will was outside,
suffering the deathly attacks from the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity, the
remaining part was still a tall, mountain-like barrier to Fang Yuan's group.

This enormous difference in their strengths was like a gulf between heaven and earth.

"We are going to lose!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's tone was grave, "This is just a will Giant
Sun Immortal Venerable left behind, I really can't imagine how powerful he was when
alive!"

"Damn it, only one last step was remaining!!" Mo Yao's will grabbed her head, her voice
mixed with a tone of sobbing and extreme regret, "If only we were a step earlier, as
long as we had three breaths of time, we would have succeeded."

"Never mind!" Fang Yuan gnashed his teeth, his expression heavy.

He had not given up yet, speaking with ruthless intent: "In this situation, we are unable
to get our hands on Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. We cannot exterminate Giant
Sun's will, sooner or later it will swallow the space we occupy. But we have yet to lose!
Don't forget, there are still the heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities outside
True Yang Building!"

"Are you saying?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression changed, blurting out.

His nature was benevolent and passive, but he was not stupid, and immediately
realized when Fang Yuan mentioned it.

"That's right, if I can't obtain it, no one else should think about getting it. Since I can't
get Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, I would rather destroy it!" A ruthless glint shone
in Fang Yuan's eyes, his tone was so cold it could make the listener shiver.

"But this is Eighty-Eight True Yang Building…” Mo Yao resounded, but her tone was
wavering.

She had no choice but to accept this was the best method to escape their predicament.

Giant Sun's will finally stormed into true inheritance secluded domain.

"You two tiny ants, you actually forced me to this extent! You scheming scoundrels,
your good days have come to an end, your sins are so great that even death would be
letting you off cheaply. I will give you a punishment worse than death! I will peel off
your skin, pull your tendons and let blood flow! I will burn your souls in flames and
let you taste incomparable suffering for all eternity!"

The golden will roared like a furious sea, and whipped up huge waves with it!

Schemed upon time and time again by Fang Yuan, suffering the unrestrained
bombardment of the calamities; Giant Sun's will's fury had already reached the
summit, swearing to kill Fang Yuan, the main culprit.

Compared to the golden wave, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were as small as ants.

The flying true inheritances were swallowed by the golden wave, resulting in splashes
but they stopped moving soon after.

Giant Sun's will had once again taken control of these inheritances.

However, most of the Gu worms required primeval essence or immortal essence to be

activated, and just Giant Sun's will could not activate them.

At present, most of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was controlled by Fang Yuan's
group.

As long as they did not let Giant Sun's will obtain Giant Sun's immortal essence, these
Gu worms could not be used.

"Start." Fang Yuan gave a soft shout, his gaze flashing with sharp intent.

Giant Sun's will's powerful approach also dispelled Tai Bai Yun Sheng's hesitation. He
was already completely tied to Fang Yuan's side and could only choose to forcibly
advance together.
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building originally shone with an aurora, but with the actions
of Fang Yuan's group, the aurora rapidly dimmed until it dissipated.

The furious golden sea suddenly stilled.

The next moment, Giant Sun's will's furious roar reverberated: "Bastards! You dared
to make Eighty-Eight True Yang Building stop its operation, you, you damned
scoundrels, you damned devious, shameless scoundrels!"

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building might have had wild will before, but it had just been
born, thus it had still automatically operated as normal.

However, Fang Yuan's group had refined most of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and
they forcibly made it stop its operations.

Even the strongest fort would find it hard to resist an internal collapse.

Although Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had not collapsed, its operations had
stopped and just its shell had no might.

Without any might, how could it resist the terrifying heavenly tribulations and earthly
calamities?

Fang Yuan's group could neglect Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, in any case, they
would not be able to obtain Eighty-Eight True Yang Building if this situation
progressed.

However, Giant Sun's will could not neglect it.

This was an inheritance from Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, left behind for the
benefits of his descendants; it must not be destroyed.

Giant Sun's will was left behind by the Immortal Venerable to manage Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building, how could it just watch as the True Yang Building was destroyed?

"Just you wait!" The golden sea of will swiftly retreated.

The vast will of Giant Sun surged out of the tower like water, forming a golden armor
as a defense around it.
Giant Sun's will had no choice but to suffer the ravaging bombardment of the heavenly
tribulations and earthly calamities to protect the weak Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building. However, it still left behind a portion of will which surged towards Fang Yuan
and Tai Bai Yun Sheng like a furious river.

Fang Yuan, however, let out a breath of turbid air.

Compared to the majestic furious sea from before, this will might be strong but they
could deal with it, albeit with difficulty.

Fang Yuan reluctantly took out a Gu from his pocket.

It was flying bear phantom Gu.

Fang Yuan's will moved and threw the Gu casually; the flying bear phantom Gu flew
forward, blossoming with beautiful white light.

The white light dissipated and a giant flying bear protected Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun
Sheng, obstructing the river of will.

"Damn it, flying bear phantom Gu!" Giant Sun's will cursed.

Flying bear phantom Gu was rather special; it was an Immortal Gu but it could be
activated with just one's mind, without requiring immortal essence.

Refining it was difficult and feeding it was not easy, requiring the fresh flesh of the
desolate beast flying bear.

Fortunately, Fang Yuan possessed Hu Immortal blessed land and could feed this
Immortal Gu with the help of treasure yellow heaven.

Even so, he had to pay an enormous price.

Train an army for a thousand days to use it in one fight. Now, it was time for flying bear
phantom Gu to show its worth!
The flying bear phantom's battle strength, although not at the level of the desolate
beast flying bear, it had at least half immortal battle strength. Most importantly, it
might look bulky and slow, but it was very agile.

The river of Giant Sun's will swirled to its left and right, attempting to get past the
flying bear phantom, to directly attack Fang Yuan and the others, obtaining victory.

But he was still obstructed by the flying bear phantom.

The flying bear phantom, even without Fang Yuan's manipulation, had some
intelligence and was quite crafty, it could battle entirely alone.

Swoosh.

The fat and large bear paw slammed down, carrying the sound of the wind with it.

Bam!

The golden sand-like Giant Sun's will was smashed into bits by the bear paw, turning
into golden dust as it dissolved in the air.

But this was just a portion.

The golden river that was Giant Sun's will was like a huge python coiling around the
flying bear phantom tightly.

At the same time, countless streams of will were formed, attacking many areas of the
flying bear phantom.

The two were fighting closely, at a stalemate, neither could do anything to the other
party.

Giant Sun's will could fuse and split freely, it had the freedom to change forms, flying
bear phantom could not take it down. But Giant Sun's will was entangled by the flying
bear phantom and could not deal with the most crucial person — Fang Yuan.

Giant Sun's will had inherited a portion of the Immortal Venerable's wisdom, he knew
from the situation after some thinking: To kill Fang Yuan, he needed to use at least half
of the river's will.

But the remaining half was not the flying bear phantom's match.

If he attacked forcefully, it was like he was handing the initiative over.

If Fang Yuan retreated with the true inheritance light lump and stalled for time, after
the flying bear phantom destroys the portion of Giant Sun's will that was left fighting
it, the situation would become dangerous.

He had already suffered a loss from splitting up earlier when he drew his will out of
the true inheritance secluded domain.

At that time, Fang Yuan had used the glass owner token to challenge a small portion
of Giant Sun's will resolutely. The result was that both suffered injuries and in the end
led to Giant Sun's will taking a huge risk and paying a huge price, but only managing
to regain control of the treeman round.

Fang Yuan's expression was grim.

He sustained the true inheritance light lump, slowing the progress of Giant Sun's will's
expansion while observing the situation and current battle state.

"If Giant Sun's will would split up again, that would be great. Unfortunately, it will not
make the same mistake twice." Fang Yuan observed for a while, seeing Giant Sun's will
fighting the flying bear phantom so intensely, but yet showing no signs of splitting up,
Fang Yuan sighed in his heart.

The opponent was not making a mistake, thus Fang Yuan's predicament was getting
more dangerous.

Right now, most of Giant Sun's will was outside the building enduring the heavenly
tribulations and earthly calamities to protect Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, only
two other portions were left behind.
A portion was fighting with the flying bear phantom. The other was competing with
Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, trying to refine Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

The supreme true inheritance that represented Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's
ownership only had a trace of golden color originally, but now this trace had grown to
size of a palm.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng had already squeezed out their full potential, they
were shivering and their expressions were pale, they were sweating profusely but
could not resist the expansion of Giant Sun's will's refinement.

Giant Sun's will was simply too great.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng felt like he was stuck between a towering mountain and a
precipitous ridge during the resistance, he was helpless and felt hopelessness.

Even Fang Yuan, a demonic head with an iron will, felt a strong sense of dejection
growing in his heart at this point.

If he allowed the situation to develop like this, eventually, when Giant Sun's will
successfully expands, he would regain control of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. By
then, Fang Yuan and the others would be dead meat.

He had to do something!

Despite this, Fang Yuan had already been too deeply involved in this supreme true
inheritance, he could not do anything else.

His greatest battle strength now was the flying bear phantom Gu, but it was already in
use.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a temporary ally that he obtained through swindling, but
similarly to Fang Yuan, he was already here engaging with Giant Sun's will, he could
not do anything else.

It could be said that other than the Spring Autumn Cicada, Fang Yuan had used all of
his trump cards.

"Don't tell me, I really have to use the Spring Autumn Cicada this time?" A thought
flashed in Fang Yuan's mind.
But immediately after, he rejected it.

"Spring Autumn Cicada is not an Immortal Gu that has a guaranteed success rate, I
could fail. The black death bad luck on me right now is so thick. Once I self-detonate,
my remaining consciousness would enter the Spring Autumn Cicada and travel
upstream in the river of time, everything points to disaster! The chances of survival
are extremely slim."

How could he resolve this situation?

"Sigh… Fang Yuan, we have no hope of success, let's retreat! Using Fixed Immortal
Travel, we can return to your blessed land." Tai Bai Yun Sheng suggested.

Should he really retreat?

At this point, if he gave in, Giant Sun's will would immediately regain control of Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building. By then, through his obstruction, would fixed immortal
travel Gu still activate successfully?

Even if he succeeded, would this satisfy him?

Fang Yuan was not satisfied!

He had planned this for so long, he racked his brains in scheming, victory was almost
in sight, an immense fortune and benefit was right before him, he was just one step
away!

Just one tiny step!!

"I am really unresigned… Wait!" Fang Yuan's expression changed, he thought of Ma

Hong Yun.

"I have no trump cards, but I can make use of this chess piece." Inspiration flashed in
his mind, Fang Yuan was no longer hesitant, he flapped his wings and flew up with the
supreme true inheritance.

"Where are we going?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng asked quickly.

"Just follow me." Fang Yuan replied curtly.

Fixed immortal travel Gu was in his possession and was refined by him, even if Tai Bai
Yun Sheng wanted to retreat, without Fang Yuan's cooperation, he could not escape.

"Don't think of running away!" The river-like Giant Sun's will growled, splitting up and
then forming back into one entity again, while passing the flying bear phantom and
charging towards Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Flying bear phantom reacted quickly, it followed after them.

Fang Yuan snickered, changing his direction. After moving in many directions, the
flying bear phantom returned to Fang Yuan's side.

Fang Yuan fled while battling, as the two sides fought and stopped many times.
Sometimes, the river-like Giant Sun's will was in front, sometimes, Fang Yuan took
detours, using the flying bear phantom to fight back.

The road was filled with shocks but no real danger.

Although there were true inheritances of all sizes flying around chaotically, because of
the supreme true inheritance's aura, none got close.

Using the flying bear phantom as a shield, the river-like Giant Sun's will could not stop
Fang Yuan's movement, he could only slow him down.

But Fang Yuan's circumstances were the same.

He and Tai Bai Yun Sheng could not do anything to the portion of Giant Sun's will that
was refining Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. In the contest of wills, Fang Yuan and
Tai Bai Yun Sheng were heavily suppressed, the golden light was expanding steadily,
the two were bound to lose eventually.

"So you are here!" When Fang Yuan saw the luck path true inheritance in his vision, he
laughed loudly.

"What are you trying to do?" The river-like Giant Sun's will felt something amiss, he
screamed out in panic.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked at Fang Yuan with similar confusion.

Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "Tell me, what will happen when two supreme true
inheritances collide?"

The color on Tai Bai Yun Sheng's face changed, Fang Yuan's insanity made his heart
jump.

But thinking about it, he realized: This was an amazing and brilliant plan!

He and Fang Yuan were unable to turn back now. The true inheritance light lump in
their hands was extremely troublesome, if they let go of it, they would die, but if they
did not, they would die sooner or later.

But if the two supreme true inheritances collided, the results would be unthinkable.

The consequences were so severe even Giant Sun's will lost his composure!

"You, don't come over!" Ma Hong Yun shouted.

Zhao Lian Yun was tightly held in his arms.

But on this stage, the two of them were simply the weakest. If not for their extreme
luck, they would have been ground to dust long ago during the intense battles.

Under the influence of luck and coincidences, the luck path supreme true inheritance
became their guardian angel, but it had been pushed into the true inheritance
secluded domain.

After entering the true inheritance secluded domain, the threat of the luck path true
inheritance hit rock bottom, it was almost a guaranteed success for Giant Sun's will to
deal with the otherworldly demon.

If not for Giant Sun's will being careful about protecting the luck path true inheritance,
and being forced to deal with Fang Yuan at every step, thus unable to leave, he would
have dealt with Ma and Zhao long ago.

Ma Hong Yun was safe and sound here, in a way, it was all thanks to Fang Yuan and Tai
Bai Yun Sheng.

But now, Fang Yuan was dragging the supreme true inheritance and rushed here on
his own.
"He, what is he trying to do?!" Zhao Lian Yun's body was shuddering, through the
translucent barrier, she was frantic and could see Fang Yuan's cold smile.

"No, you cannot do this! Quickly stop, stop it!!" The river-like Giant Sun's will was
shouting insanely from behind him.

He was anxious!

Once these two supreme true inheritances collide, they would definitely suffer great
damage together.

By that time, not only would the last remaining luck path true inheritance get
damaged or even destroyed, even Eighty-Eight True Yang Building would suffer
immense damage that would be hard to imagine.

The river-like Giant Sun's will underwent intense thoughts, all of the thoughts that
formed its will started self-detonating.

The golden sand-like will in the shape of a river burst out with an eye piercing light,
his battle strength surged by at least half.

The flying bear phantom growled angrily, but was suppressed thoroughly.

Fang Yuan's brows were tightly locked, the situation was very dangerous, he had to
put a portion of his concentration on the flying bear phantom, manipulating it to battle
personally.

Five hundred years of battle experience was nothing to be scoffed at!

Under his manipulation, the flying bear phantom moved more agilely, it ignored the
injuries on it and blocked the river-like Giant Sun's will completely in the end.

"Fang Yuan, you are courting death! You want to deal with Ma Hong Yun, but do not
forget the overwhelming power of fortune rivaling heaven Gu that he has! As long as
you carry ill intent towards him, your luck will decrease drastically, even if you have
half immortal battle strength, and are able to resist it temporarily, how long can you
last?" The river-like Giant Sun's will saw that he could not break through and started
shouting.

"Fang Yuan, Giant Sun's will is absolutely right, you need to be very careful!" Mo Yao's
will also said.

Fang Yuan snorted, without a bit of hesitation in his heart.

Seeking fortune amidst danger, to Fang Yuan, only by emerging victorious amidst
chaos could he have a chance of survival.

Seeing that the two supreme true inheritances were less than a thousand steps away
from each other, at this moment, there were ripples in the air, as dozens of figures
were transported into the true inheritance secluded domain.

They appeared ahead of Fang Yuan's flying route, they were almost all familiar faces.

Ye Lui Sang, Gu Guo Long, Bian Si Xuan…

The leader was a brawny and muscular man, with hammer-like fists, he laughed
ruthlessly towards Fang Yuan: "So you are called Fang Yuan! Old Ancestor Giant Sun
has already exposed both of your crimes. Your schemes have been exposed, it is all
over, your lives will be finished here!"

Who else was it but Hei Lou Lan?

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression changed abruptly, he could not free himself now as he
was using all his strength to resist Giant Sun's will who was refining the supreme true
inheritance.

The appearance of Hei Lou Lan and the others was simply too devastating.

At the final juncture, this was akin to a fatal blow!

"Hahaha!" The river-like Giant Sun's will laughed loudly behind them: "You are all just
in time!"

He praised Hei Lou Lan and the others fervently.

This was definitely the act of the main will who took some time to inform and mobilize
this bunch of reinforcements.

If this was during normal times, Hei Lou Lan and the others contained battle strength
that was insignificant in Giant Sun's will's eyes. But at this time and place, they became
a life-saving chess piece, they were the best bet in toppling the balance between the
two sides!

"Fang Yuan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, you are all dead meat!" The river-like Giant Sun's will
growled, slowing down and attacking.

The initiative was grasped by Giant Sun's will's side once again.

"We lost!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng heaved a long sigh, turning over to look at Fang Yuan,
mustering his spirit: "Junior brother, enter my aperture, we will retreat! I have
immortal essence, and you have Fixed Immortal Travel, now that Giant Sun's will is
being troubled by the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity, we have to retreat
now before it is too late!"

Fang Yuan however, shook his head: "It is already too late! Once we let go, Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building will fall into the control of Giant Sun's will. This building has the
ability to suck in Immortal Gu, and the range extends to the whole of northern plains,
even if we use Fixed Immortal Travel, there is a high chance of failing in the end."

"Of course I know this." Tai Bai Yun Sheng's tone was anxious: "But we can only take a
risk, in order to fight for that slim chance of success. If we delay any longer and lose
this last opportunity, we would not even have this slim chance of success left!"

Fang Yuan's gaze was flickering in hesitation, he looked at the supreme true
inheritance in his hand once again.

In the true inheritance light lump, the golden dazzling light had occupied a third of the
light lump's capacity, and was expanding at an increasing speed.

Fang Yuan breathed in deeply: "I did not think that we will still get to this point. Sigh,
if not for the circumstances, I would not want to do this!"

"Junior brother, you still have a method left?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng heard this and was
shocked, overjoyed, and suspicious.
At this moment.

In true inheritance secluded domain.

Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun, who were mutually dependent on each other and
under luck path supreme true inheritance's protection, looked with panicked
expressions.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were in control of the supreme true inheritance that
represented Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

The two sides were cut off by Hei Lou Lan and the others, forming a firm defensive
line.

Behind Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, the river-like Giant Sun's will and the flying
bear phantom were fighting.

Going even farther outside, the main Giant Sun's will covered Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building, forcibly resisting the terrifying heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity,
protecting the inheritance treasure of Giant Sun.

Hearing Fang Yuan still had a method left, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was naturally overjoyed
and immediately urged: "Junior brother! What method do you have left, quickly use
it."

Fang Yuan gave a bitter smile: "Senior brother, honestly, because of this desperate
situation, I have no other ways but to use this method. I hope you will ensure my safety
at the crucial moment."

"That goes without saying, we are fellow disciples after all!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng
immediately guaranteed.

Fang Yuan nodded and instructed: "Senior brother, Giant Sun's will originated from
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, you must never underestimate it. Next, if it tries to sow
discord between us, I won't be able to talk and defend myself, you must never believe
it!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng muttered: "Junior brother, we are of one family, you do not need to
say anything and can rest assured. But from your tone, it seems you have a lot of
concern and reservation towards using this method, if you are not too sure, we can
still use Fixed Immortal Travel and leave immediately!"

Fang Yuan smiled lightly, revealing a confident expression: "Haha! Senior brother, rest
assured, this method has unparalleled might, even the main Giant Sun's will cannot
leave unscathed. Just watch."

The two had not used any Gu worms to conceal their conversation. The experts
present could not help but reveal shock and doubt.

'A method that can harm the main Giant Sun's will, what exactly is it?' Hei Lou Lan
frowned, he might looked crude but was actually astute, and did not carelessly move
forward to fight.

Under everyone's gaze, Fang Yuan closed his eyes, slowly withdrawing his palms that
were tightly grabbing the supreme true inheritance.

This action immediately increased the pressure on Tai Bai Yun Sheng by several times!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was shocked, but fortunately Fang Yuan had reminded him before,
and he was able to quickly exert all his strength to resist the fierce encroachment of
Giant Sun's will.

"Junior brother, use your method quickly, I cannot hold on for long!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng
shouted, beads of sweat dripping down his face.

In just a few short breaths of time, the golden light on the supreme true inheritance
light lump wantonly expanded, becoming the size of a washing basin!

The speed was quick and violent!

"Let me see what deceit you are pulling!" Looking at this state, Hei Lou Lan and the
group did not dare to rashly charge ahead at this juncture.
However, they had waited for a dozen breaths but still did not see any terrifying
offense from Fang Yuan.

This battlefield had sunk into a strange silence.

The two sides did not speak, there were only the swoosh sounds of the flying true
inheritances and the occasional collisions of the true inheritances!

"Damn it, we were tricked!" Ye Lui Sang was furious, "This thief that disguised as
Chang Shan Yin is truly crafty. He is already at a dead end and has exhausted all his
methods, but is still pretending that he has an unfathomable and profound trump
card!"

"Everyone let's go, kill this audacious conspirator!" Gu tribe's leader Gu Guo Long
shouted from the side.

The leader, Hei Lou Lan, however, did not move.

Not only was he not moving, his expression even turned grave.

"Could it be…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked at Fang Yuan with bewilderment, he was the
nearest and thus felt a formless heavenly power suddenly forming around Fang Yuan,
gently lifting him up.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had an extremely deep impression of this heavenly power, after all
he had personally experienced it not long ago.

"Junior brother, you are shattering your aperture and ascending to immortal at this
moment?"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's words startled everyone present.

The journey of a Gu Master crossing the mortal realm and ascending to an immortal
was extremely dangerous and risky. To think Fang Yuan actually recklessly shattered
his aperture at this dangerous moment, charging towards Gu Immortal realm.

"Does this guy have a screw loose?"

"He can't even understand his situation, is he stupid?"

"Did he see no chance of success and used this unusual method to die?"

For a moment, Ye Lui Sang and the others were filled with heavy doubts.

But the next moment, Giant Sun's will's furious roar reverberated over the whole of
the true inheritance secluded domain: "Fang Yuan! I curse you to have a terrible
death!! You actually shattered your aperture at this moment to attract the heavenly
tribulation and earthly calamity!! You are actually so bent on destroying True Yang
Building. Everyone, kill this sinner quickly, the heavenly tribulation and earthly
calamity are already showing changes!"

This roar was different from before, besides the overflowing fury, Giant Sun's will's
voice now also contained panic!

The fusion of so many heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities would not be a
simple addition of one plus one equals two.

The once in ten years blizzard wreaked havoc over the whole of northern plains; its
range might be large but its might was not great. Even mortals could rely on some
special places to forcibly resist it.

The chaotic lightning balls and restraining smoke, left from Tai Bai Yun Sheng's
ascension, were mostly targeting wills and were only troublesome for Giant Sun's will.

But these two merged together and formed snow war tribulation lightning!

This was one of the ten great catastrophes!

This tribulation lightning had terrifying power, and Giant Sun's will had to pay a large
price to resist it.

Now, if a new heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity was added on top of snow war
tribulation lightning and if these two heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities
merged together, the resulting change would have unparalleled power!

Even Giant Sun's will felt fear!! It was after all only a special will left behind by the
Immortal Venerable, even if it could kill Gu Immortals, but under the might of heaven,
it paled in comparison.

"Quick, old ancestor has spoken, we need to attack together!"

"Follow me, kill these two!"

"Heroes of northern plains, crush these two outsiders to meat-paste."

Hei Lou Lan and the rest were startled awake and started acting according to Giant
Sun's will's command, fiercely charging forward.

Before they even neared, their respective Gu worms were already activated, forming a
majestic offense. Strength path phantoms, malevolent fiery snakes, terrifying sword
lights, pure white snow… all kinds of attacks converged together, seemingly forming
beautiful fireworks.

The fatal crisis was approaching him, but Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not spare even a trace
of his thoughts to it, and used all his strength to resist the encroachment of the portion
of Giant Sun's will in the true inheritance light lump.

Fang Yuan opened his eyes, maneuvering the flying bear phantom as well as activating
his killer move.

Six arm heavenly zombie king!

He turned into an eight armed monster, his aura erupted and his will to fight flared.

The flying bear phantom gave a miserable howl before using its gigantic body as a
meat shield, blocking the attacks.

The river-like Giant Sun's will was free to move, immediately attacking Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan protected Tai Bai Yun Sheng, and welcomed the river-like Giant Sun's will
without evading.

Boom!

The two sides fiercely collided, the resulting explosion let out brilliant golden sparks
everywhere.

Large numbers of special will shattered and dissipated.

Fang Yuan also suffered heavy injuries; six of his arms broke apart, his chest caved in,
his right lower leg was completely gone and one eye was blinded.
"Fang Yuan, your death is certain this time! You dared to ascend to Gu Immortal at this
moment, who do you think you are? A reincarnated Immortal Venerable? Hmph, since
you are seeking your own death, I shall help you with it."

The river-like Giant Sun's will formed a python shape that coiled around into a circle,
accumulating its power, its whole body radiating with dazzling golden radiance.

Fang Yuan snorted, not replying. The terrifying injuries on his body rapidly recovered
at a visible speed.

He had transformed into a heavenly zombie; the feeling of pain was completely gone
and death energy replaced his life energy. His recovery speed was thus greatly
amplified, having no need for any rank five healing Gu.

Boom, boom, boom…

The intense collisions erupted repeatedly; Fang Yuan and the river-like Giant Sun's
will carried out an intense battle.

"Thief, come down now!" Giant Sun's will suddenly transformed into a giant hand and
fiercely clawed at Fang Yuan's back.

With a tearing sound.

The eagle wings on Fang Yuan's back were directly torn apart, forming two enormous
wounds that revealed his bones.

Eagle rise Gu perished!

Fang Yuan was heavily injured, but he did not budge a bit, instead he fiercely twisted
his waist.

Crack… He moved with such strength that he actually broke apart his waist!

Disregarding the injuries on his body, Fang Yuan swung his hammer like fist straight
into Giant Sun's will.

Boom……

In an instant, fierce wind surged and fist shadows flew with unstoppable momentum
like a dragon overturning the river, like a fierce tiger leaving the mountain.

The giant hand that Giant Sun's will had condensed into had no time to split apart
before it was struck by this vicious strike. The massive will was bombarded by the
attack and shattered, suffering huge damage.

Amidst the drizzle of golden sand-like will, Fang Yuan took the chance to pull back like
a bolt of lightning.

Giant Sun's will had been waiting for a counterattack, but could only roar in fury as
Fang Yuan was already far away.

Fang Yuan was not a battle maniac and was as cool-headed as ice, never letting himself
be overtaken by the heat of the fight. As the injuries on him rapidly healed, Fang Yuan
gasped for breath; the pressure on him was as heavy as a mountain in this battle with
Giant Sun's will.

He had already used all his strength but there was no doubt this was the strongest
opponent he had faced since his rebirth!

The two organized themselves again and after a few breaths of time, they charged at
each other again.

"So what if you are an Immortal Gu? Go and die!" On the other battlefield, Hei Lou
Lan's violent shout could be heard.

Tens of strength path phantoms suddenly retreated and entered Hei Lou Lan's body.

Hei Lou Lan's body merged with the strength path phantoms, transforming into a
giant phantom within moments.

The giant reached a height of over a hundred feet. The muscles on it were bulging and
vivid, and its appearance was exactly similar to Hei Lou Lan.

"Feel my killer move!!" The giant strength path phantom's voice rumbled like thunder;
it headed straight towards the flying bear phantom and smashed its right fist at the
flying bear phantom's skull.

The flying bear phantom was being held under control by Ye Lui Sang and others;
caught unprepared, it was sent rolling down.
Smash.

The giant strength path phantom showered the flying bear phantom with punches;
the flying bear phantom was heavily injured after suffering the continuous attacks,
and angrily counterattacked.

However, the giant strength path phantom was nimble and displayed a master level
attainment in close combat. After a while, the flying bear phantom's body was beaten
into such a mess that its original appearance was indistinct.

"The final strike!" The giant strength path phantom raised its right leg and smashed
down like an axe.

Boom!

A huge rumbling sound echoed, the flying bear phantom could no longer endure and
its stout giant body disappeared, turning back into Gu form and flying away shakily.

The giant strength path phantom grabbed the Immortal Gu and smiled malevolently
towards Fang Yuan.

"Hei Lou Lan's true strength has reached such a level!"

"Too terrifying, he can almost destroy an Immortal Gu!"

"My loss in this Imperial Court contest was not unjust…”

Ye Lui Sang and others looked on with wide open eyes.

Hei Lou Lan's battle strength was absolutely not inferior to Fang Yuan's, and was even
higher in certain aspects because of his Great Strength True Martial Physique.

Flying Bear Phantom was an Immortal Gu but without any Gu worms as assistance
and Fang Yuan not maneuvering it personally, it was normal for it to be captured by
Hei Lou Lan.

The flying bear phantom was destroyed, while Tai Bai Yun Sheng was using all his
strength to contend with Giant Sun's will for the supreme true inheritance. As such,
Fang Yuan who was in an intense battle with the river-like Giant Sun's will was alone
and facing danger.
"You have a good head on your shoulders, I will take it as my victory trophy and
preserve it." Hei Lou Lan's voice came out from the giant strength path phantom.

It slowly flew towards Fang Yuan.

"Fang Yuan, give up resisting. You no longer have a way out!" The river-like Giant Sun's
will spoke.

Although it had fought with Fang Yuan only for a short time, its size was already less
than half of before.

One could say Fang Yuan, being able to force the Immortal Venerable's will to this state,
had tremendous battle strength which was not inferior to Hei Lou Lan's.

Unfortunately, he was shrouded in a black coffin luck aura and his circumstances were
extremely bad. Even if he was greatly resourceful and extremely brave, it seemed that
he would be unable to reverse this situation!

"Hahaha…” Fang Yuan threw his head back and laughed loudly!

His laughter resounded through the battlefield, displaying a matchless bravery!

"Giant Sun's will, you want to break my spirit by every possible means, but my heart
is like iron and my will is like steel! Our battle has just begun."

The river-like Giant Sun's will did not retort, instead falling into silence.

The giant strength path phantom Hei Lou Lan had transformed into also stopped its
movements.

Heaven and earth qi manifested around Fang Yuan.

Gu Masters shattered their aperture to ascend to Gu Immortal realm, which would

attract heaven and earth qi. Fang Yuan was inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building
which delayed this for a moment.

That short moment was the most dangerous and most difficult time, but Fang Yuan
was able to hold on by exerting all of his methods.

In the vicinity of heaven and earth qi, ordinary Gu worms could not be used and their
activation would cause a backlash. In severe cases, even Immortal Gu could also
perish.

Hei Lou Lan was only using mortal Gu, and had no choice but to stop.

The process of Fang Yuan's immortal ascension had officially begun.

Clear and glorious heaven qi, golden earth qi, more and more of them surrounded
Fang Yuan.

Hei Lou Lan and the others retreated.

The river-like Giant Sun's will growled endlessly, but did not dare to charge in
abruptly.

After the intense battle with Fang Yuan, its mass was reduced by more than half.

It was anxious internally: "Damn it! Unless the main will sends reinforcements over, I
alone cannot take down this Fang Yuan."

The battlefield turned silent temporarily.

Fang Yuan saw that the situation had progressed just as he expected, breathing out a
huge sigh of relief.

In the contest for Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, after several twists and turns, the
current situation was becoming clearer.

Fang Yuan's situation was like walking on a tightrope, intense wind was blowing and
he was almost blown away several times, losing his initiative. If not for his brilliant
schemes and endless trump cards, he would not have lasted this long.

Especially this time, Fang Yuan gambled his life, bravely going for a mutual defeat,
finally managing to get back the initiative.

"My northern plains trip has reached the most crucial climax! Next, my immortal
ascension is extremely important, it can almost decide victory and loss in this battle!"
Fang Yuan concentrated his mind, just as he had said, the real battle was just
beginning.

"Junior brother, don't be too careless!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's tone was solemn, his gaze
was anxious as his heart was full of worry.

He had just become an immortal, he was extremely clear about the difficulties of
immortal ascension. He knew: If not for Giant Sun's will's help, he would not have
succeeded. Even if he had his life's accumulation and that deep foundation!

"Sigh, junior brother is too young and daring, he should not have made this choice!
Had I known earlier, I would not have let him take this step! Sigh, hopefully, he had
received master's guidance and can succeed luckily…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng sighed in his
heart.

Fang Yuan made eye contact with Tai Bai Yun Sheng, nodding his head.

Next, he closed his eyes, his mind entering his aperture.

Ordinary Gu Masters and Gu Immortals, in their entire lives, they can only have one
aperture. But Fang Yuan had once taken a major risk in three kings blessed land,
obtaining an immense opportunity. Thus, after using the second aperture Immortal
Gu, he now had two apertures.

After the imperial court contest, both his apertures were rank five peak stage, crystal
purple primeval essence!

There were three steps in immortal ascension, the first was to shatter the aperture.

Fang Yuan shattered the second aperture.

When Gu Masters shatter their aperture, they can only advance with no way of
retreating. That is because they only have one aperture.

But Fang Yuan had two.

That means, even if Fang Yuan fails this tribulation, he would lose one aperture, but
he would still keep another aperture.

Keeping one aperture could preserve his life.

This was one of the benefits of second aperture Gu.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not know this secret, if he knew, the worry in his heart would
dissipate greatly.

Crack!

Crack!

Crack!

Lightning bolts shot down endlessly, targeting Giant Sun's will.

"Fang Yuan you scoundrel, you will die a terrible death!" Giant Sun's will howled, he
resisted the tribulation lightning as his golden sand-like will exploded time and time
again.

This lightning bolt was extraordinary, it had the appearance of a trident and had great
power, as one of the ten great catastrophes.

Originally, snow war tribulation lightning did not strike at such close intervals, one
bolt would form every tens of breaths' time. But now, when Fang Yuan shattered his
aperture and drew in the heaven and earth qi, a new heavenly tribulation and earthly
calamity were formed.

The heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity fused with the once in ten years
blizzard, increasing the power of the snow disaster.

Snow war tribulation lightning acted like it was on drugs, in its excitement, several
bolts were shot down with less than a breath's interval each time!

Every time he resisted it, Giant Sun's will paid a heavy price.

But he could not leave.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building needed his protection.

Now that Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had lost almost all its functions, it was like
an empty shell. If Giant Sun's will's protection was lifted, in just a moment, the entire
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building would be crumbled under the terrifying might of the
heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was an inheritance treasury that Giant Sun Immortal
Venerable had left behind, with Giant Sun's will as the controller of this building. Its
main objective forced Giant Sun's will to resist the heavenly tribulation and earthly
calamity head on.

This way, he had become Fang Yuan's protector during this tribulation.

Protecting his sworn enemy and helping him to ascension to immortal realm, Giant
Sun's will, who was forced by circumstances and had to do this, could feel an immense
humiliation and rage in his heart.

"Fang Yuan, you scoundrel, once I survive this heavenly tribulation and earthly
calamity, I will tear your tendons out, I will drink your blood and eat your flesh!" Giant
Sun's will howled, even though there was the sound of thunder, it could not mask his
rage.

Very soon, his howling came to an end, it turned into shock: "This, this is the chaotic
branching teeth!"

Only to see that in the air filled with lightning and thunder, eighteen spirals appeared.

The spirals spun faster and faster, as they expanded rapidly.

In each of these black spirals, there was a large snow-white beast tooth forming slowly.

A total of eighteen beast teeth, each white as snow, with a huge size like that of ancient
trees, over thirty meters tall.

The beast teeth were waiting to strike, and an intense feeling of danger struck Giant
Sun's will's heart.

Chaotic branching teeth was also one of the top ten catastrophes, ranked higher than
even the snow war tribulation lightning, and had greater might.

"I cannot allow all eighteen chaotic branching teeth to strike at the same time! At that
time, even I cannot resist it… I must destroy them in advance!!" Giant Sun's will was
full of battle experience, he chose to strike immediately.
He had no hesitation, creating ten wills in the form of dragons, flying about and
charging towards the heavenly tribulation in the sky with no fear.

However, along the way, there were wind blades, icy hail, and snow war tribulation
lightning that attacked non stop. The ten dragon will suffered heavy casualties along
the way, only five made it to the spirals.

In fact, the result of their attacks was not very evident.

Only three succeeded, destroying the spirals. The remaining two dragon wills suffered
too much damage, the spirals that they charged towards flickered for a bit before
recovering.

The tribulation lightning crackled, the speed of attacks becoming even quicker than
before! It was like a wordless mockery towards Giant Sun's will.

"Damn it! Despicable!' Giant Sun's will was helpless, he split out another ten dragons
and charged again in desperation.

Within true inheritance secluded domain, it was a scene of serenity.

Fang Yuan shut his eyes, his expression was calm and he breathed in relaxation.

His mind was mostly focused on the shattered second aperture.

"My first aperture is my vital Gu Spring Autumn Cicada. This Gu is incomparably

important, if I ascend to immortal realm with it, I will be a time path Gu Immortal. But
my knowledge of time path is too limited, and to undergo tribulation with Immortal
Gu, I cannot take this risk without any experience."

"Only the second aperture, with the vital Gu all-out effort Gu, I can become a strength
path Gu Immortal. Since rebirth, I had studied strength path intensely, although it is
not on the level of blood path, I still have the foundation to become an immortal."

This second aperture had already shattered into a mess, forming a hole and sucking
in the heaven qi and earth qi.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was less than a hundred years old, but he had the foundation and
accumulation to become a Gu Immortal. Fang Yuan had five hundred years of
experience, and his knowledge surpassed Tai Bai Yun Sheng who had an immortal
inheritance, it was definitely more than sufficient for him to rise to immortal.

"Except that now, it is still not the best time to ascend to immortal." Fang Yuan laughed
bitterly in his mind.

Fang Yuan's strength path cultivation had not reached its limits. He had only a hundred
jun of strength, and his bones were impermanence bones, his skin was turtle jade wolf
skin, and his strength path Gu worms were not all rank five.

All these affected his future potential after becoming an immortal, as well as the size
of his immortal aperture, it would be best if he could perfect them. Fang Yuan's
original intention was to accumulate his foundation to the absolute limit before taking
the risk of immortal ascension after making ample preparation.

Unfortunately, plans do not keep up with changes.

Forced by the situation, Fang Yuan could only do this.

As the heaven and earth qi entered his body, at the same time, Fang Yuan's body was
emitting a thick white human qi.

The thickness of the human qi was like a huge balloon, completely covering Fang
Yuan's entire body.

Hei Lou Lan saw this and his pupils shrunk.

Ye Lui Sang said in disbelief: "How is this possible, he has such thick human qi, this is
even greater than Tai Bai Yun Sheng!"

"To think that junior brother's foundation is so deep. I can see that junior brother had
made preparations for this immortal ascension long ago, he is not taking an impulsive
risk." Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked with a surprised gaze, his heart settling.

The clear and unrestrained heaven qi, the golden and heavy earth qi, together with
the pure white as snow human qi, the three merged and formed a multi-colored lump.

At this point, he had reached the second step of immortal ascension — taking in the
qi.

"Damn it, the scoundrel has starting taking in the qi. Why are the reinforcements not
here yet?" The river-like Giant Sun's will was burning with anxiety.

He did not dare to act rashly.

Once he was stained by heaven qi, he would melt into air. If he was corroded by earth
qi, he would turn into rocks and die.

Fang Yuan, who was the intersection point of the three qi faced dangers after dangers
even more so.

He had to balance the three qi at all times, if there were too much heaven and earth qi,
he would die. Even human qi, if the balance was off, would cause him to self-detonate.

However, fortune is found within danger, the greater the risks, the greater the
opportunities.

The balance of the three qi, the fusion between them was bringing Fang Yuan an
unceasing amount of inspiration.

Heaven and earth were the foundation stones that nurtured all life, the fusion of
heaven and earth qi filled Fang Yuan's mind with the grand mysteries of the Great Dao.

The three qi were fusing intensely, as Fang Yuan was inside, returning to his usual
appearance after recalling the six arm heavenly zombie king killer move.

His injuries were rapidly healing, the healing speed was faster than his healing during
six arm heavenly zombie king mode!

The three qi cleansed his body, not just his flesh, but his soul, mind, and will, they were
being elevated.

He felt like a baby, being cleansed and returned to a pure state. Fang Yuan's eyes
became clearer, the contrast between the black and white parts became more evident.
His muscles were reconstructed one by one, the scars on his body fell off, and new skin
grew on him. Even his hair started growing wildly, it grew longer and longer, when
they were waist long, they broke, before growing again, and breaking, repeating the
cycle…

Be it his body, his bones, his organs or his face, they were undergoing a magical
transformation.
At the same time, the experiences in his previous five hundred years, as well as the
events since rebirth flashed in his mind rapidly.

In just a short amount of time, Fang Yuan revisited his entire life.

A complex feeling that was indescribable, his memories that were deep within his
mind all resurfaced, filling Fang Yuan's heart.

In his memories, all those cultivation questions that could not be answered obtained
perfect answers like the work of a deity.

At this moment, heaven and earth were impartial, they were generous and imparted
the mysterious of the Great Dao towards Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan had to deal with his emotions while cherishing this opportunity to learn
more about the mysteries of the Great Dao, and in the meantime balancing the three
qi. Should he lose balance, he would die.

Countless Gu Masters failed at this step during their ascension!

In true inheritance secluded domain, Fang Yuan was surrounded by the thick lump of
the three colored qi, his body completely hidden.

"Junior brother, you have to control yourself. I am not concerned with you having to
deal with the emotional turbulence, but I'm afraid that you are young and brave, and
might be greedy towards the mysteries of the Great Dao, forgetting your limits and
taking in too much heaven and earth qi." Tai Bai Yun Sheng's gaze was filled with
worry.

Heaven and earth qi had already spread to his surroundings, he had to flew away from
Fang Yuan slowly.

Giant Sun's will who was fighting with him over the control of the supreme true
inheritance slowed his steps.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's pressure reduced, and his situation turned for the better.

"This accursed scoundrel, he actually has so much human qi. Damn it, why hasn't he
lost balance yet?" The river-like Giant Sun's will gritted his teeth and cursed.

He was not the only one hoping for such a result, Hei Lou Lan and the others were
having the same thoughts.

"This guy is so young, yet he can balance the three qi for so long!"

"He and Tai Bai Yun Sheng address each other as disciple brothers, they must have
some extraordinary origin. Don't tell me he is really going to become a Gu Immortal?"

"No way! Is becoming a Gu Immortal so easy! Do you think Ancestor Giant Sun is
useless?"

Everyone conversed in secret, not daring to make a move. With such intense heaven
and earth qi, once they suffer a backlash, it would be no joke.
Fang Yuan was inside the lump of qi, but his calm face showed a faint smile.

"Incredible, simply incredible…” his eyes were shut tight as he mumbled. All sorts of
Great Dao mysteries were flowing into his mind like a warm spring.

In his previous life, Fang Yuan underwent immortal ascension and became a blood
path Gu Immortal, this was his second ascension.

With this valuable experience, he was much calmer than any other Gu Master in the
world. Compared to usual Gu Masters, he also knew the truth behind this event.

Man is the spirit of all being, they have the greatest spirituality. Gu are the essence of
heaven and earth, they are the carriers of the Great Dao.

Any path to longevity was a path of transcendency.

To transcend, one needed accumulation.

And the most basic method of accumulating one's foundation was to learn.

Gu Masters use Gu, nurture Gu, and refine Gu. From Gu, they learn about the mysteries
of heaven and earth indirectly.

But when a Gu Master undergoes ascension, they were directly conversing and
interacting with heaven and earth.

This interaction was extremely precious, most likely, each person only had one of such
an opportunity in their life.

Fang Yuan treasured this opportunity greatly, he grabbed onto it and tried his best to
make use of it.

The mysteries of heaven and earth were even deeper and more profound than the
depths of the sea. Fang Yuan knew his limits, he did not venture into it aimlessly, but
instead, steered towards strength path, deepening his understanding and feeling the
true essence of this path.

He had after all, only cultivated strength path on the side in his previous life, even
though he cultivated strength path directly in this life, it was only for a short time.
His original attainment in strength path, strictly speaking, was only quasi strength
path master.

But making use of this opportunity, his understanding of strength path surged,
bursting through the sky! Very quickly, he got past the barrier to strength path master,
quickly surpassing master realm and charging towards the realm of grandmaster.

Fang Yuan had no choice but to do this.

The second aperture that he shattered had the rank four all-out effort Gu as its vital
Gu. This Gu was of the strength path, if it was put in first during the third step, it would
help Fang Yuan become a strength path Gu Immortal.

But this Gu was not rank five, with a lower rank, Fang Yuan could only use a higher
strength path attainment to compensate for the difference, otherwise, the third step
of putting in Gu would be extremely risky. If the immortal aperture could not be
created, this immortal ascension would end in failure.

Outside True Yang Building.

Intense winds were blowing, tribulation lightning was striking!

The heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities formed a cocoon qi lump, the qi lump
was extremely huge and completely covered Eighty-Eight True Yang Building within
it.

After Fang Yuan shattered his aperture, the heavenly tribulations and earthly
calamities underwent a new terrifying change.

In order to protect Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Giant Sun's will had no choice but
to resist it, now was the crucial moment!

Bam…

Following the intense sounds of the wind, nine snow white chaotic branching teeth
shot out together like lightning.

Their speed was so fast only nine shadows could be seen, resembling flashes of
lightning.
Giant Sun's will was already mentally prepared, he had been waiting.

The will armor that was shielding Eighty-Eight True Yang Building increased in
thickness by many times, becoming ten meters thick.

At the same time, Giant Sun's will split out dozens of will hands, opening the palms
and creating a barrier in the air.

Nine chaotic branching teeth shot down at once, during their descent they collided
with each other, causing their directions to change randomly, turning left and right, it
was unpredictable.

The will hands flew around following them, defending desperately.

The chaotic branching teeth pierced many of the will hands, stabbing the main Giant
Sun's will and causing nine deep holes to appear on the thick will armor that was a
thousand times tougher than steel.

Giant Sun's will grunted, the will's main body was only chaotic for a moment before
calming down.

Looking at his injuries, Giant Sun's will could not help but feel shocked.

Nine wounds of varying depth, two were six meters deep, almost piercing into Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building, it was really a dangerous scene.

"Thankfully, I spared no effort in destroying half of the chaotic branching teeth earlier.
Otherwise, if all eighteen moved at once, their trajectory would be even harder to
predict, how would I be able to weaken them while in the air?"

Giant Sun's will felt some relief, but his hatred and anger towards Fang Yuan also
intensified: "This accursed scoundrel Fang Yuan! I am actually shielding him during
his immortal ascension! As long as I recover sufficiently, I will definitely… eh!"

Giant Sun's will stared at the eighteen spirals forming in the air in a daze.

"There is actually a second wave of chaotic branching teeth?!" Seeing this, Giant Sun's
will was fuming with anger.

To defend against the chaotic branching teeth earlier, he had expended a sixth of his
thoughts. But now there was a second wave!

"Wait, this is?!"

Among the eighteen spirals, another eighteen spirals started forming.

Seeing this, even Giant Sun's will felt suffocated.

"The third wave of chaotic branching teeth came together with the second?!" He
howled at the sky, the armor-like main will shook intensely, almost breaking apart. If
he could vomit blood, he would have vomited a river by now.

Earlier when defending against the nine chaotic branching teeth, Giant Sun's will had
already used his full strength.

Right now, there were a total of thirty-six spirals, thirty-six chaotic branching teeth,
this fearsome power could not be calculated by simple addition!

"This scoundrel Fang Yuan! I curse you to die!!" Giant Sun's will almost wanted to
discard Eighty-Eight True Yang Building at this moment, directly going to Fang Yuan
and killing him without considering the consequences.

But he was not an anger will, but a special will.

He had to think of the big picture, he had to protect this inheritance treasure which
was Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

He had to contact the other subsidiary wills and gather all his strength, in order to
resist these heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities.

"What? The main will wants to send me to defend against the heavenly tribulations?!"
Within true inheritance secluded domain, the river-like Giant Sun's will was still
waiting for reinforcement, but the reply from the main will caused his heart to turn
cold, like he had fallen into an icy river.

"God damn it!" Giant Sun's will which was contesting with Tai Bai Yun Sheng over the
supreme true inheritance felt great regret, but he had to divert most of his strength to
the main will.

But to prevent Eighty-Eight True Yang Building from being taken by Tai Bai Yun Sheng,
a portion of Giant Sun's will was still needed to maintain the situation inside the true
inheritance light lump.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng felt his pressure decreasing all of a sudden, and heaved a sigh of
relief.

"Giant Sun's will has finally stopped expanding! Junior brother, your plan has worked
perfectly. It seems that the fusion of three heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities
creates terrifying might that would force even Giant Sun's will to defend against it with
all his strength. Junior brother, you are worthy of being benefactor's disciple, you need
to survive this. The third step of putting in Gu is the most important of all, success or
failure will all depend on this!"

As time continued to pass, the three colored qi lump surrounding Fang Yuan started
shrinking, until it completely went into the area of Fang Yuan's broken aperture.

"He actually completed the step of taking in the qi, he is at the final step!" Hei Lou Lan
and the others were watching by the side, seeing Giant Sun's will retreating, they
panicked.

"What do we do now? Do we just watch him become a Gu Immortal?!" Ye Lui Sang

screamed.

"Fang Yuan has no more heaven and earth qi around him, we should go and kill him
now." Bian Si Xuan suggested, but she made no movement.

Everyone looked at each other, they were shocked, suspicious, and in a difficult spot.

Fang Yuan still had the Gu Immortal Tai Bai Yun Sheng supporting him.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's pressure was lifted, he held the true inheritance light lump as he
faced Hei Lou Lan and the rest of the gang, showing an unyielding attitude.

"Tai Bai Yun Sheng is not a problem, but once the immortal ascension succeeds, our
problems would be endless. He is not a weak healing Gu Immortal like Tai Bai Yun
Sheng…” Hei Lou Lan clenched his fists, a fierce light shining in his eyes.

After thinking about it, he made up his mind and shouted: "Attack!"

Saying so, the strength path phantom giant took huge strides forward, attacking.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was crying in his heart, he did not dare to take on Hei Lou Lan's
attacks directly, he shouted: "You dare! As long as you come, I will throw this supreme
true inheritance at the luck path true inheritance, let's see how you account to Giant
Sun's will then!"

Everyone's fighting intent evaporated after hearing Tai Bai Yun Sheng's threat, their
morale sinking.

Don't listen to him, we'll leave a few people to protect the luck path true inheritance,
the rest will come with me!" Hei Lou Lan snorted, immediately saying.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heart sank, it was difficult for him to handle the situation.

"Hahaha…” At this moment, Fang Yuan laughed wildly from behind him.

He had already opened his eyes: "Never mind! Come and chase me. Let's see how many
of you are flying masters!"

Eagle rise Gu had already been destroyed, but why would the vigilant him not have
spares?

Fang Yuan owned Hu Immortal blessed land and could connect to treasure yellow
heaven, he did not lack any mortal Gu.

This sentence was even more demoralising to the gang compared to Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Once they thought of Fang Yuan's flying master attainment, and the huge space that
was available in true inheritance secluded domain, all of their morale almost hit rock
bottom.

Hei Lou Lan's gaze shone for a bit, but he was unmoved.

He was the Lord of the Imperial Court for this round, he had exemplary talent and a
ruthless nature, he would not become dejected with just a few words.

"We will chase him even if we cannot catch him, I want to see how he can undergo
immortal ascension under such pressure!" Hei Lou Lan's words lifted the morale once
again.

Fang Yuan's expression turned grim, he did not speak anymore.

Hei Lou Lan hit the main point.

During an ordinary immortal ascension, the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity
would be all around him, if his enemies wanted to obstruct him, they would face the
might of the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity.

But now that Giant Sun's will was blocking the heavenly tribulations and earthly
calamities outside, it gave Hei Lou Lan and the others an opportunity to intervene.

Although in this true inheritance secluded domain, there was still heaven and earth qi
left that could cause backlash in mortal Gu.

But Hei Lou Lan and the others were just like Fang Yuan, they were all using mortal
Gu, thus they all faced the same backlash.

At once, the situation changed again.

Although Giant Sun's will left to resist the heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities
wholeheartedly, Fang Yuan's predicament did not become any easier.

Hei Lou Lan was indeed a formidable character, he was an outstanding person and
knew the perfect timing to strike.

Fang Yuan's immortal ascension was stuck between the second and third step, the
situation had turned dangerous yet again.
"Fang Yuan, why are you running?"

"You cowardly scum, are you afraid? Do you have the guts to fight me for three hundred
rounds?!"

"You are unworthy of disguising as Chang Shan Yin. You don't even have one percent
of his bravery."

Inside true inheritance secluded domain. Fang Yuan was flying away rapidly while the
others chased from behind, taunting him endlessly.

These insults and provocations fell on deaf ears, Fang Yuan's expression was tranquil
without any emotions.

He was closely observing his surroundings, true inheritance secluded domain was
vast but it was not a flat area and many true inheritance meteors flew around in
disorder, even colliding occasionally.

Giant Sun's will had taken control of many true inheritances just before, but there
were still many masterless true inheritances left in true inheritance secluded domain.

If Fang Yuan was unfortunately obstructed by these true inheritances, the group of Gu
Masters behind him would be able to near him. Once he was encircled, the situation
would turn much more dangerous.

Right at this moment, a dark red true inheritance meteor flew towards Fang Yuan.

Wind flower Gu.

Fang Yuan, however, had a slight smile on his face as he inwardly willed.

A gust of wind condensed into a giant flower which suddenly appeared beside him.
The wind flower nimbly changed its direction, carrying him with it.
Swoosh—!

A sharp ear-piercing wind breezed past; Fang Yuan brushed past this unparalleled
true inheritance light lump.

The unparalleled true inheritance shot forward directly towards the group of Gu
Masters behind; the group was caught unprepared and panicked for a moment,
dodging and fleeing.

Taking advantage of this time, Fang Yuan increased his speed and rapidly pulled apart
the distance between him and the group.

Hei Lou Lan's group naturally was not willing to see this situation. Each of them was
an elite; they immediately reacted and sent out countless long range attacks.

Fang Yuan sneered, using the primeval essence in his first aperture.

Flash bug Gu.

This was a rare space path movement Gu and under its effect, Fang Yuan immediately
disappeared from the spot.

When he appeared, he was already five hundred steps ahead.

The attacks from Hei Lou Lan and the others thus landed on nothing.

Fang Yuan stopped flash bug Gu and changed to eagle rise Gu.

Flash bug Gu was a rank five Gu but its speed was not great, and it also expended a lot
of purple crystal primeval essence to move forward by five hundred steps per use. Its
main usage was to make sudden movements to avoid attacks.

To truly speed up and fly for a long distance, eagle rise Gu was still a lot better.

Eagle rise Gu might only be rank four Gu, but there were six wings on Fang Yuan's
back; he had simultaneously used three eagle rise Gu!

Eagle rise Gu's speed was very impressive and rapidly transported him away, while
also consuming less primeval essence.
The group of Gu Masters chasing Fang Yuan could only gnash their teeth as he rapidly
flew away.

"Damn it! This guy is truly slippery, only focusing on running away, he has not even a
bit of bravery."

"Didn't he shatter his aperture to ascend to Gu Immortal? How come he still has so
much primeval essence left?"

"Hmph, there are many methods for Gu Masters to preserve primeval essence. So what
if the aperture is shattered? One just needs to have Gu that can store primeval essence
like fish bubble Gu, beggar moth or grave yam Gu."

"My movement Gu can't endure it, the backlash from heaven and earth qi is really
terrifying."

Hei Lou Lan sneered: "We are suffering backlash, he is also in the same situation. We
will continue chasing without stop. The enemy is a flying master, it is normal for us to
not be able to reach him. But as long as we chase closely and not give him time to
advance to a Gu Immortal, we will have fulfilled our objective!"

Fang Yuan glanced back and seeing that the pursuers had no intention of giving up,
the anxiety in his heart deepened.

Without doubt, he had to admit that Hei Lou Lan was striking at his weak point.

Bursts of pain spread from his second aperture.

The second aperture was already shattered, forming a hole which was occupied by a
lump of three colored qi at this moment, waiting for the vital Gu to be put into it and
reach the final step, accumulating its foundation till the immortal aperture is born.

If the immortal aperture was not created, Fang Yuan would perish from the backlash
of heaven and earth qi.

If the immortal aperture was created, no matter which grade it was, Fang Yuan would
have to concentrate on it fully at that moment, causing him to enter a period of
weakness where he would be defenseless.

This time could be long or short, depending on the person.

If the enemies took advantage of this time, Fang Yuan's situation would be bleak and
was very likely to die in a tragic end!

At present, Hei Lou Lan's group was firmly blocking Fang Yuan at this step.

Fang Yuan did not dare to place in his Gu and could only look on as the extremely
compressed three colored lump of qi started to vibrate.

"I can't continue like this! If it is put off any longer, the three colored lump of qi will
disperse and all my accumulations used in advancing to Gu Immortal will vanish into
thin air." Fang Yuan kept on thinking of one solution after another to get out of this
predicament.

Rumble…

Right at this time, true inheritance secluded domain started shaking.

Rumble…

Another tremor soon spread, causing everyone to panic.

"What is going on?"

"What happened, is true inheritance secluded domain collapsing?"

Hei Lou Lan, Ye Lui Sang and others had a worried expression, realizing fully well in
their mind: this was the heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities outside starting
to affect Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were instead overjoyed, this signified Giant Sun's
will had already staked all its strength but the heavenly tribulations and earthly
calamities was so terrifying that even it had reached its limit.

"Damn it, damn it… I barely endured it!" Giant Sun's will gasped for breath with fear
and joy, it did not even have the energy to curse Fang Yuan.

The ten meter thick golden armor created by Giant Sun's will that had covered Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building tightly was now left with nothing but a thin layer with its
luster dimmed.
Thirty-six chaotic branching teeth attacking together was not a simple matter of
addition, their overall might was amplified by close to ten times!

During this whole process snow war tribulation lightning attacked crazily like the
attacks were free. The lightning which flashed in intervals before had almost become
unending like sunlight; one could see the terrifying frequency of snow war tribulation
lightning.

Giant Sun's will avoided death narrowly, but there was not even one percent of the
original will remaining.

He used all his strength and put in all of his effort to destroy eleven spirals in advance.
The remaining chaotic branching teeth erupted together, Giant Sun's will used all his
ability and blocked most of them, but he could not block seven of them.

Seven scars appeared on Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Four scars even directly
penetrated through True Yang Building, opening up four passages.

The tremor Fang Yuan and the rest felt in true inheritance secluded domain originated
from this.

"My Eighty-Eight True Yang Building…” Giant Sun's will's heart bled at the sight and
almost howled out in grief.

The losses were too severe, not only were the numbers of Gu worms destroyed
extremely huge, two immortal Gu were also destroyed.

Who knew how long it would take to replenish these Gu worms and restore Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building to its complete form.

"Fang Yuan, you insufferable bastard. You are undergoing the tribulation, yet I was the
one who bore the consequences! I will make sure you regret being born into this
world!"

Giant Sun's will cursed fiercely in his heart.

The giant cocoon formed from the heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities had
already thinned.

Several rays of light pierced through the layers of dark clouds and shone down on the
damaged Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

Heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities were slowly dissipating.

Giant Sun's will felt a huge stone lifting off his heart and was joyous to the point of
crying: "The heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities have finally ended!"

"I managed to endure it! Although Eighty-Eight True Yang Building suffered heavy
damage, the fundamental Gu worms haven't been lost, and the mortal Gu might have
been destroyed in large numbers, but they can be replenished. The destroyed
immortal Gu are rather troublesome to obtain, but they also can be refined again. Even
if others refine them first, I can use other Gu worms to replace them. The situation is
set, now I shall get rid of the otherworldly demon then teach that scum Fang Yuan his
place!"

The heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities were dissipating in front of his eyes,
Giant Sun's will saw the time to take revenge was here and his mood took a turn for
the better.

However, right at this time, a light blue giant hand gradually appeared in front of Giant
Sun's will.

"Thi… This is…?!"

The remaining Giant Sun's will trembled intensely, even more frightened than seeing
seventy or even eighty chaotic branching teeth at once.

"This is Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's killer move — Formless Hand. This
accursed Fang Yuan, how is his luck so bad that he attracted this disaster!"

Rank nine Gu Immortals were invincible under the heavens and could leave behind
unique traces in the whole world.

Even after death, some of their killer moves could emerge again during heavenly
tribulations and earthly calamities.

"I got it! This Fang Yuan is too audacious, he was set on killing the child of luck Ma
Hong Yun and suffered the backlash from fortune rivalling heaven Gu, causing his luck
to be completely messed up, thus attracting such terrifying a heavenly tribulation and
earthly calamity!"
Giant Sun's will felt extremely agonized when he realized the cause.

Going to the bottom of this, it was Giant Sun Immortal Venerable who left behind
fortune rivaling heaven Gu. Under an absurd combination of different factors, Giant
Sun's will was actually suffering a loss from his own arrangement!

"Back then, the whole world was helpless when Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable
used formless hand to rob countless Gu worms. Fortunately, this formless hand only
has five fingers, thus at most, it can only seize rank five Gu, Gu, Gu… oh heavens!"

Giant Sun's will's pitch suddenly rose an octave higher, crying out in shock.

The heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity slowly dissipated, large numbers of
formless hands appeared one after another.

Two, three… twenty, thirty… two hundred, three hundred…

Innumerable formless hands appeared, covering the whole sky!

Among them, one finger to five fingered formless hands occupied the majority.

There were sixteen six fingered formless hands and nine seven fingered formless
hands.

There were even three eight fingered formless hands!

"Impossible! Even if Fang Yuan was targeted by fortune rivaling heaven Gu and his
luck became terrible, it could not have gotten to this extent!" Giant Sun's will shouted
in an incredulous tone.

"It's over, everything is finished!" Giant Sun's will howled, if he could cry, his face
would be filled with tears right now.

Instantly, the large number of Giant Sun's will dispersed and fell down from Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building like sand.

This was the self-collapse of a will!

There was not even a trace of fighting spirit left, it could not endure such an impact.
The heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities had not ended, but were transforming
into this final tribulation.

Formless hands!

The remaining Giant Sun's will curled up into a lump, exposing Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building.

Inside true inheritance secluded domain, Fang Yuan and the others were still in the
dark, not knowing anything that occurred outside.

The chase was still continuing.

Due to the backlash of heaven and earth qi, the loss of Gu worms on both sides had
reached the hundreds. But they were still persisting firmly.

Fang Yuan had almost no movement Gu left, but he had already found a way to resolve
this predicament!

He led the pursuers to make a large detour before suddenly changing direction and
flying towards Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

"Senior brother, quickly open your immortal aperture and let me in. I can evade these
pursuers and smoothly advance to a Gu Immortal there!" Fang Yuan secretly
transmitted his voice.

"This…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng could not help but hesitate.

The immortal aperture was the foundation of a Gu Immortal. If Fang Yuan was let in
and he failed, the resulting destruction would have to be endured by Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

"Senior brother, what are you hesitating for at such a crucial moment? Once I advance
to a Gu Immortal, we will have the strength to survive this danger. Don't worry, I have
complete assurance in advancing successfully!" Fang Yuan shouted.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was already bound firmly on Fang Yuan's chariot, and thinking of
Fixed Immortal Travel that was with Fang Yuan, he had no choice but to accept Fang
Yuan's request.

Fang Yuan was overjoyed and charged into Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal aperture.

"Damn it!" The pursuers paled at this sight.

"This scum is too crafty, actually hiding in Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal aperture. We
can't hunt him now!" Ye Lui Sang helplessly shouted.

"Then, we shall slaughter an immortal! Kill Tai Bai Yun Sheng!!" Hei Lou Lan's eyes
glinted ominously, killing intent pervading from his body.

The giant strength path phantom he had turned into charged towards Tai Bai Yun
Sheng with overwhelming momentum, like a bear pouncing at its prey!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was scared witless, quickly fleeing with the supreme true
inheritance light lump.

"Don't forget that I am also a flying master!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng had learned from Fang
Yuan and shouted loudly while flying away.

The pursuers' momentum was involuntarily destroyed.

Someone powerlessly cursed: "F*ck, two flying masters appeared in this Imperial
Court contest and both of them had to be these two!"

Only Hei Lou Lan was provoked by the remark, his battle intent soared to an
unprecedented level.

'Looks like I have to use my full strength as well!' His expression was solemn as he
made a resolution and punched fiercely.
The fist qi surged majestically like a mountain peak!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng nimbly dodged it without receiving any injury.

But the barrage of grand fist qi suddenly transformed into giant strength path
phantoms.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was caught unprepared and in a short moment was completely
surrounded by these giant strength path phantoms.

"What bad luck." Tai Bai Yun Sheng's face turned pale white.

"Who could have thought Hei Lou Lan's strength had actually reached such a powerful
level! Sixteen giant strength path phantoms, this strength can truly slaughter an
immortal!" Ye Lui Sang and the others were greatly shocked at this scene.

"Huff huff huff…” Hei Lou Lan gasped for breath, the giant strength path phantom on
him had already dissipated. This move clearly used a lot of his energy and strength.

Even the Great Strength True Martial Physique of the ten extreme physiques could not
endure its usage.

His fat body flickered with a layer of faint black light; that was the power of Immortal
Gu Dark Limit, helping him to suppress and conceal the Great Strength True Martial
Physique.

"What a close call, I almost broke the seal of dark limit Gu!" Hei Lou Lan rejoiced
inwardly, a vicious gaze flashing on his eyes as he looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng, "Your
death is assured now! My grand plan of revenge will start from you, Tai Bai Yun
Sheng!"

However, a change occurred right at this moment!

Giant light blue hands suddenly appeared in true inheritance secluded domain.

The dense giant light blue hands soon attracted everyone's gazes.

"What is that!"

"What kind of thing?"

Whoosh.

An ordinary true inheritance that was flying like a meteor collided into a giant light
blue hand.

The giant light blue hand opened its palm and grabbed this true inheritance, holding
it so tightly the true inheritance could not even budge.

The giant light blue hand paused for a breath of time before flying away swiftly.

Under everyone's gazes, it left behind a trail of gorgeous blue light while its speed kept
on increasing.

After it moved thousands of steps away, it suddenly disappeared without a trace, even
the true inheritance it was holding was gone.

Everyone's pupils involuntarily shrunk at this sight.

"These giant hands are so terrifying, they easily subdue the true inheritance!"

"I know, this is definitely Ancestor Giant Sun's ability. Haven't you noticed these giant
light blue hands are similar to the flying snow hands?"

"Haha, Ancestor Giant Sun has made his move. It seems the heavenly tribulation and
earthly calamity has already passed, these two scoundrels are finished now!!"

Some people made guesses which were quickly approved by everyone. However, right
when they were cheering, a miserable shriek spread to their ears.

Everyone looked at the source of the voice and saw that a Gu Master in the outer
periphery was grabbed by the giant light blue hand.

Shortly after, the giant hand seemed to have grabbed something, flying far away with
a clenched fist.

That Gu Master let out a miserable howl: "My… that hand seized all my Gu worms!!"

"What!?"

There was a commotion.

Soon, the second victim appeared.

"My vital Gu was actually seized… puff!" He spurted a mouthful of blood. Vital Gu was
closely related to the Gu Master's life and when it was forcibly seized by the giant hand,
the Gu Master immediately suffered backlash.

The hands fell down like rain, beginning to wantonly seize Gu worms.

"Run away…” Everyone dispersed in confusion.

"Isn't this Ancestor Giant Sun's ability!? Could it be that this is a heavenly tribulation
and earthly calamity?" Many cried out in shock.

"What kind of heavenly tribulation is this, it can actually seize Gu worms!!" Someone
shouted in bewilderment. The importance of Gu worms to Gu Masters was self-
evident.

"Quick, store your Gu worms into your apertures!" Someone reminded in panic.

However, everyone soon discovered even after storing in the aperture, the Gu worms
were still being seized.

The giant light blue hands were formless. They did not inflict the slightest injuries and
only captured Gu worms. Once the Gu worm was captured by them, the Gu worm
would immediately lose connection with the Gu Master.

"What kind of tribulation are these giant light blue hands? Can it seize even Immortal
Gu?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng could not make out any details on these giant light blue hands
and was very nervous from the scene unfolding in front of him.

At this time, three giant hands moved towards him. He evaded in panic.

Even as a flying Gu Master, he was soon in danger, his face perspiring heavily.

The giant hands were very fast and extremely nimble; the crucial point was they could
sneak attack like flash bug Gu, making it very hard to defend against them.

Even Tai Bai Yun Sheng was cutting out a sorry figure, there was no need to mention
other Gu Masters.
"There seems to be information of this in the tribe records…” Hei Lou Lan frowned. He
could not dodge in time and was grabbed by a four fingered giant hand.

For a moment, he could not budge.

The giant light blue hand seemingly had no substance and like wind brushing past
one's face, it caused no harm to Hei Lou Lan's body.

However, Hei Lou Lan felt his head go dizzy, instantly losing connection with a rank
four Gu.

"Oh no." Hei Lou Lan inwardly exclaimed, the Gu that was seized might only be rank
four but it was very important. It was one of the necessary Gu worms to use his strength
path killer move.

Roar!

Hei Lou Lan suddenly let out a beastly roar.

Rank five — fixed sound Gu!

A formless soundwave rapidly chased after the four fingered giant hand and locked it
in place like a formless iron chain.

"I don't care what all these hands are, I'll destroy them!" Hei Lou Lan gave a loud shout
to raise his spirits, and turned into giant strength path phantom once more.

The giant grabbed the giant light blue hand with its house sized fist, and clenched!

The giant light blue hand flickered twice before shattering apart like glass. Hei Lou
Lan immediately sensed that crucial Gu worm.

The shattered giant light blue hand fell apart like ice melting into water.

Hei Lou Lan smoothly grabbed the Gu worm and was just feeling joyous when five
formless hands suddenly appeared behind him.

His face turned pale instantly. He fiercely turned his body and delivered a horizontal
strike with his arm!
He used all his strength in this strike!

Wind erupted, and soundwaves burst out like thunder.

But when the strike touched the formless hands, the giant arm directly passed through
like they were image of the moon in the water.

Hei Lou Lan was stupefied, the formless hands quickly moved and grabbed specific
parts of the giant strength path phantom.

Hei Lou Lan was paralyzed once more.

Next moment, the giant strength path phantom collapsed with a loud sound.

His killer move was broken!

"My Gu worms… puff!" Hei Lou Lan spurted out large amounts of blood.

His vital Gu was seized which was the core Gu of his strength path killer move! Besides
it, four other crucial Gu worms were also seized.

What gave Hei Lou Lan the most heartache was false emotion fake will Gu and wooden
chicken Gu, two Immortal Gu, were also seized!

"Stop right now!" Hei Lou Lan exerted all his strength to chase the hands, the matter
of Fang Yuan thrown out of his mind.

The giant light blue hands moved everywhere, seizing Gu worms.

The Gu Masters fled and evaded in disorder.

A rumble erupted in true inheritance secluded domain, threads of light shone down
as the True Yang Building began to crumble.

"No, I absolutely can't let Eighty-Eight True Yang Building perish! Formless hands
cannot be attacked, but when they grab a Gu worm and clench their fist, they can be
destroyed. As long as I can protect the several rank eight core Gu worms, with enough
time, I will be able to rebuild True Yang Building!"

Outside the tower, the remnant Giant Sun's will curled up in a ball and was accumulating
its energy.

The enormous True Yang Building was like an old man with a foot in the grave, letting
the formless hands fly in, grab the Gu worms and fly away.

The beautiful and grand True Yang Building soon turned into a nibbled giant corn; its
surface was a mess, filled with holes.

The formless hands continued to rain down endlessly.

True Yang Building's complete destruction was not far away.

Inside Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal aperture blessed land, however, was a scene of
tranquility.

Fang Yuan waited for a while before carefully transferring his second vital Gu.

All-out effort Gu had a beetle-like shape with an oval body and an arching carapace.
The majestic horn on its head appeared dignified and powerful. It had three pairs of
strong legs, and its entire body was brown which shone with a metallic luster.

Fang Yuan obtained this Gu back in southern border, later he refined it rank four which
allowed him to casually strike out with beast strength phantoms.

"Go." Fang Yuan softly spoke.

All-out effort Gu obeyed Fang Yuan's intent, charging towards the extremely
compressed three colored qi lump.

BOOM!!!

Fang Yuan's body shook intensely as lightning seemed to have burst in his mind.

The qi lump exploded loudly and like the process of creation after destruction, it gave
birth to an immortal aperture!

The sky in the immortal aperture was orange yellow and a white mountain stood tall
on the earth.

Since the immortal aperture was newly born, the space inside was limited, but it soon
rapidly expanded all around.

Like a newborn baby, it demanded nutrition intensely.

The immortal aperture's nourishment was the heaven and earth Qi.

"Senior brother, let me out quick." Fang Yuan immediately sent his voice.

"You succeeded!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was overjoyed before warning, "You need to be
careful when you come out, the situation now is quite dangerous!"

Fang Yuan's vision changed as he was let out of the immortal aperture by Tai Bai Yun
Sheng; the next moment, he appeared beside Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

"This, this is formless hand?!" Five hundred years of experience was not for show, Fang
Yuan immediately recognized the origin of the giant light blue hands and turned pale
with fright.

Feeling his aura, a six fingered formless hand suddenly appeared above Fang Yuan and
grabbed!
The six fingered formless hand's appearance was so sudden that Fang Yuan only had
the time to raise his head.

The light blue radiance shone down on his face as his sight was filled with the giant
light blue hand.

The formless hand did not show any notions of stopping, grabbing towards Fang Yuan,
completely shrouding over his body.

"Junior brother!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng shouted in fright.

The next moment, however, this six fingered formless fist loosened up and spread
open.

Fang Yuan's figure showed up five hundred steps away. The six fingered formless hand
had grabbed at nothing.

Flash bug Gu!

This Gu was a rare rank five space path movement Gu. Fang Yuan had to spend a lot of
efforts to purchase it in treasure yellow heaven.

"Hufff…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng let out a breath of turbid air, a giant stone lifted off his
heart.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng knew Fang Yuan was unable to react properly because he had just
came out. In truth, it was nothing difficult for flying masters to evade these formless
hands.

"Close call!" Fang Yuan's body let out cold sweat from the fright.

He had much more understanding of formless hands than others; as such, he knew
their threat level clearly!
"Formless hand is Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's killer move; it can range from
one finger to nine fingers, respectively able to seize rank one to rank nine Gu worms!
They can even seize the vital Gu without any problems. If that six fingered formless
hand succeeded in grabbing me, I would have definitely lost either Spring Autumn
Cicada or Fixed Immortal Travel… my luck is too bad, it actually provoked such a
catastrophe!"

Fang Yuan rapidly flew, dodging the pursuit of the formless hand while observing his
surroundings.

True inheritance secluded domain had already fallen into complete chaos.

True inheritance meteors and formless hands filled one's sight; Gu Masters flew
around in disorder - some were evading the formless hands, some cried out in grief
after their Gu worms were seized, while some used all their strength to attack the
formless hands.

"It seems that they have found out already! Once a formless hand captures a Gu worm,
it will clench its fist; this is the moment it can be attacked! When it is in its spread out
palm form, it is almost completely immune to all attacks and can only be dodged."

Fang Yuan recalled the relevant information on formless hands.

He was very familiar with the formless hands. In his previous life, Ma Hong Yun had
successively obtained a portion of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Thieving Heaven
Demon Venerable's inheritance, also obtaining a similar method of capturing Gu
worms. He had used this method many times in the great battle of the five regions,
resulting in the disastrous loss of many strong enemies and making them flee.

Fang Yuan had thus researched a lot on this.

Fang Yuan continued to dodge, use flash bug Gu, wind flower Gu, eagle rise Gu and so
on before he was able to pull apart a huge distance, making the six fingered formless
hand chasing him to change its target.

He immediately sent a portion of his consciousness to inspect his immortal aperture.

There were remnants of heaven and earth qi in true inheritance secluded domain.

Ever since Fang Yuan came out, his immortal aperture had been crazily absorbing
these heaven and earth qi, growing rapidly.

In just a short while, his immortal aperture had expanded to over 2000km2 and was
still growing.

At the same time, the time flow inside the immortal aperture was starting to become
faster than the outside world. From a one to one ratio, it increased to six times as fast.

"Damn it." Fang Yuan suddenly frowned and his face paled.

The change in the immortal aperture was going smoothly, but the problem appeared
in the first aperture; more accurately, the problem was the Spring Autumn Cicada.

Spring Autumn Cicada was recovering rapidly and the first aperture was already
showing signs of being unable to bear the huge pressure from it!

"Oh no! When an immortal aperture is born, not only does the space enlarge, the time
flow also changes. The change in the time flow is the main reason an immortal
aperture can turn into a small world and attract a tributary of the river of time! Spring
Autumn Cicada feeds on the water of the river of time, and now being so close to the
source, it is able to drink a lot and accelerate its recovery speed!"

Fang Yuan was able to instantly understand what was going on.

Since the last activation of Spring Autumn Cicada which had fortunately succeeded, it
had been slowly recovering.

It has been a long time since Fang Yuan arrived in northern plains; Spring Autumn
Cicada was gradually recovering causing the pressure on the first aperture to increase
day by day.

The first aperture was already at rank five peak stage and should have been able to
endure for some time according to Fang Yuan's estimation. But this unforeseen event
had greatly shifted the time limit to an earlier date!

Since rebirth, Spring Autumn Cicada had been a hidden danger to Fang Yuan. Now that
Fang Yuan was advancing to a Gu Immortal, this hidden danger had expanded to a
serious danger that directly pushed itself to Fang Yuan's sight.

"Damn it." Fang Yuan gritted his teeth. He suddenly descended; a formless hand
passed by his hair, grabbing at the air.

For now, Fang Yuan had no way to deal with this situation.

The immortal aperture must be successfully created, otherwise all his efforts would
go to waste. Without a Gu Immortal's strength, it would be impossible for him to
continue contending.

However, Spring Autumn Cicada also could not be ignored.

Crack…

A huge sound echoed in true inheritance secluded domain like some important thing
had shattered, causing palpitation in everyone's heart.

Everyone paused and hurriedly looked up.

Like an egg shell that was smashed, countless cracks appeared on true inheritance
secluded domain. The cracks rapidly enlarged and let the outside world's light flow in.

At the same time, many formless hands also squeezed in through the cracks, a seven
fingered formless hand among them!

The Gu Masters let out shocked cries at the sight of so many giant light blue hands.

"Why are there so many giant hands?"

"This is bad, look, a seven fingered giant hand has actually squeezed in!"

With the endless giant light blue hands flying in true inheritance secluded domain,
everyone's situation had become even more perilous.

Hei Lou Lan's expression was grave and even Tai Bai Yun Sheng felt an intense
suffocation.

Flying masters were not omnipotent.

With so many formless hands, the difficult in evading them increased greatly.

Moreover, the longer they spent, the more likely it was for them to make an error
under such a strained state.

"This is turning worse!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was gloomy, what he was afraid of came, he
made a mistake in the crucial time.

His sole remaining escape path was blocked by six formless hands.

At this moment of crisis, Tai Bai Yun Sheng gritted his teeth and directly crashed
towards a three fingered formless hand.

The formless hand grabbed him; Tai Bai Yun Sheng was immediately paralyzed.

But this time period was extremely short and soon, the three fingered formless hand
flew away with a clenched fist. Out of danger, Tai Bai Yun Sheng immediately burst out
with his greatest speed and escaped through this gap.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's back was soaked with cold sweat from this thrilling situation.

Even Tai Bai Yun Sheng was in such a predicament, let alone others.

All the Gu Masters met with calamity, at worst, not even one of their Gu worms
remained.

Without Gu worms, Gu Master's battle strength plunged down to the very bottom. And
even if they had a lot of primeval essence, it would be of no use.

"Save me!" A Gu Master looked on with fright a true inheritance that was flying right
towards him.

All his Gu worms were already seized by the formless hands. At this moment of life
and death, he cried out for help while swinging his arms crazily to speed up his flight,
but his movement speed was no faster than a snail in comparison to the true
inheritance.

The surrounding Gu Masters heard his plea for help, but right now they had no way to
help however much they wanted to.

Thud!

There was no unexpected event; the unlucky Gu Master was directly crushed into meat
paste by the true inheritance.

This blue colored true inheritance did not stop after crushing the Gu Master and kept
on flying away.

On its way, formless hands kept on obstructing its path while it kept on evading.

The wild newborn Gu will in the true inheritance also sensed the deadly threat of the
heavenly tribulation formless hands, and did its best to escape.

However, the will of Gu worms was not as intelligent as humans.

The blue colored true inheritance evaded several formless hands before it was finally
grabbed by a five fingered formless hand.

The formless hand clenched its fist tightly but did not stop at the place.

The true inheritance light lump's speed was too fast; the formless hand was pulled in
its inertia, except that the speed was greatly reduced.

The five fingered formless hand flew away with a Gu worm. But even more formless
hands pounced down and covered the true inheritance light lump.

One hand was not enough, another came followed by the next. Soon, ten formless
hands were tightly grabbing the true inheritance light lump.

The true inheritance light lump continued to slow until it came to a stop.

The formless hands suddenly separated and flew in all directions with clenched fists.

There was nothing left at the spot, the blue colored true inheritance was already
robbed clean.

At this moment, Fang Yuan snickered and flew towards the target he had his eyes on,
and started attacking fiercely.

A formless fist was broken by his attacks and revealed the Gu it was holding.

Fang Yuan immediately reacted and grabbed it.

This was a rank five mortal Gu and after he refined it, he stored it in his pocket.

Flash bug Gu!

He disappeared from the spot and suddenly appeared three hundred steps away, right
beside another formless fist.

Bam bam bam.

He punched heavily and broke the formless fist in three punches, leaving after
grabbing the Gu.

It was an Immortal Gu!

Almost at the very next moment, a formless hand pounced at him, and naturally it was
in vain.

Fang Yuan moved like lightning, occasionally soaring like a sparrow and occasionally
piercing forward like an eagle.

He was dodging the formless hands while also taking any chance to strike a fortune,
grabbing many Gu worms of the true inheritance.

However, the formless fists were very fast and the opportunity to destroy them was
fleeting.

The blue colored true inheritance was a good opportunity Fang Yuan ran into, but he
only had enough time to break three formless fists, obtaining two mortal Gu and an
Immortal Gu.

While Fang Yuan was occupied with breaking the formless fist, the other formless fists
had already flown far away and Fang Yuan was not able to chase after them.

"Suppress!"

Fang Yuan transferred his will into the Gu worms to temporarily suppress them.

He did not have the time to refine these Gu worms, let alone study their uses.

Suddenly, Fang Yuan's sight was covered with blue light.

Maybe it was because Fang Yuan was too active and attention drawing, eight formless
hands attacked him together!

Fang Yuan's heart jumped and he quickly evaded.

He moved and stopped at times, changing his directions madly; his vision kept on
changing intensely, one moment he was above while the next he was below. He almost
made himself go dizzy.

He spent tremendous effort before he was able to get rid of the formless hands.

He had just stabilized his breathing when suddenly, there was the sound of wind!

A formless hand was flying right towards him.

Fang Yuan was just about to dodge, but his pupils enlarged rapidly the next moment.
This was a formless fist!

He laughed heartily and flapped his six wings, directly punching towards the formless
fist. He obtained a rank five Gu after breaking the formless fist.

The Gu worm was vibrating in his hand and struggled intensely, attempting to escape.

Fang Yuan sent a portion of his will inside, but was not able to suppress it.

He immediately frowned as he realized this Gu was not a wild Gu, but a Gu Master's
Gu worm. Because the Gu worm had someone else's will, the difficulty in refining it
was several times greater than refining wild Gu, and even temporarily suppressing it
was difficult!

"Let go of my Gu!" A familiar voice sounded by Fang Yuan's ears at this moment.

Fang Yuan looked at the source of the voice, and immediately smiled.

He saw Hei Lou Lan flying towards him hurriedly and furiously, his gaze fixed on the
Gu in Fang Yuan's hand.
Hei Lou Lan's heart was filled with incessant grievances.

He had outstanding battle strength along with an extremely powerful long range
strength path killer move, it was just that they were not enough to cover his weakness
in the movement aspect.

More accurately speaking, Hei Lou Lan cultivated strength and dark path which were
generally not impressive in movement ability.

But in the present situation, only flying masters could barely survive. Hei Lou Lan's
weakness was thus completely revealed under the pursuit of the formless hands.

The formless hands wantonly seized the Gu worms in Hei Lou Lan's body.

He had destroyed many formless hands and chased after many, but at the same time,
new formless hands would appear to grab even more of his Gu worms.

Right now, Hei Lou Lan was flying fiercely like a berserk bear, his expression was one
of malevolence and anger.

He knew Fang Yuan had big advantage in this situation, but he could not give up. The
reason was that the Gu worm Fang Yuan had captured was, very unfortunately, Hei
Lou Lan's vital Gu!

The vital Gu was closely interlinked to the Gu Master's life. Once it was destroyed, the
Gu Master would immediately suffer heavy injuries. By grabbing this Gu, it was akin
to Fang Yuan controlling a huge weakness of Hei Lou Lan.

Speaking of this vital Gu, it had gone through many difficulties as well; being seized by
the formless hands many times while Hei Lou Lan seized it back again.

Counting the number of times, this was already the sixth time this vital Gu had been
seized. Only this time, an accident happened, it landed in Fang Yuan's hand.
His vital Gu was with the enemy, this was a very serious situation and it needed to be
retrieved!

Fang Yuan's eyes shone with a cold light.

He did not know the rank five Gu in his hands was Hei Lou Lan's vital Gu, but he could
tell the huge importance of this Gu from Hei Lou Lan's behavior.

"Hmph! You want to take back this Gu? Keep on dreaming." Fang Yuan moved the six
wings on his back and rose up, flying far away.

Hei Lou Lan had hunted down Fang Yuan again and again before; the hatred between
them was already very deep.

But this moment was not a good time to kill Hei Lou Lan.

There were more and more formless hands, Fang Yuan was already feeling difficulty
in dodging them. If he fought under this situation, he would surely have to pay an
extremely disastrous price even if he succeeded.

It was more so when Hei Lou Lan had Great Strength True Martial Physique, if he was
forced into a corner and self-detonated, Fang Yuan would have to suffer the terrible
consequences.

"Let's see how long he can continue chasing me!" Fang Yuan snorted, and forcibly
suppressed the restless Gu worm in his hand.

Soon, he shook off Hei Lou Lan. While dodging the formless hands on the way, he sent
a portion of his consciousness into his immortal aperture.

The immortal aperture was growing without pause.

Ever since Fang Yuan exited Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal aperture, his immortal
aperture had been continuously absorbing heaven and earth qi. Now, it was already
over 2600km²; the sky was orange and yellow while the earth was rugged with steep
white stone mountain ranges that stood tall and lofty.

The terrain of the immortal aperture was related to the Gu Master's paths, accumulation,
temperament and comprehension.
This was the first time Fang Yuan became a strength path Gu Immortal and he only
roughly understood it now, only knowing the general situation. If he wanted to have a
deeper understanding, he needed to research in the future

"The time flow has reached one to twelve ratio. One day in the outside world is twelve
days inside the immortal aperture. The growth rate is gradually slowing down…” Fang
Yuan assessed.

By now, he had almost absorbed all the heaven and earth qi in true inheritance secluded
domain.

He was now waiting for the immortal aperture to stabilize completely which was of
the most importance. Once he possessed a Gu Immortal's battle strength, everything
would change.

"I will let you hold on to my Gu for the moment, I will get it back no matter what!" Hei
Lou Lan could only roar helplessly as he looked at Fang Yuan fly further and further
away.

He was obstructed by the formless hands when he chased and had lost many Gu
worms. It was already very difficult for him to evade the formless hands, it was no
wonder he would suffer the consequences when he chased after Fang Yuan under such
conditions.

Hei Lou Lan helplessly gave up. If he still persisted in chasing, it would definitely make
Fang Yuan suspicious. And if Fang Yuan guessed the Gu was Hei Lou Lan's vital Gu, the
situation would turn even worse.

"I can only rely on my connection to my vital Gu and slowly get near him while dodging
the formless hands, then I will ambush this damned thief!"

Hei Lou Lan gritted his teeth till they made cracking noises, while thinking of all kinds
of schemes.

Formless hands could seize Gu worms but could not refine them. Once the formless
hand was broken apart, the Gu worm would be released upon which the Gu Master
would be able to immediately sense the Gu and use his will to recall them.

Fang Yuan forcibly suppressed Hei Lou Lan's vital Gu, but had no time or energy to
spare to refine it. Thus, Hei Lou Lan still was connected with the Gu worm, and had
hope of turning the situation around.

Time passed, the formless hands had completely gained control of the situation in true
inheritance secluded domain. Giant light blue hands could be seen everywhere like
swarms of bees hovering around.

Be it Gu Masters or true inheritance light lumps, they only had the choice of escaping.

"Spring Autumn Cicada…” Fang Yuan's mouth was dry as the pressure in him
continued to increase.

Following the growth of the immortal aperture, Spring Autumn Cicada continued to
absorb the water of the river of time, causing the pressure in the first aperture to
continue to increase. There were already many cracks on the first aperture's walls.

To decrease the pressure on the first aperture as much as possible, Fang Yuan had
already emptied out all the primeval essence in the aperture.

He flew rapidly, using tens of movement Gu which had huge demand towards primeval
essence.

"Fortunately I had already planned and prepared long before this, and bought large
numbers of beggar moths. But even so, I need to pay attention to my primeval essence.
The consequences will be unimaginable if my primeval essence is completely
exhausted!"

These beggar moths were Gu worms used to store primeval essence.

They looked like moths, but their wings had round holes. These holes made the beggar
moth look tattered, resembling a beggar's clothings.

In truth, however, the more holes there were on the beggar moth's wings, the better.
More holes meant the beggar moths could store higher rank primeval essence.

In the mortal world, these beggar moths were limited in supply. But Fang Yuan
possessed Hu Immortal blessed land and was able to buy groups of beggar moths in
treasure yellow heaven.

Fang Yuan directly purchased a group; although there were not many rank five and
rank four beggar moths, rank three and rank two were huge in numbers.
Fang Yuan had close to a thousand beggar moths and had brought almost all of them
with him.

Mortals could not buy them and would also find it hard to bear the expenses of raising
Gu. But Fang Yuan had a Gu Immortal's assets in Hu Immortal blessed land, and it was
easy for him to raise them.

Not only beggar moths, he also had a lot of spare eagle rise Gu and other Gu.

Fang Yuan would keep his eagle rise Gu after using them for certain time and activate
another eagle rise Gu.

There were six wings on his back and it looked like he was using three eagle rise Gu,
but in truth, he was using more than a dozen eagle rise Gu in turns.

This was because of the heaven and earth qi.

Using Gu worms under this situation would be met with the backlash from heaven and
earth qi, the Gu might even perish if they were used for too long.

Fang Yuan's immortal aperture was growing, as such he was the center of the
gathering heaven and earth qi; causing the backlash force on him to be very high.

Thus, by alternating the use of Gu like eagle rise Gu, he could prolong their duration
to the greatest limit.

It was again thanks to having Hu Immortal blessed land, having the capital of an
immortal, that he could be so extravagant.

The backlash of heaven and earth qi was also one of the barriers for a Gu Master to
advance to Gu Immortal.

When Tai Bai Yun Sheng faced the tribulations in his ascension, his Gu worms perished
in large numbers. If not for Fang Yuan's support, he would already have no more Gu
worms to use after using them all up in facing chaotic lightning balls outside Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building.

If a Gu Master was lucky enough to advance to a Gu Immortal, all their mortal Gu would
normally be destroyed.
Advancing to a Gu Immortal was extremely risky and there was a high price to be paid.

In lots of cases, a newly advanced Gu Immortal would have nothing on him. Almost all
the Gu worms they accumulated before would be completely used up.

Six Arm Heavenly Zombie King!

Fang Yuan suddenly turned into heavenly zombie form while flying and evading; his
six wings soared and he raised his eight arms.

Bam.

The next moment, he directly clashed against a formless fist!

Fang Yuan did not feel any pain and directly shattered the formless fist, obtaining a
Gu.

Fang Yuan was overjoyed when he saw the Gu.

This was the third wild Immortal Gu he had obtained after exiting Tai Bai Yun Sheng's
immortal aperture. He was unable to examine it closely, but he stored it in his pocket
after suppressing it.

Right now, he had the internal danger of Spring Autumn Cicada while on the outside,
there was the formless hand disaster. He had to concentrate completely on flying, as
well as pay attention to his primeval essence and the condition of his Gu worms.

But he could not deny his plentiful harvests.

Fang Yuan was deeply realizing what was called the coexistence of pain and joy.

His flying master attainment was a great help to him in this situation.

"Where is Ma Hong Yun?" Fang Yuan stored the third Immortal Gu and looked around
him with insatiable greed.

Luck path supreme true inheritance had all along been of extreme interest to him.

Back then, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had, to a large extent, relied on this to
dominate the lands and become invincible in the world.
Previously, Fang Yuan had no way to do anything about this luck path true inheritance
but now borrowing the strength of formless hands, he could seize the luck path Gu
worms. This was an extremely rare opportunity!

However, even after searching all over whenever he had the chance, he did not see
even the shadow of the luck path true inheritance.

Clearly, luck path true inheritance was also moving around.

The supreme true inheritance might be protecting Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun,
but it was only an acknowledgement of Fortune Rivaling Heaven; and it was still being
controlled by a wild will. It was an instinct for wild Gu worms to dodge heavenly
tribulations and earthly calamities.

It was a scene of chaos in the large true inheritance secluded domain; there were
formless hands everywhere, true inheritance meteors, fleeing Gu Masters or dazzling
attacks towards the clenched formless fists, all these were obstructing Fang Yuan's
vision.

Fang Yuan also had to evade the formless hands and could not casually search. Both
sides were on the move, thus it was actually normal for them to not bump into each
other.

Crack, crack…

The sound of something cracking, like the cracking of egg shell, started to spread.

The cracks in true inheritance secluded domain were enlarging; it was only at one side
at first, but now the cracks had gradually spread to cover all sides.

More and more giant light blue hands squeezed in through the cracks.

Time passed, the losses to Fang Yuan's Gu worms were also becoming more severe.

On one hand, because of the backlash from heaven and earth qi, especially the
movement Gu worms, even after being used in turn, they had reached the limit and
many perished.

On the other hand, the quantity of formless hands had surpassed the point of qualitative
change; sometimes, many formless hands would appear together and block all escape
paths. Fang Yuan was thus grabbed two-three times.

But every time he was grabbed, he would intentionally choose the formless hand with
the least fingers, prioritizing his safety and letting his Gu worm be taken of his own
accord.
As time continued to pass, Fang Yuan had no more opportunities to go shatter
formless fists. He was busy running from the pursuit of the formless hands.

"Return my Gu!" By some coincidence, Hei Lou Lan appeared in front of Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan sneered and activated wind flower Gu.

A translucent wind flower appeared beside him and quickly changed direction, taking
him with it.

Whoosh!

With the wind flower Gu's help, Fang Yuan's speed remained the same when he
changed his direction, and was able to avoid Hei Lou Lan.

Hei Lou Lan, however, was very happy: "I am finally lucky for once! He actually ran
that direction!"

Fang Yuan had not flown far away before his speed rapidly declined.

"This is…”

His expression changed as he sensed that he had fallen into a dark vortex.

This was the trap Hei Lou Lan had set using a one time expenditure Gu, specially used
to trap enemies.

The formless hands were less than a hundred steps away.

Fang Yuan snorted and without losing his composure, used flash bug Gu; he
disappeared from the spot and appeared five hundred steps away the next moment.

After getting out of his predicament, Fang Yuan immediately increased his speed, but
not even a few breaths later, he once again fell into a dark vortex.

He again used flash bug Gu to free himself.

But following that, he fell in the third dark vortex again.

True inheritance secluded domain was originally a place filled with darkness, as such
dark vortexes were extremely concealed here. Without someone running into them,
they would remain still and there would be no way to sense them. But once someone
ran into them, they would form a sinking force like one had stepped into a swamp or
quicksand.

"You can't run away! I have placed countless traps all over the entirety of the
surroundings!" Hei Lou Lan shouted while rapidly flying towards Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan was suffering the consequences of a lack of investigation. He shouted

furiously: "You are seeking your own death, don't blame me!"

He activated six arm heavenly zombie king and forcefully freed himself from the
vortex, charging straight towards Hei Lou Lan.

Hei Lou Lan felt a chill before it turned into joy. He was not afraid of Fang Yuan
attacking him, but afraid of Fang Yuan fleeing all the time and not give him the chance
to fight.

New and old hatred overlapped; both sides wanted nothing more than to kill each
other.

However, they had not even fought yet, when Hei Lou Lan suddenly changed his
direction and fled.

Shortly, Fang Yuan's expression also changed and retreated towards the back
extremely quickly.

Too horrifying!

A large group of formless hands whooshed down from above, their numbers were at
least five to six hundred!

The light blue radiance dyed the surrounding space into a scene of blue.
The formless hand group divided into two, chasing after Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan.

Fang Yuan was facing an unprecedented crisis.

He did not dare to fly in between the formless hands. There were too many formless
hands, even a light movement could easily seal all his paths.

Fang Yuan could only fly forward swiftly, with the large group of giant light blue hands
closely chasing him.

"No, don't come here!" Ye Lui Sang shouted in panic. He was moving with three other
Gu Masters, and coordinating with each other, he was barely able to ensure the safety
of his fire path Immortal Gu; however, now he suddenly saw Fang Yuan flying towards
them!

And when he saw the group of formless hands behind Fang Yuan, Ye Lui Sang's heart
nearly jumped out in shock.

Fang Yuan not only increased his speed, he also quickly made his move; long range
attacks sealed the best escape routes of Ye Lui Sang's group and also greatly slowed
down their speed.

Next, Fang Yuan turned a little and flew past them, continuing to fly swiftly.

Ye Lui Sang's group was escaping with all their strength, but it was nowhere near
enough.

"No—!" This unlucky Ye Lui tribe leader let out a miserable scream as hundreds of
formless hands filled his vision.

Like a burst of strong wind wreaking havoc or like locusts passing through the fields,
the giant light blue hands plundered Ye Lui Sang's group and continued to chase after
Fang Yuan.

Ye Lui Sang's group stood on the spot with dazed expressions. There were too many
formless hands and in just a few breaths of time, all their Gu worms were seized.

In an instant, they had become completely penniless. Although they still had primeval
essence remaining in their apertures, there was nothing to use them on!
"How will I report to supreme tribe elder when I return?!" Ye Lui Sang's heart was
filled with fear and bewilderment.

His fire path Immortal Gu was lent to him by Ye Lui tribe's supreme tribe elder Ye Lui
Lai to help him obtain victory in this Imperial Court contest.

The value of the Immortal Gu was self-evident.

Ye Lui Sang lost in the contest, but to preserve the Immortal Gu, he had to bear the
disgrace of siding with Hei Lou Lan who was also a super tribe leader like him.

And now, because of Fang Yuan sending the disaster towards him, the fire path
Immortal Gu he had protected with his heart and soul was gone!

Fang Yuan flew rapidly before glancing behind him; he felt relieved when he saw the
formless hands had decreased in number.

This was the contribution of Ye Lui Sang's group.

Fang Yuan saw hope in getting rid of this group of formless hands.

That was to draw the disaster towards others!

He had flying master attainment while others did not.

"Eh? That is!" While fleeing, Fang Yuan finally discovered a trace of Ma Hong Yun.

The luck path supreme true inheritance was shielding Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian
Yun, while dodging and flying away from many formless hands chasing it. Of course,
when compared to the group chasing Fang Yuan, it paled in comparison.

Without the least bit of hesitation, Fang Yuan immediately flew towards Ma Hong Yun.

Sensing an even greater danger, the luck path true inheritance light lump instinctively
changed its direction.

However, Fang Yuan chased it relentlessly and with extremely deft movements, he was
able to gradually get closer.

"Let us go, I beg you, please let us go!" Ma Hong Yun's pleading came from within the
luck path true inheritance.

"Don't come over, don't come over!" Zhao Lian Yun was also shivering in fear.

Fang Yuan's heart was tough like iron and cold as steel, how could he be swayed?

His speed suddenly increased violently as he made a beautiful arc beside the luck path
true inheritance.

The formless hand group was immediately attracted to the aura of the luck path true
inheritance and flocked to it.

"We're finished!" Both of Ma and Zhao's faces turned as they looked at the hundreds
of formless hands blocking their escape routes, attacking like a storm.

"Hahaha, luck path supreme true inheritance!" Fang Yuan made a full circle, before
flying back.

"My immortal aperture has almost finished forming, this is truly wonderful, I can use
it to store the luck path Immortal Gu!" Fang Yuan's gaze burned looking at the formless
hands shrouding the luck path true inheritance.

Whooosh whoosh whoosh…

Soon, many formless fists started flying away.

Fang Yuan immediately started using all his methods to seize the Gu.

One, two… five, six… the number soon crossed ten.

Fang Yuan knew he would not be able to catch all the luck path Gu worms, but he was
satisfied at having such a harvest.

"Wait a moment, a six fingered formless fist!"

Fang Yuan suddenly discovered a major target. The six fingers signified this fist was
holding a rank six luck path Immortal Gu!

Fang Yuan's eyes reddened and his breathing sped up as he used all his strength to
chase the six fingered fist. He turned into six arm heavenly zombie king and directly
pounced towards the fist. His eight arms burst out with fist shadows as he rained
down violent punches!

The formless fist shattered and as expected, revealed a luck path Immortal Gu.

"Haha!" Fang Yuan laughed heartily as he quickly grabbed it.

However, right at this instant, a six fingered formless hand flew over and grabbed Fang
Yuan! Its timing was impeccable as Fang Yuan's guard was slightly relaxed due to
happiness; the result was extreme joy turning into sorrow!

Fang Yuan felt his mind go blank and cursed out; the time seemed to have stretched
out extremely long at this moment.

After two breaths, the six fingered formless fist flew away from him and Fang Yuan
recovered the ability to move.

Fang Yuan immediately unfolded his six wings and left the spot immediately.

He hurriedly glanced behind him and saw fifty to sixty formless hands crashing into
each other at the spot where he had just been before.

If he had even the slightest hesitation…

Fang Yuan's forehead was soaked with cold sweat.

He then examined his body and the discovery caused him to turn gloomy. The Gu that
was seized was not any of the Immortal Gu he had seized or Spring Autumn Cicada, it
was Fixed Immortal Travel.

"This damned luck!" Fang Yuan cursed. Fixed Immortal Travel was his primary
method to leave this place and return to Hu Immortal blessed land!

He must get it back!

Fang Yuan temporarily suppressed the luck path Immortal Gu and stored it in his
pocket, then he stared at that six fingered formless fist and gave chase.

When one walks by the river, how could one's shoes not get wet?
Fortunately, his immortal aperture finished stabilizing during the chase.

Fang Yuan's risky attempt at advancing to Gu Immortal ended in success, at this

moment he had become a true strength path Gu Immortal!

His strength path immortal aperture was very huge with about 3500km² of area. The
sky was orange-yellow and there were all sorts of lofty, tall and straight mountains on
the ground made of white stones with not even a blade of grass on them.

An invisible tributary of the river of time was pulled into the immortal aperture,
supporting the normal operations of this small world.

In comparison to the outside world, the flow of time here was one to sixteen.

The most important point was there were twenty-two green grape immortal essence
beads!

"This is a medium grade blessed land…” Fang Yuan sighed.

When a Gu Master advanced to Gu Immortal, their immortal aperture could be

classified into three grades.

A small blessed land has a size of 2000km² at the maximum, can draw in a small
tributary of the river of time and create over ten beads of immortal essence, while
being a land of few resources.

Medium grade can have a size of 2700km² to 4000km², draw in a slightly bigger
tributary of the river of time, create over twenty beads of immortal essence and have
plentiful resources.

High grade blessed land can have a size of 4700km² to 6000km² , draw in a large
tributary of the river of time and create over thirty beads of immortal essence. There
will be plenty of heaven and earth qi remaining which can mutually interact and refine
a mortal Gu into Immortal Gu during a burst of inspiration!

When Tai Bai Yun Sheng advanced to Gu Immortal, he refined two Immortal Gu; no
doubt, his was a high grade blessed land.

Fang Yuan's strength path immortal aperture, however, was a medium grade blessed
land.
"I might have much more human qi compared to Tai Bai Yun Sheng, but he received
the help of human qi Gu and his human qi was able to greatly surpass mine. I received
the protection of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and Giant Sun's will; this was both
an advantage and a disadvantage. Large amounts of heaven and earth qi were isolated
outside and only a small part was able to seep into true inheritance secluded domain
which was absorbed by me." Thoughts flashed Fang Yuan's mind like sparks.

Giant Sun's will was after all forced to help Fang Yuan resist the heavenly tribulation
and earthly calamity due to helplessness.

It absolutely would not kindly allow the heaven and earth qi to enter true inheritance
secluded domain which could provide Fang Yuan with more potential.

"Besides this, there is also another important factor - Spring Autumn Cicada."

Spring Autumn Cicada absorbed the water of the tributary of river of time which was
akin to cutting off the nourishment and greatly weakened the accomplishment of the
strength path immortal aperture.

Thus, Fang Yuan's strength path immortal aperture's time flow had one to sixteen ratio
which was lower than normal standard.
Fang Yuan felt no regret towards obtaining a medium grade blessed land.

This was for the best!

Within the first aperture, Spring Autumn Cicada's pressure had already reached its
limits, the first aperture's walls were full of cracks. If he continued, he might cause the
aperture to explode.

If it was a high grade blessed land, it could refine an Immortal Gu and create a heavenly
tribulation and earthly calamity within the blessed land.

Fang Yuan's predicament was extremely dangerous, he had both internal and external
threats. If his immortal aperture had a heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity
wrecking havoc inside, Fang Yuan would surely become too distracted, it would be
fortunate if he only suffered a great loss, but most likely he would lose his life.

"Regardless, becoming a strength path Gu Immortal means I have the ability to

interfere in the battle now." Fang Yuan sighed deeply, throwing all of his Gu worms, be
it mortal or Immortal Gu, into his strength path immortal aperture.

The immortal aperture had a huge space, it could easily hold Immortal Gu.

Next, Fang Yuan willed and used a bead of green grape immortal essence.

Immediately afterwards, the green grape immortal essence spread and filled the
entire blessed land, turning into almost limitless primeval essence.

Fang Yuan heaved a sigh of relief, from this moment on, he no longer had to worry
about primeval essence expenditure, he could use mortal Gu without any restraints
anymore.

This was the biggest difference between mortal and immortal.

"At the same time, after becoming an immortal, the heaven and earth qi were all
consumed, thus there would no longer be any threat of a backlash!" Fang Yuan's aura
was surging, his eyes were shining with brilliance.

His body shook slightly, and another pair of eagle wings grew on his back.

Flying with eight wings, Fang Yuan's speed become faster again, chasing after Fixed
Immortal Travel.

Seeing that he was about to reach his target, Tai Bai Yun Sheng called out for help
behind him.

"Junior brother, assist me, that hand took away my Immortal Gu Landscape as Before!"

Fang Yuan turned around and saw a six fingered formless fist flying towards his left.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was dragging the supreme true inheritance light lump as he chased
after it desperately.

Fang Yuan hesitated for a moment, this six fingered formless fist was right beside him,
if he did not help, he would not be able to explain himself.

He immediately activated the wind flower Gu, barely turning around.

His speed was simply too fast, even the wind flower Gu in his immortal aperture could
not take it, as many petals fell out.

Fang Yuan caught up to the six fingered formless fist and smashed at it, breaking it
open and rescuing Landscape as Before.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was overjoyed upon seeing this: "Great, junior brother, if not for
your help…”

Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk, shouting anxiously: "Senior brother, dodge!"

Too late!

An eight fingered formless hand flew over and grabbed onto Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was immobilized, his face was full of shock and fear. During this
time, hundreds of formless hands flew over and encircled Tai Bai Yun Sheng!
At the same time, large numbers of formless hands were flying over from far away.

"Damn it… not only was Tai Bai Yun Sheng caught, he had the supreme true
inheritance with him. This is bad, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building is going to be
destroyed! I have to take back Fixed Immortal Travel quickly!" Fang Yuan did not dare
to save him, his eyes flashed with a cold light as he placed the landscape as before Gu
into his immortal aperture and turned around to leave.

Fixed Immortal Travel Gu was the best method to escape, it was more important than
any other Immortal Gu right now in Fang Yuan's heart!

Fang Yuan flew rapidly, about to reach the formless fist.

"After I take Fixed Immortal Travel, I will leave, who cares about Tai Bai Yun Sheng
anymore!" Fang Yuan's eyes shone with brilliance, he had made up his mind.

True inheritance secluded domain was at the deepest part of Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building, and there were already so many formless hands here, not to mention the
outside world.

He had obtained enough benefits, and he had even successfully advanced to an

immortal, if he continued staying here, he might lose his life.

Fang Yuan had the intention to retreat already.

But just when he was about to succeed, Hei Lou Lan blocked his path.

"Don't think that I'll be afraid just because you became an immortal! Return my Gu
worm to me now and I'll give way immediately!" Hei Lou Lan screamed.

"You are courting death!!" Fang Yuan stared furiously, he wanted to tear Hei Lou Lan
into several pieces, but his logic dictated him to change directions and swerve around
Hei Lou Lan, continuing his pursuit.

Hei Lou Lan snickered, he was unable to catch up to Fang Yuan, but in terms of long
range methods, he had his ways to obstructing Fang Yuan in his chase.

Fang Yuan was obstructed by Hei Lou Lan time and again, he had to change his
direction.
"Is this worth it? Just return my Gu to me and you'll be able to reach this formless fist.
Don't forget, after the formless fist flies for a certain distance, it will vanish along with
the Gu worm." Hei Lou Lan urged.

He was extremely anxious, his vital Gu was in Fang Yuan's hands, but he had to control
himself and mask his anxiety.

Fang Yuan shouted out in anger, his expression still as water.

There was no way he would return the Gu worm to Hei Lou Lan.

The more Hei Lou Lan cared about this Gu, the more important this Gu was to him.

Hei Lou Lan was a huge enemy, even if he returned the Gu worm, if he did not keep his
promise and continued obstructing Fang Yuan, what then?

Fang Yuan could only make detours and continue chasing after his target.

Bam!!!

Right at this moment, there was a huge sound.

True inheritance secluded domain completely broke apart, instantly exploding.

Eye piercing sunlight filled everyone's vision. At once, Fang Yuan and the others were
caught off guard, their entire vision turned white.

In such a situation, who would dare to shut their eyes completely?

Even though their eyes were overflowing with tears due to the intensity, they had to
open a slit.

As the white light faded slowly, from their blurred vision, everyone could see that they
were floating in the air.

"Save us!" Many Gu Masters cried out desperately for help.

They were all unlucky people who had their Gu worms taken away. Without Gu worms,
this rapid descent would cause them to die upon impact with the ground.
Nobody lent a hand to help them. Those Gu Masters who were barely floating in the
air could only care about themselves, as they looked around in shock.

In the sky, there were thousands of formless hands, closely packed together.

On the ground, smoke was rising and there was debris of Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building everywhere. These broken walls and structures were disintegrating, turning
back into Gu worms.

The number of Gu worms was too many, each tile could split up into an ant's nest
worth of Gu worms.

"Oh my heavens!"

"Eighty-Eight True Yang Building collapsed!"

"Oh Longevity Heaven, why is this happening?"

Everyone was flustered and shocked, when suddenly a bright golden rainbow shot up
in the sky!

"Leave behind the Immortal Gu!" The remaining Giant Sun's will had been storing
energy for this moment, he finally made his move!

The golden rainbow shot out like lightning, in the blink of an eye, it destroyed one
formless fist and obtained the Immortal Gu within.

Divert disaster Gu!

Giant Sun's will entered the Gu and quickly activated it.

Divert disaster Gu shot out pillars of light and shone everywhere.

The formless hands that were swept by the light pillars shrunk in size and their speed
fell. Those formless hands that were hit by the light pillar disintegrated rapidly and
the Gu worms within were released.

At once, Giant Sun's will regained several Immortal Gu!

"Otherworldly demon! Luck path true inheritance!!" Giant Sun's will looked at the luck
path true inheritance that was trapped by the formless hands, as well as Ma and Zhao
who were inside the light lump.

Without a trace of hesitation, he flew over with killing intent.

"My Fixed Immortal Travel…” Fang Yuan's heart sank to rock bottom.

He lost his target.

The formless fist that contained Fixed Immortal Travel had gone missing, it had flew
away with Fixed Immortal Travel into the unknown.

Fang Yuan had completely lost Fixed Immortal Travel!

"Damn it!" Fang Yuan controlled his heartache as he forced himself to calm down.

Without Fixed Immortal Travel, he could still use the stargate to return to Hu Immortal
blessed land, but this stargate needed to be sustained, so if Fang Yuan wanted to leave
this place, he first needed to find a safe environment.

"Old Ancestor is here, you have no way out now. Return my Gu worm to me and I can
still help you ask for mercy." Hei Lou Lan flew over, shouting.

Fang Yuan's eyes flashed with cold light.

Hei Lou Lan's words reminded him, his biggest threat now were the formless hands,
followed by Giant Sun's will.

Although the current Giant Sun's will was heavily damaged and was not even a tiny
fraction of its original state, it was still not something Fang Yuan could take on!

The will that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable left behind was too grand and majestic.
Even though it had undergone such tremendous weakening, even though Fang Yuan
was now a Gu Immortal, he was still not its match.

Most importantly, it was currently snatching Immortal Gu all over the place, once it
activates the Gu, its battle strength would surge!

"Ordinary Gu worms need primeval essence or immortal essence to activate. No

matter how powerful Giant Sun's will is, he is still a will and needs to use the rank nine
yellow apricot immortal essence that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had left behind."

Fang Yuan's gaze was like an eagle, he looked towards Giant Sun's will who was far
away.

He had just taken a look when a formless hand flew over.

Fang Yuan flapped his wings, evading successfully.

"Damn it!" Hei Lou Lan cursed ruthlessly, he had also suffered the attacks of three
formless hands along the way.

True inheritance secluded domain was broken apart, the number of formless hands in
the air increased by at least ten times!

These formless hands attacked, causing Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan to be dodging
them with all their effort, they could not spare the energy to care about other things.

Bam bam bam…

Wind blades danced in the air, cutting apart several formless hands.

The Gu that were caught earlier were released, while Giant Sun's will was like a golden
dragon, pouncing on them.

He had much of Giant Sun's immortal essence, he had the capability to instantly refine
Gu worms when he got them, his battle strength surged and his aura was like a
rainbow.

"Otherworldly demon! Luck path true inheritance!" Soon, Giant Sun's will found Ma
and Zhao.

They were surrounded by countless formless hands, the originally large true
inheritance light lump had shrunk by at least a third of its size.

Giant Sun's will howled loudly, as several Immortal Gu and hundreds of rank five
mortal Gu were used together at once.

The light of divert disaster shot straight, a thousand wind blades danced in formation,
a bright red fire crow spread its wings and flew while screeching…
All sorts of attacks surrounded the luck path true inheritance like the falling petals of
a flower.

Once any formless hands flew out, they would be instantly destroyed, and the Gu
worm within would be taken by Giant Sun's will.

"Oh no, this luck path true inheritance originally belonged to Giant Sun Immortal
Venerable. If Giant Sun's will obtains it, it would truly be a tiger gaining wings, or a
flood dragon entering the sea!" Fang Yuan flew rapidly, taking a look at this scene, his
heart turned heavy.

He looked around, but realized that to leave this place, he needed the stargate Gu.

"Imperial Court blessed land is on the brink of destruction, the outer fringe of the
blessed land is already blowing with winds of assimilation, forming a huge circular
wind veil. This wind has tremendous force, even if I am a Gu Immortal, I cannot resist
it, I cannot force my way out!"
Imperial Court blessed land was the number one blessed land of northern plains, it
had deep foundations and tremendous fortune.

Despite this, after Fang Yuan entered it, first, there was the contest of the land spirit,
Frost Jade Peacock, and Giant Sun's will.

Next, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng underwent immortal ascension and took in the
heaven and earth qi of the blessed land.

Furthermore, there was the once in ten years blizzard ravaging the blessed land, and
it even fused with Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Fang Yuan's tribulations to form a terrifying
heavenly tribulation.

Frost Jade Peacock was able to endure it for so long, that was really quite a miracle
already. Imperial Court blessed land's destruction was a foregone conclusion, now
that the wind veil was formed, Imperial Court blessed land was surrounded like a
sphere, and the walls of the sphere were extremely thick, at least hundreds of meters.

Even if the formless hands flew there, they would be crushed into bits, being
assimilated into wind and lead to growing the strength of the winds of assimilation.

Even with flash bug Gu, Fang Yuan could not get through it.

However, this wind veil also formed an isolation barrier and prevented outside forces
from intervening.

At this moment, thousands of meters above the ground, in the sky.

Three Gu Immortals looked down at the grand winds of assimilation that was like a
giant dark green bowl inverted on the ground with a grim expression.

The wind veil's surface was very tranquil, but no one dared to underestimate the
power of the winds of assimilation!
"Imperial Court blessed land's destruction is unavoidable! What happened inside?
How did it become like this?!" One of the Gu Immortals, an elderly man, looked with a
furious gaze as his brows were tightly folded.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Imperial Court blessed land, they were the
arrangement of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to benefit his descendants.

As descendants with Huang Jin bloodline, they had already considered Imperial Court
blessed land as their territory since long ago.

But now, the domain that held great treasures had been destroyed, these righteous
path Gu Immortals of northern plains' super tribes were like dormant volcanoes
turning active.

"Very evidently, this is a huge scheme. Our investigations earlier have shown that the
most suspicious person is that Wolf King Chang Shan Yin. We have enough evidence
to conclude that this person is an impersonator, the real Chang Shan Yin had died long
ago!" Another young Gu Immortal said solemnly.

After pausing for a while, he continued: "Obviously, not just Chang Shan Yin, but other
than him, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Bian Si Xuan and the others are also suspicious. This
scheme is very deep, it involves the forces of central continent!! According to what
we've learnt, there are at least three of the ancient sects in central continent plotting
against the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building for the last hundred years!"

Central continent Gu Immortals' secret plot expended a lot of their effort and
resources, to create the loopholes and setups. In the end, Fang Yuan made use of these
arrangements in advance, all of their hard work had gone to the benefit of someone
else.

Northern plains Gu Immortals were not to be trifled with.

Imperial Court blessed land, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, they were the spiritual
symbols of northern plains, they were extremely important.

The moment something happened to Imperial Court blessed land and the happenings
inside were exposed to the outside world, northern plains' forces all paid close
attention to it.

Unfortunately, they were all outside, and the situation had advanced too quickly, it was
already too late by the time they wanted to save Imperial Court blessed land.

"Sigh…” The leader of the Gu Immortals sighed deeply.

He was good looking with red lips and white teeth, but for some reason, he had the
appearance of a child, the aura he was emitting was extremely powerful, he was subtly
the leader of the three.

"The most important thing now is not to investigate these matters, but to consider the
ways to salvage this situation! Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was the arrangement
of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, a rank eight Immortal Gu House, it is profound and
mysterious, its heavenly power is not something we can understand. Although the
winds of assimilation this time are fierce, forming a wind veil, it might not be able to
destroy Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. We will stay here and look for an opportunity
to help, while being careful of any unexpected situations."

The child Gu Immortal's words made the elderly man and the young man Gu Immortal
breathe in deeply.

"Lord Tong Zu, you are absolutely right. Our Chanyu tribe has the immortal killer move
— Winged Blade, as long as we activate it together, we will be able to forcefully break
the wind veil of assimilation." The young man Gu Immortal said this, unable to conceal
his pride.

"The winds of assimilation is not to be underestimated, even with winged blade, we

only have one chance to attack. I have made my calculations, the injury that we cause
on this wind veil of assimilation would recover in only eight breaths of time." The
elderly man was a wisdom path Gu Immortal, he could make deductions and
predictions.

The leader of the three, Chanyu Tong Zu, nodded slightly: "Right now, Hei tribe, Ye Lui
tribe, Dong Fang tribe and others are surrounding the wind veil, all these righteous
path super tribes have sent their Gu Immortals. There is also the number one demonic
path force Snowy Mountain, they sent six Gu Immortals, attempting to take advantage
of the situation. Don't underestimate them, we have our trump cards, so do they. When
we use the winged blade, we have to prevent them from taking advantage of us."

"The luck path true inheritance cannot fall in the hands of the otherworldly demon,
all these are mine, mine!" Giant Sun's will shouted loudly, his voice reverberated over
the entire battlefield.

He turned into a golden dragon, taking form at will. Sometimes, seventeen to eighteen
small dragons were created, while at the next moment, they combined into a giant
dragon!

He carried Giant Sun's immortal essence, using it without holding back.

More than ten Immortal Gu were embedded on the dragon's body, there were two on
its dragon horns, one in each of its eyes, and six to seven in its scales.

Blazing flames, divert disaster light beam, frost energy, all sorts of attacks were
unleashed unceasingly.

At this point, Giant Sun's will could finally use his full strength.

Giant Sun's will had suppressed his anger for too long, he released all of it at this
moment!

First, he had to get rid of the otherworldly demon, and because of the luck path true
inheritance's importance, Giant Sun's will first surrounded Ma and Zhao.

Large numbers of formless hands covered the luck path true inheritance tightly, at
times, formless fists that captured luck path Gu worms flew out.

Giant Sun's will was like a golden dragon, surrounding the luck path true inheritance
and coiling around it, destroying all of the formless fists that came out.

There were many formless fists, even Giant Sun's will could only choose some and
attack those, trying to free more Immortal Gu to raise his battle strength.

But near the giant will dragon, there were also large numbers of formless hands.

When Giant Sun's will snatches these Gu worms back, the formless hands would steal
them again. During this contest, the two were fighting intensely and occupied the sky.

Below this battle, the remaining surviving Gu Masters were fighting with a smaller
number of formless hands.
Even though Giant Sun's will attracted most of the formless hands, the Gu Masters
were not having an easier time.

With the destruction of true inheritance secluded domain, the Gu Masters were
completely exposed and out in the open, they were attacked by even more formless
hands.

The formless hands were almost immune to all attacks, they flew in the sky and
pierced through rocks, nothing could obstruct them. Only after stealing a Gu worm
would they form into a fist and be susceptible to attacks.

But the speed of the formless fists was very fast, not all Gu Masters could chase after
them and destroy them successfully.

Fang Yuan, Hei Lou Lan, and the others were a minority, they were geniuses among
geniuses.

"Old ancestor, please help… ahh—!"

A shrill scream could suddenly be heard.

Everyone could not help but raise their heads and look.

Only to see that a Gu Master from a super tribe, one who bears a pure bloodline, was
left with no other choice after being chased by the formless hands and flew into the
sky to seek help from Giant Sun's will. But in the end, he was the first to be slaughtered
by Giant Sun's will after he activated the Immortal Gu to attack.

"Such might…” Hei Lou Lan raised his head and looked, even with his Great Strength
True Martial Physique, he did not dare to get close to Giant Sun's will.

Giant Sun's will had completely erupted, his attacks were fierce and carried
tremendous might. His entire mind was on the luck path true inheritance, while
competing with the formless hands, he had no energy to care about Giant Sun's
bloodline descendants.

"So painful…” At this moment, Ye Lui Sang drew in a breath of cold air, crawling up
from the ground.

The Gu worms on his entire body were stolen, he had fallen from the sky. Thankfully,
his body was once tempered using Gu worms, thus he only suffered bone fractures
while keeping his life.

Looking at this unlucky person who died, he suddenly felt extremely glad. At least,
compared to this unlucky guy, he was still alive!

Being alive was more important than anything.

Fang Yuan could feel an immense mental pressure.

"Damn it…” He gritted his teeth in annoyance, he wanted to leave but had no way to
break out of this predicament.

"Thankfully, Giant Sun's will did not target me at the start, but instead went after that
otherworldly demon Zhao Lian Yun, while also wanting to protect the luck path true
inheritance."

Fang Yuan was very clear in his heart, once Giant Sun's will gets rid of this problem,
he would not let him off.

By then, he would be like a sheep standing near a tiger, or a rabbit near a python.

"Giant Sun's will alone cannot activate so many Immortal Gu. Even though I became a
Gu Immortal, if we fought head on, I would still not be Giant Sun's will's match. That
is unless I cut away his connection with Giant Sun's immortal essence!"

Fang Yuan's mind was very sharp.

But unfortunately, there were too many formless hands, he had to exert himself in
dealing with them.

Other than Giant Sun's will, he was the one with the most Immortal Gu, their aura was
attracting the attack of many formless hands.

At the same time, Hei Lou Lan's continuous attacks were also quite a problem.

He had the Great Strength True Martial Physique of the ten extreme physiques, a true
child of heaven, he could be thought of as the matured version of Bai Ning Bing. Be it
his battle capabilities or foundation and accumulation, they were very outstanding.
He had heaven defying battle strength, even Tai Bai Yun Sheng was not his match, the
power of his self-detonation could slay an immortal!

After being obstructed once again by Hei Lou Lan, Fang Yuan's gaze towards him
became more ominous.

At the same time, Fang Yuan thought to himself: "This Hei Lou Lan has an absurd
number of Gu worms. He had many of his Gu worms taken away, yet he still has so
many remaining!"

There was a reason for this of course.

Hei Lou Lan's sole purpose was to enter Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and obtain a
strength path Immortal Gu, before attempting his immortal ascension in Imperial
Court blessed land.

Thus, he made ample preparation, especially with his father's help, he accumulated
many Gu worms.

He considered the backlash of the heaven and earth qi during his immortal ascension
which would lead to the death of Gu worms, thus he prepared a lot of Gu worms, more
than what anyone could imagine.

"Junior brother, save me!" After dodging for a while, Fang Yuan heard Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's cry for help.

It turns out, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was trapped by the formless hands, floating in the air
as he desperately defended himself.

Eventually, his Gu worms were all taken away.

After losing the support of his Gu worms, even as a Gu Immortal, he started falling
towards the ground.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was his only alliance mate, he could not abandon him yet.

Fang Yuan immediately made a turn and took a risk to save him.

But who knew that during that period, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's anxious shout could be
heard: "Quick, junior brother, take back my Immortal Gu Man as Before!"
Fang Yuan's heart jumped, seeing that a six fingered formless fist was flying out.

If at this moment, Fang Yuan chooses to save Tai Bai Yun Sheng, then he would lose
the best opportunity to take back man as before Immortal Gu. Most likely, after he
saves Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Man as Before would be transported away by formless fist.

To save Tai Bai Yun Sheng, or to take back the Immortal Gu Man as Before?

At this moment, Fang Yuan had to make an important decision.

To save Tai Bai Yun Sheng, or take back Man as Before?

At this instant, Fang Yuan hesitated.

Man as Before, this Gu was extremely famous even though it was a mortal Gu. Now
that it had become an Immortal Gu, its ability was even greater.

According to what Tai Bai Yun Sheng had said earlier, when it was a mortal Gu, it could
turn a Gu Master's condition back to a state in the past. After becoming an Immortal
Gu, it could not only affect others but even himself.

This 'himself' naturally meant Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a Gu Immortal, it was not hard to deduce that the Immortal Gu
Man as Before could affect Gu Immortals as well!

As a Gu worm that can heal a Gu Immortal, the value of Man as Before need not be
mentioned. In fact, its value far surpassed ordinary Immortal Gu!

Thus, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was so anxious, forgetting his own predicament and
reminding Fang Yuan to take back Man as Before.

But Tai Bai Yun Sheng's words were merely out of anxiety, he said it without truly
considering the consequences.

In the case that Fang Yuan really abandoned him and attempted to retrieve Man as
Before Immortal Gu, Tai Bai Yun Sheng would be in great danger.

Even though the essence of a Gu Master's life undergoes a qualitative change when
becoming a Gu Immortal, if he fell from such a high altitude, even if Tai Bai Yun Sheng
survived, he would be gravely injured.

And don't forget that there were many other Gu Masters who were remaining on the
ground.

"Taking back Man as Before would use up a lot of time. Even if I retrieve Man as Before,
if this causes a rift between me and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, what should I do then?"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng shouted out of anxiety, once he was in grave danger and his life was
at risk, he would immediately realize: Compared to the Immortal Gu, his life was more
important. If at that moment, he saw his 'junior brother' chasing the Immortal Gu and
giving up on saving himself, how would he think?

A person's heart is very fickle and ever changing.

Even though this sentence was said by Tai Bai Yun Sheng himself, when thinking of the
circumstances and seeing things from another's shoes, he would feel doubt and
suspicion.

"So be it if I still had Fixed Immortal Travel, but now that I have lost it, and the wind
veil of assimilation is still contracting, isolating us from the outside world, I will need
to use a stargate to leave this place and connect it to Hu Immortal blessed land!"

Fang Yuan was facing great difficulty.

To open the stargate, he would need to use starlight firefly Gu.

The formless hands were flying about and ravaging the place, they were an
unstoppable force.

Once the starlight firefly Gu appeared, the formless hands would show up like flies.
Even as a Gu Immortal, Fang Yuan had no confidence in protecting them from the
formless hands.

"But now that the wind veil of assimilation has been formed, there is no more heaven
and earth qi, even though there are a lot of formless hands, no new ones will appear.
Furthermore, with Eighty-Eight True Yang Building breaking apart and dissolving into
different Gu worms that are flying around…”

The formless hands had no energy source, they could not be sustained.

Fang Yuan was a veteran demonic path cultivator with five hundred years of
experience, he naturally had good insight.
"Once the formless hands weaken, Giant Sun's will would become the strongest force
in this battlefield. By then, after he gets rid of Ma and Zhao, retrieving the luck path
true inheritance, he would come after me!"

By then, Giant Sun's will would have Giant Sun's immortal essence and many Immortal
Gu, he would truly be the strongest foe.

As the weaker party, Fang Yuan had to choose to cooperate against this strong foe, to
resist the enemy with numbers.

In this entire battlefield, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was the only suitable person.

Even though he was a healing Gu Immortal, he was still a Gu Immortal!

Even though his Gu worms were all stolen, Fang Yuan could lend him some.

Moreover, Hei Lou Lan and the other blood related descendants were all Giant Sun's
will's natural allies. No matter how well Fang Yuan could speak, in such a short time
and in such a situation, they would not switch sides.

After thinking so deeply, in reality, merely a short moment passed.

Fang Yuan moved like lightning, without hesitation, he flew towards Tai Bai Yun Sheng
who was falling.

"Junior brother, you… sigh!" Seeing Fang Yuan make such a choice, Tai Bai Yun Sheng
who had calmed down looked with shining eyes, he was touched and wanted to say
something, but eventually ended up sighing.

Along the way, many formless hands were obstructing them, but Fang Yuan twisted
left and right, he was agile like a bird, he quickly shortened the distance between him
and Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

But right at this moment, the figure of a person suddenly appeared around Tai Bai Yun
Sheng.

"Old fool, you have finally fallen into my hands!" The figure quickly turned solid as Hei
Lou Lan grabbed Tai Bai Yun Sheng by the collar, capturing him.

Although Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a Gu Immortal, he had no Gu worms on him, it was
simply too easy for Hei Lou Lan!

Hei Lou Lan quickly activated his Gu worm, sealing Tai Bai Yun Sheng's four limbs and
making him faint.

Seeing the captive in his hands, Hei Lou Lan was overjoyed.

He was able to capture Tai Bai Yun Sheng under such chaotic circumstances mostly
due to luck. But the result was already a success, now Hei Lou Lan's mind was full of
ways to threaten Fang Yuan, to use this captive to take back his vital Gu!

But he had just raised his head and had yet to speak, before he saw Fang Yuan's body
turning around and flying high up into the air.

"Hei Lou Lan captured Tai Bai Yun Sheng, it is obviously because he wants to threaten
me and ask for that Gu worm!" Fang Yuan had guessed Hei Lou Lan's intention at the
first moment.

His heart sank, but he was still as calm as ever.

Since Hei Lou Lan had such an objective, he would not cause harm to Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's life. That means, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was safe for the time being.

In that case, the most important thing for Fang Yuan now was to retrieve the Immortal
Gu Man as Before!

He dodged left and right, avoiding the formless hands' attacks. His eight wings flapped
intensely as wind flower Gu and flash bug Gu were used in turns, eventually after
fifteen minutes, after exerting all of his strength, with great difficulty he smashed the
formless fist and took back the man as before Immortal Gu.

Because he obtained Tai Bai Yun Sheng's trust, man as before Immortal Gu did not
struggle in Fang Yuan's hands.

Fang Yuan did not use his will to suppress it, he placed it into the strength path
immortal aperture.

"Your senior brother's life is in my hands, quickly return my Gu worm!" At this point,
Hei Lou Lan finally caught up and had the chance to issue a threat.
He was full of sweat, chasing Fang Yuan was not easy.

Especially when his movement speed was insufficient, and he still had to carry Tai Bai
Yun Sheng.

He thought he understood Fang Yuan's objectives, he was very confident in himself.

Just as he said that, a formless hand flew over to him, Hei Lou Lan did not dare to resist
it head on and had to dodge. This way, the imposing aura that he had tried to create
was immediately weakened.

Fang Yuan's figure was like a lightning shadow, moving around the formless hands
easily, when he got close to Hei Lou Lan, he was expressionless, but he was sighing
over the inconvenience in his heart.

Fang Yuan knew that he could not resist Giant Sun's will alone, he needed Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's help.

But now that Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a captive, Fang Yuan was quite restricted.

Although he had man as before Immortal Gu, he was not given permission by Tai Bai
Yun Sheng to 'use the Gu'. If he could use it, when Hei Lou Lan kills the captive and Tai
Bai Yun Sheng dies, Fang Yuan could revive Tai Bai Yun Sheng using Man as Before.

But there was a major problem here.

Using Immortal Gu Man as Before required immortal essence.

To revive a mortal, there was no issue. But to revive an immortal, the immortal essence
expenditure would surely be huge.

Fang Yuan only had twenty-two beads of green grape immortal essence. He used up
one in diffusing it into endless primeval essence, thus he only had twenty-one left.

This was his greatest assurance in fighting Giant Sun's will.

But to revive Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he would need to use at least ten green grape immortal
essence!

Unless there was no choice, Fang Yuan did not want to do that.
Hei Lou Lan was truly a formidable character, it was no fluke that he was the person
who became the victor of the Imperial Court contest. He had overwhelming talent and
ability, once an opportunity appeared, he knew how to grab onto it.

"Don't tell me, I really have to return his Gu worm?"

Once that thought appeared, Fang Yuan suppressed it.

Hei Lou Lan was so anxious about that Gu, it was surely something extraordinary. Fang
Yuan was not willing to return it just like that.

Most importantly, Hei Lou Lan was not trustworthy!

As time passed, Giant Sun's will and the formless hands' battle intensified.

Giant Sun's will originated from Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, he was very ruthless
and wise, now that his original strength could be displayed fully, he showed off a
matchless disposition.

He drew support from the luck path true inheritance light lump, and while fighting
against the formless hands, he took back control of the one and only copy of the luck
path true inheritance.

After so long, the luck path true inheritance light lump was still quite intact.

There were simply too many Gu worms inside this true inheritance, it was shocking.
In just this short while, six luck path Immortal Gu were already taken by the formless
hands.

No wonder it was the one and only copy.

Immortal Gu were unique, even for Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, he exerted all his
efforts and could only elevate the true inheritance to this extent.

Three of the six Immortal Gu were retrieved by Giant Sun's will when he broke the
formless fists. Giant Sun's will could only watch as the other three were taken away by
the formless fists.

"Damn it! Too hateful!" Giant Sun's will got more furious as he fought, he had already
hated Zhao Lian Yun to the depths of his soul, now he no longer cared about Ma Hong
Yun's life.

"I want to see how long this luck path true inheritance can protect you for!" Giant Sun's
will gritted his teeth.

If not for him wanting to protect the luck path true inheritance and being unable to
attack all out, he would've destroyed this light lump and killed Ma and Zhao.

Ma and Zhao hugged each other, towards this situation, there was nothing they could
do but to await death.

The great pressure was a huge turmoil on their hearts, their feelings for each other
rapidly grew.

But this was useless.

The Frost Jade Peacock that recognised them as its master had already died.

The size of the luck path true inheritance light lump was less than a third of what it
had been originally. Seeing that death was approaching closer and closer, Ma and Zhao
lost any hopes of surviving.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan were at a stalemate, they were bargaining. Both sides were
very distrustful of each other, this talk was progressing very slowly.

Clang—!

Right at this moment, from outside the wind veil, there was the sound of a blade.

The sound of the blade was crisp and sharp, it reverberated in everyone's ears.

"What?"

"This is!"

Everyone raised their heads, they were attracted by this strange event, even the giant
dragon of Giant Sun's will stopped its attacks.

Only to see that above them, on the wind veil of assimilation, there was a huge opening
created by a blade.
Everyone could see the outside sky of northern plains through the opening caused by
the blade.

In the sky, three Gu Immortals from Chanyu tribe were breathing roughly.

This was the immortal killer move that they activated — Winged Blade!

Around them, there were a dozen or so Gu Immortals.

It turns out that when the three of them were colluding not too long ago, other
righteous path Gu Immortals approached them. Because Hei tribe's Gu Immortals
were very sincere and put in a lot of effort, they came to an agreement quickly and
thus chose to attack earlier than expected.

With the blade opening, the inside and outside world were connected.

This was a huge influence to anyone in the battlefield!

The ones who reacted faster than Fang Yuan and the other humans were the Gu
worms!

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was an ownerless object, after being destroyed by the
heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities, the walls collapsed and turned into large
number of wild Gu worms.

At this crucial moment, using their instincts, these Gu worms flew into the air, towards
the opening.

During the process, formless hands were capturing them all over the place.

"This is the best chance to charge through the wind veil and escape from this
dangerous place!" The Gu Masters' eyes were glowing.

"Ah! So many Gu worms, these are all formed from Eighty-Eight True Yang Building!"
Northern plains Gu Immortals watched with burning and shining eyes.
Originally, within the wind veil of assimilation, the Gu worms were lifeless.

Now, a huge opening was cut into the wind veil of assimilation, opening a link outside
to northern plains, the Gu worms all went into a frenzy, frantically rushing towards
the opening.

Formless hands arrived, attempting to grab them along the way.

Nearly half of the Gu worms were captured by the formless hands, and carried off by
the formless fists, vanishing into thin air.

Despite this, the majority of the Gu worms managed to rush out of the opening,
escaping this dangerous area surrounded by the wind veil of assimilation, and arriving
in the outside world of northern plains.

"Come to me, be mine!"

"So many Gu worms, eh, that is an Immortal Gu?!"

"Stop at once! Do not fight, distribute the Gu according to our prior arrangement, no
one should act recklessly!!"

The northern plains Gu Immortals saw a cluster of Gu worms, like an unceasing

torrent of water rushing forth, they were already in a state of shocked ecstasy.

They struck at once, repeatedly shouting, competing against each other, and
displaying all kinds of methods.

Fang Yuan raised his head to look, and saw a scene of Gu Immortals madly fighting
over Gu worms.

"There are more than twenty Gu Immortals… they probably used the immortal killer
move winged blade; this killer move is a first class attacking method of northern
plains, during the battle of the five regions in the future, many central continent Gu
Immortals died from it." His expression was grim, his eyes were flickering with cold
light, the memories of his previous life was still vivid within his mind.

Winds of assimilation, the number one wind in the world, they were able to assimilate
all things, there are few methods capable of restraining it.

But the immortal killer move winged blade had peerless might, it was a rare method
that was even able to cleave open the wind veil of assimilation!

"Naturally, this is also because the wind veil of assimilation had not formed for a long
time, the wind walls are still not too thick, given a longer period of time, even the
winged blade will be unable to damage it."

Winds of assimilation, they were a wind that blew when immortal apertures faced
destruction.

Once the wind gained momentum, and there was enough wind blowing, even rank
eight Gu Immortals would struggle to resist it.

As for rank nine Gu Immortals, they were the rulers of the world, they were invincible
beings! No matter how strong the winds of assimilation became, it could do nothing
to them.

This shocking change was out of Fang Yuan's expectations, to him, this was not a
method of escaping.

He had caused harm to Giant Sun's will and caused the collapse of Eight-Eight True
Yang Building, he was the culprit behind Imperial Court blessed land's destruction!
Once he went outside, and got caught by the angry northern plains Gu Immortals, he
would end up facing a terrible fate. By then, even death would be a luxury.

He placed his attention on Hei Lou Lan now.

If Hei Lou Lan got distracted now, Fang Yuan would launch a sneak attack and take
back Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

But Hei Lou Lan's eyes were fixed on Fang Yuan without a single bit of distraction.

His objective this time was to obtain a strength path Immortal Gu and become a Gu
Immortal. But he was did not excel in movement and could not break the formless
fists.

However, he had made an agreement with Giant Sun's will, as long as he helped him,
Giant Sun's will would give him a strength path Immortal Gu as a reward.

This was also the sole reason why Hei Lou Lan had followed Giant Sun's will since the
battle began.

"This fellow…” Fang Yuan had no opportunity at all, he could only grit his teeth.

Right at this moment, there was a transmission from above the wind veil, but the voice
was choppy: "Hei Lou Lan… my son… father is here… to bring you back…”

Hei Lou Lan's own father, the supreme tribe elder of northern plains' super tribe, Hei
tribe, a legendary figure in northern plains who was also the famous main character
of the love story, Su Xian's Night Elopement — Hei Cheng!

He was rank seven and cultivated dark path, his eyes were like ink while his face was
like jade, he had a handsome appearance and looked carefree.

At this moment, he was floating in the air, keeping some Gu worms while calling out
Hei Lou Lan's name with much worry: "Don't worry… father… has already found the
strength path Immortal Gu for you…”

But Hei Lou Lan snorted coldly when he heard his father's call.

He pretended he did not hear Hei Cheng's words, instead it triggered his anger as his
expression turned into one of hatred.

Filled with the deep intent of revenge, he growled at Fang Yuan: "My patience is
running out, do you still want your senior brother's life? Quickly hand over my Gu
worm to me, otherwise I will kill him!"

He obviously had to save Tai Bai Yun Sheng, this was the only useful reinforcement
that Fang Yuan could use to resist Giant Sun's will.

Thus, Fang Yuan shouted: "I can give the Gu to you, but you must wake my senior
brother up first and let him run a thousand steps away from here!"
His suggestion was immediately denied by Hei Lou Lan: "Impossible! You have to pass
the Gu to me first, otherwise I will crush his skull directly!"

Both sides did not trust each other.

Fang Yuan wanted Hei Lou Lan to release Tai Bai Yun Sheng, but Hei Lou Lan was afraid
of Fang Yuan's movement speed.

Hei Lou Lan wanted Fang Yuan to return the Gu first, but Fang Yuan was afraid of Hei
Lou Lan playing tricks.

Of course, there was the most common way to settle this.

That was for both parties to act at the same time, releasing Tai Bai Yun Sheng and the
Gu together.

But in this environment, where formless hands were flying around everywhere, who
would dare to let their Gu worms fly around?

It was not that Fang Yuan did not want to save Tai Bai Yun Sheng, but the discussion
was always stuck at this stage.

Fang Yuan raised his head to look, and the scene was making his heart sink: "Oh no…
the formless hands disappear after capturing Gu worms. The formless hands will
continue to decrease in number, and soon, Giant Sun's will would gain control of the
situation!"

Not only was Hei Lou Lan anxious, Fang Yuan was also starting to become anxious.

Giant Sun's will was a special will, exterminating the otherworldly demon was his top
priority. This objective ruled above his desire to live.

The dragon made of will roared, it ignored the passage above its head as it coiled
around the luck path true inheritance.

The remaining luck path Gu worms were the true inheritance's core.

Giant Sun's will did not dare to be careless.

"Are we going to die?!" Seeing the luck path true inheritance light lump reduce to a
thin layer, Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun felt that all hope was lost.

But right at this moment!

The true inheritance light lump burst out with a dazzling light, the light was so strong
it could blind everyone's vision.

With a whoosh, the true inheritance light lump carried Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian
Yun, flying up and turning into a rainbow of light, charging towards the opening in the
wind veil.

The luck path true inheritance was governed by the will of a wild Gu, it had a very
strong instinct for survival.

"Don't even think about it!" The dragon of Giant Sun's will shouted furiously, without
hesitation, it gave chase immediately!

The true inheritance light lump was really fast, Giant Sun's will could not catch up to
it.

Seeing that true inheritance light lump was about to get out of the wind veil of
assimilation and escape into northern plains, Giant Sun's will finally let go of his
reservations and set his mind on exterminating the otherworldly demon Zhao Lian
Yun!

This was the primary objective that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had given to the
special will!

When one could not get the best of both worlds, Giant Sun's will had no choice but to
discard one to achieve the other objective!

Giant Sun's immortal essence was injected into all the Immortal Gu, as the dragon of
will shined with a dozen spots of lights. In three breaths of time, the light expanded
rapidly, ready to attack.

The will dragon's aura surged, as it readied itself, a shockingly powerful attack was
about to be launched!

But, right at this moment.

From among the group of Gu worms, another true inheritance light lump appeared
suddenly!

This true inheritance light lump was about the size of an adult, it was a supreme true
inheritance!

This supreme true inheritance gave off a thin layer of light.

This light was not dazzling in brightness alone, but it kept changing into different
colors. The light was also very dense, and it covered a huge area, forming a giant halo.

The supreme true inheritance along with the halo crashed fiercely into the dragon of
Giant Sun's will.

Crack crack crack…

Under the halo's effect, Giant Sun's will rapidly expanded and exploded, leaving
behind the sound of firecrackers.

The giant halo with the supreme true inheritance as its center attacked the dragon of
Giant Sun's will, and attempted to cut the dragon into two at its waist.

Giant Sun's will howled, falling into extreme anger and shock.

It had broken into two, originally the dozen Immortal Gu were ready to attack, but
their lethal attacks had been cancelled already.

"Rank nine wisdom Gu!" Fang Yuan's expression was unchanging, but his heart
jumped.

From the appearance of this supreme true inheritance, its true identity had been
exposed.

Within the true inheritance secluded domain, there were only thee supreme true
inheritances.

One was Eight-Eight True Yang Building itself, it had already been broken up by the
formless hands. This was also why Eight-Eight True Yang Building had collapsed
completely and split back into Gu worms.
The other was the luck path true inheritance, it had once fuelled Giant Sun Immortal
Venerable's glorious success. Right now, it was heading towards the opening in the
wind veil of assimilation, rushing for its freedom.

The final one was the rank nine wisdom Gu, Fang Yuan had once seen it inside the true
inheritance secluded domain, if not for Mo Yao's will reminding him back then, he may
have nearly lost his life under wisdom Gu's influence.

Being as high as rank nine, wisdom Gu which was recorded inside <> was definitely
extraordinary.

It gave off the light of wisdom.

Basking in this light, lifeforms would lose their lifespan rapidly, thoughts would be
created and destroyed in their minds quickly, they would collide with each other and
create the sparks of wisdom in the process.

When a person thinks, countless thoughts would be created, destroyed, or collide into
each other, to obtain the results of thinking.

Wisdom path, with this principle, became one of the paths of Gu Masters.

The light of wisdom would increase the number of thoughts to the limit, the speed of
thinking would be raised to the limit, and the collisions would occur at the most rapid
rate. By reducing the time to think greatly, one could attain greater effects.

This was the true effect of wisdom Gu!

"That's right, wisdom Gu also has a wild will, and had been hiding since long ago. Now
that the wind veil of assimilation is broken, it is instinctively trying to escape. Except
that it had remained silent until now before suddenly striking!" Fang Yuan realized at
once.

Fang Yuan felt no shock towards how wisdom Gu was able to easily deal great damage
to Giant Sun's will.

It has been mentioned previously — wisdom path is classified into thought, will, and
emotion.

What were wills made up of?

Multiple thoughts!

Under the shining light of wisdom, these thoughts collided intensely, they expanded
and faced destruction rapidly.

If the light was shone on humans, new thoughts would develop in their minds.

But Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was dead!

This was only a will that he left behind!

This special will was just like the formless hands, without a source of energy!

Under the light of wisdom, these thoughts collided at an extremely fast face, they were
rapidly destroyed but no new thoughts were generated. The dragon of Giant Sun's will
was thus easily snapped into two.

It could be said that wisdom Gu directly countered Giant Sun's will!

"But this advantage is not enough to take down Giant Sun's will, unless…” Fang Yuan's
gaze was sharp as an eagle, he looked up while enduring the piercing light from the
inheritance.

Indeed!

He saw that in the sky, up to a hundred beads of immortal essence were falling down.

These yellow immortal essence were skull sized, each was filled to the brim and they
had their auras concealed. Fang Yuan's rank six green grape immortal essence could
not hold a candle to them.

These were rank nine yellow apricot immortal essence!

Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's immortal essence which he had left behind!
Immortal Gu normally required immortal essence to activate. Under most
circumstances, will could not activate Gu worms alone. Even Giant Sun's will was not
exempt from this rule.

The reason the dragon of Giant Sun's will could activate Immortal Gu was because it
was holding Giant Sun's immortal essence.

However, the wisdom Gu's attack cut apart the dragon of Giant Sun's will into two and
actually revealed it was holding Giant Sun's immortal essence.

"As expected of wisdom Gu! Such an amazing result in just one move!!" Fang Yuan's
gaze brightened and praised wisdom Gu inwardly.

He had also thought of cutting apart the connection between Giant Sun's immortal
essence and Giant Sun's will, but he did not have enough strength to do so.

However, wisdom Gu accomplished it!

Wisdom Gu was not the slightest bit afraid of formless hands. The most terrifying
formless hands only had eight fingers while wisdom Gu was a rank nine Immortal Gu
and could only be grabbed by nine fingered formless hands.

However, wisdom Gu was extremely fragile despite being rank nine. It was not an
offense oriented Gu and could still be destroyed.

It wanted freedom and wanted to soar to the skies, and the dragon of Giant Sun's will
which possessed many Immortal Gu was its primary obstacle.

From wisdom Gu's perspective, dealing with the dragon of Giant Sun's will was of the
utmost importance.

Thus, it concealed itself and waited for an opportunity to strike. It remained

inconspicuous when it did not make a move, but when it made a move, it was
extremely shocking, striking the weak point of the Giant Sun's will dragon and cutting
its connection with Giant Sun's immortal essence in one move, thereby causing the
Immortal Gu controlled by Giant Sun's will, more than ten in number, to be of no use.

Giant Sun's will let out a furious roar at the heavy damage!

However, it did not turn around to attack wisdom Gu and instead relentlessly chased
after the luck path true inheritance which was holding Ma and Zhao.

Giant Sun's will instantly condensed into a huge golden hand that struck towards Ma
and Zhao like a meteor.

For a moment, the whole battle situation turned into this

The wind veil of assimilation was separating the ruins of Imperial Court blessed land
from the outside world of northern plains.

In the outside world were northern plains' Gu Immortals.

Inside was the ruins of Imperial Court blessed land.

There was a giant tear in the wind veil of assimilation from which countless Gu worms
flew out, sparking conflicts among the Gu Immortals.

Inside the wind veil.

At the highest point was the luck path true inheritance which had turned into a
rainbow and flew rapidly towards the tear in the wind veil of assimilation, it was
already close to it.

In the middle was the huge hand of Giant Sun's will which could no longer activate
Immortal Gu.

Below Giant Sun's will was wisdom Gu which was following closely.

Even further below in the mid-air was the deadlock between Fang Yuan and Hei Lou
Lan.

On the ground were dozens of surviving Gu Masters. Formless hands were attracted
towards the Gu worms that filled the sky, and as such the Gu Masters' situation was a
lot better.

The huge hand of Giant Sun's will which had burst out with all its strength was rapidly
closing the distance between it and the luck path true inheritance.

Crackle crackle crackle…

Giant Sun's will was bursting out with explosive sounds.

Wisdom Gu was not far below and Giant Sun's will had all along been under the light
of wisdom; its thoughts violently collided and perished.

The huge hand of Giant Sun's will was shrinking rapidly at a visible speed.

However, the light of wisdom Gu was not just exhausting Giant Sun's will, the intense
collisions of the will was further increasing the speed and power of the huge hand of
Giant Sun's will.

Finally, when the luck path true inheritance was just about to charge into the wind
veil, the huge hand of Giant Sun's will was able to block its path.

"None of you can escape, die!" The huge hand of Giant Sun's will grabbed down with
extreme killing intent, not caring that the luck path true inheritance was a unique
existence and just focused on killing Ma and Zhao.

"Are we going to die?!" Ma and Zhao hugged each other, terror and shock filled them
as they looked at the giant hand falling down upon them.

Boom!

Powerful attacks rained down like a hailstorm, smashing down ruthlessly at the huge
hand of Giant Sun's will.

"You unfilial descendants!!" Giant Sun's will let out a furious roar as its giant hand
collapsed.

The luck path true inheritance carried Ma and Zhao, and flew through the wind veil of
assimilation to the outside world of northern plains.

"These are Immortal Gu!"

"Grab the Immortal Gu!"

"They are mine, all mine!!"

How could the righteous path Gu Immortals whose hearts were filled with greed know
about the identity of the giant hand of will. Even if they knew, would they just look on
as the huge hand of will crushed the Immortal Gu?

A man whose heart cannot be satisfied is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant!

The luck path true inheritance was brimming with dense Immortal Gu aura which
further intensified the greed of the northern plains' Gu Immortals.

"Fight!"

"Courting death, who dares to seize the Immortal Gu in front of me?!"

"You shameless bastards! Did you guys forget the agreement we made earlier?"

Verbal agreements between Gu Immortals were already fragile; who would comply
with such agreements in front of huge profits?

The northern plains' Gu Immortals removed all consideration for face and grabbed at
the luck path true inheritance!

The majestic auras of the Gu Immortals collided against each other.

Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun blacked out, almost fainting on the spot.

They had left the wolf's nest and entered the tiger's den!

"Eh? This aura and radiance, I am not wrong, this definitely is connected to luck path!
Everyone move together!" Suddenly, a long and loud whooshing sound rang out.

Over ten Gu Immortals appeared.

At the lead was an old Gu Immortal with a snow-white beard that reached the toes.

The righteous path Gu Immortals narrowed their eyes at the sight of this man.
Someone cried out in surprise, introducing this man's origins: "Old Ancestor Xue Hu,
you actually came in person!"

Old Ancestor Xue Hu was the leader of Snowy Mountain blessed land, a rank eight Gu
Immortal and the number one demonic path Gu Immortal of northern plains!

Following him were Snowy Mountain blessed land's demonic path Gu Immortals,
legendary experts whose names were known far and wide.

"Imperial Court blessed land is about to be destroyed, of course I have to come and
reap some benefits! Enough nonsense, strike!" Old Ancestor Xue Hu screamed out
before leading the group behind him to join in the fight.

The scene turned even more chaotic.

Righteous and demonic factions battled with all sorts of Gu worms flying about. The
luck path true inheritance changed hands several times; Ma and Zhao were in a
precarious situation, walking on the edge of life and death.

"Don't fight, inside the wind veil of assimilation there are definitely many more
Immortal Gu!" A Gu Immortal shouted in the chaos.

"The three immortals of Chanyu, make your move. The wind veil of assimilation is
closing up!" Another Gu Immortal gave a reminder from within the chaotic battlefield.

The three Chanyu immortals had gathered with the Gu Immortal Tong Zu as the lead.
They hurriedly glanced below when they heard the reminder.

Sure enough, the tear on the wind veil of assimilation was already closing up and there
was only a thin crack remaining.

The tear that winged blade had created was extremely large, but the wind veil of
assimilation's recovery speed was very fast.

Gu Immortal Tong Zu had estimated the cut would be closed in eight breaths of time.
And from the looks of it, it indeed took around eight breaths.

If they used the winged blade now, they would be able to open up a tear again.
However, Chanyu tribe's three immortals showed no signs of using it.

This immortal path killer move had extremely terrifying power, but the price to pay
was equally large, consuming a lot of immortal essence. And in this chaotic situation,
the three Chanyu immortals did not dare to use it again so as to keep it in reserve to
intimidate enemies.

"Brother Hei Cheng, what are we going to do now?" Hei tribe's Gu Immortal, Hei Bai,
lost his cool when he saw the wind veil of assimilation closing up, and hurriedly
consulted Gu Immortal Hei Cheng.

Hei Cheng was silent, his expression extremely unsightly.

Hei Bai had been seeking Immortal Gu Wooden Chicken since long ago, they had also
received information from Hei Lou Lan that he had already obtained the Immortal Gu.
But the wind veil of assimilation was now closed, Hei Lou Lan had not escaped when
he had the chance, causing Hei Bai's plan to be fruitless.

Hei Cheng did not have the ability to cut apart the wind veil of assimilation.

His voice turned extremely gloomy: "Brother Hei Bai, you still have a chance. Those
formless hands inside the wind veil are extremely likely to have seized wooden
chicken Gu. When they travel through space and their energy is used up, the captured
Gu worms will also be freed."

The investigative abilities of Gu Immortals were much stronger than that of Gu

Masters.

After the tear was opened on the wind veil of assimilation, they had immediately
glanced at the dangers within the wind veil. And because of the formless hands as well,
they did not dare to enter the wind veil and risk themselves.

"It's like that?" Hei Bai's eyes brightened before he thought of something, "Then
nephew Hei Lou Lan…”

Hei Cheng didn't speak, but his expression turned even more gloomy.

……

Hei Lou Lan did not grab the opportunity to escape the wind veil of assimilation, this
made Fang Yuan inwardly shocked.

However, he did not have the time to ponder over this and threw it to the back of his
mind.

He fixed his gaze on the falling immortal essence of Giant Sun.

His mind was filled completely with the thoughts of this immortal essence of Giant
Sun.

Gu Masters cannot use the primeval essence of others. Gu Immortals were also unable
to use the immortal essence of others.

After Fang Yuan obtained Hu Immortal blessed land, he had obtained a lot of green
grape immortal essence left behind by Hu Immortal. But only the land spirit, Little Hu
Immortal, could use this immortal essence.

Land spirits were formed from a Gu Immortal's obsession. Giant Sun's immortal
essence also could only be used by Giant Sun's will. Even if Fang Yuan obtained this
immortal essence, he would not be able to use them.

But this did not affect Fang Yuan's resolve to seize the immortal essence of Giant Sun
even a little bit!

"I can't use it, but as long I seize all this immortal essence, the power of Giant Sun's
will will drop down to twenty to thirty percent!!" Fang Yuan soared to the sky, crazily
activating all sorts of movement Gu to increase his speed.

This exceptionally good opportunity was created by wisdom Gu, Fang Yuan would not
be worthy of being an authoritative figure of the demonic path if he did not grab this
chance.

"You dare!!" Attacked by his own descendants, and now sensing what Fang Yuan was
attempting, Giant Sun's will was furious as well as anxious.

Without immortal essence, it was not able to activate Immortal Gu and could only use
the power of its special will to battle.

It understood the severity of this more than anyone else!

Fang Yuan's extremely fast speed gave Giant Sun's will an unprecedented fear!

"Damn it, it's too late!" The will condensed back together into a giant hand which fell
down like a meteor.

"Hahaha…” Fang Yuan threw his head back and laughed loudly, he was less than a
hundred steps away from Giant Sun's immortal essence.

Even if Giant Sun's will was mighty, Fang Yuan was not worried.

Because between Fang Yuan and Giant Sun's will was the rank nine wisdom Gu!

"Wisdom Gu is the bane of Giant Sun's will, Giant Sun's will would have to detour
around wisdom Gu which would waste a lot more time! Hei Lou Lan does not have
high speed and he still has to hold Tai Bai Yun Sheng, so he can't chase me. The only
worry is the formless hands…”

Fang Yuan thought of every possible scenario with his understanding of the whole
situation.

Wind whistled past, Giant Sun's immortal essence was already within reach!
Seeing that he was about to succeed, Fang Yuan's lips curled into a faint smile.

But that did not stop unexpected events from happening.

Wisdom Gu quickly descended, as the light of wisdom shrouded Fang Yuan.

Once he entered the wisdom halo, Fang Yuan's thoughts were created and destroyed
intensely, he aged rapidly.

"This?!" Fang Yuan was shocked, raising his head to take a look, he saw wisdom Gu
descending towards himself.

Meanwhile, Giant Sun's will which had lost a huge portion of its body shrunk into a
tiny ball and followed closely after.

In reality, Giant Sun's will knew that if he took a detour around wisdom Gu, he would
not be able to stop Fang Yuan. Thus, he forcefully got close to wisdom Gu and used a
technique to send it flying.

Although wisdom Gu countered Giant Sun's will, Giant Sun's will was large enough and
after paying a huge price, he could barely come into contact with wisdom Gu by risking
his life.

This way, wisdom Gu was like a rubber ball flying straight for Fang Yuan, it became
greatly troublesome for Fang Yuan now.

"As expected of Giant Sun!" Seeing wisdom Gu approaching himself, Fang Yuan could
not help but praise Giant Sun's will's decision.

He laughed heartily, his heart was extremely resolute.

If you, Giant Sun, could make such a sacrifice, why can't I, Gu Yue Fang Yuan?

Thus, Fang Yuan endured the light of wisdom and used his method to sweep away all
of the falling immortal essence of Giant Sun!

Immediately afterwards, he used wind flower Gu to change his direction, moving to

the side and trying to get away from wisdom Gu.

Wisdom Gu continued to descend, as Fang Yuan narrowly passed by it.

"Cough cough cough…” Fang Yuan coughed non stop, he was finally out of the range of
the light of wisdom. But his face no longer had the appearance of a young man, anyone
who saw him would think he was a middle aged man.

The closer one was to wisdom Gu, the more intense the light of wisdom would be.

Earlier when Fang Yuan was inside the true inheritance secluded domain, he was still
a great number of steps away from wisdom Gu, but in just a few breaths' time, he lost
two years of his life.

Earlier, he was so close to wisdom Gu, and had endured the light of wisdom for such a
long time, thus he lost more than ten years of lifespan.

Ordinary people only had a hundred years of lifespan.

In order to snatch Giant Sun's immortal essence, Fang Yuan paid a heavy price!

"Little scoundrel, die!" Drawing an arc in the air like lightning, Giant Sun's will
pounced like an eagle.

Fang Yuan immediately felt an intense sensation of danger and death assaulting him,
at the crucial moment, he only had time to activate six arm heavenly zombie king.

Bam!

With a loud bang, Fang Yuan was swatted like a fly.

Crashing down like a meteor, he landed heavily on the ground, forming a huge crater.

Rocks were sent flying as dust clouds formed.

Fang Yuan was lying in the deepest part of the crater, he regained his senses three
breaths of time later.

Out of his eight arms, six were broken. His entire back was in a terrible state, his spine
and ribcages could be seen. He was dizzy, he could barely think — the attack of Giant
Sun's will earlier had not just targeted his body, but a large amount of special wills
entered his mind, trying to destroy it and affect his cognitive ability!

While only barely conscious, Fang Yuan actually dodged without thinking about it.

The next moment, Giant Sun's will in the form of a huge golden axe swung down from
high in the sky, cutting away Fang Yuan's left arm and left leg.

If Fang Yuan did not dodge in time, perhaps he would have been split into two by this
attack.

As his consciousness recovered, Fang Yuan quickly used his sole remaining palm to
support himself, his immense strength pushing his body out of the crater.

But as he was doing so, Giant Sun's will turned into a huge golden hammer, flying into
the sky and slamming towards Fang Yuan.

Bam!

Fang Yuan was like a giant elephant who was hit while running, his ribcage was
completely broken while his intestines were crushed to bits due to the impact.

At the same time, in his mind, he was invaded by Giant Sun's will again, as he fell into
greater confusion.

Fang Yuan was like a rubber ball that was slammed on the ground, he rolled along the
ground as he flew, causing a long trail to appear on the ground where he was sent
flying.

The intense collision caused his clothes to be torn, and he was covered in dust.

Eventually, he sprawled on the ground weakly, motionless. His broken bones and
hanging flesh were all exposed, as blood flowed, they were not red, instead, his blood
had a deep green color due to six arm heavenly zombie king.
His expression was distorted, his fangs were exposed as he struggled in pain.

At this moment, there was a huge battle in Fang Yuan's mind, the battle of wills was
intense, and Giant Sun's will had the upper hand.

Fang Yuan was taking a beating passively, although he resisted stubbornly, he could
barely think clearly now.

Only after he exterminated the portion of Giant Sun's will in his mind could he
reawaken and regain his consciousness.

But Giant Sun's will would not give him such a chance.

It condensed into a golden sword, sixteen meters long and six meters wide, it gave off
an indomitable aura, and had the ability to judge all beings.

"This, this is Giant Sun's will's true battle strength? This is too terrifying…” Far away,
Hei Lou Lan held the unconscious Tai Bai Yun Sheng as he said with a tongue-tied
expression.

Giant Sun's will had refined many Immortal Gu, and was struck by wisdom Gu and also
attacked by a group of over twenty Gu Immortals, in the end, he had to make a sacrifice
and forcefully charge ahead to send wisdom Gu flying.

After all these, he had suffered great injuries, his mass was a miniscule fraction
compared to the time he was slumbering.

But even so, Fang Yuan had no way of fighting back. And without using a single
Immortal Gu, no wonder Hei Lou Lan watched with such nervousness, this battle
strength was simply too terrifying!

But immediately after, Hei Lou Lan calmed down: "No, the special will is not this
strong. But earlier, Ancestor Giant Sun struck at the perfect moment, while he was
unprepared, he dealt a serious blow. The scoundrel wanted to retaliate, but he could
not think as his mind was already invaded by the special will, falling into chaos. If he
was prepared and had ample time to react, it would not have ended this way!"

"The main factor was because he inherited Old Ancestor's battle experience, he is
ruthless and decisive, once he finds an opening, he would strike at the opponent's
weakness and give him no chance of fighting back! Especially the will invading the
mind, this is too scary, it is simply impossible to fight back. It seems that I need to be
careful about this when fighting a wisdom path Gu Master!"

Hei Lou Lan reminded himself as he landed slowly on the ground.

He looked at the sword of will, it was floating and eventually landed above Fang Yuan,
the tip of the blade was right on top of his brain.

"This guy is finished." Hei Lou Lan muttered softly; the great foe before him had landed
in such a state because of a mistake that was strictly not his fault. He felt some relief,
some joy, and even a slight sadness.

The strength of Giant Sun's will was due to the battle experience that it had inherited
from Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.

Although Fang Yuan had five hundred years of experience, in this aspect, Giant Sun's
will was much stronger than him and had much greater experience.

Once Giant Sun's will gets a chance, he would attack consecutively and gain the upper
hand, expanding on his advantage and preventing Fang Yuan from recovering any of
his footing!

Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was not only lucky, this aspect of him displayed his
invincible nature, his firm and domineering battle talent.

"It's over." Hei Lou Lan looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng who was in his arms.

Inside the wind veil of assimilation, he was Fang Yuan's only ally, but now he was
unconscious.

Hei Lou Lan threw him onto the ground casually, his gaze fixed on the sword of Giant
Sun's will.

Without hesitation, the sword of Giant Sun's will shot down soundlessly, the tip of the
sword pointed at Fang Yuan's brain.

Even though Fang Yuan was in six arm heavenly zombie king state, and had
transformed into the body of a zombie, but once his head was pierced, Giant Sun's will
would completely destroy his brain, along with his entire soul.
This was a truly fatal blow!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had fainted, Fang Yuan was unconscious, he had no way to fight
back.

But just when the sword's tip was about to reach Fang Yuan's forehead, with just an
inch away, a water wall suddenly appeared.

At the same time, a shrill woman's voice could be heard: "With me here, don't think of
taking his life!"

"Who is this?" Hei Lou Lan gasped, he looked at the water wall with shock, the surface
of the water wall had turned into a spiral, coiling around the sword tip and preventing
the sword of Giant Sun's will from descending.

At the same time, a strong aura burst out from Fang Yuan's body.

Giant Sun's will pulled back the sword, retreating several hundred steps away rapidly.

He stood in the air for a moment before saying in a low voice, as he remembered: "It's
you! Over ten thousand years ago, you barged into Eighty-Eight True Yang Building,
you were the one who freed fortune rivalling heaven Gu!!"

Mo Yao laughed delicately: "I'm surprised you remember."

Saying this, the water wall turned into a liquid armor that covered Fang Yuan's body.

A light blue glow surrounded Fang Yuan, causing his wounds to heal rapidly, his
broken limbs, flesh and bones were all rapidly healing.

Giant Sun's will was able to remember because Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had
recording Gu worms that filmed all that had happened inside it.

When Mo Yao explored Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, she did not wake up Giant
Sun's will. But this time, after Fang Yuan woke up Giant Sun's will, he used the
respective Gu worms to look through the records, learning what had happened.

Mo Yao's voice, appearance, Fang Yuan's name as well as his wicked deeds inside
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Giant Sun's will was very aware of all of them, that
was why he was able to expose the secret of the Chang Shan Yin impersonation.
Giant Sun's will was extremely furious: "You unscrupulous and shameless thieves, you
have been targeting my True Yang Building for tens of thousands of years! Die!"

Giant Sun's will attacked with rage, the golden sword flew like lightning, piercing the
air and drawing a golden rainbow in the air.

The rainbow hit the liquid armor, causing ripples on it, but could not pierce the
armor's protection.

Fang Yuan slowly woke up.

"This is… the rank seven Immortal Gu House Water Pavilion?" He looked at the liquid
armor on him and realized.

It turns out that since an unknown time ago, Water Pavilion had been on him.

When he was in a chaotic state and his life was at risk, Mo Yao's will activated Water
Pavilion and protected him.

Giant Sun's will could control Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Mo Yao's will could
naturally manipulate Water Pavilion.

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's yellow apricot
immortal essence, how could Water Pavilion not have Fairy Mo Yao's red date
immortal essence?

"Lad, you are finally awake. The immortal essence that my main body had left behind
is limited, Water Pavilion's consumption is too great, quickly take over the battle, I will
defend your mind!" Mo Yao's will said.
"Hmph, I could escape death all thanks to you, fairy!" Fang Yuan squinted, his eyes
shining with cold light.

He loosened his joints, rubbing his palms as his newly born bones creaked, his battle
intent surged again!

"If you want to repay me, return Water Pavilion to Spirit Affinity House." Mo Yao's will
sighed: "Quickly battle!"

"Hahaha, okay!" Fang Yuan howled, jumping up.

He had turned into six arm heavenly zombie king form, it had great physical strength.
With green eyes and fangs, he looked extremely vicious and ruthless.

The water armor shrunk into a lump, before turning into a helmet, protecting his head.
This way, he was no longer afraid of Giant Sun's will's mental attack.

Without any worries left, Fang Yuan took huge steps forward, raising his fists and
punching at Giant Sun's will!

Swoosh.

The expected impact did not occur, instead, there was a light sound.

Giant Sun's will was very experienced, he did not fight with Fang Yuan directly. At the
crucial moment, the sword turned into a golden ribbon and coiled around Fang Yuan's
wrist lightly, before flying away like a flash of light.

Fang Yuan's hammer-like fist was cut apart around the wrist and fell on the ground.

Even with the defense of Fang Yuan's six arm heavenly zombie king, it could not match
Giant Sun's will's sharpness.
Fang Yuan rolled away and quickly picked up his hand.

The injury on his arm was oozing with green blood slowly. Fang Yuan paid attention
to Giant Sun's will while pressing the fist back onto the wound on his arm.

The flesh on the wound quickly mended and healed, even the bones started to join
together.

This was the strong regenerative ability of six arm heavenly zombie king.

But why would Giant Sun's will give Fang Yuan time to recover? The will turned into a
sword resembling a rainbow and charged at Fang Yuan again.

Fang Yuan squinted, he pushed with his legs as his body shot into the sky.

The sword rainbow followed closely behind him, chasing relentlessly.

Fang Yuan activated four eagle rise Gu at the same time, but the sword rainbow was
faster, as their distance was pulled closer.

Fang Yuan activated wind flower Gu again.

He had already lost track of which wind flower Gu this was, all in all, he had already
expended a lot of them.

Wind flower Gu allowed Fang Yuan to change directions rapidly, but the sword
rainbow of will was even more agile, not only did their distance not become larger, the
rainbow made use of this chance to catch up to Fang Yuan.

At once, the two sides fought intensely in the air, exchanging blows.

The sword rainbow of will drew a golden arc in the air, circling around Fang Yuan and
attacking from time to time.

Fang Yuan was completely at a disadvantage, six arm heavenly zombie king's strong
defense was extremely weak when matched against the sword rainbow of will.

Flesh kept falling from the sky.

These were all cut off from Fang Yuan's body by the sword rainbow of will.
Thankfully, after activating six arm heavenly zombie king, Fang Yuan lost his sense of
pain. Together with Water Pavilion as a helmet, Giant Sun's will did not manage to
succeed in attacking Fang Yuan's mind.

"You're not making any progress!" Seeing that Fang Yuan was not taking back the lead,
in fact he was taking more of a beating and finding fewer and fewer chances to
retaliate, Mo Yao's will was getting anxious.

"Easy for you to say!" Fang Yuan snorted, his gaze becoming more ruthless.

Giant Sun's will was different from ordinary enemies, he hardly had any mass and was
extremely quick, even when turning. Fang Yuan's flying master attainment was
nothing compared to it.

Giant Sun's will did not have a fixed form, it could turn into a sword rainbow to cut, an
axe to chop, a rain of needles for a wide range attack, or even a hammer for a strong
blow.

The most troublesome thing was that he could split and form at will. Suddenly, he
could split into two or three sword rainbows and do a pincer attack, distracting Fang
Yuan. At times, he could turn into one hammer and one sword. The hammer would
strike at Fang Yuan's defense while the sword would shoot like lightning, all sorts of
combinations were used flexibly, with absolutely no errors.

One could say, he fully displayed the advantages and abilities of a will in battle.

Meanwhile, Fang Yuan had been reborn, and walked on the strength and enslavement
paths. He was skilled at fighting head on, attacking fists with fists, or using numbers
to suppress the enemy.

But meeting this kind of enemy was something he had no methods to deal with.

He was at a disadvantage, taking hits passively, that was very natural.

In the sky, Fang Yuan's green-black figure clashed with Giant Sun's will's golden
rainbow, forming a large battle arena.

Great numbers of Gu worms were still flying around, their instincts were telling them
to give way to Fang Yuan and Giant Sun's will, while avoiding the attacks of the
formless hands.
"Even though so many Gu worms flew out, there are still countless Gu worm groups
left here, I cannot begin to imagine how many Immortal Gu were used to form Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building." Ye Lui Sang raised his head and sighed, the injuries on his
body had mostly healed.

At the crucial moment, his status of being the leader of a super tribe worked, Ye Lui
Sang obtained the help of other Gu Masters.

"There are not many formless hands left, although we have lost many Gu worms, there
are so many Gu worms here, we can capture them now and regain our battle strength!"
Some Gu Masters suggested.

This suggestion was quickly supported by the other Gu Masters: "We need to work
together sincerely, we need to be fast! The wind veil of assimilation is getting thicker,
it is spreading and the space in here will continue to shrink."

Hei Lou Lan looked at the unconscious Tai Bai Yun Sheng, walking over: "The wind veil
of assimilation is not something us mortals can deal with, to escape with our lives, we
need Ancestor Giant Sun's strength!"

Everyone was silent.

Above them, in the air, Fang Yuan and Giant Sun's will were engaging in fierce combat,
at times, furious growls and shouting could be heard.

Be it Fang Yuan or Giant Sun's will's terrifying battle strength, everyone was scared,
they subconsciously avoided those two and did not want to interfere in the battle of
these two top experts.

But Hei Lou Lan's words were extremely true.

Relying on the mortal Gu that they subdue, no matter how many they have, they
cannot break the wind veil of assimilation.

Hei Lou Lan asked again: "Don't worry, how can this scoundrel be Ancestor Giant Sun's
match? Can't you see that ancestor is having the upper hand all along?"

Everyone's eyes were shining. The battle situation was very visible in the sky,
everyone could clearly tell what was happening.
Hei Lou Lan changed the direction of the conversation: "Although ancestor has the
upper hand, he cannot turn the advantage into victory. The root of the problem is that
ancestor's immortal essence has been completely taken by that scoundrel, ancestor
has over a dozen Immortal Gu, but he cannot use any of them."

Everyone nodded, they agreed with Hei Lou Lan's analysis.

Ye Lui Sang asked: "Then what do we do next?"

Hei Lou Lan laughed heartily, displaying Tai Bai Yun Sheng in his hands: "I have
captured this old thief, he is that guy's senior brother, they share a tight bond. Our
ability is limited, we can only try to help old ancestor. My suggestion is still the same,
we should capture Gu worms first to increase our strength! In order to cooperate well,
we should report all of the Gu worms that we have now! I will start."

Gu Masters were normally very secretive about the Gu worms that they owned.

This was important information, once it was exposed, others could use it against them
and they might lose their lives.

However, this was a special circumstance where their lives were about to be lost.

Thus, everyone could only do this to increase the hopes of their survival.

Hei Lou Lan was a natural leader and had a fierce reputation, as he took the lead to
expose his own Gu worms, the remaining Gu Masters followed along and Hei Lou Lan
was able to recruit these people into his force once again.

Hei Lou Lan had great ambitions.

He wanted to ascend to immortal and needed a strength path Immortal Gu for it, thus
he needed to rely on Giant Sun's will. These people were the pawns that he needed to
fulfill his ambition.

In the sky, the battle was already at its climax.

"I've caught you!" Fang Yuan howled, pouncing down as his six arms that were tougher
than steel grabbed the sword made of Giant Sun's will at lightning speed.

But Giant Sun's will instantly split apart, Fang Yuan's long awaited counterattack only
destroyed a bit of his thoughts.

"Damn it!" Fang Yuan cursed, Giant Sun's will could split and gather together, it was
agile beyond belief, Fang Yuan did not have methods to deal with him, thus most of the
time he could only be a punching bag without any feasible counterattacks, he did not
manage to make any progress.

"Sigh, if there is no other choice, we can only undergo a drawn out battle." Mo Yao's
will said: "Giant Sun's will has no source of energy, during the battle, he needs to think,
that will accelerate the collision of his thoughts and thus the expenditure of them."

Fang Yuan was concentrating on the fight while denying Mo Yao's suggestion: "We
cannot afford to drag this on! Don't forget six arm heavenly zombie king's weakness,
it can only be used for thirty minutes. Once that time passes, the backlash of the killer
move would make me a zombie. If I completely turn into six arm heavenly zombie king
form, the entire body would be zombified and both my apertures including my
immortal aperture would lose all life force, my cultivation will be cut off from
advancing further!"

Mo Yao retorted: "You underestimate yourself, don't forget that you are a strength path
Gu Immortal, the essence of your life has undergone a qualitative change. Thus, the
time that you can use the killer move has also been extended, it is far from thirty
minutes. My rough estimate is that you have about an hour in length!"

"Even so, we cannot delay this, don't forget that the wind veil of assimilation is getting
thicker, shrinking the space in here. My methods cannot counter the special will, does
your Water Pavilion have any methods?" Fang Yuan asked.

Mo Yao heaved a long sigh: "Although Water Pavilion is a rank seven Immortal Gu
House, it is not skilled at attacking, but rather, its ability lies in concealment and
movement. Most importantly, my main body only left behind twenty or so beads of red
date immortal essence. After sustaining the Immortal Gu House's operations over the
years, there are only five left. If you want to use Water Pavilion to turn this around,
you should dispel this thought! Watch out!!"

Mo Yao suddenly alerted, but it was too late.

Giant Sun's will feigned an attack and attracted most of Fang Yuan's attention, but it
suddenly made a turn and got behind him, attacking brutally.
Fang Yuan vomited out a mouthful of green zombie blood, his eight eagle wings were
smashed to bits, and his spine was completely shattered, his back was caved in and his
chest was caving out of his body.

The intense force caused him to descend rapidly.

Fang Yuan quickly mobilized his Gu worm, attempting to fly into the sky.

But why would Giant Sun's will give him this chance?

It would beat the dog while it was down, the golden rainbow coiled around Fang Yuan
as it attacked. Fang Yuan raised his eight arms to cover his whole body while curling
up and was barely able to protect himself.

Giant Sun's will changed shape freely, slashing, cutting, slamming, piercing, all sorts of
attacks caused Fang Yuan's eight arms to be destroyed, the six arm heavenly zombie
king's body was tattered as there were many injuries on him from the front to back.

Fortunately, Fang Yuan had turned into six arm heavenly zombie king form, otherwise
with his human body, he would have already had a tragic death.

Fighting with Giant Sun's will gave Fang Yuan great pressure, only by using six arm
heavenly zombie king non-stop could he barely keep up.
Fang Yuan had, just a moment ago, conversed with Mo Yao's will and these few
sentences were exchanged at lightning speed. Unfortunately, Giant Sun's will noticed
this tiny moment and attacked at the point when Fang Yuan was slightly distracted.

Giant Sun's will had incredible methods at controlling the fight, he was even stronger
than Fang Yuan at grasping battle opportunities!

Bam!

A loud bang.

Fang Yuan crashed on the ground harshly, rocks were sent flying and the ground was
shaking slightly.

Giant Sun's will followed closely after.

Adding salt to the wound!

It turned into a golden sword again, the blade was extremely sharp and fast, it stabbed
after leaving a golden trail in the air.

Fang Yuan had no way to resist, at the crucial moment, Mo Yao's will manipulated
Water Pavilion and turned it back into a liquid armor, preserving Fang Yuan's life.

Giant Sun's will stabbed again and again, causing huge ripples to appear on the liquid
armor.

"Quick, quickly stand up!" Mo Yao's will shouted anxiously.

Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, he used his remaining left arm to support his body off the
ground, enduring the strong impact of Giant Sun's will's as he stood up.

"It is useless, you cannot kill me. I have stored all of your own, Giant Sun's, immortal
essence in my immortal aperture! Hahaha." Fang Yuan laughed crazily, attempting to
break Giant Sun's will's fighting spirit.

But his words caused it to become even more furious.

The attacks became faster, he was stabbing at several times the original frequency!

Crack crack crack…

Because he had exceeded his limit, Giant Sun's will's thoughts were destroying
themselves too.

But because of the furious attacks, the liquid armor could not defend against it,
occasionally, the sword would pierce through.

Fang Yuan laughed unceasingly, as he protected his brain. In addition, as long as his
mind was protected, he would not be invaded by Giant Sun's will, he did not care how
many times his organs were stabbed.

The liquid armor was pierced through continuously, but also recovered rapidly.
Emitting a blue glow, Fang Yuan's body was nourished as his injuries healed.

"Quickly dodge, at this rate, my immortal essence is expending too rapidly!" Mo Yao's
will reminded him frantically.

"No! This is a rare chance!! We have to endure it!" Fang Yuan refused, standing at the
same spot enduring the frantic attacks of Giant Sun's will: "Even if your immortal
essence is used up, you can lend Water Pavilion to me, I still have over twenty green
grape immortal essence beads! Giant Sun's will went crazy, he is doing something very
stupid, that is to consume his own thoughts for strong attacks. At this rate, the amount
of thoughts he destroys would surpass the damage I have been dealing to him."

"This…” Mo Yao's will went into deep hesitation.

The two were expending resources intensively, falling into a stalemate.

"Should we go and assist old ancestor?" Gu tribe leader Gu Guo Long asked.

While Fang Yuan was fighting Giant Sun's will, Hei Lou Lan led everyone and captured
many Gu worms, they had recovered their battle strength.
The reason they were able to capture Gu worms so easily was because there were still
many Gu worms inside the wind veil, meanwhile, the number of formless hands was
decreasing.

With Gu worms in their possession, they were no longer scared.

In addition, because they saw that Fang Yuan was on the ground taking hits from Giant
Sun's will, not just Gu Guo Long, the other Gu Masters were also moved and wanted to
go in and fight.

Hei Lou Lan was silent, watching the surroundings.

The wind veil of assimilation continued to spread, the wind walls getting thicker as
the space inside was unceasingly being squeezed between.

Out of their survival instincts, Gu worms could only fly inwards. Thus, the density of
Gu worms became even higher, they were all over the place.

In fact, sometimes, a Gu Master only needed to stretch out his hand and grab beside
him to capture a Gu worm.

Crack crack…

On the ground below, cracks started forming, this was a sign that the area was
collapsing.

Far away.

A huge spherical light halo was created again.

Wisdom Gu, which had been sent flying by Giant Sun's will earlier, seemed to have
sensed the danger of extermination as it exerted all of its strength to defy its fate,
preventing other existences from getting near it.

All this showed that: There was not much time left!

Hei Lou Lan decided not to wait anymore, he nodded and shouted: "Everyone listen to
my command, we will attack together, do not cause internal conflict and weaken our
offensive!"
Everyone nodded, their expressions were serious.

To them, killing Fang Yuan was the same as surviving this crisis.

However, just when Hei Lou Lan and the others were about to strike, Giant Sun's will
suddenly laughed loudly: "Fang Yuan, you have fallen into my trap!"

Saying this, he retreated quickly.

Wills had almost no mass, he retreated as he liked, taking a huge number of steps back
in the blink of an eye.

"What?" Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk, he saw a formless hand grabbing at him.

He shouted in shock: "Seven fingered formless hand!"

It turns out, when Giant Sun's will was pretending to fight with Fang Yuan, even using
self-destruction to lure Fang Yuan into tanking the hits, his frenzied attacks were only
to attract all of Fang Yuan's attention, to obscure his vision so that this formless hand
could be lured over.

In the wind veil, although there were decreasing numbers of formless hands, a large
number of them still remained.

Giant Sun's will lacked immortal essence, he could not use Immortal Gu, but he had
never relied on Hei Lou Lan and the others, his plan was to use the external force called
formless hands.

He split out a small portion of his will, carrying several Immortal Gu to attract the
formless hand.

The formless hand was faster than Giant Sun's will, Giant Sun's will thus split up into
ten wills that carried Immortal Gu each at regular intervals. Once the formless hand
got near, he would destroy the Immortal Gu!

The formless hand did not have any gains, after feeling the aura of the next Immortal
Gu, it would go over.

This way, after Giant Sun's will lost eight Immortal Gu, the formless hand was finally
lured over.
"Quickly dodge it!" Mo Yao's will screamed.

"It's too late!!" Fang Yuan had already darted away, simultaneously activating eagle
rise Gu. But it was no use, he needed time to accelerate, but the formless hand had
already arrived.

At the moment of life and death, Mo Yao's will sighed gloomily, she suddenly activated
Water Pavilion and had it leave Fang Yuan, crashing towards the seven fingered
formless hand.

The seven fingered formless hand grabbed, and immediately took away the rank seven
Immortal Gu that formed part of Water Pavilion, water harmony Gu, away.

Water Pavilion was a rank seven Immortal Gu House, it was made up of over three
thousand Gu worms, each of the Gu worms were interlinked and connected to each
other.

Their core was the rank seven water harmony Immortal Gu.

Other than that, there were two supporting Immortal Gu, the rank six movement
Immortal Gu Worldly Wave Trace, and the wisdom path Immortal Gu Delight in Water
and Mountain.

Right now, the one and only core, water harmony Immortal Gu, was taken away by the
formless hand, Water Pavilion broke down immediately!

"Hahaha, let's see what you can use to block me now!" Giant Sun's will laughed
continuously, he paid a huge price and obtained the result he wanted to see.

The formless fist carried the water harmony Gu and flew into the sky.

"Quickly destroy it!" Mo Yao's will screamed, the remainder of the over three thousand
Gu worms carried red date immortal essence as they floated around Fang Yuan.

Without her reminder, Fang Yuan had already begun to do that.

He used all of his movement Gu, chasing the formless fist and attacking fiercely.

Giant Sun's will snorted, blocking them.

"We will strike too!" Hei Lou Lan and the others saw the good chance and came to join
in, attempting to thwart Fang Yuan's plans.

"You've come at the right time!!" Giant Sun's will praised loudly, he changed his battle
tactic and stopped blocking Fang Yuan, turning into a bright rainbow and attacking
him instead.

Fang Yuan was faced with the Gu Masters' attacks, but he did not mind it, he could use
six arm heavenly zombie king to resist them.

But Giant Sun's will's attacks were very threatening to him.

Giant Sun's will did not block Fang Yuan at all, his battle tactic was — go ahead and
chase it, I'll let you! In the process of chasing it, I will kill you!

Water Pavilion was broken apart, Mo Yao's will could no longer provide him any
defense.

Fang Yuan got into an even more dangerous situation, Hei Lou Lan and the others'
attacks were troublesome, they hindered his speed.

Pop!

Giant Sun's will slammed, turning into a monk's spade as he changed directions,
cutting the Gu worms circulating around Fang Yuan into two segments.

"Oh no, my red date immortal essence!" Mo Yao was caught off guard, not only were
many Gu worms destroyed by Giant Sun's will, the red date immortal essence was
taken by Giant Sun's will.

There were already few red date immortal essence left, now they were completely
gone, Mo Yao was stunned.

"Mo Yao, I'll open my aperture, quickly come in!!" Fang Yuan shouted, retreating
rapidly at the same time.

The technique of Giant Sun's will was ongoing and he could not give chase
immediately, Fang Yuan was able to pull some distance.

He snorted, flying over quickly in pursuit.

During this time, Mo Yao's will moved the remaining Immortal Gu and together with
them entered Fang Yuan's immortal aperture.

"Quickly lend worldly wave trace Gu to me!" Fang Yuan urged.

Mo Yao's will did not hesitate at all, shouting: "Since I have no immortal essence left
anyway, I'll lend these Gu to you."

Although Fang Yuan had obtained many Immortal Gu earlier, he did not have time to
refine them, he could only suppress them with his will.

There were only two Gu he did not suppress with his will, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's Man as
Before and Landscape as Before.

It was a pity that he did not obtain Tai Bai Yun Sheng's permission, thus Fang Yuan
could not use them.

After obtaining Mo Yao's agreement, Fang Yuan immediately used the rank six
Immortal Gu.

He shouted while using one bead of green grape immortal essence, activating Worldly
Wave Trace.

This Gu was like a jellyfish, it was the size of a baby's fist, wrapping around the green
grape immortal essence as it consumed it.

Swoosh!

A huge wave appeared below Fang Yuan's feet, bringing Fang Yuan away at rapid
speed, pulling distance away from Giant Sun's will.

Worldly Wave Trace was a rank six Immortal Gu. Although Fang Yuan was not a water
path Gu Immortal, he had rank six cultivation and could activate it fully.

Giant Sun's will was stunned, this was the first time Fang Yuan was able to shrug him
off since the battle began.

But he was merely slightly shocked, snickering immediately after: "If this was the
outside world, I would be helpless against you. But inside this wind veil of
assimilation, the space is becoming more limited. Go ahead and run, as time passes, I
will eventually catch you! Give up on struggling, you destroyed Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building and ruined Imperial Court blessed land, and you still want to leave? Hmph,
don't think of the impossible, you are dead meat!"

"Don't worry, if I die, I will drag all of you with me, don't think of leaving unscathed!"
Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, his green face and sharp fangs made him look extremely
vile and ruthless.

"Then come and battle, don't run away if you have the guts!" Although Giant Sun's will
could not catch up to Fang Yuan, he chased behind with menacing killing intent.

Fang Yuan did not dare to fight it!

He did not have Water Pavilion to protect his brain, once he exposes a weakness in
battle, Giant Sun's will would invade his mind.

By then, he would fall into confusion again and be unable to think. He would be meat
on the chopping block, without any way to fight back.

However, Giant Sun's will's earlier words were not wrong.

As the wind veil of assimilation spreads, the space would get smaller. Eventually, it
would become small to the extent where Fang Yuan cannot dodge, and would be killed
by Giant Sun's will.
"Giant Sun, I admit your power. But don't forget that all of your Giant Sun's immortal
essence is in my immortal aperture. Without any immortal essence, how will you use
Immortal Gu? You have no chance of breaking through the wind veil of assimilation
just by relying on your special will!" Fang Yuan's thoughts were racing as he attempted
to negotiate with Giant Sun's will.

"Want to negotiate? Hahaha!" Giant Sun's will laughed loudly, not concealing the
hatred within, "Why would I negotiate with you? Won't it be the same if I kill you and
seize the immortal essence back from your immortal aperture? Why don't you try to
destroy the immortal essence, you might even succeed."

Giant Sun's will was self-confident.

It was not that the immortal essence could not be destroyed, but at the moment it was
not possible.

If Fang Yuan destroyed the immortal essence in his own immortal aperture, the
foreign immortal essence would inflict serious harm to his immortal aperture; this
would be the same as seeking his own doom!

If he destroyed the immortal essence outside his body, the scattered immortal essence
aura would instead help Giant Sun's will to activate Immortal Gu.

"Fang Yuan, I won't compromise. You can't fight me and can't escape either. What can
you still do? Just let it be, die quickly!" Giant Sun's will taunted while chasing.

Fang Yuan did not respond and only concentrated on fleeing.

As time passed, the wind veil of assimilation was creeping closer; it made no sound,
but it devoured everything in its path, assimilating everything.

The space Fang Yuan could flee to was shrinking. As Giant Sun's will intercepted his
paths, Fang Yuan was facing great dangers all around him.
"Giant Sun's will, I will stand here, do you dare to come?" Fang Yuan suddenly stood
still and stopped using worldly wave trace Immortal Gu.

Giant Sun's will, however, stopped chasing; they were still hundreds of steps afar, but
it did not dare to move closer.

"Hmph, I already expected you would make such a choice." He scoffed in disdain, "But
so what? You are only delaying your death by a few moments. I will watch as you die!"

The area Fang Yuan was standing on was the area covered by the light of wisdom.

The light of wisdom was the bane of Giant Sun's will; Giant Sun's will could only stop
its chase.

Through this intense battle, its remaining will was only the volume of an adult man,
and could no longer endure any more severe exhaustion.

"Fang Yuan, your lifespan!!" Mo Yao's will warned.

"There is no other way, tell me, what else can I do in this situation?" Fang Yuan gritted
his teeth, his tone filled with hatred and extreme helplessness.

Standing in the light of wisdom, Fang Yuan could clearly feel his lifespan was
decreasing unceasingly, but he did not have any other choice. Giant Sun's will hated
him to the extreme and gave him no chance to make compromises.

"Sigh…” Mo Yao's will heaved a long sigh, "This is simply a struggle at death's door.
Perhaps wisdom Gu might stop sending out the light of wisdom in the next moment."

Fang Yuan was silent.

Giant Sun's will suddenly shouted to Hei Lou Lan's group: "Go deal with this thief!
Most of his defensive Gu have already perished in our fight! Force him nearer to
wisdom Gu where the light of wisdom is much stronger; his life span will be used up
even faster. Let me see how much lifespan he can waste!!"

Hei Lou Lan's group accepted the order immediately.

Even Hei Lou Lan with his Great Strength True Martial Physique did not want to fight
Fang Yuan in close combat.
They had long ago discussed as appropriate and right now, all of them used long range
attacks.

Inside the light of wisdom, Fang Yuan gave a cold snort and used his Gu to
counterattack with his own long range attacks while maintaining defensive Gu.

Four to five layers of light barriers covered his body, tens of bone shields hovered
around him, and occasionally, stone barriers emerged from the ground to shield him
from the attacks of Hei Lou Lan's group.

Ordinary defensive mortal Gu were not of much use against Giant Sun's will. But they
were still effective in dealing with these mortal Gu Masters.

Fang Yuan cultivated strength path and was not specialized in long range battle.
However, he had no shortage of long range attacking Gu worms, it was only that they
did not follow a proper fighting system.

More importantly, he had unlimited primeval essence. Thus, he was not at any
disadvantage and the situation was even many times better compared to when he
fought with Giant Sun's will.

"Speed up the attacks, don't stop for even a moment! Even if he has unlimited primeval
essence, mortal Gu cannot be activated non-stop!" Hei Lou Lan shouted.

"Right! Mortal Gu are not Immortal Gu and have a limit to what they can endure,
activating them unceasingly will only cause them to collapse." Ye Lui Sang also added.

They were tribe leaders of Hei tribe and Ye Lui tribe, they understood the situation
deeply.

Gu were the essence of heaven and earth, carriers of the Great Dao. Essentially, they
were tools.

Every tool has their own respective usage. The more they were used, and when the
burden on them crosses the limit, they will start breaking down.

When mortal Gu Masters used mortal Gu, they could only activate the Gu worms a few
times because of the limitations in primeval essence, thus this flaw was not too
evident. When Gu Immortals activated mortal Gu, this issue would become
conspicuous.
However, after some time, Hei Lou Lan's group's hopes came to nothing.

"Why does he have so many Gu worms?" Someone shouted in an incredulous tone.

The quantity of Fang Yuan's Gu worms surpassed their imagination. During the course
of the fight, he switched Gu worms one after another as if it was very natural and
effortless.

"Even if he has a mysterious origin and made prior preparations for Gu Immortal
advancement, preparing many mortal Gu, a mortal aperture is not able to hold so
many Gu." No one could explain this no matter what they thought of and were
bewildered.

"Could it be…” Giant Sun's will recalled the scene of Fang Yuan opening a stargate.

Fang Yuan had opened a stargate within Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, thus Giant
Sun's will knew it clearly.

"It seems he relied on that gateway to leave Imperial Court blessed land and obtained
significant support!" Giant Sun's will was very experienced and knowledgeable,
immediately realizing the usage of the stargate when it thought of hole earth Gu and
connecting heaven Gu.

It was thanks to Fang Yuan having Hu Immortal blessed land behind him that he was
able to purchase large numbers of mortal Gu from treasure yellow heaven.

Although he had given most of them to Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he had also left many for
himself.

Fang Yuan's naturally cautious nature of being prepared for anything had paid off at
this moment.

"Hmph, you borrowed external strength. Unfortunately, your opponent is me!" Giant
Sun's will gave a cold snort before suddenly making a move.

He pierced the air at lightning speed.

He did not move into the light of wisdom but shot towards the Gu worms.

Several breaths later, he appeared above Hei Lou Lan's group and dropped a large
group of mortal Gu.

"Take it. I am going to impart a killer move to you!" Giant Sun's will split itself into a
dozen or so parts which covered the Gu worms and directly moved into everyone's
apertures.

Every person received thirty-eight Gu.

These mortal Gu had already been refined by Giant Sun's will.

Under the coordination of Giant Sun's will, the group was able to immediately refine
the Gu worms and learn the killer move through the directions of the special will.

"This killer move!" Hei Lou Lan's group showed expressions of joy and shock when
they comprehended the killer move.

"It is just a small trick my main body created when I had inspiration during my leisure
time, I have not given it name yet." Giant Sun's will said in a light tone, "Now is a good
time to use it, for the time being let's call it Thirty-Eight Sealing Arts."

Hei Lou Lan's group immediately activated the killer move, breathing out rays of
purple light qi from their mouths.

Fang Yuan's eyes narrowed and he immediately dodged them.

But he had limited space and the purple light qi mixed in with other attacks, as such
he was still struck.

"So it was like this, this killer move's effect is this…” Fang Yuan's expression changed
slightly.

Thirty-eight sealing arts was targeted against Gu worms.

This concept was not unusual. A Gu Master's battle strength came mostly from their
Gu worms, thus many Gu worms targeted this point like rank four problem nipped in
the bud Gu, or rank five pitch black Gu.

However, this killer move, thirty-eight sealing arts, was much stronger than pitch
black Gu. It could contaminate moves that were used by a Gu Master, and all the Gu
worms used for it would be sealed one after another.
This killer move naturally could not seal Immortal Gu. And as for mortal Gu, the higher
the rank of the Gu, the shorter the duration of the seal.

But it could seal them completely, and the Gu worms that formed this killer move were
mostly ordinary and could be easily gathered. It touched upon qi path and even if an
attacking Gu was used, it could follow the qi back to the source, sealing the Gu.

This was an exceptional killer move which particularly suited the current situation.

After Fang Yuan was struck, his defensive Gu were sealed successively.

The stone barriers were pervaded by the purple light qi, the stone barrier shield Gu
were immediately sealed. The white bone shields hovering around Fang Yuan were
also shrouded in the purple light qi, falling down one after another, turning back into
flying bone shield Gu.

The windblades Fang Yuan attacked with were touched by purple light qi and even if
the corresponding wind blade Gu were inside his aperture, the Gu worms would be
covered by a faint layer of dense purple qi and be sealed.

Historically, sealing defensive Gu was easy while sealing attacking Gu was difficult all
because defensive Gu were easier to attack. But thirty-eight sealing arts could deal
with both equally.

Fang Yuan's Gu worm quantity decreased the more he used them.

He already did not have a lot of defensive Gu and could not forcibly resist the purple
light qi, only able to dodge and evade all over the place.

But there was only so much space, he would sooner or later run out of space to run to.

At this moment, Fang Yuan took the initiative to attack the purple light qi. He would
rather more of his attacking Gu be sealed, he required defensive Gu to protect his
whole body.

Once the purple light qi touched his six arm heavenly zombie king form, who is to say
it might not seal the corresponding Gu worms and break the killer move six arm
heavenly zombie king.

Soon, Fang Yuan's offensive started becoming sparser as he was suppressed into
disadvantage by the crowd of Gu Masters.

"Kill, kill this demon!" Ye Lui Sang shouted excitedly and sent out hundreds of fireballs;
the fireballs detonated in an intense explosion with dust and dirts flying everywhere.
Fang Yuan dodged here and there but he was still struck by the explosions, his skin
and flesh were torn open.

"You demon, you are guilty of the most heinous crimes, you went as far as daring to
topple True Yang Building! We ended up in this state all because of you!" Gu Guo Long
shouted furiously, throwing out endless wind blades that were as sharp as knives and
could also chase the target, new cuts were formed on Fang Yuan's body.

Rays of purple light qi were also constantly sent out now and then.

These surviving Gu Masters, more than ten in number, gritted their teeth with eyes
filled with fury; they wished they could eat Fang Yuan's flesh and drink his blood!

They had painstakingly fought in many battlefields and taken huge risks to arrive at
Imperial Court blessed land. It was supposed to have been an enormous opportunity,
but they ended up in this plight, almost all of their tribesmen, relatives and friends
were dead.

The disparity from the beginning to the end was too large, it could easily be imagined
how much hatred and anger they felt towards the main cause of this disaster.

"You will die a dog's death today, this is your end for offending Ancestor Giant Sun!"
One Gu Master did not forget to flatter Giant Sun's will. It was a pity Giant Sun's will
was not human and his expression could not be seen.

He only reminded everyone: Do not cause harm to wisdom Gu no matter what!

Giant Sun's will was too strong.

Not just his battle strength, but also his deep foundation.

It inherited some of the Immortal Venerable's experience, just a killer move created
out of boredom drove Fang Yuan into a desperate state again.

"Damn it, is it time to use Spring Autumn Cicada again?" Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, a
thought arising in his mind.

The first aperture was filled with pressure, the surface of the aperture walls was
covered with cracks resembling a spider's web.

Spring Autumn Cicada floated in the center, as yellow and green lights flickered on the
cicada's body.

Fang Yuan was not ignorant, the aperture had obviously reached its limits, it could
break the very next second!

But he quickly dispelled the thought of using Spring Autumn Cicada.

More and more of his Gu worms were being sealed, his firepower was weakening, Fang
Yuan was starting to take hits passively.

"Come on, why don't you strike back!" The Gu Masters laughed maniacally.

"Are you afraid now? Come out and fight if you have the guts!" Someone laughed coldly.

"You demon, this is your deserved fate, go and die!" Someone cursed.

Seeing Fang Yuan suppressed by them, they felt unbelievable joy.

Suddenly, Mo Yao's will's frantic voice resounded in Fang Yuan's mind again: "Oh no!
Fang Yuan, zombie speckles are showing up on your body. The death energy is starting
to invade your body. If the speckles spread over your whole body, you will turn into a
six arm heavenly zombie king for real!"

An even worse situation had arrived.

The estimated hour limit had not been reached, but Fang Yuan was already starting to
become a zombie.

A body that is zombified will be completely immersed in death energy, they cannot
return to normal.

Unless he removed the six arm heavenly zombie king killer move now, the zombie
speckles would continue to spread.

"No, once I stop using the killer move, Giant Sun's will would attack. At this distance, I
would not be able to react!" Fang Yuan shook his head, his expression turning solemn.

Although he had defensive Gu, these mortal Gu were not worth mentioning in front of
Giant Sun's will.

Only six arm heavenly zombie king could allow Fang Yuan to hold his own.

Right now, although Giant Sun's will had not entered the wisdom halo, that was only
because the price to pay was too great for a small gain.

Giant Sun's will was definitely capable of making sacrifices.

To attract a seven fingered formless hand, he lost eight Immortal Gu!

"If I cancel the killer move now, Giant Sun's will would go all out and kill me regardless
of the sacrifice. Once I die, he would take back the immortal essence of Giant Sun, I
cannot take this risk!" Fang Yuan's attitude was firm.

"But, your body…” Mo Yao's tone was hesitant, sounding worried.

Fang Yuan was unmoved, his expression was determined.

The zombie speckles continued to spread, there was only a dot on his back at first, but
now almost his entire back was covered.
The speed of spreading was getting faster, soon, Fang Yuan's chest turned black.

The Gu Masters saw this and were shocked.

Giant Sun's will laughed heartily: "So this is it, you have turned into a zombie for too
long, the balance of life and death energy had been broken, now that the death energy
is invading you, you will turn into a real zombie, a member of the living dead, a
monster that is neither human nor a ghost, your cultivation will be stagnant forever!!"

Giant Sun's will had great experience and knowledge, he understood Fang Yuan's
situation immediately.

The Gu Masters felt a surge in morale, some laughed heartily: "Hahaha, persisting in
evil brings about self-destruction, demon, you have committed too many wicked
deeds, this terrible end is brought about entirely by yourself!"

"Even without us attacking now, you are finished! Hmph, members of the demonic
path crave strength and disregard all else, you have finally experienced the painful
consequences now. What a pity, even if you became an immortal luckily, you still
became a zombie, a monster!"

"This is the result of you toying with evil schemes and causing harm to everyone, being
enemies with Ancestor Giant Sun, and with us of the righteous path!"

Mo Yao's will urged as well: "Fang Yuan, the price to pay is too huge. In my opinion,
Giant Sun's will might not necessarily attack, it does not have much strength left. You
have great talent and ability, you should not end up like this! It is not too late to stop
now, once you turn into a six arm heavenly zombie king for real, it will be far too
difficult to revert back to being a human!"

Fang Yuan's gaze was shining, his emotions were in turbulence, as his expression was
changing.

But eventually, his gritted teeth did not loosen.

He turned into a six arm heavenly zombie king completely!

The speckles turned his body black, in the strength path immortal aperture, the bright
and clear heaven and earth turned into an eerie dark color, white stone mountains
collapsed one after another. The sky was dark grey and the land was rotting, there was
not a trace of life energy.

Meanwhile, in the first aperture, it was deathly silent too. The purple crystal aperture
walls no longer had the crystal clear appearance, they looked like grey rocks.

But precisely because of this, Spring Autumn Cicada's pressure was no longer so
threatening.

Right after becoming a Gu Immortal, he degraded into a zombie! All his past
accumulations, all his achievements, all turned into nothing.

From this point on, his cultivation could not advance in the slightest!

Without any potential to progress, in this regard, Fang Yuan was worse off than a
mortal.

Even with Fang Yuan's iron will, he felt a bit of desolation.

The thought of using Spring Autumn Cicada appeared in his head once more —"If I
use Spring Autumn Cicada and restart everything, I will be able to quickly retreat and
avoid this terrible situation to the best of my ability!"

But Fang Yuan forcefully suppressed this thought.

The wind veil of assimilation was very close now, without any sound from the wind, it
spread silently, compressing the space and bringing an immense mental pressure to
all at the scene.

Fang Yuan observed everyone from afar, suddenly doing something shocking — he
stopped the activation of all his Gu.

He had completely become a six arm heavenly zombie king, he did not need to use Gu
worms to activate it.

As the purple light qi hit him, this move, thirty-eight sealing arts, had no effect.

As long as Fang Yuan did not activate his Gu worms, the purple light qi would not be
able to follow the qi within and trace it back to the source, sealing the Gu worms.

Everyone was stunned, even Giant Sun's will gasped lightly.

But next, the Gu Masters erupted with fierce momentum.

"Kill, kill this demon!"

"He stopped using his Gu worms right in front of us, he is courting death!"

Everyone shouted, screamed, and yelled with their lungs.

Fang Yuan retreated step by step, using the six arm heavenly zombie king's defense
and recovery speed to endure the attacks.

"Be careful, don't hit the wisdom Gu!" Seeing that Fang Yuan was getting close to
wisdom Gu, Hei Lou Lan quickly gave a reminder.

The Gu Masters controlled their firepower, no longer unleashing flashy attacks, but
aiming more precisely at Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan's appearance was nothing like before, his chest was blown open, his bones
were broken, and his intestines were smashed.

He had no choice but to turn around, with his back facing everyone and using it to
endure the intense attacks.

Bam!

A bolt of lightning struck Fang Yuan's back.

An intense force slammed him to the ground.

From behind him, cheering could be heard: "Hahaha, I beat him! This newly caught Gu
is not bad, it should be the rank five thunder hammer Gu."

Fang Yuan crawled up in difficulty.

His back was burst open, the injury was coiling with lightning, his spine and bones
were exposed to the air.

"Look at my wind path killer move!" Someone shouted.

Swoosh!
A huge wind blade with jagged teeth spun and shot out, making a loop around Fang
Yuan's arm and cutting it off, it fell on the ground.

This person was breathing roughly, almost all his primeval essence had been
expended, but his eyes were shining with a ruthless light of excitement.

He shouted; "Did you see, did you see! I took away one of his arms!!"

"Hmph, you made use of that weakness, if the flesh and skin of that area of his arm
hadn't already been fully removed, left with only a segment of his bone, would you be
able to cut it off?" Someone scoffed.

The body of six arm heavenly zombie king was strong, but it could not endure such
fast paced and strong attacks.

Everyone laughed wildly, they shouted and cheered, torturing Fang Yuan, feeling pride
from the heavy injuries they were inflicting on him, competing against each other.

Fang Yuan was defeated time and time again, his tall and muscular body was becoming
smaller.

But he got up every time.

Even though he had one out of eight arms remaining, even though he did not have a
patch of undamaged skin left, even though his zombie blood was dying the ground,
even though his organs were exposed to the air, even though his right shoulder was
only left with a pale white shoulder blade.

"Why, to this extent? Why…” Mo Yao's will sobbed.

Fang Yuan was silent.

"Enough." Giant Sun's will suddenly spoke.

The Gu Masters did not dare to disobey him, they stopped attacking.

"At this point, are you still not giving up? Hmph, your attitude is truly worth admiring."
Giant Sun's will spoke in a milder tone: "Enough, it is not easy for you to reach this
extent. Give up, I will give you a chance to surrender, as long as you recognise me as
your master, I will allow you to make up for your mistakes."
"What?!"

"Ancestor Giant Sun is sparing him?"

"Ancestor, please reconsider it."

Everyone was shocked.

"Surrender?" Fang Yuan scoffed: "Let me consider it."

Giant Sun's will continued: "You destroyed Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, your sins
are unforgivable! I will give you a chance to redeem yourself, after recognising me as
your master, you will help me to once again establish Eighty-Eight True Yang Building,
that will make up for your sins. When True Yang Building is rebuilt, not only will I
grant you freedom, I will even get rid of your zombie status, and teach you the method
to regain a human body."

If someone else heard this, their heart would waver.

Giant Sun's will gave Fang Yuan a way to live, most importantly, he gave him hope to
continue cultivating.

Fang Yuan was silent: "Let me consider."

Giant Sun's will laughed plainly: "I will not give you any chance to stall for time. I will
count down from ten, you must give me a response. Ten!"

"Fang Yuan, are you really surrendering? Be careful of Giant Sun's will's schemes, as
long as you get out, and leave the light of wisdom's range, you will be a fish on his
chopping block, subject entirely to his treatment." Mo Yao's will worriedly reminded
in Fang Yuan's mind.

Fang Yuan laughed in his heart: "How could I be so stupid as to believe him?"

Next, he sighed: "Oh, to think that I will still have to use my final trump card."

"You still have a trump card?"

"To speak the truth, I have Spring Autumn Cicada."

"What? Spring Autumn Cicada! Don't tell me it's that seventh ranked Gu among the
top ten mystical Gu worms in the world, it can travel upstream along the river of time,
returning to the past, that Spring Autumn Cicada which can change history?" Mo Yao's
will screamed.

"That's right!"
"That's right!"

Fang Yuan said, as he snickered in his heart, asking Mo Yao's will: "You've been
wanting me to use it, haven't you?"

"Hmm? Fang Yuan, what do you mean? How would I know that you have Spring
Autumn Cicada!" Mo Yao's will stared blankly, before quickly denying it.

"Hehehe…” Fang Yuan laughed: "Oh, Mo Yao, I am a naturally cautious person, I

consider situations where I suffer defeat more than those of victory! Thus, from the
moment you lurked in my mind, I had already considered the worst possible
situation."

What was the worst possible situation?

"That was the fact that the greatest mystery of me having Spring Autumn Cicada and
being reborn is known by you. I would assume, since the first time I entered Water
Pavilion, your will had already known this secret, right?"

Mo Yao's will appeared in Fang Yuan's mind, she appeared extremely sincere as she
shook her head: "Fang Yuan, are you misunderstanding something?"

Fang Yuan ignored her, continuing: "You knew this secret, but you pretended not to
know, revealing yourself on your own initiative. Next, you pretended that you had let
down Spirit Affinity House, showing a guilty expression as you purposely gave me the
mission of returning Water Pavilion to Spirit Affinity House. In truth, this was a red
herring."

"In order to obtain my trust, you truly racked your brains. You created six arm
heavenly zombie king for me and taught me ink transformation along with other
refinement path killer moves, assisting me in infiltrating True Yang Building, as well
as giving me multiple reminders in battle, acting as a strategist. These acts were to
lower my wariness. At the same time, you had been changing my thoughts,
subconsciously trying to influence my decisions, you had truly insidious intentions!"

Mo Yao's will raised her voice, showing some displeasure: "Lad, what is wrong with
you? You are actually speaking of me in this way, did you hit your head?"

"Hehehe. Mo Yao, you are very impressive, I truly suffered at your hands. Your acting
was nearly flawless, I almost believed you. When Giant Sun's will awakened, you urged
me to leave this place, to take Water Pavilion and return to central continent. But at
the same time, you were influencing my thoughts, causing me to make the choice of
continuing to take risks."

"When facing Ma Hong Yun, you urged me to help Ma Hong Yun, but on the other hand,
you altered my thoughts, triggering my killing intent and summoning my rage and
excitement, causing me to impulsively attack Ma Hong Yun and resulting in my black
coffin luck increasing. Honestly, under normal circumstances, I would consider the
costs and benefits, how could I be so brainless?"

"When I first saw Imperial Court blessed land's land spirit, Frost Jade Peacock, I learnt
about the conditions for ownership. After leaving True Yang Building, I actually
recalled some events in my previous life, a certain person… My true nature is not so
weak that I would be affected to that extent. All these are the deepest memories of my
previous life that have been buried to the depths of my heart. It was all your doing!
You struck in secret, and then while my mind was in turmoil, you attempted to look at
the memories of my previous life!"

Mo Yao stared with her eyes wide open, her tone was unkind and aggrieved, sounding
like the defense of one treated with injustice: "Fang Yuan, all these were your choices,
after landing in this state, you are refusing to admit your mistakes, instead, you are
blaming it all on me!"

Fang Yuan laughed: "Hahaha, admit my mistakes, of course I admit my mistakes! My

foundation is superficial, especially when compared to you or Giant Sun, experience
and insight are no longer to my advantage. But do you know what your greatest flaw
was?"

Mo Yao's will snorted, folding her arms in front of her: "Lad, I am going to get angry if
you continue speaking like this! All along I have been helping you, is this how you treat
your benefactor?"

Fang Yuan did not listen to her, he ignored this and continued speaking: "Your greatest
flaw was that you actually sent Water Pavilion to charge at the seven fingered formless
hand."

"The mission you gave me was to return Water Pavilion to Spirit Affinity House."

"Why was it that at the crucial moment, you gave up on Water Pavilion to protect me?"

"Don't tell me that during these days of being together, you changed your principles
and had started caring for me? Hehe, I can admit my charisma has not reached that
level."

"This is enough to show, the so-called mission you gave me was a red herring!"

Fang Yuan's voice was plain, but Mo Yao's will listened to it like it was rumbling
thunder.

She sank into silence.

This time, she did not refute him!

Fang Yuan laughed lightly, continuing: "Other than this, you had more flaws. First, you
placed Water Pavilion on my body but concealed that fact, evidently you were hiding
ill intentions, wanting to control me using this rank seven Immortal Gu House during
a crucial moment."

"Second, if you were truly going to cooperate with me, why would you hide what kind
of will you were? This indicates that the moment your type of will was exposed, I
would be suspicious of you."

"Third, you purposely gave me an incorrect timing so that my body would completely
turn into that of six arm heavenly zombie king! After I became a zombie, I felt
desolation, that was also because of you."

"Fourth, you played tricks multiple times and secretly influenced my thoughts, making
me think of using Spring Autumn Cicada repeatedly. I am a person with a firm will, I
do not hesitate, once I decide on a plan, I will execute it without doubt. How could I
have this same thought multiple times?"
Fifth, since you had little immortal essence, and I had become a Gu Immortal, why did
you not lend me Water Pavilion earlier? Evidently, you had other plans."

"Hehehe…” Mo Yao's will laughed loudly, retorting: "Fang Yuan, your words are
contradicting yourself. Don't forget, I was the one who saved your life. If I did not use
Water Pavilion, you would've been killed by Giant Sun's will! Now, you are saying that
I purposely harmed you, lying about the timing of six arm heavenly zombie king and
causing the transformation to be permanent. In this way, I have saved you and harmed
you, am I crazy?"

"Of course you are not crazy, in fact, all along you have been very clear-minded! First
you harm me, then you save me, all these were part of your plans. Hehe, if I was you,
thinking in your perspective, it is not hard to guess your intentions."

After pausing for a while, Fang Yuan continued: "If I was a will and had remained in
this world for ten thousand years, after my main body was already dead and my lover
was also dead after a failed tribulation, at this point, when I see the Spring Autumn
Cicada, what would I think?"

"The answer is obvious, I would naturally want to make use of the Spring Autumn
Cicada and travel back in time! Spring Autumn Cicada's effect is to sacrifice everything
that the Gu Master has, merely preserving their consciousness in the Gu. At the crucial
moment, I would sneak into the Spring Autumn Cicada and destroy the Gu Master's
will, replacing him and going back to the past to revive myself, altering history and
changing my fate!"

Fang Yuan had a sound analysis, he exuded self confidence and an extraordinary
attitude.

Mo Yao's will's pupils shrunk, she fell into silence again.

Fang Yuan continued: "However, for you to fulfill this goal, there were many
difficulties, mainly, there were two big obstacles."

"Firstly, you are just a will, no matter what kind of will you were, you cannot use most
Gu worms on your own. Spring Autumn Cicada is not only such a case, it needs even
more. It needs the Gu Master to self-detonate, using their essence, flesh, and all other
Gu worms as sacrifices to become the driving force to propel the Gu Master back to
the past. The stronger the fuel, the further into the past it can return."
"Secondly, Spring Autumn Cicada is my Gu worm, my vital Gu in fact, it is not ordinary.
You are not a formless hand, you cannot take it away from me by force. I had also found
many wisdom path Gu worms, and can create many types of wills, thus it was even
more difficult for you to snatch it."

"Therefore, you had no choice but to continue interacting with me and waiting for an
opportunity in accordance with the situation. On one hand, you needed to strengthen
me and raise my foundation, that way, the force of my self-detonation would create
more driving force when activating Spring Autumn Cicada. On the other hand, you
needed to create a situation of absolute despair for me, so that I had no choice but to
take a major risk, left with no options but to use the Spring Autumn Cicada!"

Saying this, Fang Yuan sighed: "I was vigilant of you earlier, but as you gradually
affected my thoughts, I eventually fell for your schemes and arrangements. You
influenced me secretly, causing me to take risks time and time again in True Yang
Building, and even inducing me to deal with Ma Hong Yun, to deal with Giant Sun's
will, and Hei Lou Lan. Many matters were obviously disadvantageous to me and
irrational, but I still acted on impulse time and time again. You caused me to make
strong enemies, to create a situation where I would be desperate."

"But on another hand, you were afraid of going overboard and causing me to die. Thus,
at the crucial moment, when my life was at stake, you had to make a move and expose
Water Pavilion, in order to help me survive Giant Sun's will's fatal blow."

"Thus, when I was about to be captured by the formless hand, you activated Water
Pavilion and crashed into it, you were afraid of it taking away my Spring Autumn
Cicada, you were afraid of the Spring Autumn Cicada being exposed."

The conversation between wills was extremely rapid, even though they had talked a
lot.

But after Fang Yuan said that, Mo Yao's will did not reply for a long time.

It was silence in his mind.

In the outside world, Giant Sun's will had already counted down to six from ten.

Eventually, Mo Yao broke the silence, clapping as she laughed: "Hehehehe, good, good
analysis! You really unravelled the mystery step by step, it was very meticulous and
clear. To think that I had planned for such a long time, yet I did not manage to deceive
you. I am really amazed by you, lad, even as a reborn person, your talent is simply
astounding. If you were born in my time, we might have been good friends, who
knows. What a pity, what a pity."

Fang Yuan had understood everything, this was Mo Yao's will laying her cards on the
table.

Mo Yao's will could not pretend any further, at this moment, she chose to confess!

Her body was slim and beautiful, a black veil covered her face, even though she was a
will, she was like a night lotus silently floating in the dark, she had a graceful bearing
and a grand disposition.

As expected of Spirit Affinity House's thirty-sixth generation fairy, a rank seven Gu

Immortal, a refinement path grandmaster. Even though her schemes were exposed,
she was not embarrassed or ashamed. Seeing that there was no hopes of continuing
her facade, she showed a plain attitude, extremely forthright.

She sighed: "Back then, when my main body took a risk to enter Eighty-Eight True
Yang Building, I obtained an inheritance in the true inheritance secluded domain,
creating this will of mine with it. I left behind Di Qiu inheritance, on one hand, I was
preparing for any accidents, to preserve the chance of refining calamity beckoning Gu.
On the other hand, it was a trap targeting Spirit Affinity House. Back then, I had
betrayed my sect for Bo Qing, but I did not expect that ten thousand years later, it
would be you who came."

"Actually, back when you refined calamity beckoning Gu, I had already discovered your
Spring Autumn Cicada. I am a refinement path grandmaster, I tampered with the
Immortal Gu refinement process, the calamity beckoning Gu that you refined already
had my will in it. This arrangement was originally meant to target pursuers from Spirit
Affinity House, because nobody can stand giving up the chance of refining an Immortal
Gu."
"Just as you said, when I first discovered that you had Spring Autumn Cicada, I was
extremely excited, immediately thinking of using Spring Autumn Cicada in order to be
reborn. I used calamity beckoning Gu to attract you to Water Pavilion. You refined ten
percent of Water Pavilion, that was something I purposely engineered to make you
less alert. When you left, I activated Water Pavilion and hid in the sweat on your skin.
But in this aspect, how did you confirm that Water Pavilion was on you from the start?"

Fang Yuan answered: "This is not hard to guess. You have to ensure my safety, just your
will alone is not enough, the rank seven Immortal Gu House Water Pavilion is your
strongest safeguard. Secondly, thinking will expend your thoughts, and cause your will
to weaken. I made you exert yourself in creating the killer move, but you had never
gone into a state of weakness. Next, you contested against Giant Sun's will in my mind,
and even helped to refine the supreme true inheritance of True Yang Building.
Furthermore, you were under the light of wisdom, but I did not see your will
weakening. The only explanation is Water Pavilion! Your will had always been
obtaining replenishment. When I first inspected the Gu worms that made up Water
Pavilion, I did not realize it. The most crucial Gu worm is that wisdom path Immortal
Gu, delight in water and mountain Gu, right?"

"Hehehe, you are half right." Mo Yao's will confessed: "Delight in water and mountain
Gu can only create joyful will, but my will is not joyful will, thus I used other Gu worms
to convert the joyful will. This will of mine can indeed influence your thoughts,
meddling with your lines of thinking and making you act differently to your nature.
Am I right to say… you were purposely losing to Giant Sun's will?"

Fang Yuan laughed: "Giant Sun's will is indeed strong, but the difference in our battle
strengths would not be so absurdly large. When I awakened in shock, I realized that
Water Pavilion had already turned into an armor around me, saving my life, at that
moment I realized something was wrong. Although I was alert in the past, because of
your influence, it gradually vanished."
"But although I found something amiss, I could not be sure of it. When Giant Sun's will
attacked me in a frenzy, I guessed his tactic. This battlefield is only so big, there are
very few outside elements that can influence the battle, why would I not be wary of
the formless hands? Thus, I took a risk and went along with his ploy, purposely moving
slowly so that the formless hand would attack me. In the end, I obtained proof of your
ill intentions!"

"Next, even though Water Pavilion broke apart, I was still afraid of its power. Thus, I
coaxed you into entering my immortal aperture, and at the same time, using your Gu
worms for fighting. I purposely got hit by many killer moves, and most of the Gu
worms that I borrowed from you were sealed as a result. This was to prevent you from
having any Gu worms that did not need primeval essence to activate."

Mo Yao's will heard this and shook her head, exclaiming: "Fang Yuan, you are too
shrewd, the moment you found something wrong, you schemed to this extent, your
acting surpassed mine."

"But there is something I don't understand." Fang Yuan asked.

"Oh, what is that?"

"Earlier, I lost fixed immortal travel Immortal Gu to a six fingered formless hand. I
know that Fixed Immortal Travel is an Immortal Gu that you really wanted to get rid
of, because it affected your plans too much. But how were you so sure that the six
fingered formless hand would take away Fixed Immortal Travel, and not other
Immortal Gu, least of all Spring Autumn Cicada?"

Mo Yao's will laughed bitterly: "Lad, I am only a will left behind by the main body for
ten thousand years, do you really think I can control the entire situation? Back then,
the situation was so chaotic, and at the moment when the formless hand grabbed you,
I hesitated, afraid to show Water Pavilion as it would attract your suspicion."

"But next, after it took Fixed Immortal Travel, I was overjoyed, I quickly interfered
with your thoughts, causing you to help Tai Bai Yun Sheng. This delayed some time,
and you lost Fixed Immortal Travel."

Fang Yuan stared blankly: "Your luck is very good."

Mo Yao shook her head, bitterly smiling: "Back then, I sneaked into True Yang Building
and wanted to get my hands on fortune rivalling heaven Gu, releasing it in the end.
Since then, my luck had been terrible. Later, when I blocked the seven fingered
formless hand for you, my intention was to sacrifice the rank seven calamity
beckoning Gu in Water Pavilion, what a pity that the formless hand took the core,
water harmony Immortal Gu!"

"If your Spring Autumn Cicada had a mortal's consciousness, I would've struck long
ago. Unfortunately, your Gu Immortal will is still inside, and I did not dare to act rashly,
only influencing you secretly."

"When I lurked in your mind, I had been paying attention to your thoughts and had
been attempting to read your memories. But after fighting with Giant Sun's will, I
could not split up, all of my will was used to manipulate Water Pavilion to protect your
life. Otherwise, I would have noticed when you sensed something amiss. In fact, I
would have interfered with your thoughts and made you dismiss this problem."

"Moreover, I had little immortal essence left, most of it was used to create wills. Your
tactic of consuming it was very effective, but if I had five or six more beads of red date
immortal essence, the situation would have been very different."

Fang Yuan nodded: "Sigh, actually, this was not a fair fight. A will alone cannot think
as deeply as the main body. Especially when wills have their specialties and would act
on those traits. A will is just a will, it cannot replace the main body. If your main body
was dealing with me, I would've lost long ago. Fairy Mo Yao, you truly live up to your
name! With just a will that you left behind, you could reach this stage."

Fang Yuan sighed continuously, after revealing their cards, he instead started
consoling Mo Yao's will, seemingly forgetting their status as enemies, it was as if he
was Mo Yao's long time friend.

He continued to sigh: "Your plan was really too difficult, it is like walking on a
tightrope, you had to be careful of the balance of the situation at all times. If when you
schemed against me was prior to now, there was a chance I would have continued
being fooled by you. Unfortunately, right before coming to northern plains, I made a
similar mistake, and my decree in life is to never commit the same mistake twice!"

Saying so, the image of a young woman dressed in white appeared in Fang Yuan's
mind.

"Actually, it is also thanks to wisdom Gu's help. Even without using it personally, just
by the light halo that it emitted, my thoughts became extremely sharp and I
understood many things, thus being able to expose your scheme. As expected of a rank
nine Immortal Gu. Hmm, after talking this much, I have a question to ask you, what
type of will are you?"

Mo Yao chuckled: "I might as well tell you now. Since you already know my methods,
you'll get the answer sooner or later. In fact, under such circumstances, it is already
too late even if you discover my true motive. There is no doubt you will need to use
Spring Autumn Cicada to self-detonate! My will is called fake will. Fake and true, truth
and lies, fake will can disguise as a person's thoughts and collide with other thoughts,
changing the results of their thinking and influencing a person's decisions and
actions."

Fang Yuan realized at once: "No wonder I could not find where you were lurking when
I checked in my mind. You were disguised as part of my thoughts! But you are wrong
on one thing, I will not use Spring Autumn Cicada."

"Are you sure? Hehehe." Mo Yao's will laughed: "Six arm heavenly zombie king was a
killer move that I perfected with you. I purposely gave an incorrect estimation and
caused your body to turn into a zombie, you no longer have any way to progress. At
this point, you have no future. I have been around you for so long, I understand you
well, you have no trump cards left."

"Right now, the wind veil of assimilation is closing in, and you have already lost Fixed
Immortal Travel, do you think you can open a stargate here? Don't be unrealistic! You
will be attacked by everyone, even though you purposely acted weaker, your real
battle strength is still inferior to Giant Sun's will. After all, this is not the true
inheritance secluded domain. Inside the true inheritance secluded domain, wills and
thoughts are suppressed. As for worldly wave trace Immortal Gu, I am not going to
lend it to you anymore."

"Moreover, other than Giant Sun's will, you still have a huge threat here, that is Hei Lou
Lan with the Great Strength True Martial Physique! Rank five peak stage, hehe, think
about the force of his self-detonation! Right now, you are only holding on because of
the light of wisdom. Hahaha, with so many strong foes, you are at your wits end!"

Mo Yao's will laughed for a while before her tone became calmer: "You refuse to use
Spring Autumn Cicada because you are wary of your black coffin luck. You do not have
to be so nervous. Spring Autumn Cicada's drawback is that it will cause its owner's
luck to become progressively worse. Back then, Red Lotus Demon Venerable was a
victim of this. Luck is really strong and influential, no doubt, but it cannot decide
everything, it depends on who is facing it. You had so much bad luck, yet with your
strength and wisdom, you still managed to get this far. Ma Hong Yun had so much good
luck, yet he could not grasp it well, even though he escaped from this place, he would
surely fall into the hands of northern plains' Gu Immortals and become a captive."

Fang Yuan snickered: "You've schemed for this long, I'm sure you've made ample
preparations, you have the confidence of certain victory. A contest of wills is not my
forte, if I self-detonate, that is using my weakness to fight my enemy's strength, how
can I be so stupid?"

Mo Yao also laughed: "To think that you'd have such a timid side. It is a pity, but you
are not entirely right. I do intend on using the Spring Autumn Cicada, but it is
impossible with your foundation to travel ten thousand years back in time. I plan to
find Red Lotus Demon Venerable's inheritance when travelling upstream in the river
of time. Using the power of the inheritance, I would go back to travelling against the
current, ten thousand years into the past. Hehehe, don't you want to see what Red
Lotus Demon Venerable's inheritance looks like?"

Mo Yao said something shocking, she actually knew of Red Lotus Demon Venerable's
secret inheritance ground.

But Fang Yuan gave no response, he was silent.

Outside, Giant Sun's will finally counted down from "ten" to "one".

"It seems you are still very stubborn, you want to resist to the end!" Seeing that Fang
Yuan did not surrender, Giant Sun's will said this in a deep and low tone.

"This demon deserves nothing less than death! Ancestor Giant Sun had granted him
mercy, giving him a chance to turn over a new leaf, yet he is still refusing to change!"
Ye Lui Sang shouted, yet in the depths of his heart he felt eased.

"Kill, kill this demon. Cut his head off and make it our urine flask!"

"Today, we will exterminate a menace of society!" Everyone was riled up.

"Oh no, the wind veil of assimilation is already within a hundred steps of us! Ancestor
Giant Sun, what will we do?" Someone said in shock.
Wisdom Gu was maintaining a halo of light to protect itself, the Gu Masters were all
standing near its edge and outside of it, only Fang Yuan was inside. As the wind veil of
assimilation grew closer, it shrunk the space that was inside and in just a short period
of time, the wind veil would reach the surface of the light halo.
The wind veil of assimilation was constantly getting closer, that was why Giant Sun's
will tried to get Fang Yuan to surrender.

If Fang Yuan surrendered and returned Giant Sun's immortal essence, everything
would be easy to settle.

But if Fang Yuan was adamant and refused to surrender, Giant Sun's will would have
to fight him to the death!

"Hei Lou Lan, I am giving you this strength path Immortal Gu, release your dark limit
seal and display the true might of one of the ten extreme physiques. Your Great
Strength True Martial Physique has the highest recovery speed in the world, it greatly
surpasses the other nine extreme physiques. Don't worry, even if you self-detonate, I
have my ways to save you." Giant Sun's will said, handing Hei Lou Lan a strength path
Immortal Gu.

Obtaining the Immortal Gu that he had been dreaming of, Hei Lou Lan was unable to
conceal his excitement: "Thank you lord ancestor!!"

At the same time, Giant Sun's will promised the other Gu Masters many benefits,
handing out Gu worms one by one.

Giant Sun's will raised the morale: "This scoundrel has committed many evil deeds,
you will all be great heroes renowned in northern plains after eliminating him! Your
act of bringing peace to the people will make sure you are well respected wherever
you go."

"We know that being basked in the light of wisdom would reduce lifespan. But in this
situation, if we continue delaying it, we will be killed by the wind veil of assimilation.
How can losing a bit of lifespan compare to death?"

"Furthermore, you just need to restrain him, I will strike and deal the finishing blow!"
Everyone looked at each other.

Giant Sun's will had incomparable reputation, he was left behind by the old ancestor,
under benefits and reputation, forced by the situation, everyone summoned their
courage and looked at Fang Yuan, ready to strike.

"Strange, why isn't he dead yet? After being in the light for so long, he should've
expended all his lifespan already?" Suddenly, someone asked this.

Because if Fang Yuan was dead, they would not need to take a risk.

"That is because he is already dead. After completely becoming a zombie monster, he

is among the living dead. The dead have no lifespan, no matter how long he stays there,
he would not die of old age." Hei Lou Lan explained, destroying their fantasies.

"So that's it!!"

Everyone was taken aback, they finally understood that this fight was unavoidable.

The air seemed to turn frigid, the Gu Masters' killing intent surged, without doubt, this
was the final battle!

They had great confidence in killing Fang Yuan. After all, there was the Great Strength
True Martial Physique as well as Giant Sun's will. However, they were still nervous.

Fang Yuan's terrifying battle strength was ingrained into their hearts.

"Of course we have to kill this demon, but there are bound to be casualties in battle,
oh great Longevity Heaven, please don't let it be me!" Those were the inner thoughts
of everyone.

The atmosphere was getting more solemn, the battle was going to commence.

But right at this moment, there was another surprising twist.

Wisdom Gu suddenly stopped sending out the light of wisdom, and flew into the sea
of Gu worms.

Earlier, it had displayed its rank nine aura at full force, but now it had completely
concealed itself, hiding with the Gu worm group, it quickly vanished.
Everyone was shocked.

Giant Sun's will was the first to react, laughing heartily: "Excellent! This wisdom Gu's
wild will is a newborn, it is still very immature. Earlier, it created the halo to prevent
other lifeforms from getting near it, but now that it sensed the battle was near, in order
to avoid getting dragged into this, it escaped first!"

Everyone was overjoyed at this, there was no better situation.

Without wisdom Gu's halo causing trouble, Giant Sun's will could enter battle directly.

"Demon, the wisdom Gu that you entrusted your life to has run away!"

"Your time of death is now, come and receive your death!"

"Demon, you have committed many heinous sins, landing in this situation today, you
are dead meat!"

Everyone shouted, their morale surging.

Giant Sun's will was ready to strike.

"Hahaha, hahahaha!" Fang Yuan broke the silence, he raised his head and laughed. His
laughter boomed over the surroundings, giving off a wild aura, he suppressed all other
voices.

He had a green face with sharp fangs, and his eyes were shining with a ruthless light.

Although his recovery ability was strong, his previous injuries were too severe, his
body was still in bad shape.

He was left with one arm, his body was crooked, yet his imposing attitude burst out,
causing everyone to take a slight step back.

"Damned demon, still being arrogant before your death?"

"What are you laughing for!"

Hei Lou Lan took a big step forward, his body was like a bear, he stared with his eyes
opened wide: "Demon, committing evil acts will lead to your own doom, you have no
way out but death!"

"Fang Yuan, I had already given you your only chance of surrender, but you did not
grab onto it. Now, there is no way out for you anymore." Giant Sun's will shouted
resolutely.

Mo Yao's will also said: "Lad, no need to continue acting secretive. Your fake imposing
aura cannot stop them. Don't you want to see Red Lotus Demon Venerable's secret
inheritance ground? The battle is going to commence, if your mind becomes muddled
against Giant Sun's will, I will not be able to save you again. Give up, this is a dead end,
there is no way out! Quickly use the Spring Autumn Cicada!"

Fang Yuan's laughter ended, his voice was coarse: "Isn't there a saying, heaven will
always leave a path for you, as long as I want to walk, there will be a road for me to
step on!"

Everyone was shocked, these words were very familiar, thinking about it, they realized
it was from <>.

<< The Legends of Ren Zu>> chapter three, section three states —

Luo Po valley was a very wide and complex labyrinth, Ren Zu searched for Northern
Dark Ice Soul, who was missing, but he got lost in the labyrinth himself, even after
several days, he did not find a way out.

He was extremely tired, he had sprawled on the ground, his back leaning against the
walls of the labyrinth.

A feeling of boundless loneliness quickly engulfed him.

This was because he had given his original heart to hope, right now, he only had a
heart of loneliness left.

The feeling of loneliness was unbearable, Ren Zu was afraid of being lonely, he had
once dug out both of his eyes and turned them into a son and daughter to accompany
him.

But right now, he could only endure the torture of loneliness.

Amidst the loneliness, Ren Zu felt intense desolation, loss, and pain. Time seemed to
have stopped, he was all alone in this world, there was nobody he could rely on, there
was no fire that he could gain warmth from.

Ren Zu felt suffocation, but as time passed, he got used to the feeling of loneliness, he
even started to savor it.

He started to feel that loneliness was not that scary.

In his loneliness, he felt serenity, peace, and quiet.

He talked to himself: "Oh human, what is the purpose of your existence? Struggling
here in this world, rushing about everywhere."

Next, he heard a voice from beside him: "Oh human, you are the spirit of all beings.
You are lonely, thus you wanted to be comforted, to be understood, to be recognised.
Right now, the thing you want to do most is to find the way out of this damned place."

Ren Zu was shocked: "Who, who is talking to me?"

That voice laughed as it said: "I am a Gu, called 'self'. If you look inside yourself, you
will find me."

Ren Zu quickly inspected his heart of loneliness, as expected, in the deepest part of his
heart, he saw a Gu worm.

This Gu looked very real, almost like himself, but it was many times smaller than him,
like the size of an ant.

Ren Zu was curious: "Eh, you are a Gu worm, why are you inside my body?"

Self Gu said: "Ever since you gained life, I had been inside your body, you just did not
discover me. It is not easy to find me, you will need to inspect your inner heart of
loneliness.

"Is that so." Ren Zu had little interest, he was quite indifferent about this as his mind
was entirely concerned with Northern Dark Ice Soul.

Self Gu saw Ren Zu's lack of concern and laughed: "Oh Ren Zu, you should be happy.
You should know, finding yourself and understanding yourself, that is the most
important thing in life. You yourself are the most reliable thing in the world, let me
help you leave this place."

"You can help me leave this place? No way, can you bring me out of Luo Po valley, and
travel in the reverse flow river?" Ren Zu was shocked and excited.

Self Gu laughed heartily: "Oh Ren Zu, why must you walk on this road? The door of life
and death's entrance and exit are the traces left behind by fate Gu when it visited
fairness Gu. When you walk on this road, you will be under the manipulation and
arrangement of fate. If you want to revive, to leave this place, you should walk on a
brand new road."

Ren Zu was perplexed: "Isn't there only one road? Wisdom Gu had already told me
that, where can there be a second road?"

Self Gu said: "Oh Ren Zu, as long as you want to walk, there will be a road for you to
step on."

Ren Zu was even more confused now: "Then how should I walk?"

Self Gu said: "Didn't I say it already, first, you have to 'think' about leaving."

"Think?" Ren Zu tried using his brain, thinking of how to move on.

He thought for half a day, his head was bursting, when finally, a Gu jumped out of his
mind.

This Gu was an old friend of Ren Zu, it was cognition Gu.

"Where there is cognition, there is me." Cognition Gu said: "Oh human, you seem to
have gotten into trouble again, let me help you think."

Saying so, cognition Gu gave off a bright light, enlightening Ren Zu.

Cognition Gu had an ability, that was to enlighten all beings. Any lifeform enlightened
by cognition Gu would gain wings.

Back then, Verdant Great Sun obtained the wings of "self", flying into the sky.

When the light dispersed, Ren Zu obtained a pair of wings.

This pair of wings was located at his heels, they were very delicate.

Cognition noted: "Mm, this pair of wings is called independence, Ren Zu, it will help
you walk on a new road. You have to be careful, a new road is hard to walk on, other
Gu are unreliable, you can only rely on your self Gu."

Saying so, cognition Gu vanished.

Ren Zu was still very much confused: "How should I walk?"

"Walk ahead, and carve the path of your road of life. This is a road that is unique to
yourself! Only you can walk on it!" Self Gu said excitedly.

Ren Zu took the first step forward.

Bam!

The next moment, his vision changed.

Everyone heard Fang Yuan and reacted, flying into a rage.

"This demon has lost his mind!!"

"Kill, we have to work together and kill him!!"

"Hehehe, how dare you compare yourself to Ren Zu? Go ahead and walk, let me see
what road you can walk on?"

Everyone lost their patience, they shouted as they charged towards Fang Yuan.

Guh.

At this moment, Hei Lou Lan suddenly showed a pained expression, spitting out a
mouthful of blood.

"Good timing." Fang Yuan smiled, showing an eerie aura.

He raised his remaining hand as he punched directly.

Bam.

With a loud explosion, fist qi burst out as a strength path phantom materialized in the
air.
This strength path phantom had a striking resemblance to a youthful Fang Yuan. Vivid
and lifelike, and generally in the same dimensions.

It obstructed the charge of the Gu Masters by itself, appearing lonely and insignificant.

"Isn't this that lad Hei Lou Lan's killer move?" Mo Yao's will was surprised, "Ah, I
remember now, you seized his crucial Gu worm, but how did you reproduce his killer
move?"

While she was speaking, the Gu Masters had already reached the strength path
phantom; Fang Yuan's strength path phantom could only endure three moves before
it was torn to pieces.

The remaining fist qi was condensing again, but was extinguished by Ye Lui Sang's fire.

"This demon is a paper tiger, no need to be afraid!"

"Hmph, the method he is relying on now was merely stolen from Lord Hei Lou Lan."

"This strength path phantom has the form but at most only has half the strength of
Lord Hei Lou Lan's killer move, what's there to be afraid of?!"

The group's morale soared higher, they paused for a moment before moving towards
Fang Yuan at an even faster speed.

Only Hei Lou Lan had a bewildered expression and slightly decreased his speed,
staying at the rear: "Did he use my vital Gu to create this strength path phantom? How
could this strength path phantom actually have his own actual appearance?!"

Although his vital Gu had been seized, his injuries had rapidly recovered. Great
Strength True Martial Physique's recovery ability was at the top of the ten extreme
physiques, tens of times stronger than six arm heavenly zombie king.
It was not strange for Fang Yuan to forcibly refine Hei Lou Lan's vital Gu. Fang Yuan
was already a Gu Immortal and with the help of immortal essence, this meant an
enormous advantage in refining mortal Gu.

Fang Yuan's strength path phantom actually had the same appearance as him, this was
what made Hei Lou Lan extremely surprised.

"Even if you seized Hei Lou Lan's Gu and roughly reconstructed his killer move, your
strength path phantom merely has its form and it might have the ability to recondense
from the fist qi, but the difference when compared to Hei Lou Lan's genuine killer
move is too great." Mo Yao's will bluntly commented.

At this moment, everyone had reached Fang Yuan.

On the outer periphery, Giant Sun's will had curled up into a ball, moving slowly,
waiting for the time Fang Yuan showed a weakness during the chaotic battle to deal a
fatal strike!

"In that case Mo Yao, open your eyes and watch what happens next closely." Fang
Yuan's grin slowly turned into a huge smile.

He punched! With the only remaining arm!

Fist qi surged and turned into a strength path phantom. The phantom did not pause,
immediately pouncing towards the incoming Gu Masters.

Fang Yuan punched again!

Another strength path phantom appeared, but it was different; this strength path
phantom also resembled a young Fang Yuan, but it had two extra arms and it was even
more powerful.

Fang Yuan's breathing sped up as he punched rapidly, the fist shadows interweaving
together into a curtain!

BOOM BOOM BOOM……

Punches after punches in the air sent out cracking noises, producing continuous
echoing explosions.
Majestic fist qi surged madly, forming whirlwinds.

Wind and clouds surged and roared like dragons and tigers!

In a blink of an eye, a hundred strength path phantoms were created, forming layers
upon layers of protection around Fang Yuan.

The Gu Masters had just finished off the previous two strength path phantoms and
were about to charge towards Fang Yuan. But when they raised their heads, all of their
expressions turned into great shock!

"How could there be so many strength path phantoms?!" One Gu Master's eyes almost
popped out.

"F*ck, there are still more being created!!" Another Gu Master swore loudly.

Fang Yuan continued to punch; fist qi formed into strength path phantoms as if they
were endless.

The Gu Masters could not believe what they were seeing; this number greatly
surpassed Hei Lou Lan's limit, moreover it was still rapidly increasing.

Within moments, there were already a thousand strength path phantoms!

Just recently, Fang Yuan was alone, but now he had an army standing around him!

"Are they phonies?" A Gu Master was suspicious and felt Fang Yuan was using Gu worm
to create illusions.

But the strength path phantoms' solid attacks in the next moment gave a painful
answer to the group!

"Kill!"

"We will let you taste our power."

These strength path phantoms were actually able to speak, and showed extraordinary
intelligence.

They attacked together, forming an endless stream of humans! The Gu Masters who
were confident in their numbers were now drowned in strength path phantoms.

They seemed to be stranded in a torrential river; suffering the strong attacks of the
waves.

"Defend!"

"Stabilize our formation, they are only strength path phantoms!"

"Damn it, these strength path phantoms can actually coordinate and carry out battle
tactics!!"

The Gu Masters shouted one after another. Their formation was like a large reef near
the shore. However, after engaging in battle, they discovered that the power of these
strength path phantoms far surpassed their imaginations!

These strength path phantoms coordinated together and did not care about sacrificing
themselves; although they only had singular method of attacking, it generated an
extremely large pressure on the Gu Masters.

The Gu Masters' formation soon showed signs of breaking.

"This… what killer move is this? My strength path phantoms could not coordinate to
this extent. This is simply a relentless army fighting to the death!" Hei Lou Lan was
shocked and uneasy.

Fang Yuan retreated while continuing to punch out fist qi.

The number of strength path phantoms continued to rise crazily.

"Your… killer move, this… killer… move…” Mo Yao's will stammered in shock!

She analyzed: "Mortal Gu absolutely cannot have such might, you definitely used
Immortal Gu! You still have a trump card that I don't know about? No, impossible, you
definitely had refined Immortal Gu. How could you refine Immortal Gu so quickly?"

Fang Yuan laughed loudly: "Why do you think I tried to get near to wisdom Gu by all
means possible? It was to use its rank nine aura to help me refine Immortal Gu! If it
were other people's Immortal Gu, it would not be easy to deceive, thus I could not
refine Man as Before and Landscape as Before. But it is very difficult for young wild
will to distinguish if this aura originated from me."

Gu worms higher by two ranks or more could pressure others into submission. Back
then on Qing Mao mountain, Fang Yuan used Spring Autumn Cicada's aura to help him
refine Gu.

"That means you had planned to intentionally transform completely with six arm
heavenly zombie king?" Mo Yao's will immediately started feeling uneasy when she
discovered this.

The light of wisdom consumed lifespan, but after transforming into a zombie which
was already dead, Fang Yuan naturally could stay for much longer in the light of
wisdom.

Mo Yao continued to observe and found that Fang Yuan's killer move followed some
certain characteristics of strength path. His strength path phantoms normally had two
arms. But sometimes, there would be phantoms with four arms and even six arms
occasionally.

The more arms the phantoms had, the stronger they were.

Two armed phantoms only had average battle strength comparable to hundred beast
kings. Four armed phantoms were comparable to thousand beast kings and six armed
phantoms were comparable to myriad beast kings.

"This… this is simply the re-creation of a beast group!" When Mo Yao's will became
aware of this, her delicate body shivered, and said with an incredulous tone, "You, lad
you, you actually managed to resolve the age old question, you have merged the two
paths of enslavement and strength!"

Enslavement path controlled a great number of beasts and used numbers to crush
enemies.

Strength path focused on strengthening oneself, fighting many enemies alone.

The essence of two Gu Master paths that were polar opposites were now perfectly
harmonized and united in Fang Yuan's killer move!

Fang Yuan had been trying to solve this issue since long ago. But he made no progress
and was even ridiculed and persuaded against by Mo Yao's will.
However, he had never given up on his attempts to resolve this. He would never
abandon something because of other people's denial, ridicule and persuasion.

The most crucial breakthrough came during the process of Gu Immortal advancement.

He used this extremely precious opportunity to advance his strength path realm.
Obtaining inspiration from heaven and earth, he abandoned everything else to
wholeheartedly seek the answer for the merging of enslavement and strength path.

Heaven and earth were completely open to him, he was imparted supreme mysteries!

But finally, he also had wisdom Gu to thank.

Fang Yuan stayed under the light of wisdom for a long time, wasting away his lifespan
and turning into one of the living dead. He paid a heavy price but his rewards were
also enormous. Finally, he was able to use his available Gu worms to coordinate
together and form the killer move.

Without investment, how could there by any gains?

Of course, he also had to thank Hei Lou Lan, thanks to his vital Gu which was one of
the most crucial components of the killer move. Besides it, there were Immortal Gu,
as well as many Gu worms which were required to form six arm heavenly zombie king,
and in addition Fang Yuan's second vital Gu, all-out effort Gu, which played an
important role.

This was also one of the reasons Fang Yuan intentionally transformed with six arm
heavenly zombie king. He needed the Gu worms forming six arm heavenly zombie king
to make this new killer move!

Even if the black coffin luck on him intensified, even if powerful enemies surrounded
him and the wind veil of assimilation isolated everything from the world, heaven
would never seal all of one's paths!

There was no absolutely desperate situation in this world, there were only people who
despair.

The answer to resolving problems will always be in our own hands; when we inspect
our inner hearts, we will find that the miraculous heavenly power was in ourselves all
along!
To discover oneself, to recognize oneself, and to rely on oneself!

"The convergence of enslavement and strength path is an age old question which has
baffled countless heroes and geniuses through the ages. I had never expected it to be
perfectly resolved in your hands. Lad, you have ventured on a new road indeed. As you
continue to develop this path, you might even be able to truly unite enslavement and
strength path, and develop a whole new path. This path will definitely have
unprecedented strength!" Mo Yao's will sighed with deep emotions, her refinement
path grandmaster spirit made her not stint on praising Fang Yuan.

"Hehehe." Fang Yuan was just about to reply when suddenly Giant Sun's will appeared
right in front of him.

It was a sneak attack!

During this critical moment of life and death, Fang Yuan moved his head, his vital area,
and used his shoulder to bear the brunt of Giant Sun's will's attack.

Boom, a huge sound erupted, Fang Yuan was sent rolling to the ground, plowing a
gorge metres in length.

"Looks like there is still quite a bit of your will remaining in my mind, you influenced
my thoughts again!" Fang Yuan was furious as he saw through Mo Yao's scheme.

Mo Yao shed all consideration for face and screamed: "Kid, I asked you to obediently
activate Spring Autumn Cicada, but you didn't give in! Destiny sent you in front of me
to give me a chance at rebirth. I will definitely grasp this opportunity!!"

"Hmph! Most of your will and Gu worms have been locked in my immortal aperture.
Your red date immortal essence is also under my control; you have no way to replenish
your will anymore. To influence my thoughts, your thoughts will have to collide, let me
see how long this portion of your will that is hiding in my mind can last!"

Fang Yuan attacked Mo Yao's will while tightly fixing his gaze on Giant Sun's will.
Strength path phantoms soon gathered around him and filled the gap, once more
tightly protecting Fang Yuan.

Giant Sun's will felt quite troubled, it was okay when Fang Yuan was alone previously,
but now he had so many helpers!
Giant Sun's will excelled in speed and transforming, but was afraid of expending his
thoughts. Fang Yuan's killer move that combined enslavement and strength path was
a direct counter to him.

No matter how fast your speed is, I will form a tighter defense. You have your countless
transformations, I have my self-detonating phantoms!

There were way too many strength path phantoms; they surrounded Fang Yuan in
layers after layers, not only in all directions, there were strength path phantoms even
floating in the sky.

There was simply no gap to attack.

"This killer move actually combined the essence of both enslavement and strength
path. These strength path phantoms can not only condense back from the remnant fist
qi, they can even self-detonate! This kid definitely already had some foundation in this
aspect and had made preparations, otherwise just relying on the time within the light
of wisdom, he absolutely would not be able to create it out of nothing… Right, he
succeeded in his Gu Immortal ascension, it is extremely likely that he received the
guidance of heaven and earth during the process of advancement. Damn it!"

Giant Sun's will pondered intensely before hurriedly stopping his thoughts. There
were hardly any left, if he thought for too long, a large portion of him would vanish.

"A chance!" Suddenly, he transformed into a golden rainbow, travelling nimbly

between the army of strength path phantoms and ruthlessly striking at Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan grinned: "Old geezer, why are you in such a rush?"

He had intentionally revealed this flaw in the strength path phantoms' formation!

Giant Sun's will fell for Fang Yuan's scheme. Three strength path phantoms instantly
appeared in front of him.

Giant Sun's will thought rapidly and like a snake, he coiled around two. However, he
could not avoid the last strength path phantom, and directly smashed into it.

Boom!

A huge sound erupted, the strength path phantom was crushed into smithereens.
"Old bastard, do you really think I am easy prey? Hmph, I have already waited for too
long!" Fang Yuan was already fully prepared. He raised his fist and pounded down with
all his strength at Giant Sun's will.

Giant Sun's will was caught unprepared and shattered!

Fang Yuan finally displayed his true strength; his punch was extremely fast, Giant Sun's
will was caught unprepared and received the full brunt of the attack.

Bang, the condensed golden will was smashed into smithereens, splitting into
countless parts.

But in the next moment, the will condensed again, though its volume had fully
decreased by one-fifth.

Having suffered such a great loss, Giant Sun's will was about to furiously
counterattack. However, Fang Yuan had already retreated to safety behind the layers
upon layers of strength path phantoms.

Giant Sun's will was so angry at this that he almost collapsed again.

He could not think about too many things, otherwise he would have already seen this
was a trap. Thus, he fell for Fang Yuan's scheme.

"Hei Lou Lan, what are you still hesitating for?" Giant Sun's will bellowed.

"How can he send out strength path phantoms that look exactly the same as him?" Hei
Lou Lan's thoughts were tangled and confused, and when he heard Giant Sun's will's
roar, he quivered before coming back to his senses.

Fang Yuan's killer move was powerful and had the number advantage, suppressing
everyone into such disadvantage that they were not even able to raise their heads.
Even Giant Sun's will could not make any progress.

This was the moment of life and death!

Hei Lou Lan's Great Strength True Martial Physique was the crucial battle strength
that could change the situation! As he thought of this, Hei Lou Lan opened his eyes
wide in anger and stood up straight.
BOOM!!!

One ordinary punch produced a terrifying result; the piercingly cold fist qi almost
penetrated the heavy layers of strength path phantoms.

Human figures flew all around as the phantoms were smashed to pieces.

This was the true strength of Great Strength True Martial Physique.

At this moment, Hei Lou Lan displayed all his strength without any reservations!

The Immortal Gu Dark Limit's remaining power on him was a thin layer of black
membrane.

When Hei Lou Lan tore apart this layer of black membrane, his figure suddenly
changed! The surging aura of one of the ten extreme physiques soared to the skies, a
formless aura shook the air and formed a shockwave that engulfed the surroundings.

"This?!"

"What's going on? Lord Hei Lou Lan actually turned into a woman!"

"The rumor was actually true! In Su Xian's Night Elopement, Su Xian had given birth
to a daughter with Hei tribe's supreme elder, Hei Cheng…”

It was no wonder that back then, Giant Sun's will had chosen Hei Lou Lan and Ma Hong
Yun to be Frost Jade Peacock's masters. Giant Sun's will had already seen through Hei
Lou Lan's true gender.

Hei Lou Lan turned a deaf ear to everyone's shocked remarks, and fixed her gaze at
Fang Yuan. Killing intent surged and a wild, noble aura manifested like a proud tigress
starting her hunt - bold and fearless, and hungry to devour humans.

Fang Yuan gave a cold snort, fist qi surged beside him non-stop, condensing into
strength path phantoms that had the formation of an army.

He had full confidence in his killer move and was not afraid of Hei Lou Lan: "The self-
detonation of one of the ten extreme physiques can indeed slaughter immortals. But
my killer move can also do so!"
Strength path phantoms shouted one after another; their rallying cries poured like a
river towards Hei Lou Lan.

Hei Lou Lan who had exposed her true appearance was simply unstoppable, she was
like a female warrior goddess who possessed the strength of a thousand troops. The
strength path phantom army charged at her, but she was stable and unmoved.

"Save me!" At another side, Ye Lui Sang and the others cried out for help.

Fang Yuan was concentrating on three tasks; facing Hei Lou Lan, taking care of other
Gu Masters and also guarding against Giant Sun's will.

He displayed his master level attainment in enslavement path for all to see.

The strength path phantom army were highly coordinated and they seemed to move
like one entity. With no regard for sacrifices, they attacked with a crazy offense; Ye Lui
Sang and the others were already in danger, but now could hold on no longer, their
final defensive line was broken.

Hei Lou Lan wanted to return and assist them, but was firmly stalled by the strength
path phantoms.

"These strength path phantoms actually have an ordinary person's intelligence! How
was he able to accomplish this? He definitely seized my vital Gu, but how could he
create strength path phantoms that have the exact same appearance as him!" Hei Lou
Lan was extremely astonished.

The more she battled with the strength path phantom army, the more she realized
their power.

An individual strength path phantom was of no concern. But three strength path
phantoms' tacit cooperation could slightly resist Hei Lou Lan. Six strength path
phantoms could form a small battle formation and stall her. Nine strength path
phantoms attacking in succession could pressure her.

The greater the number of strength path phantoms, the higher their battle strength.

This was all because of the exquisite coordination between them!

Even beast groups could not accomplish this, but Fang Yuan's enslavement path army
was actually made of his own strength path phantoms; they came from the same
source and thus were of one mind.

Hei Lou Lan was not able to reinforce them in time; Ye Lui Sang and the others were
killed one after the other by the strength path phantoms.

And facing the cries for help from his bloodline descendants, Giant Sun's will made the
opposite choice of Hei Lou Lan; he turned into several arrows and tried to take
advantage of the chaos to kill Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan mobilized the guards beside him to engage in an intense battle with Giant
Sun's will.

The duration of the battle was extremely short but it was exceptionally fierce.

Seeing that he could not succeed, Giant Sun's will left after probing and did not
continue fighting zealously. There were hardly any thoughts left in this will; the
intense battle would demand quick thinking and he would slowly be unable to bear
such intensive consumption.

And Fang Yuan also was in trouble.

Mo Yao's will continued to bother him from time to time, creating distracting thoughts
and causing him to repeatedly make mistakes when mobilizing the strength path
phantoms, making him unable to display his master level enslavement path
attainment to the fullest.

However, as time passed, Fang Yuan gradually attained the upper hand.

His strength path phantom army continued to increase in numbers, the narrow
remaining space was filled with these strength path phantoms, their number already
surpassing ten thousand.

At the same time, Mo Yao's will's influence on him was weakening.

Giant Sun's will sneak attacked many times but did not succeed, his remaining volume
was less than that of an adult.

The only one who was still fighting like an addict, Hei Lou Lan, was a monster with
unlimited stamina. Great Strength True Martial Physique's battle strength could make
one speechless. If not for the layers of strength path phantoms which consisted of an
absurd number already, they might not have been able to restrain her.

"Child, you have to be careful. I researched this strength path killer move for you,
although it is strong, it has a flaw. The strength path phantom you create is actually
your subconscious image." Her mother, Su Xian, said in an extremely weak tone at the
moment of her death, advising her repeatedly with a worried expression.

Hei Lou Lan sat at the side of the bed, grabbing her hand, nodding her head as she
wept without letting out a noise.

"<> has already told us that every person has a self in their hearts. Child, your strength
path phantom is the self in your heart. What I can see from it is that you thirst for
tyrannical strength, you long to escape from a woman's status and have it become that
of a man's. Use this killer move as few times as possible, be careful as the killer move
might imperceptibly influence you to become as savage as your strength path
phantom in the end." Su Xian continued to mumble, almost exhausting all of her
energy.

"Mother, I understand, you can be at ease." Bean sized tears trickled down Hei Lou
Lan's cheeks.

"When one day, you can create strength path phantoms that resemble your
appearance completely, mother will be at ease. Remember, remember, find your 'self'.
Also… also… be careful of your fa… father…” Su Xian finished her last words, using up
her final breath as she left this world.

"Mother—!" Hei Lou Lan's heartbroken scream echoed in the room.

"Hei Lou Lan, what are you doing? You are actually letting your thoughts wander at
this moment?" Giant Sun's will's furious shout broke Hei Lou Lan's recollection.

Hei Lou Lan was startled to awareness, she then stared at Fang Yuan, her heart filled
with extremely complicated emotions — this guy actually had already found his self!?
How did he accomplish it?
"The final moment is arriving, the wind veil of assimilation is already close to us. Hei
Lou Lan, self-detonate, I swear upon the honor of Giant Sun that I will save you!" Giant
Sun's will commanded.

Fang Yuan's gaze became sharp, he might have the phantom army's protection and
was sure they could create enough time for him to open a stargate, but he was not
willing to take the risk.

He quickly provoked: "Hehehe, Hei Lou Lan, you are a hero of a generation! Giant Sun's
will might have Immortal Gu, but his immortal essence is still with me, how could he
save you? How about you surrender to me, I have a way to escape this wind veil of
assimilation!"

Fang Yuan was only probing and did not hold high hopes for it.

But Hei Lou Lan's movement slowed down and her battle intent clearly lowered when
she heard his words.

Giant Sun's will saw the situation taking a turn for the worse and quickly shouted:
"Don't listen to this demon's nonsense, he cannot be trusted! Hei Lou Lan, don't
hesitate, this is our final chance to turn around the situation! Could it be that you don't
believe me, your ancestor? Don't forget that I am only lending you the strength path
Immortal Gu, it still has my will and it will self-detonate with just a thought from me!"

Hei Lou Lan roared as her battle intent soared again.

"Demon, you have a glib tongue, crafty as a fox! Damn it, what Gu did you use on me?
I will make you pay the most terrible price, hand over your life!"

Hei Lou Lan erupted and like a wild dragon entering the sea, she carved out a path
through the layers of the strength path phantom army.

Fang Yuan laughed loudly: "Good, let me personally experience the power of Great
Strength True Martial Physique!"

He then faced Hei Lou Lan head-on, and engaged in close combat.

Six arm heavenly zombie king was strong but it was not the match of the ten extreme
physiques. This was still the case under the circumstances in which Fang Yuan
possessed unlimited primeval essence and was activating large numbers of mortal Gu.
Hei Lou Lan's feelings were much different.

Fang Yuan's power and ferociousness along with the surrounding strength path
phantoms' tacit coordination made her feel extremely pressured, and she was
suffering injuries after injuries.

But Great Strength True Martial Physique's recovery ability was much stronger than
six arm heavenly zombie king, the pain instead caused Hei Lou Lan to become even
more fierce.

For a moment, both sides exchanged moves after moves and were evenly matched.

Giant Sun's will only had to wait for a short while before it saw a flaw from Fang Yuan
and sneak attacked at lightning speed.

Fang Yuan retreated a step and turned around, counterattacking with clear hatred at
Giant Sun's will.

Giant Sun's will gnashed his teeth as he fiercely clashed with Fang Yuan, creating an
even bigger flaw. He bellowed: "Hei Lou Lan!"

As long as this exposed flaw was used, Hei Lou Lan could definitely inflict heavy
injuries upon Fang Yuan and might even be able to take his life.

Giant Sun's will finally saw hope at this moment.

"Coming!" Hei Lou Lan charged over and activated her Gu worms, striking with an
unprecedented power.

A dozen strength path phantoms suddenly jumped beside Fang Yuan to protect him.

"You!" Giant Sun's will roared in shock, Hei Lou Lan's attack did not strike Fang Yuan,
but smashed upon him!

Giant Sun's will crumbled, revealing three Immortal Gu.

Hei Lou Lan opened her mouth, actually swallowing the three Immortal Gu.

With a gulp, the three Immortal Gu entered her stomach.

Fang Yuan laughed loudly, the dozen strength path phantoms that had come to
reinforce him changed their formation and surrounded Giant Sun's will, before
brazenly self-detonating!

Fist qi surged, almost completely exterminating all of Giant Sun's will; only four to five
traces of golden thoughts managed to escape!
"Why, why?!" The golden thoughts were furious and puzzled by the betrayal.

"Hmph! Old bastard, I followed your commands earlier because I needed something.
Now that the strength path Immortal Gu is already in my possession, why would I still
listen to your commands?" Hei Lou Lan sneered, her beautiful appearance filled with
pride and coldness.

"You thankless wretch, unfilial descendant, you actually betrayed your ancestor!" The
golden thoughts shouted in hatred.

"Shut up, stop screaming. Is it because your thoughts are too few now that you are
unable to think and have become so demented?" Hei Lou Lan crossed her arms and
squinted her eyes, "You want me to self-detonate, but after making that kind of
promise, what can you actually use to save me? Relying on your slavery Gu, divert
disaster Gu or Fixed Immortal Travel? These are the only three remaining Immortal
Gu on you, now tell me, where is the Immortal Gu that can resurrect me? Hmph, you
want to deceive me with such a childish trick?"

"If you were strong and powerful, I would obey you according to the rule of complying
to the strong. But look at you now, what reason do you have to order me around?
Hmm? Just because you are the remaining will left behind by a dead man? Hehehe,
even if it is Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, he is already dead, he is a thing of the past!
This is a new era, why is a dead man like you still jumping around like a clown?"

Her words were filled with ambitious and ruthless grandeur!

Hei Lou Lan was still that Hei Lou Lan!

"Even if I only have a single thought remaining, I can still cause the Immortal Gu to
perish!" The golden thoughts cried out.

However, Hei Lou Lan was calm: "You can try as much as you want."
"What's going on? You are actually suppressing four Immortal Gu! You might have
Great Strength True Martial Physique, but you don't have the will of an immortal, how
can you suppress four Immortal Gu?" The golden thoughts flashed with radiance
before screaming out in an incredulous tone; clearly, it was unable to destroy the
Immortal Gu.

"There are still many things you do not know." Hei Lou Lan seemed to be shrouded in
profound mystery at this moment.

"Hei Lou Lan, as a descendant of Huang Jin bloodline and a tribe leader of a super
tribe, you colluded with an outsider to scheme against your ancestor! You two
shameless bastards, when did you team up? Why didn't I discover it?!" The golden
thoughts asked in a furious tone.

"Sure enough, you are much easier to deal with when you can't think. Sigh, your
pathetic performance really brings shame to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's
reputation." Fang Yuan sighed, but there was a grin on his face filled with disdain.

The two had actually allied just before now.

Earlier, Hei Lou Lan had shouted —"Demon, you have a glib tongue, crafty as a fox!
Damn it, what Gu did you use on me? I will make you pay the most terrible price, hand
over your life!"

Fang Yuan had not used any Gu, but Hei Lou Lan said Fang Yuan used a Gu.

This was a code word.

Whether it was Fang Yuan or Hei Lou Lan, both were meticulous and suspicious,
merciless and formidable characters.

They had cooperated together throughout the Imperial Court contest and had great
understanding of each other. Both knew how ambitious the other was and would not
resign to being under someone else.

Just because of this, Fang Yuan was willing to take a gamble; anyway, with the strength
path phantoms' protection, the risk was not high.

The two swindlers cooperated together, Hei Lou Lan made use of a opportunity in
battle and succeeded in attacking Giant Sun's will and seizing away all the Immortal
Gu.

"I am unresigned, I am unresigned! I am the strongest, yet I was plotted against till I
reached this stage. None of you will have a good end, my main body left behind many
arrangements which are set to activate when Eighty-Eight True Yang Building
collapses. True Yang Building will be rebuilt, and you guys will be hunted down to the
ends of the world. I didn't lose to you, if I didn't make moves against Ma Hong Yun and
ruin my luck, how could I lose?! In the end, I lost to luck!" The golden thoughts roared
hysterically.

Boom boom boom.

In the next moment, it self-detonated, destroying itself!

It was after all something left behind by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, even if there
were only a few thoughts left, it was decisive.

It was worried the secrets on it would be searched and extracted; the situation was
hopeless so it directly chose to self-detonate.

The self-detonation of thoughts was extremely fast. Even if Fang Yuan wanted to stop
it, he did not have corresponding methods. Unlike blood path, strength path and
enslavement path, his wisdom path attainment was still very shallow.

Only by deceiving Giant Sun's will to enter his immortal aperture, like Mo Yao's will,
would Fang Yuan be able to easily suppress it.

Like this, the strongest existence and ruler of Imperial Court blessed land finally
dispersed in smoke, not leaving even a trace of it behind.

Hei Lou Lan let out a breath of turbid air before looking at Fang Yuan with a tranquil
gaze, speaking in a serious tone: "Now, let's have a good discussion, I believe we have
the foundation for cooperation."

Fang Yuan nodded, sneering: "Before speaking of anything else, the Immortal Gu Fixed
Immortal Travel you seized is mine."

That formless fist which seized Fixed Immortal Travel had been broken by Giant Sun's
will. After Giant Sun's will seized the Immortal Gu, he forcibly suppressed Fang Yuan's
will within the Gu but did not have time to refine it, or it may be that he did not have
the strength to forcibly refine it.

Thus, Fang Yuan was not able to sense the connection with Fixed Immortal Travel. He
had lost track of the target earlier and thought the formless fist had already torn
through space and left.

"I know, this is precisely one of my conditions. Right now, I am suppressing your
Immortal Gu, but there is no time for me to forcibly refine it. I need you to lend me this
Fixed Immortal Travel!" Hei Lou Lan made an astonishing demand.

Fang Yuan had a calm expression: "Why should I lend it to you?"

"Hmph, the Gu is on me and without Fixed Immortal Travel, how can you escape from
here? Only if we sincerely cooperate, can we have the chance to escape." Hei Lou Lan
said.

Fang Yuan chuckled: "Who told you I don't have other methods to leave this place?"

Hei Lou Lan's pupils shrunk as she looked at Fang Yuan deeply: "The wind veil of
assimilation isolates the outside world from the inside, Gu like hole earth Gu and
connecting heaven Gu cannot be used. You actually have another method… but you
didn't use it even until now, heh, it seems this method has its flaws!"

She was a formidable character, regaining her cool quickly and even carrying a probing
counterattack.

She sounded extremely certain, but she was not that sure inwardly and was only
probing.

Fang Yuan laughed loudly, his strength path phantom army was beside him and he did
not fear the self-detonation of Great Strength True Martial Physique.

However, his opponent was not any ordinary person of the Great Strength True
Martial Physique, but Hei Lou Lan!

This fellow could not be underestimated. They had contested repeatedly in Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building but they were evenly matched, in fact, she even caused much
trouble to Fang Yuan.

Now, she was clearly still a mortal but was able to suppress four Immortal Gu, causing
even Giant Sun's will to be surprised.

If Fang Yuan did not lend her Fixed Immortal Travel, she was sure to die. But he still
had some fear if she counterattacked at the risk of her life.

Without the intervention of Mo Yao's will, Fang Yuan had returned to his original
nature, he calculated his profits; shortly after, he asked the most crucial question —
"Then, what can I obtain?"

"Immortal Gu Dark Limit." Hei Lou Lan calmly replied, but inwardly she let out a
breath of relief.

"Oh, I would like to hear the details."

"I will help you obtain this Gu. This Gu is in the hands of Gu Immortal Jiang Yu, it can
conceal aura, hide heavenly secrets and protect you from deductions. My Great
Strength True Martial Physique was sealed with the help of Immortal Gu Dark Limit.
You have caused such a huge incident, northern plains' Gu Immortals will definitely
track you down and cause troubles for you. Not only them, there are also the
arrangements left behind by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. But with Immortal Gu
Dark Limit, your location will not be discovered."

"Interesting, what else?" Fang Yuan rubbed his chin.

Hei Lou Lan smiled: "We are both smart people, I will speak frankly. I shoulder a huge
hatred and grudge so I cannot self-detonate to kill you with me. But you also probably
don't want to force me until I drag you along with me, right?"

"Hmph, you are unlikely to kill me, but it is true that it will be really troublesome!"
Fang Yuan gave a cold snort.

Hei Lou Lan's pupils shrunk: "From your words, it seems you still haven't fully
displayed the power of your killer move. But I also have another trump card!"

Fang Yuan nodded, Hei Lou Lan had already displayed it just before. She could
suppress Immortal Gu which was not possible by just relying on Great Strength True
Martial Physique.

As long as there were enough profits, there was no need for bloodfest. Fang Yuan was
not afraid of Hei Lou Lan's self-detonation, but there would be no benefits to both of
them if he pushed her too far.

Hei Lou Lan continued: "I will help you obtain Immortal Gu Dark Limit and will also
return Fixed Immortal Travel once I finish using it. I will also give you my strength
path killer move, I believe it will provide some help to your new killer move. Moreover,
I haven't killed your senior brother Tai Bai Yun Sheng."

Fang Yuan glanced at Tai Bai Yun Sheng who was lying on the ground in
unconsciousness, with his body covered by a defensive barrier; this was clearly Hei
Lou Lan's work.

His evaluation of Hei Lou Lan could not help but rise by a level.

Hei Lou Lan was truly not simple, she actually protected Tai Bai Yun Sheng until now.
Clearly, she was dissatisfied with Giant Sun's will and had been scheming against it.

More importantly, she gave many benefits; Immortal Gu Dark Limit was an important
benefit, Fixed Immortal Travel was second, then the strength path killer move and
finally Tai Bai Yun Sheng. Such an arrangement showed how much she understood
Fang Yuan.

"Then your condition is?" Fang Yuan asked.

"Protect me during my Gu Immortal ascension and also help me when I kill my father
personally!" Hei Lou Lan's eyes revealed extreme hatred when she said this.

Fang Yuan's brows involuntarily rose up.

He did not ask why, and he did not need a reason.

"Hahaha." Fang Yuan laughed brightly. He looked at the surrounding wind veil of
assimilation then turned towards Hei Lou Lan.

Hei Lou Lan who had torn off the seal of Dark Limit and revealed her true appearance
was no longer an obese and fierce bear, instead she had a stimulating, charming body
with sharp brows and bright eyes; she was a remarkably beautiful woman filled with
a tyrannical aura.

"Interesting! Well, there is no harm in cooperating for the moment." Fang Yuan praised
as he agreed.
The benefits of this cooperation were truly shocking.

In any case, Fixed Immortal Travel was in Hei Lou Lan's hands, Fang Yuan was also
helpless about that and so he might as well cooperate.

Next, Fang Yuan mentioned his own conditions and reached a basic consensus with
Hei Lou Lan.

The shrinking of the wind veil of assimilation had almost reached the extreme.

Large numbers of Gu accumulated in the narrow space, crowding together. Many Gu

worms were already devoured by the wind veil of assimilation, becoming a part of it.

But the tribulation, formless hands, were also completely gone.

"There is no time today, we will talk more in the future." After a rough agreement, Hei
Lou Lan activated Fixed Immortal Travel; dark green light covered her body.

She was not a Gu Immortal but astonishingly, she could activate Immortal Gu!

Before leaving, she gave a deep glance at Fang Yuan and asked, seemingly without
much thought: "Your killer move, what is its name?"

"Myriad Self." Fang Yuan replied.

Hei Lou Lan nodded, engraving this name to the depths of her heart. She knew that
sooner or later, this killer move's name would rise to fame and spread throughout the
five regions!

The next moment, Fixed Immortal Travel activated and Hei Lou Lan disappeared.

The moment she left, Fang Yuan immediately destroyed the surroundings to prevent
her from using Fixed Immortal Travel to return.

Wind veil of assimilation was already pressing in very closely, there was only a cabin
sized space left for Fang Yuan to move.

Large numbers of Gu worms were already devoured by the wind veil of assimilation,
while there were still a few that were flying around.
Fang Yuan released starlight firefly Gu and opened the stargate.

But he did not leave immediately, instead deeply gazing at these flying Gu worms.

He did not have any certainty, but still wanted to give it a try.

A few breaths later, a Gu worm flew towards him of its own accord.

Rank nine wisdom Gu!

"Hahaha…” In the narrow space, Fang Yuan's laughter was echoing endlessly.

………………………

One could say:

Open attacks and secret ambushes interweave, schemes and conspiracies conjure
countless arrangements.

Misfortune descends and one loses their rationality, struggling in peril for that sliver of
hope.

The immortal zombie is dead and has no lifespan, yet with myriad self one has no worries.

Crumbling bones pile into a meeting of two demons, thus creating endless mysteries
henceforth!
Book 4: The Demon Lord Rampages Unhindered

Slowly opening his eyes, Fang Yuan woke up.

Seeing crystal walls sparkling with a bright pink colored light, Fang Yuan was dazed,
before reacting — he had used the stargate to return to Hu Immortal blessed land
from northern plains.

Except that in this trip to northern plains, he had exhausted his mind and spirit, it was
such a dangerous trip, it was a near fatal experience. Even though Fang Yuan's body
was that of six arm heavenly zombie king, his mind was still filled with fatigue.

After returning to Hu Immortal blessed land, he made some arrangements and fell
into deep sleep.

He slowly woke up now, after sleeping for an unknown amount of time.

He was very exhausted, even now, Fang Yuan only wanted to lie down and not get up.

"My body is filled with death energy, I have completely turned into a zombie, my body
knows no fatigue, but my soul is still my original soul, it has its limits and will suffer
injuries too."

A thought flashed in his mind, as Fang Yuan gradually got up.

His mind was in tranquility, it was a comfortable feeling.

Sleeping had the effect of soothing one's soul.

Fang Yuan breathed out some turbid air, stretching his limbs, but he only felt like his
body was rusty, he felt very inflexible and heavy.

He was not surprised, he knew that this was the backlash of using his killer move,
myriad self — his soul was greatly depleted. Thus, when he tried to move this
extremely strong zombie body, he felt difficulty and resistance.

"Where is the land spirit?" Fang Yuan spoke. His voice was coarse and irritating, like
the sound of sand grinding on ice shards, it would give a dry and icy feeling to people.

"Master!" At the next moment, the land spirit Little Hu Immortal's voice resounded in
Fang Yuan's ears.

The voice was still cute and sweet, but there was a hint of worry and sadness in it.

Fang Yuan turned around, only to see Little Hu Immortal appearing before his left
hand with reddened eyes.

"How long have I been asleep?" Fang Yuan nodded, asking.

"Master, you have been asleep for two days and three nights." Little Hu Immortal
replied.

Fang Yuan recalled, two days and three nights was in terms of Hu Immortal blessed
land time. Five days in Hu Immortal blessed land was one day in the outside world of
the five regions. That means that since Fang Yuan left the wind veil of assimilation,
less than a day had passed in northern plains.

Fang Yuan's inner thoughts settled.

Before he slept, he had made an agreement with Hei Lou Lan, they were temporarily
cooperating, thus, he would have to return to northern plains soon.

Little Hu Immortal saw that Fang Yuan was silent, and thought he was upset. She
opened her tiny mouth and consoled; "Master, master, don't be too upset. Your current
appearance, although it is quite ugly, I'm sure there's a way to change it back. I believe
that one day, master will go back to his original form. Master, you have to cheer up!"

Fang Yuan laughed speechlessly, stretching out one arm and touching Little Hu
Immortal's tiny head.

Little Hu Immortal dodged for a bit, but eventually, Fang Yuan's terrifying giant zombie
hand landed on her head.
She lowered her head, not making a sound.

Fang Yuan started stroking her hair and Little Hu Immortal could not take it anymore,
she cried: "Master, although your palm is icy cold, I still like it!"

Saying this, she hugged Fang Yuan's huge legs and began sobbing.

Little Hu Immortal was still so cute, she was like a five to six year old child, pure and
innocent, cute and tiny. She wore a rainbow dress and her snow-white fox tail was
drooping towards the ground, showing her current sad mood.

The land spirit was formed from the fusion of obsession and heavenly power, it was
different from wills and would never lie.

Little Hu Immortal spoke the honest truth.

Fang Yuan's expression was calm, he did not speak. But the fangs that were outside his
mouth retracted a little, and the movement of his hand stroking Little Hu Immortal's
head became more gentle.

He split a portion of his consciousness and looked inside his body.

In the first aperture, there was dead silence. There was not a bit of primeval essence
inside, only Fang Yuan's first vital Gu.

The originally clear crystal purple walls had turned into a rock-like material. The rock
wall was filled with small cracks, the culprit behind this wound was the Spring
Autumn Cicada in the middle of his aperture.

Spring Autumn Cicada's body was glowing with green and yellow light, the aura of a
rank six Immortal Gu was permeating the entire aperture.

If it was his rank five peak stage aperture, it might have burst already. But now that
the aperture was dead, it could handle more of the Immortal Gu's pressure. Even
though there was a limit, he was far from reaching it yet.

At the same time, Fang Yuan also noticed that the aperture was completely dry and
could not produce any more primeval essence.

"This is the price for turning into a zombie, the aperture is dead and cannot produce
any primeval essence." Fang Yuan assessed in his mind.

He could not help but think of First Gen Gu Yue, he had turned into a blood wight and
his aperture could not produce primeval essence, thus he had great desire for Gu
worms like Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus.

"My current situation is way better than First Gen Gu Yue. I have already ascended into
an immortal, I have nineteen green grape immortal essence and limitless primeval
essence!"

Thinking of this, Fang Yuan moved his consciousness from the first aperture to the
second aperture.

The newly born strength path immortal aperture had also turned grey, the blessed
land was now a dead land. The sky was grey and the white stone mountains had
collapsed, the ground was rotten and dark, emitting a foul odor. The ground was full
of cracks, like the aftermath of an earthquake. This was the result of forcefully
containing wisdom Gu.

Inside this immortal aperture were almost all of Fang Yuan's Gu worms.

The most attention grabbing ones were naturally the Immortal Gu.

There were seven Immortal Gu in here!

This amount was bound to shock others if revealed publicly. Immortal Gu were unique,
they were extremely hard to get. Most ordinary Gu Immortals would not even have
one Immortal Gu.

If he included Fixed Immortal Travel that he had lent to Hei Lou Lan, as well as Spring
Autumn Cicada, Fang Yuan had a total of nine Immortal Gu.

This number could put most rank seven Gu Immortals to shame.

There were three Immortal Gu that were related to Water Pavilion, they were: worldly
wave trace Gu, delight in mountain and water Gu and calamity beckoning Gu. The
other four Immortal Gu were obtained when Fang Yuan painstakingly smashed the
formless fists.

Other than the Immortal Gu, there were mortal Gu.

The most valuable mortal Gu were also obtained when Fang Yuan smashed the
formless fists. All these Gu worms originated from the true inheritance secluded
domain's many inheritances, each of them were high quality Gu worms and had
profound differences from common Gu.

But of greater importance was the second aperture's vital Gu — rank four all-out effort
Gu, as well as 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 beast coat Gu, aura concealment Gu and so on.

It was these Gu worms that formed the foundation of the killer move myriad self,
allowing Fang Yuan to ultimately clinch victory within the wind veil of assimilation.

Other than these, there were the other random Gu worms, like the eagle rise Gu which
Fang Yuan had used and expended the most in this journey within northern plains.
The wind flower Gu which could allow changes in direction easily, the sole blade Gu
obtained from Sole Blade General Pan Ping. There was also the battle bone wheel Gu,
Stargate Gu, and the Gu that made up the foundation of a Gu Immortal, hole earth Gu,
connecting heaven Gu, divine sense Gu and others.

The highest quantity that he had among them were of beggar moths, almost a
thousand of them, they had the effect of storing primeval essence. They were a huge
help to Fang Yuan during the final moments of his northern plains trip.

After inspecting his mortal and immortal aperture, Fang Yuan directed his attention
to his body.

Without using a mirror, he knew that he had turned into a monster completely. Six
meters tall, a green face and sharp fangs, blood red eyes, bulging muscles that were
tough as rocks. Most importantly, he had eight arms, other than his two human arms,
his other six arms were terrifying in appearance, they originated from the other rank
five flying zombie Gu — asura zombie Gu, heavenly demon zombie Gu, blood wight Gu,
nightmare zombie Gu, plague zombie Gu, and earth chief zombie Gu.

Fang Yuan did not care whether his appearance was handsome or ugly. Little Hu
Immortal was concerned about it because she was formed from the obsession of the
female Gu Immortal, Fairy Bai Hu.

What Fang Yuan cared about was that the zombie body caused his cultivation to
stagnate, he was unable to advance his cultivation in the slightest. This was a huge
obstacle in his pursuit of the demonic path and his dream.

He had grand ambitions, he wanted to obtain eternal life. Eternal life was in reference
to being the strongest, an indestructible being that cannot be taken down by
tribulations or disasters, a person that cannot be harmed by anyone, as well as having
infinite lifespan.

Although a zombie body had no lifespan, his soul could still suffer damage, and his
body could still be destroyed if he was attacked by someone stronger than him, there
were still many flaws and weaknesses. Thus, many Gu Masters and Gu Immortals
would turn into zombies only after they were left with no other choice. This method
was truly a last resort for survival, it was like longing towards heaven while being in
hell.

"How can I get rid of the zombie body, returning to life from death, and obtain a live
human body again?" Fang Yuan asked in his heart, evidently, this was a problem that
needed to be solved.

Although he had no answers, he had some rough ideas.

Interrogating Mo Yao's will who was in his immortal aperture was one method. Using
wisdom Gu was the second.

Little Hu Immortal's crying slowly stopped, as Fang Yuan retracted his hand, his
emotions calmed down as he asked: "During the days when I was asleep, did anything
happen?"

Little Hu Immortal heard her master's inquiry and immediately stood up straight, she
wiped her tears and answered him maturely: "Reporting to master, there were two
things. First, your senior brother, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, had already woken up, he has
been wanting to meet you over these last few days, he was so anxious he even cried
several times. But master had given me the orders, thus I refused to let him in. The
second matter is regarding Immortal Crane Sect, they have stopped engaging in our
rockmen transactions."

Fang Yuan heard this and frowned lightly.

Fang Yuan was well aware of the reason why Immortal Crane Sect stopped the
rockmen transactions. Hu Immortal blessed land had Dang Hun mountain, this was
something known by everyone in central continent. Immortal Crane Sect's target was
Dang Hun mountain, but they could not attack Hu Immortal blessed land directly, thus
over a year ago, they had sent Fang Zheng to negotiate, eventually settling on the
transactions of rockmen. But their primary objective was Dang Hun mountain and the
guts Gu.

After that, Immortal Crane Sect had repeatedly urged and emphasized while
requesting Fang Yuan to sell the guts Gu, but he refused them every time.

After a year, seeing that Hu Immortal blessed land was refusing to give in, Immortal
Crane Sect had lost their patience, thus stopping the rockmen trade. As to whether
they would express anger and want to force Fang Yuan to renegotiate, or whether they
have other objectives, that would depend on how the situation progresses.

"Hu Immortal blessed land is not a utopia, it is located at Tian Ti mountain, and the
outside situation is also perilous."

If Fang Yuan had a blessed land as an immortal aperture, his reliance towards Hu
Immortal blessed land would greatly reduce. He could even swallow Hu Immortal
blessed land directly, making his escape and leaving this place. Unfortunately, he was
now a zombie, his immortal aperture was a dead aperture, there was no way to
consider this.

Fang Yuan thought about it, but for now could not come up with any ideas.

"Damn it, after becoming a zombie, my cognitive abilities have weakened, my thoughts
are moving slower and slower, it is too inefficient." Fang Yuan frowned deeply, he
started to feel the drawback of the zombie body.
The stagnation of his cultivation was only the main drawback, other than that, there
were many other smaller drawbacks. One of them, was the fact that he had no sense
of pain. His cognition slowing down was another problem.

In this world, wisdom path had already deciphered the mysteries behind how a person
thinks.

When a person thinks, many thoughts would be created in their minds. Intelligent
people would generate a large number of thoughts more quickly, while stupid people
would generate fewer thoughts, and at a slower pace.

When these individual thoughts collide into one another, they would fuse or possibly
be destroyed, eventually, one or more new thoughts would be created. These new
thoughts would be the result of their thinking.

The brain is the place which gives birth to thoughts, it is an important domain for all
life forms when they think. But this domain is decided on two aspects.

One was the body, while the other was the soul.

If a person's soul resided in a wild beast's body, then this 'wild beast' would become
very intelligent. This level of intelligence would far surpass an ordinary wild beast,
but would be lower than a normal human being.

Gu is the essence of heaven and earth, man is the spirit of all beings. Among all living
beings, humans were the most intelligent. To achieve this, one needed a human's
physical body and a human's soul.

Now that Fang Yuan's body was completely dead, only his soul was intact. Thus, in his
mind, the number of thoughts generated would be much fewer, and the speed of his
cognition would reduce greatly.

Intensive thinking would lead to a sharp fall in the number of thoughts. Because the
zombie's mind produces fewer thoughts, and at a slower pace, the thoughts generated
cannot keep up with the expenditure of thoughts.

If Fang Yuan was a brute, so be it. But he was very skilled at scheming, he was an
ambitious person who was used to plotting in order to succeed in situations, after
becoming a zombie, he felt very uncomfortable, he was not used to this new change at
all.

"No wonder most zombies like First Gen Gu Yue choose to enter deep sleep. When one
is sleeping, they would think less, and the consumption of their thoughts would fall
sharply, thus they would be able to accumulate more thoughts in their mind. When
they battle, they would think intensely and use up these thoughts." Fang Yuan had a
new understanding in his mind.

This was the same reason as that of Giant Sun's will, who chose to enter deep sleep.

"The less I think, the more dull and slow I would become. To think that one day, I, Gu
Yue Fang Yuan, would turn into an idiot. Hehe." Fang Yuan mocked himself in his mind,
collecting his scattered thoughts.

Next, he turned to Little Hu Immortal: "Bring my senior brother, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, in
here, I want to meet him."

Little Hu Immortal replied to him obediently, immediately vanishing from the spot.

She was the land spirit, she could freely teleport anywhere within Hu Immortal
blessed land.

After ten breaths of time, Little Hu Immortal reappeared, this time bringing Tai Bai
Yun Sheng with her.

"Junior brother, you… sigh!" What shall we do now?" Taking a look at Fang Yuan, Tai
Bai Yun Sheng was stunned, his eyes turned red as he spoke in a choking voice.

He already was aware of the fact regarding Fang Yuan turning into a six arm heavenly
zombie king completely. This was something Fang Yuan had specified to Little Hu
Immortal earlier, as something that could be exposed to Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "Originally, I had advanced into a strength path Gu
Immortal, what a pity that I have ended up in this state, there is no choice, I will have
to continue calling you senior brother. Come! Senior brother, this is a crude place,
please find a block of stone and take a seat."

The cave that Fang Yuan was in now was dug out from the center of Dang Hun
mountain back in the day by Fairy Bai Hu, it was the place where she had built Dang
Hun palace.

After Dang Hun mountain was destroyed by the gruel mud Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan
had returned it to normal with Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

The restored Dang Hun mountain retained this mountain cave.

But the golden bricks, the silver tiles, the pink curtains, the large round bed, the golden
silk blankets, and the fragrant wind chimes that were in Dang Hun palace were
nowhere to be found.

Rank six Immortal Gu Landscape as Before, it could restore any mountain or body of
water back to a state in the past. The furniture inside Dang Hun palace did not count
as being part of a mountain or body of water.

Of course, Fang Yuan did not want to restore the former Dang Hun palace, either. After
all, Fairy Bai Hu's bedroom was way too pink, it was filled with a feminine aura and
did not suit Fang Yuan.

There was no furniture in the mountain cave, it was really crude and simple. Tai Bai
Yun Sheng chose the boulder closest to Fang Yuan and sat down.

Right now, his inner thoughts were filled with concern, gratitude, and unconditional
trust towards Fang Yuan.

After all, the two of them had braved dangers and near death experiences together,
they had gone through a lot in northern plains, and had witnessed the sincerity and
feelings in each other's hearts.

Not to mention the two times Fang Yuan had helped Tai Bai Yun Sheng in the true
inheritance secluded domain, he did not hesitate at all, not even batting an eyelid. The
first time, it was to retrieve landscape as before Immortal Gu, while the second time,
he gave up on man as before Immortal Gu in order to save Tai Bai Yun Sheng's life.

During that moment, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was so touched his tears nearly flowed down
his cheeks.

He had a Gu Immortal inheritance, he naturally knew the immense attraction an

Immortal Gu had towards a Gu Immortal. Fang Yuan gave up on the Immortal Gu in
order to save him, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, this completely displayed Fang Yuan's true
feelings!

After that, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was captured by Hei Lou Lan. Fang Yuan immediately
changed his direction, taking back man as before Gu first, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was in
complete agreement with his actions and his heart settled, this was truly a rational
decision.

When he woke up, he found that he was inside Hu Immortal blessed land, and was out
of danger.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was jubilant, being able to luckily maintain his life was naturally a
very joyous matter. But what made him even happier was that afterwards, seeing that
he had woken up, Little Hu Immortal returned Landscape as Before and Man as Before,
these two Immortal Gu back to him!

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had a soft and kind nature, he had deep attachment towards these
two Immortal Gu. Regaining his important treasures after losing them, he was truly
overjoyed.

But when he heard about Fang Yuan's situation from Little Hu Immortal, his heart
shuddered, all of his joy was swept away, his inner thoughts was filled with sadness,
guilt, regret, and pity.

Thus, he had repeatedly tried to meet Fang Yuan, attempting to give it his all to save
this junior brother.

At this moment, he sat on the stone boulder, he had an expression of grief as he sighed
deeply: "I am ashamed, not only did junior brother save this life of mine, I even have
to bear your consolation and kind words after meeting you."

Fang Yuan stretched out one arm, patting Tai Bai Yun Sheng's shoulders, using his
hoarse voice as he laughed: "Destiny is unpredictable, most things in life do not go
your way. As a person, we should be more open minded. Although I became a zombie,
it is still halfway between life and death, compared to those dead people and Giant
Sun's will, we are much better! Especially when at the final moment, I even obtained
wisdom Gu! This is a huge profit, senior brother does not need to blame yourself, you
should be happy."

When Fang Yuan was leaving, he opened the stargate.

Wisdom Gu knew that this was a tunnel to the outside world, its survival instincts
urged it to fly towards Fang Yuan on its own initiative.

This was something Fang Yuan had expected.

Stargate Gu was a mortal Gu, it could not contain the aura of an Immortal Gu. Fang
Yuan gritted his teeth as he forcefully placed wisdom Gu in his immortal aperture.

Even though wisdom Gu restrained its own aura and Fang Yuan's immortal aperture
was a dead land, having much greater capability to support it, Fang Yuan was barely
able to handle it during the short period of time needed to pass through the stargate.

The moment he returned to Hu Immortal blessed land, he quickly let wisdom Gu out.

Hu Immortal blessed land was a rank six immortal aperture, but it was situated on
Tian Ti mountain, it took in the earth qi of central continent and was very stable. It
was not comparable with an immortal aperture that was still in a Gu Immortal's body.

Regarding wisdom Gu, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was aware of the matter.

"An outstanding person will do outstanding things, junior brother's abilities have truly
made me feel nothing but deep admiration. But even the legendary rank nine
Immortal Gu would not be able to treat junior brother's zombie body. Why don't you
let me try and use man as before Gu!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was very emotional, at this
point, he had already stood up, ready to give it a try.

But Fang Yuan stopped him.

"Senior brother, you know clearly deep within your mind that this man as before
Immortal Gu can only return a person to a prior state within one moment in the past.
Although it can revive a person, such a long time has already gone by, I do not know
what countless number of moments have passed since then. How can it possible heal
me? It will be in vain even if you try, why should you waste your precious green grape
immortal essence?"
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression was ashen, his emotions were unstable. When Fang
Yuan had finished his words, he suddenly stretched out his palms, slapping harshly on
his own face!

Crack crack crack.

Five to six sharp sounds were heard, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was actually slapping himself.

"Senior brother, stop it! What are you doing this for?" Fang Yuan acted like he was
caught off guard, he hurriedly stood up, stretching out two arms and grabbing Tai Bai
Yun Sheng's hands.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng could not compete with Fang Yuan's strength at all, after being
immobilized, he cried profusely: "Junior brother, I have let you down, I am really very
sorry!"

As he cried, his knees bent as he actually attempted to kneel down.

Fang Yuan quickly grabbed him, asking in shock: " Senior brother, what are you
doing?!"

"Junior brother, if back then, I had lent man as before Immortal Gu to you, you would
have been able to use it at the crucial moment and would not have turned into this
current form!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng said with a tear stricken face.

He was a very kind person, although he had indirectly caused the death of Gao Yang
and Zhu Zai in the past, that was just a person's instincts to survive. To him, Fang Yuan
was the savior of his life, a benefactor. He was also his junior brother, they had the
same master, but this person who was his benefactor and junior brother, was harmed
because of his own negligence.

If back then, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had taken the initiative to lend his Gu worm to Fang
Yuan, Fang Yuan would not have ended up in such an awkward state.

After Tai Bai Yun Sheng woke up, this thought had been lurking in his mind, it caused
him to feel great grief and regret, he was in deep agony.

At this moment, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was weakly falling towards the ground, he was in
agony and regret, he was only supported by Fang Yuan's two arms.
Fang Yuan was six meters tall, he looked down at the crying Tai Bai Yun Sheng from
above as a trace of eeriness flashed across his eyes.

"I am very glad that you have such thoughts…” He laughed in his mind, but with his
mouth he sounded very sincere as he said: "Senior brother, you do not need to be like
this. Although a zombie's body is very hard to revert, there exist many ways and
methods that are available for me. And don't forget that we have wisdom Gu here."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng slowly shook his head, he spoke weakly: "Wisdom… wisdom Gu is
as high as rank nine, it came here with you all because of its survival instincts. Junior
brother, even if you are a rank six Gu Immortal, you are unable to refine it, and there
is no way you can control… can control it!"

"Of course I understand this. But even like this, just a bit of the light of wisdom is able
to give me great rewards. In fact, my current zombie body has no lifespan, it is even
more suitable for getting close to wisdom Gu!" Fang Yuan stretched out his third arm,
patting Tai Bai Yun Sheng's back lightly as he explained amicably.

"And what's more, I still have Mo Yao's will."

"Mo Yao?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was confused.

"This was an additional gain of mine in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Mo Yao was
once a refinement path grandmaster, a certain generation's fairy of central continent's
Spirit Affinity House."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a born and bred man of northern plains, he had never heard of
Mo Yao's name, but as Spirit Affinity House was one of the the famous top ten sects of
central continent, he had heard of it before.

"A certain generation's fairy of Spirit Affinity House, as well as a refinement path
grandmaster. It seems that this Mo Yao is not simple." Tai Bai Yun Sheng's gloomy
expression eased.

Fang Yuan laughed again, saying: "And most importantly, senior brother, don't forget
that we still have master. I am sure that master has a solution for this. I will not hide
this from you, after master handed me the mission for Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building, he only left me a single consumable Gu, with the specific use of reporting the
details to him. I had already used this Gu two days ago, when I first returned to Hu
Immortal blessed land."
Fang Yuan had searched Tai Bai Yun Sheng's soul earlier in Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building, and learnt about his life experiences as well as secrets.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had once met a mysterious beggar, and obtained a time path Gu
Immortal inheritance from him.

Thus, Fang Yuan lied and swindled, using his eloquent tongue and world class acting
skills to convince Tai Bai Yun Sheng in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, making him
believe that both of them have the same master, which is that old beggar.

Fang Yuan even gave that old beggar a random title of Purple Mountain True Monarch.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng believed this lie from Fang Yuan completely.

Now that Fang Yuan mentioned this, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's eyes were shining: "So junior
brother has a method to contact master! This is truly fantastic, others might not have
a way, but master is such a knowledgeable person, I am sure he has a method!"

The fires of hope were burning in his heart.

From his tone, one could tell that the old beggar held a very important position within
his inner thoughts, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was filled with confidence towards this old
beggar.

If at this moment, he knew the truth, who knows what expression he would show.

Fang Yuan showed no flaws, replying calmly: "Senior brother, don't be hasty, I believe
that master's letter is going to come in a few days, we should wait patiently."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded, after Fang Yuan used the name of Purple Mountain True
Monarch, his mood had finally calmed down.

He stood up straight, as Fang Yuan let go of his arms.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng took a step back, his gaze was locked with Fang Yuan's bright red
eyes, he raised his palm and placed it by his chest, saying with a very solemn
expression: "Junior brother, I will engrave your kindness deep into my heart, I will
never forget it. I swear to Longevity Heaven, even if master has no way to cure you, I,
Tai Bai Yun Sheng, will spend my entire life looking for a way to revive you, junior
brother!"
"Hahaha! Longevity Heaven is Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's grotto-heaven, we have
just wrecked this old fellow's True Yang Building, now you are swearing in its name,
this is simply too ironic!" Fang Yuan raised his head and laughed: "Senior brother, I
will be frank with you! We are all master's pupils, and I have saved your life before. A
droplet received in need will be repaid with an entire spring, next, I will need you to
repay me fully!"

"Tell me." Tai Bai Yun Sheng immediately responded without hesitation. He had long
since decided to repay this debt, even if Fang Yuan wanted him to do the impossible,
he would have no objections! During these days after he woke up, he had felt
extremely guilty, his conscience was taking a beating and only by making a sacrifice
for Fang Yuan would his heart feel slightly better.

Thus, Fang Yuan also became solemn: "This matter, I have been thinking about it for a
long time. That is our seniority issue! I am master's legacy disciple, but because you
became an immortal, you caught up to me. I am unsatisfied with this! I was originally
a strength path Gu Immortal, even though I turned into a zombie, but sooner or later,
there will be a day when I revert back. Thus, according to seniority, I am the senior
brother, you are the junior brother."

"What?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng stared with his eyes wide open, he had never expected that
the great debt Fang Yuan was requesting him to pay back was for such a tiny matter.

A touched feeling welled up in his heart.

Fang Yuan was someone who did not want to take advantage of his favor, but was he,
Tai Bai Yun Sheng, someone who did not know how to repay favors?

Tai Bai Yun Sheng thought in his mind, he sighed and stretched out his palm, patting
Fang Yuan's leg which was tough like a mountain rock. His sharp and rough leg hair
even caused pain to Tai Bai Yun Sheng's palm.

Fang Yuan was like a giant, about six meters tall.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng could only pat his leg with that height.

He was solemn, before raising his head, looking at Fang Yuan's face, he laughed
teasingly: "Oh junior brother, that is wishful thinking! How can a thing like seniority
be so easily changed? Unless master personally rearranges our positions, I will
definitely still be your senior brother, hahaha!"
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a man not lacking in pride, how could he repay this huge favor
so easily?

"Hey!" Fang Yuan shouted, venting his unhappiness: "Old Bai, why are you such a petty
person! Could it be that you forgot what I said earlier? I will definitely not call you
senior brother!"

"Hahaha, junior brother, I can completely understand you, this senior brother does not
mind." Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed and laughed, he was so touched his tears were
overflowing.

How many years had passed in which he had not laughed so joyfully?

He had finally found his organisation.

Although he had not known Fang Yuan for long, he felt very close to him, it was as if
they were family…

His laughter was echoing in the mountain cave, with the pink crystal mountain walls
also looking very heartwarming at this moment.
There was only Fang Yuan left in the cave, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had already left.

He sat on the stone bench, his eight monstrous arms were hanging down, some were
behind his back, some were crossed, together with his huge body, just by sitting, he
gave off a mountainous aura, it gave people fear.

As for the way to deal with Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Fang Yuan had considered it deeply.

Fang Yuan only trusted himself, he would never truly trust others.

If he killed Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he would obtain man as before Gu and landscape as
before Gu, as well as his rank six time path immortal aperture. But this was not
maximising his benefits.

He could not deny the fact that Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a very useful chess piece.

This 'useful' was in two aspects.

Firstly, he was worth using. Before he became an immortal, he was a famous healing
Gu Master in northern plains. Now that he was a rank six time path Gu Immortal with
a high grade blessed land, and don't forget, he was even a flying master, he had great
value if exploited.

The second aspect was that he was easy to control. Fang Yuan had once searched his
soul, thus he knew about Tai Bai Yun Sheng's life experience clearly. Tai Bai Yun Sheng
was a kind-hearted man, he was conscientious and knew how to repay favors. He was
indebted to Fang Yuan, because he had been helped several times in True Yang
Building, especially during the final moment when he was rescued from the wind veil
of assimilation, and even had his two Immortal Gu returned to him, Tai Bai Yun Sheng
had placed his complete trust in Fang Yuan now.

This point could be seen when Tai Bai Yun Sheng chose his seat earlier.
There were many boulders in the cave. Fang Yuan had such an ugly appearance and
was so huge, normal people who got close to Fang Yuan would feel great pressure and
would subconsciously keep a distance from him. But Tai Bai Yun Sheng purposely
chose a seat that was closest to Fang Yuan.

This meant that in his heart, Fang Yuan was one of the closest people to him, he was
not afraid that Fang Yuan would cause any harm to him.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had once harmed Gao Yang and Zhu Zai, this was the most important
point!

His survival instincts took over his reasoning, this was something very natural. After
that incident, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was filled with guilt and could not forget it. His
appearance was haggard and he was mentally tortured. After Fang Yuan's entrapment,
he had almost gone crazy and rushed his immortal ascension, his original intention
was to die.

Attempting suicide because of his guilt, one could see how powerful his conscience
was.

By coincidence, Tai Bai Yun Sheng received the help of Giant Sun's will and successfully
became a Gu Immortal, before falling unconscious.

Fang Yuan used the glass owner token, entering the round of Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building he was placed in and woke him up. At this crucial moment, he told Tai Bai
Yun Sheng about the 'secret' of their master. This precisely hit a weak point within Tai
Bai Yun Sheng's mental state.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng denied his own self, thus he was in great agony and was very lost.

But at this moment, Fang Yuan appeared, giving him a group of apprentices and an
organisation to provide him a sense of belonging, it gave him a feeling of protection
and warmth. Next, Fang Yuan entered and exited his time path immortal aperture,
casually asking him to take care of his Immortal Gu, this gave him the initial
confidence.

In addition, during their encounters and difficulties in True Yang Building, all that had
happened gave Tai Bai Yun Sheng a good reason to fully trust Fang Yuan. In a way, he
had to thank Mo Yao for interfering with his own mind, otherwise, how could he have
obtained Tai Bai Yun Sheng's unconditional trust?
"Tai Bai Yun Sheng caused the death of Gao Yang and Zhu Zai, this greatly violated his
values and beliefs, he harboured extreme guilt. He felt that he was not such a person,
yet he committed such an act. Now that I am his benefactor, he is indebted to me, he
will definitely repay me a hundredfold or even a thousandfold. This is not only because
he knows to repay favors, but also because this is a chance for him to prove that he is
a good person!" Fang Yuan calmly analyzed.

Bad people would not repay favors, in fact, they would even return the favor with ill
intentions. In the future, the more Tai Bai Yun Sheng sacrifices for Fang Yuan, the more
it would prove that he is a good person. That way, this can cancel out the guilt he felt
towards Gao Yang and Zhu Zai. This touched upon the psychological studies from
Earth, including the balance theory and compensation mentality.

In a way, Fang Yuan gave Tai Bai Yun Sheng a chance to prove himself once more, and
a reason for him to continue living.

Fang Yuan knew this clearly, thus when he saved Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he even returned
Man as Before and Landscape as Before, these two Immortal Gu.

"I have way too many Immortal Gu, it is very costly to feed them. At this point, leaving
Man as Before and Landscape as Before to Tai Bai Yun Sheng is undoubtedly better. At
the same time, my immortal aperture is dead, it cannot produce immortal essence. I
only have nineteen beads of green grape immortal essence, the more I use them, the
fewer I have left. Although I can use some of Bai Hu's immortal essence, isn't it best if
I can make use of Tai Bai Yun Sheng's green grape immortal essence instead?"

Thinking of the cost of feeding Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan felt a headache.

Raising a Gu worm was like supporting a mistress, Gu Masters are often unable to
afford it or maintain their upkeep. Ever since Fang Yuan had Hu Immortal blessed
land, he had no problems feeding mortal Gu. But now that he had so many Immortal
Gu, not even Hu Immortal blessed land could afford such high costs.

This was a blissful worry!

Many Gu Immortals did not have a single Immortal Gu, they were still looking for one.
In Fang Yuan's previous life, he also struggled to refine one, Spring Autumn Cicada,
after he finally succeeded after numerous difficulties, he was forced to self-detonate.

Right now, Fang Yuan was racking his brain, trying to think of how to feed so many
Immortal Gu.

Fang Yuan sat silently, attempting to find some inspiration from his previous life's
memories, after trying for a while, he gave up.

"Sigh, after becoming a zombie, my cognition has truly slowed down. Earlier when
speaking to Tai Bai Yun Sheng, I could feel my thoughts moving slowly. Right now, my
thinking speed cannot keep up with my original pace."

He summoned the land spirit, Little Hu Immortal: "How is wisdom Gu? Where is it
now?"

Little Hu Immortal was the blessed land's land spirit, she could understand everything
that was happening in the blessed land.

"Master, wisdom Gu had gone deep underground since it was brought here by you. It
found a rockman cave and is currently slumbering inside." Little Hu Immortal closed
her eyes, after sensing for a while, she opened her giant watery eyes and said this.

Fang Yuan nodded, ordering: "Bring me there."

The cave that wisdom Gu was in was rather big, after Fang Yuan was brought over by
Little Hu Immortal, he could still move about freely.

Sensing that Fang Yuan had arrived, wisdom Gu shone with a five colored light.

Little Hu Immortal sat on Fang Yuan's shoulder, staring at wisdom Gu curiously.

This was the rank nine wisdom Gu!

Although Little Hu Immortal could sense everything in the blessed land, but such a
close range encounter was still very rare.

"Oh wisdom Gu, I helped you to escape and saved your life. According to our earlier
agreement, it is time for you to hold your end of the deal." In the dark and grey cave,
Fang Yuan's voice echoed.

Wisdom Gu was silent, after a few breaths' time, it floated up into the air.

At the same time, it summoned the light of wisdom.

"So beautiful!" Little Hu Immortal stared with shining eyes, laughing joyfully.

The sphere shaped light of wisdom was shining in many colors, it engulfed Fang Yuan
and Little Hu Immortal.

Fang Yuan could instantly feel many of his thoughts colliding, he could think at
lightning speed, this was the result of an accelerated cognition speed.

"This feeling… this is so comforting." Little Hu Immortal slowly opened her eyes wide
and stared dazedly, she was immersed in the wonderful feeling of being in the light of
wisdom.

But after a few breaths' time, her body started fading.

"Little Hu Immortal, you were formed from obsession, although fused with the
heavenly power, you are still restricted by the wisdom Gu. You cannot stay here for
long, quickly go back." Fang Yuan stretched out a finger, pointing at Little Hu
Immortal's head, waking her up.

Little Hu Immortal hugged her head, her white cheeks turned red with excitement.

"Master, master, I can't believe I could become so smart. Wisdom Gu is amazing!" She
shouted, like a child who had found new toys, she was overjoyed.

"Master is most amazing, you could even get wisdom Gu! Just let me stay here a bit
longer, is that okay?" She started bootlicking Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "It seems that wisdom Gu had made you think more,
quickly get out." Saying so, his two fingers pressed on Little Hu Immortal's head.

Little Hu Immortal's cute, tiny head was squeezed by Fang Yuan's finger, as he pressed
again and again.

Little Hu Immortal pouted slightly as she shook her head: "Master, I am going to leave."

She did not dare to disobey Fang Yuan's words, she vanished with a flash.

The cave was quiet again, Fang Yuan did not sit down, since the zombie's body was
extremely hard and tough, there was no difference in feeling between sitting or
standing.
He stood in the halo, the first thing he did was to inspect Mo Yao's will which was
suppressed in his immortal aperture.

Mo Yao's will was unaffected by the light of wisdom.

Even though he had confirmed this earlier in the wind veil of assimilation, Fang Yuan's
heart was finally at ease after confirming it once again.

"Once the immortal aperture is formed, it is a small world. The walls of the immortal
aperture are the walls of heaven and earth. It isolates the inside and outside, there is
almost no outside force that can influence the small world inside."

Fang Yuan shut his bright red eyes as he started to think and ponder.

He had become a zombie, the production of thoughts in his mind had become much
slower, and his cognition had also slowed. But the light of wisdom could cause his
thoughts to collide at an increased speed, as they collided, he would expend a lot of
thoughts in a short period of time.

If he was another ordinary zombie basking in this light, although he would turn
smarter for a moment, he would become an idiot immediately afterwards.

But there were wills in Fang Yuan's mind.

These wills were all formed from wisdom path Gu worms, they could think.

Earlier, in order to deal with Mo Yao, Fang Yuan had delved into wisdom path and
bought many different Gu worms like special will Gu, deliberate will Gu, sharp intent
Gu and so on. These wills all helped him at the last moments of his journey in northern
plains.

Right now, Fang Yuan's brain could no longer keep up, he had to use these wills as
replacements.

His primeval essence was limitless, thus his wills were also near infinite. Under the
light of wisdom, the originally stable wills all melted like snow in sunlight, they were
shrinking.

What followed after was the appearance of flashes of inspiration, and his old
memories were becoming clearer. As long as Fang Yuan concentrated and recalled his
memories, these huge amounts of memories would vividly play out again in his mind.

At this moment, the world seemed brighter.

Even before he had truly thought of the result, Fang Yuan already had many different
ideas to resolve the problem. As long as he followed these methods, Fang Yuan was
sure that he would be able to find the most suitable method to solve this problem!
In the underground cave, Fang Yuan bathed in the light of wisdom and pondered
deeply.

"Although I am reborn and have five hundred years of experience from my past life,
but in contrast to old monsters like Mo Yao and Giant Sun, I pale in comparison. My
previous dominance in this aspect has already vanished."

Throughout the flow of history, there were as many grand heroes as there were stars
in the sky!

In the history of humans, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was an unrivalled expert that
could seldom be produced even in a million years.

Fairy Mo Yao was a refinement path grandmaster, and back then was the fairy of Spirit
Affinity House; she was a famous and influential person with shocking talent. In those
days, she would be listed among the top ten renowned Gu Immortals in the large
Central Continent.

Fang Yuan had firm willpower and had gone through unique experiences, but he was
also a single unremarkable star in this vast starry sky. With just his current strength
and foundation, it was hard for him to be on par with the great experts that appeared
in history.

"This trip to northern plains has far surpassed my original expectations. If not for the
meddling of Mo Yao's will, I could have stayed in True Yang Building and explored
gradually using a different identity every ten years. But at this point, the die is cast and
northern plains is bound to be in a great uproar; countless experts and powerful
forces will seek to find trouble with me!"

Fang Yuan summed up his experiences and sensed that the losses he suffered were
due to his weakness in the aspect of wisdom path.

His strong points were in calculating and scheming. And building upon his experience
preserved from rebirth, his advantages were further amplified.

However, Mo Yao's will was able to disturb his thoughts which caused him to not be
able to think properly.

"Eighty-Eight True Yang Building is a spiritual symbol of northern plains and I am the
main culprit in causing it to be toppled. If I am captured now, the consequences will
be unimaginable. Although I am able to hide in Hu Immortal blessed land right now, it
is not actually safe. Not speaking of Immortal Crane Sect which has been eyeing Dang
Hun mountain since the beginning, perhaps northern plains' Gu Immortals could
discover my origins and track me down through wisdom path deductions!"

Fang Yuan knew clearly that holing up within Hu Immortal blessed land seemed
extremely safe but was actually akin to waiting for death. Only by going on the
offensive before these enemies ascertain the truth could he remedy this perilous
situation.

"Dark limit Immortal Gu, I have heard of it even in my previous life, it can indeed
conceal aura and obstruct calculations. If I can get this Gu, I believe I can avert the
dangerous situation."

Fang Yuan thought of Hei Lou Lan.

This woman was not of minor importance and was an outstanding, ruthless person.
She was pragmatic and could flexibly take advantage of situations; she betrayed her
ancestor for her own interests and wanted to kill her own father - these evidently
displayed a demonic nature! She possessed Great Strength True Martial Physique and
also obtained a strength path Immortal Gu, once she advanced into a Gu Immortal, her
path would be one of rapid progress.

One could say that she was similar to Fang Yuan, but precisely because of this, in
cooperating with her, it demanded exceptional caution.

Whether it was Immortal Gu Dark Limit or Fixed Immortal Travel, they were both
things he desired.

Fang Yuan's thoughts started to slow down as he thought till this point.

The wills in his mind were nearly expended.

Fang Yuan was dazed for a moment, before retreating from the light of wisdom to
activate Gu worms and create new wills.

His mind was soon filled with many types of wills.

"It is a pity that mortal Gu cannot create too many wills and they are easily consumed
in the light of wisdom. If I can use an Immortal Gu to create wills, their number would
be enormous and could also be sustained for a long period of time, allowing me to
think as much as I like!"

Fang Yuan felt some regret.

He had a rank six wisdom path Immortal Gu, Delight in Water and Mountain which
could create joyful will.

However, Fang Yuan did not use it after slight consideration.

Immortal Gu required immortal essence. He only had nineteen beads of green grape
immortal essence left, and because his immortal aperture had become a dead land,
using one immortal essence bead would mean one fewer bead left without
replenishment.

He needed to save his immortal essence as much as possible to be prepared for the
times when they are necessary.

Thus, he opted to use mortal Gu for now.

After accumulating a fixed amount of mortal wills, Fang Yuan stepped into the light of
wisdom again.

This time, he did not think about external situations, instead concentrating on himself.

"I have transformed into a zombie, my cultivation cannot progress an inch, how to
resurrect and restore my human body is the first issue. It would be great if I could use
yin-yang rotation Gu, but I am an immortal zombie while yin-yang rotation Gu only is
at rank four. The second issue is that I am already bankrupt!"

Fang Yuan had invested almost all of his savings in his trip to northern plains. His
required expenses were now already greater than his earnings and he was now facing
bankruptcy.
He did not even have one immortal essence stone in his possession now, even Hu
Immortal blessed land had become extremely barren.

Before the decisive battle in northern plains, Fang Yuan had already used up the
remaining immortal essence stones. At the final juncture, he even had to exchange his
goods to make purchases. He had already sold almost all the fox groups and wolf
groups in Hu Immortal blessed land; in the large grassland in the blessed land, foxes
and wolves could only be seen occasionally.

Most of the nearly ten thousand hairy men Fang Yuan had bought in the past were also
sold for emergency support. Now there were only around two thousand old hairy men
that were experienced in refining Gu left which Fang Yuan was reluctant to sell off.

The rockmen slave transactions had been a strong economic pillar for Fang Yuan. But
after Immortal Crane Sect stopped the transactions, this pillar crumbled down. The
rockmen trading market in treasure yellow heaven had already been divided up
completely and it would be hard for Fang Yuan to squeeze in. This caused the already
bad situation to turn worse.

There was no use in merely having powerful battle strength. There must be enough
resources to support one's cultivation.

The way of Gu involved nurturing, using and refining; Gu Masters could not just use
Gu, they had to raise and also refine Gu.

Fang Yuan was now a zombie, his cultivation had stagnated which further increased
the resources he required. Only by doing so could he have a higher chance of restoring
his life.

Three days later.

Within Dang Hun Palace.

Fang Yuan made simple arrangements once again, building a rough hall where stone
chairs were arranged in two rows. The main chair was as spacious as a bed with its
back as high as a monument, however when Fang Yuan sat on it, it fit him just right.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was sitting on the first seat to Fang Yuan's left; his brows were
furrowed as he held a small and exquisite white dove.
This white dove was flickering with faint radiance, it was the rank five messenger dove
Gu.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's consciousness left the messenger dove Gu after few moments; he
heaved a deep sigh and worriedly said: "Master does not plan on helping and is making
this a test for junior brother."

Fang Yuan nodded: "Right. Master criticized me in the letter, saying I was greedy for
small gains, not listening to his advice before I left and rashly opening Di Qiu
inheritance, which caused me to encounter Mo Yao's will and created a series of ill
consequences. So this time, he wants me to resolve this issue by myself. Sigh, master's
style has always been like this, it seems I have no other option but to work hard!!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded, approving of Fang Yuan's last sentence.

Back then, the old beggar disappeared right after giving him the Gu Immortal
inheritance, not concerned with anything else. This style was the same as Fang Yuan's
test, thus Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not sense anything weird.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng asked in a quiet voice: "Junior brother, you said master had already
taken in six legacy disciples. You are ranked fifth, grasping strength and enslavement
path, with two Gu Immortal inheritances. That means you have five other fellow
disciples, how about we ask them for help?"

Fang Yuan shook his head.

What a joke, of course it was not possible!

This messenger dove Gu's contents were fabricated by Fang Yuan. Purple Mountain
True Monarch's name was also casually made up by him. The six great legacy disciples
were even more fictitious, how could one ask for help from those that did not exist?

"This is not possible." Fang Yuan gave a bitter smile, his gaze revealing extreme
sincerity, "First of all, I only have heard master mentioning these fellow disciples once
in a while. I have not personally seen them and also don't know what their identities
are or where they are located. More importantly, this is a task assigned by master! He
has already approved of your status in the letter and has ranked you as the fifth
disciple, and has said you have to help me for this period of time to solve this issue. At
the same time, he allowed me to retain and use all the spoils of battle from northern
plains, this is the help master is giving me. If I still ask for help from the other disciples,
it would not be what master wishes for. After all, this is his test for me."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng worriedly and anxiously said: "Even if master did not say it, I would
still remain by junior brother's side and use all my strength to help you! What are your
plans now?"

"Old Bai, you also read the contents in the letter. Master mentioned for me to join
Zombie Alliance."

"What kind of organisation is this Zombie Alliance?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng asked. He had
just recently advanced into a Gu Immortal, as such there were many things regarding
Gu Immortals he did not know about.

"Zombie Alliance is just like what its name implies, it is an alliance of zombies. This
alliance has existed since long ago, and reportedly it appeared in the Medieval
Antiquity Era, three hundred thousand years ago. Now, it is a super force which is
spread throughout the five regions; its main headquarters is in eastern sea, with a
branch in each of the other four regions." Fang Yuan introduced.

"It actually extends throughout the five regions, could they be even more powerful
than northern plains' Huang Jin family?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was moved.

Fang Yuan shook his head: "That isn't the case. Almost all of Zombie Alliance's
members compose of zombies, and their higher ups are immortal zombies like me.
For the most part, these immortal zombies are Gu Immortals who reached the end of
their lifespan and had no choice but to turn into zombies to prolong their life. These
Gu Immortals' immortal apertures are dead; they cannot produce immortal essence
nor can they absorb heaven and earth qi, and after some time, their blessed land
would start shrinking and parts of it would crumble. Thus, their battle strengths often
can't compare to normal Gu Immortals. Naturally, certain immortal zombies are
exceptions."

Zombie Alliance's branches were weaker than the respective region's super forces. But
the headquarters at eastern sea was a level stronger than the native super forces.

"So it is like that." Tai Bai Yun Sheng had grown in knowledge, he then asked with some
doubt, "Then why does master want junior brother to join Zombie Alliance?"

Fang Yuan thought for a moment before saying: "If a Gu Immortal reached the end of
their lifespan and transformed into an immortal zombie with no other choice left, then
later on, if they obtain lifespan Gu, they are sure to want to resurrect. Originally, one
of the purposes for Zombie Alliance's establishment was to help each other to research
the method to regain a live physical body. So much time has gone by, they definitely
have obtained some results. I think master's purpose lies in this point."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was happy and also worried: "This suggestion is really good. But
how will you join Zombie Alliance?"

Fang Yuan laughed: "Old Bai, you don't need to worry. Joining Zombie Alliance is
extremely simple, I only need to show my status as an immortal zombie."

"It's that simple?"

"Of course. Zombie Alliance is suppressed by all the super forces, thus they operate
with much difficulty, as such they are very eager to have more members in the alliance.
At the same time, an immortal zombie's identity is not easy to disguise. Zombie
Alliance has researched very deeply and has many methods to distinguish between
immortal zombies. I intend to join northern plains' Zombie Alliance, but before this,
we have to wait for someone."

"Hei Lou Lan." Tai Bai Yun Sheng blurted out.

Fang Yuan nodded.

He did not hide his plans to go to northern plains from Tai Bai Yun Sheng and had
revealed almost everything, as he still needed to borrow the latter's strength in the
future.
"Sigh, it has been so many years since I last saw a mirror willow." Mo Yao's will sighed,
she touched the one and only mirror willow tree, speaking with deep emotions as she
recalled the memories of her past.

Fang Yuan's will was by her side, he silently watched and did not say a word to disrupt
her.

This world was rotting and dark, it was Fang Yuan's dead immortal aperture.

Fang Yuan had tricked Mo Yao's will into entering his immortal aperture, suppressing
her afterwards.

Mo Yao was a refinement grandmaster, she was once a legendary Gu Immortal. In the
history of central continent, she had left behind her markings.

Her will naturally had great value.

Although Fang Yuan was harmed by Mo Yao's will and had gone through a near death
experience in northern plains, Fang Yuan did not hate Mo Yao's will. On the contrary,
there was appreciation, even as much as admiration.

If he was the one scheming, he might not have done any better than Mo Yao's will.

He was prepared to interrogate Mo Yao's will, but it turned out that she was extremely
cooperative. Towards the questions that Fang Yuan asked regarding refinement path,
not only did she answer all of them, she even elaborated on the points and Fang Yuan
gained huge insights from her words.

But when Fang Yuan asked about the information of Spirit Affinity House, Mo Yao's
will suddenly had a request: "I have been away from central continent for so many
years, over these years, I have been missing the people and things over there more
and more. Please find for me a tree of the mirror willow, it will alleviate my
longingness for my homeland."
Mirror willows were ordinary plants, they were about the size of ordinary willow
trees, but their leaves were like pieces of mirrors. The leaves of these willows were
the food of beggar moths.

In the past, during the rockmen transactions, Fang Yuan had purchased a batch of
mirror willows from Immortal Crane Sect and had planted them in Hu Immortal
blessed land.

Thus, he casually picked one of them and placed it into his immortal aperture.

"Back in the day, my main body and brother Bo Qing had first met each other under
this mirror willow. The world moves on after a genius perishes…” Mo Yao's will sighed.

Immediately after, she turned around, looking at Fang Yuan's will: "Thank you for
acceding to my request. Since you want to know about Spirit Affinity House's matters,
I will tell you about them. However, my information is extremely dated, you need to
take note of this."

Fang Yuan's will nodded.

Mo Yao's will stood below the mirror willow, telling him much of Spirit Affinity House's
inside information.

Fang Yuan listened to her as he made comparisons to his five hundred years of
experience, his understanding of Spirit Affinity House greatly increased.

"Your immortal aperture is already dead, the mirror willow will be corroded by the
death energy and turn into a dead tree in less than three days. What a pity…” After
giving him Spirit Affinity House's details, Mo Yao sighed again.

But it unclear whether her 'pity' was directed towards the mirror willow or Fang
Yuan's immortal aperture.

"The next time you come here, can you bring a cup of qingpu tea? This is Spirit Affinity
House's specialty tea, it is not rare. Although I cannot taste it, I would like to see it."
Mo Yao said.

Fang Yuan's will snorted: "It seems you have no awareness of your captive status. You
are asking for this and that, are you scheming something again?"
Mo Yao's will laughed charmingly: "Oh Fang Yuan, you are too vigilant. Ever since my
plan was exposed by you and was lured into the immortal aperture to be suppressed,
I was already meat on the chopping block, subjected to your supervision at all times,
you can do anything you want to me. How can I create any schemes and how would I
be able to execute them?"

"However, let's speak openly. Even though I failed completely and have no way of
turning this around, if you try and be forceful, you will get a very incomplete result.
After all, soul searching is easy, but will searching is tough. If you were a wisdom path
grandmaster, that would be possible, but sadly you have nearly no foundation in
wisdom path, all your Gu worms were bought randomly in the market. Wisdom path
is different from other paths, it is mysterious and complex, you have not even reached
the entry level yet."

Mo Yao's will started criticizing Fang Yuan, she was not holding back at all, after all,
she knew that Fang Yuan was very broad-minded, he was a rare and extraordinary
demon.

Indeed, at the next moment, Fang Yuan's will laughed: "You are right, my wisdom path
attainment is low, but thanks for your cooperation, from now on, you can live in my
immortal aperture. I will bring the qingpu tea next time."

Saying so, his will flew into the sky.

The immortal aperture opened a tiny slit, and this will flew all the way up into Fang
Yuan's mind.

In an instant, Fang Yuan learnt of all the information that this will had gotten from Mo
Yao.

Indeed, he lacked methods to proper search wills.

Soul searching was easy, will searching was hard, this was normal.

If that was not the case, when wisdom path Gu Masters fight their enemies using wills,
these will would reveal their own secrets to their enemies when they are captured and
taken.

Precisely because will searching was hard, wisdom path Gu Masters used them to fight
enemies.
As for Mo Yao…

"She is indeed quite a formidable person, no wonder she could leave her name in
history." Fang Yuan praised her and sighed secretly.

Mo Yao's will's plan was exposed, she had utterly failed. She could not even self-
detonate, she was sealed in Fang Yuan's immortal aperture and was fully suppressed.

But even in such a desperate situation, she did not give up.

She cooperated with Fang Yuan, answering his questions for him, that was to display
her value, and to fight for more time for herself.

If one day, Fang Yuan encounters any danger and his immortal aperture shatters, or if
he was captured by anyone, or died in the battlefield, Mo Yao's will would have a
chance to escape for freedom.

Mo Yao's will did not give up, her persistent and unyielding attitude made Fang Yuan
inwardly feel admiration towards her.

Of course, if Fang Yuan had the proper methods and could search wills, he would strike
at the first moment. But currently, Mo Yao's will was cooperating with him, this was
better for his benefits.

"If I could really find a wisdom path inheritance, it would all be easier. Unfortunately,
wisdom path is mysterious and deep, there are very few wisdom path Gu Masters and
Gu Immortals in number. There are no wisdom path inheritances that I know of in my
memories."

Back then, Fang Yuan had collected some scattered wisdom path Gu worms in treasure
yellow heaven. He had mild progress in terms of wisdom path.

But now that he was bankrupt, he had almost no purchasing power, he could not even
continue this mild progress.

As for the details of Red Lotus Demon Venerable's inheritance, he did not ask. Because
Mo Yao's will knew: Fang Yuan did not have any methods to deal with her yet.

The two of them were smart people, they knew that asking forcefully was not possible.
"Master, Immortal Crane Sect's reply is here." At this time, Little Hu Immortal
appeared beside him, holding a rank five letter Gu.

Immortal Crane Sect suddenly stopped the purchase of rockmen, not long ago, Fang
Yuan had sent them a letter to probe about this.

Immortal Crane Sect's reply came very quickly.

Fang Yuan took the letter Gu and his consciousness went into it.

The content of the letter was written in a tough stance, they requested for Fang Yuan
to initiate the trade of guts Gu, otherwise, Immortal Crane Sect would announce that
Fang Yuan was a traitor of the sect, and would mobilize the Gu Immortals to attack Hu
Immortal blessed land!

A year ago, Fang Yuan had used Fixed Immortal Travel and snatched Hu Immortal
blessed land from under everyone's nose, it was like he was taking food from a tiger.

Immortal Crane Sect immediately reacted, using the similar appearance of Fang Yuan
and Fang Zheng to announce that Fang Yuan was actually a disciple that Immortal
Crane Sect had nurtured in secret. The other nine sects thus recognised Immortal
Crane Sect's victory.

Immortal Crane Sect's plan was to remove the other nine competitors, then deal with
Fang Yuan single handedly, attempting to take Hu Immortal blessed land for
themselves.

Fang Yuan was happy to see this.

After all, the difficulty of dealing with solely Immortal Crane Sect was completely
different from dealing with the ten great sects at the same time.

But this way, Fang Yuan silently agreed with Immortal Crane Sect's lie — he was
Immortal Crane Sect's disciple.

"Hu Immortal blessed land is situated on Tian Ti mountain, even the ten great sects
cannot attack it casually, as it would provoke public anger within central continent.
But if they announced that I was a traitor of the sect, they would have the perfect
reason to attack." Fang Yuan's expression was solemn, thinking about the situation.
He was not afraid, this was something that he had expected over a year ago.

He only did not expect that Immortal Crane Sect's patience had worn thin so quickly.

Fang Yuan laughed, saying to Little Hu Immortal: "Bring Tai Bai Yun Sheng here."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng heard this news and his face turned gloomy: "What shall we do now?
Immortal Crane Sect is one of the ten great ancient sects of central continent, it is a
powerful force that surpasses northern plains' super tribes. If they really attack, just
the two of us cannot stop them!"

Fang Yuan laughed: "Old Bai, oh Old Bai, I asked you here to inquire about your opinion
regarding this difficult question. But the moment you met me, you asked me a question
instead."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng gasped, he showed some embarrassment and shame as he frowned,
thinking about it. Eventually, he had an idea: "Didn't we ally with Hei Lou Lan? We can
ask her to help us!"

Evidently, Hei Lou Lan's great battle strength was ingrained into Tai Bai Yun Sheng's
heart.

"Although Hei Lou Lan has the Great Strength True Martial Physique, even if she
advance into a Gu Immortal successfully, with just the three of us, we cannot stop
Immortal Crane Sect." Fang Yuan sighed and shook his head.

"Then what shall we do? What shall we do?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng paced back and forth,
thinking hard.

Fang Yuan looked at him, laughing but not saying a word.

Suddenly, Tai Bai Yun Sheng stopped in his tracks, he patted his head: "I've got it!
Didn't master ask you to join Zombie Alliance? We can totally join Zombie Alliance,
and use Zombie Alliance's force to threaten Immortal Crane Sect."

But Fang Yuan shook his head, saying: "Zombie Alliance's structure is loose with little
binding force, and central continent's Zombie Alliance branch is far inferior to
Immortal Crane Sect, it is not threatening in the least. Furthermore, if I try to make
use of Zombie Alliance, I will have to give up some benefits. I'm afraid that instead of
Immortal Crane Sect, Zombie Alliance would be the first to benefit from this."
"That won't work too, then what are we going to do?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng raised his
head and looked at Fang Yuan with a bitter, frowning expression.

But when he saw Fang Yuan's smile at the corner of his lips, he was stunned, before
reacting, pointing at Fang Yuan as he scolded laughingly: "What a junior brother you
are, actually lying to this senior brother, watching my desperation! You look so
confident, it is obvious you already have a plan."

"Hahaha, Old Bai, you have amazing vision, I could not lie to you." Fang Yuan laughed
loudly, admitting it.

"What method do you have, aren't you going to tell me?"

Fang Yuan replied: "I had already told you the background of this matter. Immortal
Crane Sect said I was their disciple because they were afraid of the other nine great
sects' interference. This is their weakness, and is something I am going to use to make
a breakthrough."

"What are you going to do?"

Fang Yuan did not keep it from him: "I already have a plan to send a letter to Spirit
Affinity House, establishing our first contact."

Earlier, Fang Yuan had asked about Spirit Affinity House's information from Mo Yao
for this purpose.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was worried again: "Establishing a relationship now and only
sending a letter, isn't that too late? The ten great sects compete with each other, but
they also cooperate. Is it possible that Spirit Affinity House would reject your letter
and give it to Immortal Crane Sect to express goodwill?"

"Of course not, because this letter… is very special." Fang Yuan was extremely
confident.
Many flashes of inspiration appeared in his mind.

Countless ingredients and Gu worms formed into many different ideas.

The thoughts in his mind were also being consumed at a rapid rate. Such intense
expenditure had far exceeded Fang Yuan's own limit in thinking speed.

"The power of a rank nine Gu is truly terrifying! In fact, I have not even refined wisdom
Gu, I am only using a bit of its light of wisdom." Fang Yuan sighed in shock as he went
out of the wisdom light halo.

He was deducing and perfecting the refinement recipe of gruel mud Immortal Gu.

Unlike beforehand when he reflected on the current situation or the changes in his
body, perfecting an Immortal Gu recipe needed many more fields of consideration. A
set of Gu refinement materials contained up to tens of hundreds of different materials.
Not to mention the grouping and coordination of different Gu worms.

Precisely because of this, the wills in Fang Yuan's mind were depleting at a shocking
rate.

After a few days of accumulating wills, they were all expended in a dozen breaths'
time.

The result of this was an advancement of less than 0.1% in the deduction of gruel mud
Gu's recipe.

"But to get such progress, if I did this alone without the help of the light of wisdom, I
would need at least half a year." Fang Yuan estimated.

A dozen breaths' time in exchange for half a year's time, this showed the great power
of wisdom Gu.
But Fang Yuan was not satisfied.

Deducing Gu recipes required too many areas of consideration, too many of his wills
were being consumed, and too quickly. The wills that he accumulated in a few days
were quickly used up in such a short time.

The result was, he could not deduce more than 0.1% of the Gu recipe.

Fang Yuan's original plan was to use wisdom Gu to deduce Immortal Gu recipes, before
selling them in treasure yellow heaven for profit. But now he encountered a problem.

"Deducing Immortal Gu recipe requires a great amount of will. But mortal Gu produce
too little will each time. Even though I have been using these mortal Gu to create wills
at full capacity these days, I have almost pushed them to their limits, if I exceed this,
the mortal Gu will be damaged, unless I use the rank six delight in water and mountain
Gu…”

Fang Yuan thought about it for a while before deciding to give it a go.

He consumed one bead of green grape immortal essence, activating delight in water
and mountain Gu.

Swoosh!

The Immortal Gu floated above his head, bursting out with a brilliant and dazzling
light.

The light poured down, like a heavenly river, injecting into Fang Yuan's mind.

This joyful will was produced at such a grand scale. Compared to rank five mortal
wisdom path Gu, the will they produced was like a puddle of water. Meanwhile, this
joyful will was produced like a great river!

"As expected of an Immortal Gu!" Fang Yuan was overjoyed.

Joyful will continued to pour and inject into him, only after a long while did it stop.

In Fang Yuan's spacious mind, a third of it was filled with joyful will.

Special will was a golden color, appearing like sand. Joyful will was bright yellow.
"That is to say, as long as I activate delight in water and mountain Gu three times, my
mind would be filled completely? No wonder the market in treasure yellow heaven
would have those wisdom path Gu that can make the mind more spacious." Fang Yuan
gained some enlightenment from his experiment.

Strength path Gu worms modified the Gu Master's body. In contrast, wisdom path Gu
worms modified the person's mind.

Fang Yuan entered the wisdom light halo once again, falling into deep thoughts.

Euphoria!

This felt way too good!

Like there were no limits binding him, everything was clear. For any difficult problem,
a breakthrough could be attained in a flash! The only difference was: The harder the
problem, the more will would be expended.

A vast amount of refinement materials were chosen one by one, countless Gu worms
were combined into groups and tested at lightning speed, before splitting them apart
again.

Fang Yuan showed off his great skills, he felt that there was no problems in this world
that could trouble him.

This feeling was splendid, only until all of the joyful will was expended, did Fang Yuan
leave the light of wisdom reluctantly, he felt that only a dozen breaths' time had passed
by since then.

But in reality, seven minutes had gone by already.

"Puff…” Fang Yuan let of a sigh of turbid air, he shook his head.

After leaving the light of wisdom, he immediately went back to his former self, he was
still that zombie with slow cognitive abilities.

The great difference felt like falling from heaven into hell.

Fang Yuan breathed in deeply, adjusting his emotions as he inspected the fruits of his
labor.
The progress of the deduction of gruel mud Immortal Gu's recipe advanced by one
percent.

Compared to before, this was huge progress!

Fang Yuan nodded, but he soon shook his head again.

He silently left the underground cave, going to Dang Hun mountain's palace.

"Junior brother, how is the situation?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng had been waiting inside the
palace for some time, he quickly asked Fang Yuan in concern.

He was covered in dust and sand, he had just returned after inspecting the western
area of Hu Immortal blessed land.

"Take a seat." Fang Yuan waved to him, taking a few big steps to the main seat and
sitting down.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked at Fang Yuan with a curious gaze after choosing the seat
closest to him.

He knew that Fang Yuan was using wisdom Gu to deduce an Immortal Gu recipe. Not
long ago, he had followed Fang Yuan into the underground cave, and had looked at
wisdom Gu from far away — he had finally obtained a lifespan Gu from Fang Yuan
some time ago, he had limited lifespan and did not dare to get close to this legendary
Gu worm.

Fang Yuan leaned on the stone block like it was a chair, his legs were spread open and
a pair of his arms were placed on his leg. One pair was crossed over his abdomen,
while another pair was at the handle of the seat. The final pair was crossed over his
chest, he sat with a grand posture, like an unmoving mountain, he was still and silent,
like a giant statue.

He sighed, saying: "Mortal Gu were not efficient to use. I tried using the wisdom path
Immortal Gu Delight in Water and Mountain. The river of joyful will that it produced,
under the light of wisdom, allowed my Gu recipe deduction to progress by one
percent."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng heard this and stood up from his seat in excitement, he showed
evident joy on his face: "One percent? As expected of the rank nine wisdom Gu! That
means, if we use it a hundred times, we will be able to deduce an Immortal Gu recipe?
With these Immortal Gu recipes, we can sell them in treasure yellow heaven, this is a
huge treasure chest that can yield us endless profits! By then, we will have an
unceasing flow of immortal essence stones!! To think… that after becoming a zombie,
junior brother can actually receive such benefits!"

These days, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had been worrying over cultivation resources.

He found out that after becoming a Gu Immortal, he needed much more cultivation
resources.

When Gu Master cultivate, they nurture their apertures, when Gu Immortal cultivate,
they nurture their immortal aperture.

There are many different ways one can nurture an immortal aperture. But the ultimate
goal was the same, that is to make the immortal aperture's small world more vibrant
and diverse.

Planting more varieties of plants in the immortal aperture, bringing in more animals,
improving the cycle of life and establishing a proper food chain, nurturing and feeding
more varieties of Gu worm groups…

The more prosperous the immortal aperture, the greater life force it would have, and
the faster immortal essence would be produced in the immortal aperture.

This was the cultivation path of Gu Immortals, this was their way of improving.

Thus, in treasure yellow heaven, not only were Gu worms and Gu recipes sold, there
were also the sale of beast groups, vegetation, mysterious stones, precious water, and
so on.

Looking at Tai Bai Yun Sheng's excited look, Fang Yuan nodded in satisfaction: "It
seems that my method of asking you to inspect Hu Immortal blessed land and
becoming familiar with the cultivation path of Gu Immortals is very effective. You have
finally realized the importance of cultivation resources. But unfortunately, although
selling Immortal Gu recipes is a very profitable trade, we temporarily cannot engage
in that."

"Ah, why is that?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was confused.

"Because the investment is too great." Fang Yuan sighed: "To get something from
nothing, to deduce a rank six Immortal Gu recipe, the amount of green grape immortal
essence we would need to expend is at least over a hundred."

"Junior brother, didn't you deduce one percent of this Immortal Gu recipe?"

"That is because what I was deducing was the gruel mud Immortal Gu remnant recipe.
I told you before, earlier I had engaged in the trade of gruel mud, thus I obtained many
gruel mud Immortal Gu remnant recipes. But after I collated these remnant recipes, I
only obtained this sixty percent remnant recipe." Fang Yuan answered.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was not stupid, he immediately understood Fang Yuan's words.

With the light of wisdom, no problem could trouble Fang Yuan.

Under normal circumstances, if he encountered difficulty when deducing Gu recipes,

they would be hard to resolve. If he was lucky and had a burst of inspiration, he would
be able to think of a solution. But if he was unlucky and could not resolve this problem,
he would be stuck there for years, or even decades without making any progress.

But with wisdom Gu, Fang Yuan faced no difficulty when deducing Gu recipes.

Even if Fang Yuan encountered a problem that he could not solve due to his
foundations, he just needed to think more. Using the light of wisdom to think, he only
needed to consume more wills in order to resolve this problem.

In this way, Immortal Gu recipes were easier to deduce towards the later parts.

A sixty percent remnant recipe means it already has a general direction, this could
allow Fang Yuan to rule out a large number of Gu refinement elements. On this basis,
he progressed by one percent of the deduction.

That is to say, if he started from zero, from scratch, and deduced the recipe from
nothing, it would be extremely difficult, he would not even reach one percent.

Fang Yuan continued: "I only have eighteen green grape immortal essence beads,
while you have twenty-six. Hu Immortal blessed land only has sixty-four beads of Bai
Hu's immortal essence. But you and Hu Immortal land spirit cannot be under the
wisdom light halo. Even if I lend delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu to you,
the joyful will that you create cannot be used by me. At this point, the gruel mud
remnant recipe is the most promising of them, but it also requires about forty beads
of immortal essence from us. Don't forget that we are not safe now. Northern plains'
Gu Immortals and Immortal Crane Sect are going to find trouble with us. Especially if
wisdom Gu is exposed, I'm afraid every Gu Immortal in the five regions would charge
towards us with killing intent!"

"Yes, the investment is too big, and we also need to preserve some green grape
immortal essence as a preemptive measure to guard against enemies and accidents."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded, he sighed deeply and looked at the ground, he accepted this
fact in disappointment.

But immediately after, he raised his head, his eyes shining with light: "Eh? I have an
idea! Junior brother, I remember you told me about the matter with Lang Ya land spirit.
Master told you about the secrets of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, thus when you
requested help from Lang Ya land spirit, you said you deduced it yourself. That caused
Lang Ya land spirit to assume you were a wisdom path Gu Master, and it wanted to
work with you to perfect Gu recipes."

"Oh!" Fang Yuan pretended to jolt into realization, he showed an appropriately excited
expression on his face: "There is such a thing, ahh, ahh, after becoming a zombie, my
brain is so useless, I did not think of this! Old Bai, you are completely right, the best
remnant recipe that I have right now is the sixty percent gruel mud Immortal Gu
recipe. There must be many remnant recipes in Lang Ya land spirit's hands. He
probably has remnant recipes with a much higher completion rate."

"Junior brother, you are familiar with Lang Ya land spirit, and you also know the
method to enter Lang Ya blessed land, we can totally cooperate with Lang Ya land
spirit!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng thought about this amazing plan and laughed loudly and
heartily.
"Old Bai, your reminder is very true, but I have no way to directly contact Lang Ya land
spirit. I used two opportunities in the past to obtain two Immortal Gu from that old
man, Lang Ya land spirit, and I was nearly chased out by him. Hehehe, I don't think I'll
be able to contact him." Fang Yuan smiled bitterly.

"Is that so…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng's joy on his face froze.

Linking between two blessed lands could be done through hole earth Gu, directly
connecting both of their territories. Earlier, when Fang Yuan traded with Immortal
Crane Sect, he used this method.

But Fang Yuan and Lang Ya land spirit's relationship was naturally not close to that
extent.

Most critically, Hu Immortal blessed land was in central continent, while Lang Ya
blessed land was in northern plains, even the hole earth Gu was not easy to use. To
directly connect to there, he needed to use stargate Gu.

Stargate Gu came in pairs, but Fang Yuan only had one stargate Gu left now. The other
one was destroyed in the wind veil of assimilation.

"It seems we can only return to northern plains and meet Lang Ya land spirit
personally, before asking for cooperation." Tai Bai Yun Sheng sighed.

"No, there is another method that relies on luck." Fang Yuan hummed: "That old land
spirit loves refining Gu, but he cannot go out to search for Gu refinement materials.
Lang Ya blessed land's terrain is very plain, it can produce very limited varieties of
materials, he will have to go to treasure yellow heaven often. We can wait for him
patiently, staring at treasure yellow heaven until his divine sense appears."

"Right, there is still this method!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's eyes shone.
"So from now on, I will be relying on you, Old Bai." Fang Yuan said as a matter of fact.

"No problem, count on me. I will go back now and open connecting heaven Gu, linking
to treasure yellow heaven!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng patted his chest, he could not wait any
longer, he was brought back to his residential area by the land spirit.

He chose to build a temporary house at the western area of the blessed land.

That was his temporary home.

The terrain of Hu Immortal blessed land was similar to northern plains, Tai Bai Yun
Sheng did not feel any discomfort living here, he felt a serene feeling like being at
home.

Having roamed northern plains for about half his life, he had finally found an
organisation and had settled down, therefore he especially treasured this home.

After sending Tai Bai Yun Sheng away, Fang Yuan fell into deep thought.

He had already thought of cooperating with Lang Ya land spirit long ago. In truth, a
few days ago, he had asked Little Hu Immortal to keep an eye on treasure yellow
heaven, waiting for Old Immortal Lang Ya's divine sense.

But there was no progress at all.

What he was thinking about now was not the matter about Lang Ya land spirit, but
about Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

His journey in northern plains was very chaotic, now during these days when he was
in Hu Immortal blessed land, he observed Tai Bai Yun Sheng heavily and gained a lot
of insight on this person.

"Tai Bai Yun Sheng is indeed a good person. He has ability but no ambition. His
intelligence is only that of an average person, what he really has is the wisdom
accumulated from his entire life's experiences. He does not have a grasp of the big
picture, it is no wonder that even though he was a former young tribe leader, and
having roamed for so many years, with sufficient reputation and strength, he did not
manage to create a force of his own." Fang Yuan evaluated in his mind.

Such a person is best as a follower that closely sticks to him, he should not be left alone
due to his lack of leadership capability. Because of his nature and beliefs, if he is far
away, not only would he be unable to cooperate, he might even ruin plans.

Over these days, Fang Yuan had been in constant contact with Tai Bai Yun Sheng, their
relationship had been improving.

During several of their late night talks, Fang Yuan talked of his experiences since
rebirth, only with the addition of the non-existent "Purple Mountain True Monarch".

Meanwhile, Tai Bai Yun Sheng talked about basically all of his life's experiences.

Many times, even though Fang Yuan already had some plan in his heart, he still asked
Tai Bai Yun Sheng to come over and discuss it.

It might seem like a waste of time, but this was Fang Yuan's elaborate plan.

Firstly, it was to test Tai Bai Yun Sheng's ability and true self, to see if his emotions
really came from the bottom of his heart.

Secondly, telling him about the current situation without concealing anything
increased his sense of belonging, and his feelings of responsibility.

Thirdly, it was a type of formless suppression towards Tai Bai Yun Sheng. The result of
all their discussions usually ended up with Fang Yuan's method being used, and Tai
Bai Yun Sheng's method being denied. As this happened more frequently,
subconsciously, Tai Bai Yun Sheng would rely more and more on Fang Yuan, paying
greater attention to his plans and denying his own ideas. At crucial moments, Fang
Yuan would be able to make decisions without any opposition. They would not quarrel
over their own ideas and lead to conflict which could botch a situation.

Fang Yuan was not Hei Lou Lan, Hei Lou Lan had the rank six slavery Gu and could
enslave a Gu Immortal.

Fang Yuan did not have it, but Tai Bai Yun Sheng was neither Bai Ning Bing nor Hei
Lou Lan.

Most importantly, Fang Yuan had his own methods, and he believed: Even without
slavery Immortal Gu, he could still subdue Tai Bai Yun Sheng, to squeeze out his
greatest potential and become his tool.
This was the confidence of a demonic path overlord!

Central Continent, Fei He mountain.

The clouds were abundant in the sky, thousands of cranes were flying.

Winds blew on the verdant green mountain, Fang Zheng sat on a cliff, focusing his gaze
on thousands of iron beak flying cranes, as they created different formations according
to his will. At times they charged, at times they split into two to pincer attack, and at
times they formed a circular defensive formation.

The wind blew his long hair, his bright eyes were shining with determination.

Tough times make men grow, to Fang Zheng, the Hu Immortal blessed land's
competition a year ago was a major setback for him.

After some consolation, he walked out of his despair, and put in even more effort, he
had almost risked his life to cultivate daily!

At this time, a voice came from Fang Zheng's aperture: "Good, your command of the
iron beak flying cranes have reached a stage where you can manipulate them with
ease, they move with a thought from you. Now, you can already go back to the sect to
take the flying crane manipulation test, and attempt to get B grade evaluation. You
have a sixty percent chance of succeeding, if you do, you will get the test reward — a
rank five, five hole jade flute Gu. Once you have this Gu, your manipulation of the crane
group would reach quasi enslavement master level."

The voice originated from a spirit incubating flea in Fang Zheng's aperture.

Fang Zheng's master — Lord Sky Crane's soul was residing in this Gu worm.

"Rank five, five hole jade flute Gu?" His eyes shone, excitement was all over his face:
"Yes, master, I will go now."

Fang Zheng stood up, he willed and a large iron beak flying crane king arrived before
him.

He jumped and easily got on the crane king's back.

The crane king cried out in a proud tone. Fang Zheng sat on the crane king's back, the
crane group flying around him, it was a scene of white as he flew towards Immortal
Crane Sect amidst the wind and clouds.

Not long after, he arrived at white jade square D.

The iron beak flying crane landed in the square, Fang Zheng had just landed, when one
of Immortal Crane Sect's disciples ran over quickly, greeting him: "Senior brother Fang
Zheng."

Fang Zheng nodded: "Junior brother, I am here to take the flying crane manipulation
test."

"Senior brother Fang Zheng, please follow me." Immortal Crane Sect's disciple led the
way.

"Quickly look, guys, that is senior brother Fang Zheng. He is the number one elite
disciple of our batch!"

"Did you hear, senior brother Fang Zheng is actually attending the flying crane
manipulation test."

"Senior brother Fang Zheng is an enslavement path genius, to think that he has already
reached the stage of quasi enslavement path master, he is truly amazing…”

Along the way, everyone's whispered discussions entered Fang Zheng's ears.

Fang Zheng heard them and smiled lightly.

He was now fully grown, his body was tall and he had long black hair that resembled
a cape, his eyes were crystal clear. Although he looked ordinary, he had quite the
disposition and was full of life. Wearing a green and white robe, he looked like a
gentleman, it was very comfortable to look at him.

"Although senior brother Fang Zheng is strong, his brother is even more amazing, he
is a superb character who managed to obtain Hu Immortal blessed land."

"That's right, according to a reliable source, his brother, Fang Yuan, is secretly a legacy
disciple of a certain supreme elder. When Spirit Affinity House were on the verge of
taking Hu Immortal blessed land, the supreme elder had no choice but to send senior
brother Fang Yuan out, as expected, he shocked everyone and sealed the deal,
obtaining Hu Immortal blessed land!"

"Fang Zheng has a good brother, the guts Gu on Dang Hun mountain can strengthen
the soul. I can bet that Fang Zheng used the guts Gu. Otherwise, with just his own hard
work, how can he raise his cultivation to rank five in one year? Furthermore, his
enslavement path attainment improved at lightning speed, he is actually going to take
the flying crane manipulation test!"

The tone of these people was sour and bitter, Fang Zheng heard them as his smile
slowly vanished, his fists which were hidden in his sleeves were tightly clenched.

"Brother!" Fang Zheng's eyes shone with a trace of darkness.

Ever since Fang Yuan used some unthinkable method to snatch Hu Immortal blessed
land, Immortal Crane Sect had declared publicly that Fang Yuan was Immortal Crane
Sect's disciple.

During this year, Fang Zheng felt like life had returned to the past, when he was
suppressed by Fang Yuan.

No matter what great results he obtained or how many improvements he made, others
would only praise him briefly before mentioning the even more impressive Fang Yuan.

"Calm your spirit, my disciple." Lord Sky Crane's voice came from the spirit incubating
flea.

Lord Sky Crane's experiences were much richer than Fang Zheng. After these years of
staying together, he had grasped a firm understanding of Fang Zheng.

He consoled Fang Zheng: "These years, I have seen all of your hard work. You are in no
way inferior to your brother. Don't forget, you are now a rank five Gu Master, a quasi
enslavement master! I bet your brother is not your match right now. In any case, Fang
Yuan is going to face extermination soon. The sect has mobilized three supreme elders
in this plan, they are tasked to take back Hu Immortal blessed land, your brother has
no way to survive."

Three supreme elders… that is the battle strength of three Gu Immortals.

Fang Zheng heard this and licked his lips, before his gaze turned a bit dimmer.
Lord Sky Crane knew what he was thinking, he laughed and said: "Fang Zheng, don't
feel any guilt towards this. Your brother had ventured into the wrong path, he is
walking on the demonic path now. He actually slaughtered his entire clan, this makes
him a beast worse than pigs or dogs! Fang Yuan is a true and blue demonic head, you
cannot feel any sympathy towards him. Killing him is equivalent to benefitting the
people of the world. Think about it, if he is alive, how many innocent people would be
harmed?"

"That's right. Brother's hands are full of blood, he is a murderer! A killer! I will take
revenge for my clan, for my uncle and aunt, for Shen Cui Er!" Fang Zheng inwardly
shouted, urging himself.

"Good, that's it." Lord Sky Crane was evidently very happy with Fang Zheng's attitude:
"Think about these years, you were training in Fu Hu blessed land, how dangerous and
terrifying was it! One year outside was eight years inside Fu Hu blessed land! You
became a rank five Gu Master, suffering so much and enduring so much, wasn't it for
the greater plan of taking back Hu Immortal blessed land? Don't screw up at the last
moment, you cannot disappoint everyone at this most crucial juncture."

"Don't worry, master! I understand, I will do my best and contribute to the sect, I will
exterminate all evil, and take down my brother in the name of justice! I will not
disappoint you!" Fang Zheng assured resolutely and unhesitantly.
The light of wisdom dyed the cave walls with beautiful lights.

Fang Yuan quietly stood in it for a good while before opening his eyes, slowly stepping
out of the wisdom light halo.

The wills in his mind were almost fully consumed. Mortal Gu could only produce
limited wills and could not compare to wisdom path Immortal Gu.

"My deduction of Immortal Crane Sect's plan has failed, not because I don't have
enough wills, but because I don't have enough clues." Fang Yuan reflected inwardly.

After being in the wisdom light halo many times over these days, he had summed up
his experiences.

Wisdom Gu was different from natural inspiration.

Wisdom Gu emitted the light of wisdom which could provide unending insights to Gu
Master. But the result of the thoughts and deductions were based on the Gu Master's
foundation as well as the clues they had accumulated.

Fang Yuan's attempt at deducing Immortal Crane Sect's conspiracy against Hu

Immortal blessed land failed because he did not have enough evidence.

In summary, the deeper the Gu Master's foundations and the more evidence they
gathered, the more accurate the outcome of the deduction would be.

Naturally, when there was more evidence, there would be more factors to consider,
and the amount of thoughts and will consumed would also become larger. Especially
when deducing Immortal Gu recipes, the factors to consider were too many, thus the
wills consumed were enormous.
As for natural inspiration, it was a precious experience when a Gu Master advances to
a Gu Immortal.

During this process, the Gu Master questions heaven and earth, and heaven and earth
would directly provide the solutions with no need for the Gu Master to think.

Let's take a difficult mathematical problem from Earth, for example, solving a
multivariate equation.

If the Gu Master used wisdom Gu, his thoughts would quickly consume while he would
obtain numerous insights, causing there to be many paths to the solution. Some of
these paths might be dead ends while some might give wrong results. Only a few
would be correct paths which could deduce the solution.

While natural inspiration would be akin to directly giving the correct answers.

The Gu Master would obtain the correct answer, but they had to know how to use it.

Thus, during natural inspiration, the Gu Master should not ask overly profound
questions. Fang Yuan did not directly ask about eternal life; maybe heaven and earth
would give him an answer but he would absolutely not be able to comprehend it.

It was like a child who had not learned mathematics seeing a linear equation, they
naturally would not be able to comprehend the answer.

To comprehend this answer, the child would have to learn numbers, unknown
variables, positive and negative numbers, and so on. But this would only be the
foundation of the foundation.

To Gu Masters, even if they obtained answers to excessively profound questions, they

would not be able to comprehend it or be able to use it.

Even if they asked about all aspects of this difficult problem during natural inspiration
and comprehended the basics, the time consumed would be too high, the amount of
information would also be so large that the mind would not be able to bear it.

As such, the best way to make use of natural inspiration was to ask according to the
state of one's current foundation, then stabilize the foundation and progress step by
step.
"But within wisdom path, there is an Immortal Gu that can allow a Gu Immortal to
directly obtain answers. That is heavenly secret Gu. Gu Masters do not need to have
their thoughts collide nor make deductions, as long as they grabbed onto that strand
of heavenly secret, they would directly obtain the answer. In the records of history,
this Gu was created by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable; he possessed a rank eight
heavenly secret Immortal Gu but after his death, this heavenly secret Immortal Gu
disappeared without a trace and there has been no news regarding it since then."

Fang Yuan suddenly recalled heavenly secret Immortal Gu.

Gu worms had one ability, and even the rank nine wisdom Gu was no exception. The
higher the ranks of the Gu, the more powerful their ability was. If wisdom Gu was truly
activated, its effect would definitely be terrifying. But even if it was stronger, it could
not replicate the effect of heavenly secret Immortal Gu.

"It was rumored that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was the rank nine Gu Master
who could detect and react to the heavenly fate most closely. He created heavenly
secret Immortal Gu to interact with heaven and earth, and also to experience natural
inspiration again. If I have heavenly secret Immortal Gu, it would combine exquisitely
with wisdom Gu. Meanwhile, if anyone else used heavenly secret Immortal Gu to
investigate me, all of my secrets would likely be exposed…”

Heavenly secret Immortal Gu could let Gu Masters directly question heaven and earth.

There were no events in the world that heaven and earth did not know of.

It was as the saying goes, except you and me, only heaven and earth know.

As for other wisdom path Gu worms, Fang Yuan did not need to worry for the moment.
The wind veil of assimilation had swallowed everything, cleaning up all the traces of
crimes Fang Yuan had committed in Imperial Court blessed land.

Without heavenly secret Immortal Gu, wisdom path Gu Masters would have to make
deductions according to normal methods and that was to gather as much evidence
and clues as possible.

They were unable to plunder any crucial clues from Imperial Court blessed land and
could only begin investigating from the Imperial Court contest. It was not impossible
to deduce Fang Yuan's true identity with this, it was only that the probability was low
and the time required would be longer.
Northern Plains, Jade Pool blessed land.

From a bird's eye view, the blessed land was covered with innumerable large and small
deep pools with the color of a mixture of blue and green.

Lead by Chanyu tribe's Gu Immortal, Tong Zu, around ten Gu Immortals of northern
plains' righteous path slowly descended from the air.

"The noble Jade Pool blessed land is truly unique and fresh. These innumerable jade
pools are like the stars in the sky, their beauty unmatched." A female Gu Immortal
strolled through the sky, expressing her admiration. Her hair that was twenty to thirty
feet long draped behind her and was extremely eye catching.

"All of these jade pools have different types of water, raising countless aquatic species.
Dong Fang tribe's fish groups and water vegetation have been famous for a long time
in treasure yellow heaven." A male Gu Immortal opened the third vertical eye on his
forehead and gazed at the jade pools with a shining gaze.

"Lord Murong Qing Si and Lord Guan Shen Zhao are exaggerating. My tribe's Jade Pool
blessed land has only been in operation for just over six thousand years; the landscape
cannot compare to Murong tribe's Yin-Yang blessed land, while in terms of
productivity, it still falls short of Guan tribe's Shi Huang blessed land." Gu Immortal
Dong Fang Yi Kong who was attending to them, welcomed them with a smile, modestly
talking of Dong Fang tribe's specialities.

Jade Pool blessed land was the headquarters of the Huang Jin family's Dong Fang tribe,
a super force.

A group of Gu Immortals slowly descended.

This, among the myriad jade pools, did not appear to be a remarkable location.

Beside a jade pool was a small hut.

An elderly man was sitting beside the pool in front of the house, in the midst of fishing.

"These are underworld eels." Guan Shen Zhao's vertical eye on his forehead gazed at
the pool before blurting out in shock at the scene inside the clear pool.

When the other Gu Immortals heard it, some of them also showed slightly moved
expressions.

"Sir Dong Fang, we have already not seen each other for over ten years. Thinking of
back then when we charged into Snowy Mountain and fought side by side… Sigh, time
really flies by…” Everyone stood still, as Gu Immortal Tong Zu who had the highest
cultivation made a greeting.

"Lord Tong Zu, you are still as graceful as ever while this old man has one foot in the
grave, I don't dare to compare with you." The elderly man who was fishing stood up
slowly; he was Dong Fang Chang Fan, northern plains' number one wisdom path Gu
Immortal.

Dong Fang Yi Kong walked to Chang Fan's side, as Chang Fan continued: "Dong Fang
tribe is honored with the presence of all of you, being able to welcome everyone to my
humble abode is an extreme honor. Everyone, please come in."

Dong Fang Chang Fan led everyone inside the hut.

The inside of the hut was spacious; there was a plaza and also halls. There were sixteen
stone statues at the plaza, seemingly arranged in order as well as randomly, as they
were separated by varied distances. The expressions on them were subtle, as if
containing some kind of mystical pattern.

"This is Dong Fang tribe's rank six Immortal Gu House — Modest Thatched Hut? It
truly is brilliant." One Gu Immortal praised directly.

Dong Fang Chang Fan led everyone to the administration hall and seated them.
Northern plains' righteous path Gu Immortals, representing all the different forces,
had gathered under one roof!

Dong Fang Chang Fan sat at the main seat and smiled as he observed everyone: "This
time, I have invited everyone here personally in order to make a transaction with you."

Guan Shen Zhao and the others glanced at each other with no one taking the initiative
to speak, it was still Tong Zu who responded: "Sir Dong Fang already decided to not
make deductions for others tens of years ago. But in the letter, you said you were
making an exception for us, and will deduce the true culprit of the destruction of True
Yang Building or perhaps other aspects. But I wonder how we can pay for this
transaction?"
Dong Fang Chang Fan coughed several times before sighing: "This old man's lifespan
is at its end and I know there is no hope in prolonging my life. But before I depart, I
have some concerns lingering in my heart. One is the tribe's growth and the other is
my tribe's descendants, I hope I can make this transaction with everyone. This old man
shall make deductions for each of your tribes once, and after I die, I hope everyone can
ally with my Dong Fang tribe."

"Alliance?"

"Yes, this old man has already roughly prepared the alliance contracts, everyone can
examine them and if you have any objections, we can modify it right here." Dong Fang
Chang Fan took out two east window Gu which he then handed to the Gu Immortals.

The Gu Immortals skimmed over the contract one after another. The alliance
conditions were extremely lax. Dong Fang Chang Fan did not even request for mutual
help and protection among the allies, he only requested that after he died, they had to
protect Dong Fang tribe's peace for fifty years. In this time period, the parties in the
contract could not target, suppress or attack Dong Fang tribe.

The Gu Immortals involuntarily felt a rush of excitement.

Dong Fang Chang Fan was currently the number one wisdom path Gu Immortal of
northern plains. Besides him, there was no one else suitable to deduce the true culprit
of True Yang Building's destruction!

In the cultivation of Gu Immortals, who would not encounter some difficult problems
relating to their cultivation? Or perhaps, they might obtain Immortal Gu remnant
recipes that require deductions? With Dong Fang Chang Fan, these issues were very
likely to be resolved.

Even more importantly, after Imperial Court blessed land perished and Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building collapsed, large numbers of Gu worms were brought over by the
formless fists to all regions of northern plains. The aura of Immortal Gu manifested in
many places, causing the Gu Immortals to contest over them.

At this crucial time, if Dong Fang Chang Fan deduced the location of an Immortal Gu,
then they were very likely to get that Immortal Gu!

Everyone was more than moved and they couldn't help but praise Dong Fang Chang
Fan's shrewdness.
If it were during normal times, Dong Fang Chang Fan's bargaining chip might be
somewhat less important. But now, when one deduction was very likely to represent
one Immortal Gu, all the Gu Immortals were moved.

"Great, Sir Dong Fang, Our Chanyu tribe accepts your conditions."

Tong Zu spoke first, then Hei tribe, Murong tribe, every tribe's representatives also
accepted.

This situation was within Dong Fang Chang Fan's expectations. His smile became even
brighter: "Since this is the case, Fairy Li Shan, please take action."

"Fairy Li Shan?"

While everyone was surprised, a rank six female Gu Immortal walked from behind the
hall and appeared in front of everyone.

"Fairy Li Shan, I trust you have been well." A Gu Immortal greeted.

Another Gu Immortal laughed: "Sir Dong Fang sure has made ample preparations,
even inviting over Fairy Li Shan. It is just that this Jade Pool blessed land does not have
any mountains or rivers, how will we make the oath?"

Dong Fang Yi Kong, who had been silent all this time, stood from beside Dong Fang
Chang Fan, and spoke: "Everyone, please wait and see."

He then opened his palm, lights in vibrant colors floated in the center of his palm,
revealing a miniature mountain peak.

"Could this be — Miniscule Mountain?!" Murong Qing Si opened her graceful eyes
wide as she reacted first, saying in a disbelieving tone.

"Exactly." Dong Fang Yi Kong gave a modest smile, but the pride within him could not
be concealed.

A commotion erupted among the Gu Immortals.

In the underground cave, the light of wisdom flickered back and forth from bright to
dim.

Fang Yuan quietly stood inside it. Only when the wills inside his mind were fully
consumed did he open his eyes and step out of the wisdom light halo.

The deduction he made had succeeded, but Fang Yuan was gloomy because of it.

"To seal Spring Autumn Cicada, as much as over six thousand mortal Gu are required,
among them, almost half are rank five, with rare Gu worms reaching two thousand,
and there are also about eight hundred ancient Gu worms. These ancient Gu worms
are either extinct or on the brink of extinction. My initial estimate is that I require
about twenty-three immortal essence stones to use this method."

Fang Yuan was in a poverty stricken state, twenty-three immortal essence stones were
a hopeless number for him currently.

But Fang Yuan had to brace himself to accomplish this task.

Because Spring Autumn Cicada's recovery was becoming faster and faster, making the
situation of the first aperture more critical.

Fortunately, with Fang Yuan having turned into a zombie, his first aperture turned into
a dead aperture, thus it was able to hold on till now. If the aperture was like before, it
might have already burst.

"According to the current situation, I estimate I still have over two months to plan and
prepare. If this time limit is crossed, the first aperture will not be able to endure even
if it is already dead."

Fang Yuan was feeling a heavy pressure.

He was now a member of the living dead, even if his first aperture was destroyed, he
would not die. But losing the first aperture would no doubt greatly reduce his future
cultivation potential, and that would be an immeasurable loss.

Fang Yuan was in a difficult situation, and there was only one feasible method to earn
twenty-three immortal essence stones within a short period of time - selling Immortal
Gu recipes.

Returning to Dang Hun palace, Fang Yuan called in Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

"I have been paying close attention to treasure yellow heaven over these days, taking
almost no rest. But Lang Ya land spirit's divine sense has not appeared since the
beginning."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's answer made Fang Yuan feel disappointment.

Lang Ya land spirit's divine sense called itself "Lang Ya Old Immortal" in treasure
yellow heaven, and it was very active at that. But now, it had not appeared at all, almost
like it was missing.

Fang Yuan keenly sensed Lang Ya land spirit was likely to be facing some problems. He
recalled his previous life where Lang Ya blessed land had suffered a total of seven
waves of attacks.

"Previously when I was in northern plains, the second wave of experts had already
attacked Lang Ya blessed land. Could it be, the third wave of attacks has already
occured and Lang Ya land spirit is busy dealing with it, thus having no time to refine
Gu?"

Memories of Fang Yuan's previous life were not able to help him in this aspect.

He only remembered about the seven waves of attacks, and did not remember the
detailed timings of these attacks.

Even if he remembered the exact timing, this world was already influenced by him and
had experienced huge changes, who is to say that the changes upon changes might not
have shifted the attacks to an earlier time.

"My horizons have been continually broadened these days… A piece of ten thousand
year profound ice costs half an immortal essence stone! Half a kilogram of hurricane
mountain pepper has the selling price of an immortal essence stone! What are divine
jade pearls? Ten of them actually cost half an immortal essence stone. There is also,
what's that white spiral silk, its price is even more ridiculous, a pinky sized amount
costs three immortal essence stones! Heavens, right now, I realized how poor I am!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng chattered on about his harvest over this time, speaking in an excited
tone.

During these days, as Fang Yuan interacted with Tai Bai Yun Sheng all the time, he
gradually discovered Tai Bai Yun Sheng had a shortcoming, that was his prattling
mouth, he was talkative.

Fang Yuan handed a letter Gu and interrupted his chattering: "This is the letter sent
by Immortal Crane Sect, please read."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng sent his consciousness inside, his brows soon frowned into a knot.

In this second letter from Immortal Crane Sect, their tone was even more harsh and
fierce, already making their intention to attack Hu Immortal blessed land
exceptionally clear. Immortal Crane Sect even used the tone of the victor, demanding
Fang Yuan to surrender.

"These guys have gone crazy for Dang Hun mountain. If it were me, I would at least
first stabilize you, then carry out hidden attacks. Aren't they afraid their actions will
make us take preventive measures?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng said in a displeased tone.

"This is the power and confidence of Immortal Crane Sect. They are one of the ten
great ancient sects of central continent and have an incomparably deep foundation,
having stood tall and straight at Fei He mountain for hundreds of thousands of years.
Besides this, I think they are trying to pressure me and also probe the intention of my
backers." Fang Yuan analyzed.

"Yes, Immortal Crane Sect is stronger than any single super force of northern plains
by some degree. We are too weak, while they are a colossus becoming more and more
overbearing. It will be very difficult for us to protect Hu Immortal blessed land from
them…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng spoke carefully, glancing at Fang Yuan several times.

He already had thoughts of retreating, giving up Hu Immortal blessed land and moving
far away, he just did not openly express it.
Fang Yuan knew his thoughts. Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a healing Gu Master, he was
benevolent and could be said to be feeble, seriously lacking the spirit to make a stand.

Fang Yuan did not rebuke Tai Bai Yun Sheng's intentions.

In fact, Fang Yuan had also thought of giving up and abandoning Hu Immortal blessed
land.

Dang Hun mountain represented extremely huge benefits and Immortal Crane Sect
and other super forces would definitely want to possess it.

However, that was, of course, only as a last resort.

As long as there existed hope along with benefits, it could be said that Fang Yuan
would absolutely not speak of giving up easily.

Fang Yuan thus consoled Tai Bai Yun Sheng: "Immortal Crane Sect is one of the ten
great ancient sects of central continent, a super force, a behemoth, but they also have
their worries. How many methods can they use to deal with us specifically? I dare to
guarantee, it is not as exaggerated as you imagine, especially when they are greatly
underestimating our true battle strength."

Life was not easy, Immortal Crane Sect also had its own problems.

New sects were emerging endlessly in central continent, continually bringing huge
impacts to the ten great ancient sects.

The ten great ancient sects occupied the most important positions in central continent
with the best cultivation resources, they naturally would be subjected to competition
from all sides.

In history, Immortal Crane Sect had experienced golden ages several times, but at
present, there was a clear disparity compared to their most prosperous periods.

Immortal Crane Sect had not expanded for many years already — this meant they
were under some restraints.

"Since junior brother wants to battle Immortal Crane Sect, I shall risk my life to
accompany you. Don't worry, no matter how dangerous the situation gets, I will
support you till the last moment." Tai Bai Yun Sheng patted his chest and swore.
Fang Yuan nodded: "I also ask Old Bai to not worry, I, Gu Yue Fang Yuan, am not a
stubborn man. If there was nothing to be done and the situation was truly unfavorable,
I would definitely take the initiative to retreat. Forcing back Immortal Crane Sect's
first wave of attacks perhaps won't be difficult, but the main problem does not lie here.
Immortal Crane Sect is a very big sect, if we repel them, they will at once arrive with
another wave. After this continues for few times, Immortal Crane Sect's offense will
become stronger and they will start treating us more seriously. We need to rely on
another great force to resolve this issue, making an alliance with another ancient sect."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng repeatedly nodded in complete agreement: "But junior brother, you
have already sent a letter to Spirit Affinity House, but until now they have yet to reply.
Was our letter Gu intercepted by Immortal Crane Sect, how about we send some more
letters?"

Fang Yuan shook his head, the letter Gu he contacted Spirit Affinity House with was
not his, but the rank five letter sending green bird Gu created by Feng Jiu Ge.

Back then, Fang Yuan defeated Feng Jin Huang and obtained Hu Immortal blessed land.
Feng Jin Huang was indignant and sent a challenge letter using this letter sending
green bird Gu.

But Fang Yuan did not respond to the challenge and instead had been detaining this
letter Gu.

He had already speculated this letter Gu's owner was very likely to be Feng Jiu Ge. The
reason being that Feng Jin Huang had yet to reach rank five back then.

Besides Feng Jiu Gu, it was also likely to be his wife, Feng Jin Huang's mother — Fairy
Bai Qing.

Regardless of who the owner was, this letter Gu had already been lent to Fang Yuan,
its original purpose being to allow Fang Yuan to respond to the challenge letter.

And Fang Yuan used this letter Gu to contact Spirit Affinity House.

Fang Yuan had been very confident regarding this letter, but Spirit Affinity House still
had yet to reply after so long, so he was somewhat unsure now.

According to the common sense conjecture: letter sending green bird Gu was created
by Feng Jiu Ge, which represented this expert's will and prestige to some degree. To
intercept this green bird Gu and risk offending his impressive and dignified presence,
this was not at all likely.

However, this possibility could not be completely excluded as well.

Thus Fang Yuan nodded and accepted Tai Bai Yun Sheng's suggestion: "Okay, let's wait
seven days, if we still don't receive a reply by then, we will send another letter."

Time passed day by day, Hu Immortal blessed land was in a predicament.

A strong enemy was approaching from the outside, while on the inside, cultivation
resources were lacking. Even if Fang Yuan used his zombie body and wisdom Gu to
deduce and sell Immortal Gu recipes of the highest grade, the regretful part was that
he did not have the capital to kickstart this plan and could only put it aside for the time
being.

Lang Ya land spirit and Spirit Affinity House were the keys to break through these
predicaments.

But it was a pity that these two keys stayed in the dark with no messages from them.
Who knew when Fang Yuan would receive news from them, perhaps he wouldn't for
his whole life.

Destiny created obstacles, the road ahead of Fang Yuan was once again shrouded in
obscurity.

"It seems my luck is still not too good." Fang Yuan scoffed at himself.

There was nothing he could do, since he possessed Spring Autumn Cicada, his luck
was likely to only get worse.

He tried asking Mo Yao about improved Immortal Gu remnant recipes, but Mo Yao
claimed that she did not know them.

She was residing in Fang Yuan's body and had gone through the final battle in northern
plains with him; she knew Fang Yuan possessed wisdom Gu and thus it was not hard
for her to speculate Fang Yuan's intentions.

Mo Yao was a refinement path grandmaster, she very likely knew Immortal Gu
remnant recipes which matched Fang Yuan's criteria. But she did not reply and since
Fang Yuan lacked wisdom path methods, he could do nothing to her.

Under this kind of situation, Hei Lou Lan suddenly arrived at Dang Hun mountain.

Fang Yuan lost a stargate Gu and was already not able to return to northern plains
alone. Hei Lou Lan being able to come to Dang Hun mountain was naturally because
of Fixed Immortal Travel.

As for how she knew the scenery here, that was because Fang Yuan had sent a will to
her of his own accord.

This was the agreed upon plan, but Fang Yuan was still somewhat surprised: "If I am
not wrong, there is still half a month left before the limit of our agreed upon time,
right?"

"The situation has changed, my friend." Hei Lou Lan tone's was grave, revealing a trace
of worry.

Making this formidable and ambitious person anxious, the situation in northern plains
indeed did not seem to be optimistic.

However, Hei Lou Lan soon realized her flaw and concealed all her emotions, speaking
with a cold smile: "Naturally, I have another goal, that is to make sure you are not on
guard. After all, this is your headquarters, in case you arranged traps against me, I
would be messing up your plans by arriving earlier!"

Fang Yuan laughed, appearing unperturbed, as if there were no issues that could
perplex him: "After the battle of northern plains, you and I are already tied together
for better or for worse. But for complete cooperation, your previous conditions are
still insufficient!"
Hearing Fang Yuan say "insufficient", Hei Lou Lan snorted in displeasure: "Fang Yuan,
you are not very clear about northern plains' situation, I will tell you right now. Not
long ago, northern plains' number one wisdom path Gu Immortal, Dong Fang Chang
Fan, invited all of the super tribes and personally made deductions for them. His
condition was that they had to ally with Dong Fang tribe, and within the fifty years of
his death, they are not allowed to target or suppress Dong Fang tribe."

"Oh?" Fang Yuan's gaze focused: "There's such a thing? Then, what did he deduce?"

"Reportedly, Dong Fang Chang Fan made one deduction for each tribe, regarding Gu
recipes, appearance of Immortal Gu, or some tips for killing desolate beasts. He has
already deduced much of your information, though I do not know the deeper details.
But now, everyone knows that you are not a northern plains Gu Master, but there is
also a northern plains Gu Master colluding with you."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's pupils shrunk, he said with some fear: "He actually deduced so
many things? As expected of Dong Fang Chang Fan…”

Hei Lou Lan snickered, continuing: "Fang Yuan, our lives are tied together now! If I die,
who is to say that I will not expose you and Tai Bai Yun Sheng. Other than that, is
wisdom Gu in your hands?"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression changed, he firmly wanted to deny it, but he stopped
himself from acting rashly.

Fang Yuan calmly laughed: "How is that possible! Wisdom Gu was already destroyed
in the wind veil of assimilation, how could I have brought it here?"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng immediately praised him in his mind, Fang Yuan's skills in lying
were simply spectacular. His tone and expression were flawless, it was filled with pity,
regret and other sad emotions, it was as if he really had narrowly missed out in
obtaining wisdom Gu.
Hei Lou Lan could not see any flaws in his performance, but next, she squinted, saying
in a thuggish tone: "I don't care if you really lost wisdom Gu, I only know that wisdom
Gu could have taken the initiative to follow you under the pressure of survival. Hehe,
you don't have to deny it now. I'm sure you understand my idea, it is not safe for you
to hide in central continent. It doesn't matter if wisdom Gu is really in your hands, as
long as I spread information that wisdom Gu is with you, there will be nowhere for
you to hide! The entire world's Gu Immortals will chase you down like lunatics, until
they get to the truth."

"Are you threatening me?" Fang Yuan's expression turned cold, he slowly stood up.

"Hei Lou Lan, you have some guts. Do you not know that you are now on Dang Hun
mountain. As long as we instruct it, the land spirit will use Dang Hun mountain and
kill you right here." Tai Bai Yun Sheng shouted.

Hei Lou Lan laughed with her head high, she said fearlessly: "Hahaha, even if this is a
dragon's nest or a tiger's den, what can you do to me? I made some arrangements
before I came, as long as I do not return in three days, the entirety of northern plains
will know that you apprentice brothers are the culprits behind the collapse of True
Yang Building, furthermore, the entire world will know that wisdom Gu is with you!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression froze, Hei Lou Lan indeed came prepared, this was
targeting his weakness.

But at this time, Fang Yuan's eerie words made Hei Lou Lan's laughter stop —"Hei Lou
Lan, I know you are not afraid of death, but have you forgotten your hatred?"

Hei Lou Lan's expression changed, her aura diminished as her eyes were like lightning,
looking at Fang Yuan: "State your conditions."

"You have to agree with my first condition, that is, you have to return Fixed Immortal
Travel to its owner, me." Next, Fang Yuan raised four fingers: "Secondly, after we
cooperate, during the process of your revenge, the loot will be split four to six, for you
and us respectively. After all, Tai Bai Yun Sheng and I make up two Gu Immortals."

Hei Lou Lan snorted: "Do you think you have a helper while I don't? But never mind, I
accept these conditions."

She hesitated for a bit, but she still chose to give in, even though she had a tough
personality.
Fang Yuan smiled lightly, he could see her sincerity from this, he continued: "Lastly, I
need to know the entire story of this, as well as the reason why you need to kill your
father personally."

Hei Lou Lan was silent for a while, but she soon agreed: "You are indeed overly
suspicious, I can satisfy all three of your conditions, this is nothing I can't speak of
anyway."

Next, in their conversation, Fang Yuan finally understood the secret behind Hei Lou
Lan's thirst for revenge.

The root of all this was actually Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

In True Yang Building, there was a true inheritance called "yin-yang life extension
method", it had been taken by Hei Cheng long ago.

Fang Yuan had actually seen the empty light lump of the yin-yang life extension
method by coincidence in the past.

This true inheritance was created by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable when he
researched about Ren Zu for life extension methods.

To use this method, a male and female Gu Immortal have to cooperate, using
copulation to extend the lifespan of one of them.

But there was a flaw in this.

If one gains lifespan, the other must lose lifespan.

In other words, it was to transfer the lifespan of one person to the other.

The story of Su Xian's Night Elopement had long since been widely spread in northern
plains, it had given many young women in northern plains the courage to find their
true love, to take the first step.

Two hundred years ago, Su Xian Er was the daughter of a concubine in Su tribe, her
status was not high and she was often serving wine to guests in banquets, like a
servant.

Once, when Su tribe leader was attending to Hei Cheng, Su Xian Er poured wine for
him and fell in love with him at first sight.

However, Su tribe leader harmed Hei Cheng in secret, using a poison Gu on him,
causing his strength to fall to rock bottom, and he was chased down by enemies.

Su Xian Er learnt of this and ran out of her tribe's campsite in the middle of the night,
to save Hei Cheng who had only met her once.

Back then, she only had rank one cultivation, but during the night there were wild wolf
groups roaming, it was extremely dangerous and she was simply courting death.

But due to coincidence, she found the unconscious Hei Cheng.

Hei Cheng was thus saved, and their following conversation became a classic that was
passed down in northern plains.

He had asked Su Xian Er: "I was plotted against by your tribe leader and you are a Su
tribesman, why would you save an enemy of your tribe?"

Su Xian Er then answered: "Lord has a noble spirit, this humble girl fell in love at first
sight. Su tribe leader is short-sighted and plotted against lord under the persuasion of
some petty people, but he never considered the result of offending Hei tribe. If he was
allowed to have his way, Su tribe is destined to become a sacrificial pawn between two
super tribes. People say lord repays a favor received by a hundred times. This humble
girl saved lord today and only hopes lord can give me a place to stay. It is just and
proper for lord to take revenge against Su tribe, but I hope lord can be merciful and
leave behind a trace of bloodline for Su tribe."

Hei Cheng was overwhelmed at this sight, he tightly held Su Xian Er's hand and swore:
"Your love is as deep as the sea, I, Hei Cheng, am not a cruel person, how could I not
repay you? From today onwards, you will be my only wife! I will not care for any other
beauties, no matter how beautiful they are. In this life, I will never betray you!"

From then on, the two of them became a loving couple that respected each other
equally.

A hundred years later, they both became Gu Immortals, and the story was a legend of
northern plains.

But most people did not know that Su tribe faced extermination soon after.
Hei Cheng had many wives and children, Su Xian Er was neither the first, nor the last.

Hei Cheng and Su Xian Er had a daughter, she followed her father's surname, while
getting the name Lou Lan. Years later, Su Xian Er died, and Hei Cheng was extremely
aggrieved, he announced to the public: His wife's body had deteriorated after giving
birth to Hei Lou Lan, she fell heavily ill and her strength fell drastically, thus she died
a few years later in her blessed land's earthly calamity.

"He had obtained the yin-yang life extension method in the true inheritance secluded
domain, he kept it very secretive. For his own selfish desires, he lied to my mother
with ill intentions. My mother did not know the details and because she trusted and
cooperated with him, almost all of her lifespan was taken by him mercilessly."

"After my mother died, he concealed the truth, thus he could still openly be a righteous
path Gu Immortal. He absorbed my mother's aperture and took all the Gu worms that
she accumulated in her life. He is a coward, a dirty and despicable scoundrel, in order
to live longer, he actually plotted against the person who loved him the most!"

"Before mother died, she saw his true colors and told me to be careful of him! As
expected, mother was right. There was a problem with his cultivation, the lifespan that
he took away was consumed very quickly, he is now facing another crisis of dwindling
lifespan. This time, his target is me."

"I have the Great Strength True Martial Physique, once I advance to a Gu Immortal, my
foundations will be extremely firm. If he uses the yin-yang life extension method on
me, less lifespan would be wasted in the process, and he would gain much more
lifespan!"

Hei Lou Lan spilled all of the secrets hidden in the dark, in her calm tone, one could
nonetheless sense her utter hatred.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng shook his head as he listened: "To think that Lord Hei Cheng is such
a person, this is really disappointing…”

He was a prospective Gu Immortal candidate in the past, with high hopes to become
one, he had interacted with Hei tribe's Gu Immortal, Hei Bai, in secret, and he was even
recruited.

Thus, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's impression of Hei tribe had always been good.
Hei Lou Lan's words destroyed this good impression.

"Hmph, this is the so-called righteous path, who knows how many dirty and disgusting
things are going on underneath this glorious surface. In contrast, the demonic path
consists of countless characters that are more straightforward!" Hei Lou Lan scoffed.

"No wonder you didn't respond to Hei Cheng when he called you at the point when
the wind veil of assimilation was cut open." Fang Yuan nodded, he looked at Hei Lou
Lan again, feeling a different emotion.

Hei Lou Lan was born with a golden spoon, yet this actually was a tragedy.

Her own father harmed her mother, and was now targeting her, attempting to take her
lifespan.

Lacking the warmth of a family, under threats and dangers for many years, she had no
option but to disguise herself while secretly putting in immense effort, swearing to
take revenge for her mother.

This was likely the reason why she obtained such a formidable personality.

Where there is a cause, there will be consequences.

There is a saying called "heroes often meet their end", the "hero" here could also be
replaced with formidable characters.

But in fact, it is not that heroes and conquerors often meet desperate situations, it is
the desperate situations that create them. In this way, they are people with very pitiful
lives, they often encounter and feel much greater pain than normal people. But
because of this pain, they learn and become who they are.

Those who live in happiness, living like an upright person, being open and honest
without any rough rides in life, while attaining numerous achievements and gaining
reputation and praise. Are there truly such people in real life?

Fang Yuan thought about Earth, about the five hundred years of his previous life, and
scoffed.

Where there are high achievers, there are sacrifices. Those who are higher ups often
need to sacrifice their morals.
Of course, there are outliers, lucky people, and those who rely on their family, but how
long can they last, how many will be left in the end?

Legend says, when Ren Zu started walking on the road of life, his vision changed, it
was pure darkness.

He took the first step.

PIop.

At the next moment, he stepped into the mud.

He raised his foot, wiping it with his hand, it was full of mushy mud and extremely
smelly.

He was hesitant to move forward.

At this moment, self Gu said: "Oh human, do not hesitate, if you want to walk on your
own road, you will need to rely on your own legs. When your leg steps on the road, do
not be afraid of dirtiness."
Outside the window of a room, snow was silently falling down.

The fragrance of tea pervaded inside the quiet room.

A woman was sitting beside the vermillion red window frame.

She was wearing an embroidered leather skirt, characteristic of northern plains'

women. The leather skirt was embroidered with purplish-red flower buds, while the
edges were glittering with silvery light. She bound her hair with a sapphire blue
ribbon which had a pure white pearl inlaid in the middle.

Her eyes were drooping, emphasizing her thick eyelashes. Her breathing was soft and
her hands that were as white as the snow moved slowly, concentrating completely on
brewing tea.

The quiet room was not large and she was the only person inside. But on the table
there were four tea cups.

A rich jade-green light suddenly appeared in the quiet room.

The light dissipated to reveal an elderly figure.

The elderly man was tall with an eccentric appearance. His hair was grey and his face
was filled with wrinkles. His eyes displayed one who had gone through the
vicissitudes of life, warm and tenacious, containing wisdom accumulated in all of his
lifetime.

The woman who was brewing the tea stood up at the sight of the elderly man and
smiled with interest: "You are Tai Bai Yun Sheng."

The elderly man was Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he quickly looked around him before greeting
the woman: "Junior greets senior Fairy Li Shan."
The woman nodded with a smile. She was an influential figure in the limelight among
northern plains' Gu Immortals, a rank seven Gu Immortal, Fairy Li Shan.

She looked youthful and beautiful, but her true age was much greater than Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng confirmed the safety of the surroundings before opening his
immortal aperture, from which two human shadows leaped out.

One turned into Hei Lou Lan while the other was an eight armed immortal zombie as
tall as six metres with a fierce appearance, it was none other than Gu Yue Fang Yuan.

"Little aunt, I am back." Hei Lou Lan walked towards Fairy Li Shan, her expression was
still cold but her gaze revealed a trace of affection.

Fairy Li Shan glanced at Hei Lou Lan warmly and sighed, then turned her gaze towards
Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng: "The relationship between me and Little Lan has
always been a secret, to the extent that outsiders aren't even aware we know each
other. Today, she exposed this secret of her own accord, it can clearly be seen that she
sincerely wishes to cooperate with you two guests. Especially you, Fang Yuan, Little
Lan had mentioned you to me many times over these days. You accomplished such a
huge matter, bringing even Eighty-Eight True Yang Building down."

Fang Yuan laughed heartily and said with the hoarse voice specific to zombies: "Fairy
is exaggerating, all this commotion is not what I wished for. To speak the truth, I had
been doubting Hei Lou Lan's proposal for cooperation since the beginning, but who
could have thought, Hei Lou Lan had such a close relationship with you. This is the
best situation, fairy, with the oath to your Immortal Gu, Mountain Pledge, our alliance
can be firm and solid."

Not long ago, at Hu Immortal blessed land, Hei Lou Lan exposed the reason for her
hatred. Then she revealed her relationship with Fairy Li Shan.

Fang Yuan was surprised and yet also not surprised.

Hei Lou Lan was under the strict supervision of Gu Immortal Hei Cheng, it would be
difficult for her to obtain her current achievements just by relying on her own
strength. Besides her own efforts, there definitely was outside help.

"Please take a seat, this snow oil tea has just been steeped." Fairy Li Shan extended her
hand to indicate Fang and Tai to be seated.

Fang Yuan waved his hand in refusal: "Let's make an oath and establish the alliance
first, it won't be too late to drink tea then."

"Virtuous junior Fang is quite decisive." Fairy Li Shan lightly praised before calling out
an Immortal Gu.

This Immortal Gu resembled a beetle. It was thick and solid, even bigger than an
adult's palm. Its body was ash gray with a stony texture, a pair of large pincers grew
on its head, its back was not glossy and was instead rugged like mountains, and there
were specks of stripes, like moss, on the joints of its legs.

Fairy Li Shan aptly explained: "This is a rank six information path Immortal Gu, as
famous as sea oath Gu. As long as you choose a mountain to pledge to and as long as
this mountain still exists, the oath cannot be violated. Virtuous junior Fang, I wonder
which mountain you want to choose?"

Fang Yuan slightly raised his brows, then he pointed outside and laughed hoarsely:
"What other place can be better than this mountain?"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng asked, not understanding the situation: "What mountain is this?"

"This mountain is called Snowy Mountain." Fairy Li Shan smiled and introduced.

"Snowy Mountain, where have I heard this name, wait a second, could it be this is that
nest of northern plains' demonic path Gu Immortals — Snowy Mountain blessed
land?!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng cried out in shock.

"Where else did you think it was?" Hei Lou Lan sneered.

Fang Yuan provided an introduction for Tai Bai Yun Sheng: "There are differences
between immortal and mortal. Old Bai, you just recently advanced and you only have
heard me mention some information about the northern plains' Gu Immortal world in
passing. This Fairy Li Shan is the owner of the third branch peak of Snowy Mountain
blessed land, you can also call her the third leader."

"Third… leader." Tai Bai Yun Sheng stared at Fairy Li Shan with wide open eyes, he had
never expected for this gentle and refined woman to be a demonic path Gu Immortal,
moreover she was the third leader of the largest demonic path nest of northern plains!
…

"Cough cough cough." Dong Fang Chang Fan was lying on a sickbed, coughing
incessantly. With every cough, his pale white face would wither a bit more.

"Lord…” A handsome young man was standing beside the sickbed with a mournful and
grieving expression.

He was wearing a white robe, his face was white like jade and his eyes were deep,
revealing a calm, mature temperament, it was Dong Fang Yu Liang.

"No need to grieve, Liang Er, cough cough, to be born, get old, be sick and die is the
way of nature." Dong Fang Chang Fan gasped for breath after saying this, and
continued after recovering some strength, "Your talents are better than mine, among
the whole tribe I feel most optimistic about you. The responsibility of Dong Fang
tribe's growth can only be shouldered by you. I, Dong Fang Chang Fan, would not
misjudge this."

"Lord supreme elder!" Dong Fang Yu Liang's eyes reddened, sobbing silently.

The old man nearing death in front of his eyes was his benefactor!

Dong Fang Yu Liang lost his parents at the age of eleven, after that he had to maintain
his livelihood and also care for his six year old sister, Dong Fang Qing Yu.

To preserve their lives, he gave away all the inheritances left by his parents.

But it was exactly because of this, that he was noticed by Dong Fang Chang Fan, not
only becoming a trusted aide, his sister was also given great care.

Later, Dong Fang Yu Liang even received Dong Fang Chang Fan's personal guidance.
And despite the obstructions and oppositions from many sides, Dong Fang Chang Fan
appointed Dong Fang Yu Liang as the tribe leader.

After Dong Fang Yu Liang lost in the Imperial Court contest and returned to the tribe,
he was suppressed and pushed aside by various factions; it was Dong Fang Chang Fan
who protected and shielded him again, paying a considerable price.

Dong Fang Chang Fan was becoming weaker and weaker, he opened his mouth several
times but no words came out. Finally, he spoke in an extremely weak voice: "Your
hand."

Dong Fang Yu Liang extended his hand and grabbed the old man's right hand.

The old man was holding a Gu on his hand.

"Thi… this Gu… take it." Dong Fang Chang Fan's face turned red from the strain,
extracting the last bit of energy from his dying breath.

He closely stared at Dong Fang Yu Liang and reminded him: "Although Dong Fang tribe
has signed an alliance agreement with the other righteous path tribes, the affairs of
world are changeable and hard to predict. My death will cause Dong Fang tribe to fall
down from its prosperous period, you are my successor, you must be careful. This Gu,
once you activate it, it will bring you to a secluded place which contains the cultivation
resources I prepared for you, insights about immortal ascension, the tribe's secret
history as well as all my comprehensions of wisdom path cultivation. Remember,
always prioritize your safety, don't be impatient. The tribe has… has demonic path
spies."

Dong Fang Chang Fan's expression froze, the flush on his face turned fainter and the
final trace of radiance in his eyes faded.

"Lord!!" Dong Fang Yu Liang's face was already covered with tears, and this moment,
he could no longer hold them back, crying in sorrow.

Northern plains' number one wisdom path Gu Immortal, Dong Fang Chang Fan, had
passed away.

The news spread, Dong Fang tribe cried for three days and three nights. And when the
great forces of northern plains received the information, both demonic and righteous
path Gu Immortals let out breaths of relief.

Dong Fang Chang Fan was a legendary character.

At the time of his birth, Dong Fang tribe was already declining rapidly, with only the
name of a super force but with no power.

Dong Fang Chang Fan became a Gu Immortal and led the tribe; scheming in all
directions, using wisdom path methods to devise strategies, tying bonds to powerful
friends, killing the weak, and even plotting for his enemies to fight each other, causing
Dong Fang tribe to rapidly rise again.

Dong Fang tribe's growth was almost entirely because of Dong Fang Chang Fan.

But because of this, all the Gu Immortals of northern plains became aware of Dong
Fang Chang Fan's might! Wisdom path Gu Immortals often did not need to use their
own hands to humiliate their enemies. Making schemes that connected like a spider
web, one thing would lead to the other, enemies would feel like they were sinking into
a swamp but unable to extricate themselves.

Gu Immortals feared Dong Fang Chang Fan and secretly reached an agreement.
Banning the sale of lifespan Gu to Dong Fang Chang Fan and even secretly destroying
Dong Fang tribe's plans of searching for lifespan Gu.

Dong Fang Chang Fan schemed against others, and finally was also schemed by others.

The sun was high in the sky, crescent lake gleamed in the sunlight with the occasional
dragonfish leaping out of the lake.

Leftover snow piled up beside the lake, this was the remnant of the once in ten years
blizzard disaster.

Fang Yuan destroyed Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's arrangement; the blizzard
disaster poured into Imperial Court blessed land, thus the destruction caused by the
disaster in northern plains was many times lighter than the past.

Imperial Court blessed land existed no longer while True Yang Building was also
destroyed; there would be no more of the once in ten years blizzard disaster in
northern plains.

The remaining snow slowly melted under the sunlight.

Grass was already poking out of the snow. There was a mixture of green and white
grasses mixed together.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng moved together, seeing many water wolves and
solitary tri-horned rhinos in their path. Water chestnut trees used to fill this place, but
now it was a scene of barrenness, the trees already freezing to death or breaking down
from the accumulated snow.

The intense change in the scenery brought Fang Yuan some trouble.

He was searching for the passage to Lang Ya blessed land — that purple stone tree left
behind by Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable.

Three days had passed since the alliance with Hei Lou Lan.

Little Hu Immortal was at Hu Immortal blessed land, paying attention to treasure

yellow heaven all the time but still not seeing Lang Ya Old Immortal's divine sense.

Fang Yuan took back Fixed Immortal Travel and used this Immortal Gu to go to
crescent lake.

Fang Yuan did not directly teleport to Lang Ya blessed land to prevent any unnecessary
misunderstandings. He planned to use Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's
arrangement again and enter properly.

Because the surroundings had changed, he was unable to directly teleport to the
purple stone tree. Being able to directly appear beside crescent lake was thanks to Tai
Bai Yun Sheng.

When he was wandering over northern plains, he had once dug a cave beside crescent
lake and made simple arrangements, staying for two to three months.

The cave had not collapsed, Fang Yuan first lent Fixed Immortal Travel to Tai Bai Yun
Sheng, then entered his immortal aperture, arriving at this place.
"Found it." Fang Yuan's eyes shone, he had arrived before a purple stone pillar.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked in the direction of his voice, merely to see that this crucial
pillar was very ordinary. Just that at the base of the stone pillar, there was a rock, flat
and smooth like a bench, it looked slightly special.

"This is it." Fang Yuan stretched out a large monstrous arm, sweeping the snow off the
stone bench, confirming it.

After Tai Bai Yun Sheng went into his immortal aperture, Fang Yuan sat down on the
bench, using a Gu worm to cut his arm and letting the blood drip onto this purple stone
pillar.

His blood was not red like normal people, it was a jade green color and had no warmth,
it was ice cold.

The purple stone pillar had once been modified by Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable
with the use of his mysterious Gu worm, the jade green zombie blood was quickly
absorbed.

Ma Hong Yun's figure swiftly flashed across Fang Yuan's mind.

This opportunity originally belonged to Ma Hong Yun, Fang Yuan could be said to be a
thief.

After Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun were sent out of the wind veil of assimilation
by the luck path true inheritance, they were snatched by northern plains' righteous
and demonic Gu Immortals, it was a scene of chaos.

Right now, there was no news on the two of them, one could confirm that they were
captured by a Gu Immortal. Whether they could escape or what ordeals they were
going through, no one knew.
Compared to his previous life, Ma Hong Yun was much more pitiful in this life.

One could see that even with fortune that rivals heaven, it is not omnipotent.

Luck only provides opportunities, whether one could use them well, that depends on
the Gu Master's strength and abilities.

Right now, everyone was still looking for Ma Hong Yun, but no one knew which Gu
Immortal had hidden them. The allure of the luck path true inheritance was too great,
especially for northern plains' Gu Immortals.

"My Spring Autumn Cicada has the weakness of impairing my own luck, if I can use
the luck path true inheritance to fix this flaw, it would be the best method. Since
rebirth, I have already suffered many difficulties from bad luck." Fang Yuan sighed in
his heart.

Not only was Ma Hong Yun a good target as a valuable treasure, most importantly —
during this northern plains trip, Ma Hong Yun was an eyewitness, he was an insider
and would likely expose Fang Yuan and the others.

Thus, Ma Hong Yun also posed a death threat to Hei Lou Lan.

Killing Ma Hong Yun was one of the agreements in the Snowy Mountain Alliance.

Entering Lang Ya blessed land again, Fang Yuan did not enter the cloud building's
room like last time.

Lang Ya blessed land's unique terrain was that it was situated on vast white cloud soil.

Twelve buildings, at equal lengths apart, were situated on the cloud soil, they were the
twelve cloud buildings.

But what Fang Yuan saw was a messy sight.

The fertile cloud soil was full of holes. There was ice forming in some holes, while
black smoke was rising in some holes.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng came out of Fang Yuan's immortal aperture, upon seeing this, he
said: "A battle had occurred here not long ago. It seems that Lang Ya land spirit was
really in trouble."
Fang Yuan did not speak, he only looked at the twelve cloud buildings far away.

These twelve buildings had their respective features, some had immortal cranes flying
around them, some had feathermen living in them, some had beautiful auroras, while
some had the smell of incense.

But right now, only eight of these twelve buildings were intact, the remaining three
were in bad shape, walls were collapsed and structures were crumbling.

"What happened? We are already in Lang Ya blessed land, yet the land spirit has yet to
appear?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng frowned, feeling very alert in his heart.

"Let's go in and see first." Fang Yuan pondered.

The two flew over, slowly getting close to the twelve cloud buildings.

"Quickly look, there is a desolate beast corpse there!" After moving for some time, Tai
Bai Yun Sheng suddenly pointed at one direction, saying.

Only to see that a huge fish was lying on the cloud soil, not moving.

It had the size of a normal whale, but it looked like a carp. There were bones
protruding out of its back, along the spine, extending outwards.

Its scales were blue in color, its eyes were as large as a horse carriage, with some starry
radiance in them.

"This is the desolate beast, spinefin star dragonfish." Fang Yuan said.

He knew that Lang Ya land spirit had a beast enslavement Immortal Gu and enslaved
twelve desolate beasts, each kept in one of the twelve cloud buildings.

Was this spinefin star dragonfish one of the twelve?

"Oh? Someone came in." In a dark secret room, Lang Ya land spirit opened his eyes,
sensing Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

In front of him, there was a Gu Immortal. He was middle aged and had a mighty
disposition, his appearance was not that of a normal man, he had black skin and white
hair, he was an inkman Gu Immortal.
"What? Another strong foe?" The inkman Gu Immortal heard the land spirit and
became nervous.

"Oh, it is that rascal! Pfft, he scared me. No worry, I know this person. Half a year ago,
he came here before." After Lang Ya land spirit focused his mind to detect them, he
breathed out deeply.

The inkman Gu Immortal raised his brows in surprise, he did not think that there
would be other guests coming to Lang Ya blessed land besides himself.

"Since they are friends and not foes, then all is well. It has been three days and three
nights since we entered the secret room, in just a moment, we can release one layer of
the seals on you. At this time, we cannot be disturbed." The inkman Gu Immortal's
heart settled.

"But we cannot let them near the cloud building. Old friend, you might not know this,
but that kid is crafty and scheming, he is Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's
inheritor, I suffered a loss from him in the past. Let me mobilize the desolate beast and
stop him from coming temporarily." Lang Ya land spirit gritted his teeth and said.

"We've been in here for so long, yet Lang Ya land spirit has not appeared yet, it seems
something huge happened here! The attack on Lang Ya blessed land was definitely not
done by one person. Such a force is not to be trifled with, we should search the
battlefield and retreat for now."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was speaking, when suddenly, a large 'golden metallic mountain
rock' drilled out of the cloud soil.

The 'cubic rock' moved quickly, blocking the way of the two.

"Desolate beast!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng readied himself to face this enemy.

The desolate beast had no eyes, a large pair of pincers were right in front of it. No one
dared to doubt the power of these fearsome weapons.

Furthermore, it had nine pairs of legs, coming out of the cubic rock as they extended.

The crab legs stabbed into the cloud soil, propping the desolate beast's large body up.

At this point, Tai Bai Yun Sheng recognised the origins of this desolate beast: "This is
the lord of swamps — swamp crab!"

Fang Yuan snorted, he was very familiar with the swamp crab. After all, when he had
just obtained Hu Immortal blessed land, he faced a swamp crab in his tribulation.

Most importantly, that swamp crab had the gruel mud Immortal Gu, causing great
destruction to Dang Hun mountain.

In order to save Dang Hun mountain, Fang Yuan had to enter northern plains and
attempt to take Tai Bai Yun Sheng's landscape as before Immortal Gu. Now, after
braving many dangers, not only did he succeed in saving Dang Hun mountain, he even
recruited Tai Bai Yun Sheng to join him, one could say he obtained both the Gu and the
Gu Master.

The swamp crab blocked their path, Tai Bai Yun Sheng stopped in his tracks and asked
Fang Yuan: "What do we do now?"

Fang Yuan's gaze was locked on the desolate beast, he said one word: "Fight."

"Be careful." Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded, swiftly retreating, pulling some distance from
Fang Yuan. He was a healing Gu Immortal, in most situations, he would not charge
forward and take a risk, this was also in line with his usual personality.

Fang Yuan floated in the air, looking at the swamp crab silently. Next, he breathed in
deeply, straightened his back and stretched his eight arms.

The muscles on his body bulged, resembling an iron monster. His eyes were blood red,
his green face and sharp fangs gave off a ruthless and terrifying aura.

At the next moment, Fang Yuan moved, his body was like a meteor crashing towards
the swamp crab.

The swamp crab was huge, but it was unbelievably agile, nine pairs of legs moved
quickly, as it dodged sideways.

But Fang Yuan was a flying master, even though it seemed like he would miss, with just
a turn, he crashed into the swamp crab's back.

Bam!
With a thunderous sound, the swamp crab was pushed into the ground by Fang Yuan's
forceful impact.

His over six meters tall body stood in a crater. This was the damage caused by his
attack.

"Tough enough!" Fang Yuan grinned, pulling back four of his right arms.

His fists, without exception, were torn open and showed the white bones inside.

But Fang Yuan had lost his sense of pain, even though his fists were injured, they was
healing at an insane speed, in just a few breaths' time, his four right fists recovered
completely.

Puff puff!

Two waves of fierce winds approached to assault him.

Fang Yuan's wings opened, as he tread into and flew in the air like lightning, dodging
the fierce winds.

Hearing two sharp sounds, Fang Yuan turned around to look, only to see that the
swamp crab's huge pincers were bending at an unbelievable angle, towards his back
and snapping together.

If Fang Yuan dodged slower, he would've been hit already.

The battle strength of a desolate beast was comparable to a rank six Gu Immortal. Even
with the absurd defense of Fang Yuan's heavenly zombie body, he did not want to
endure the attack.

"The swamp crab's armor is extraordinarily hard, there is almost no flaws in its
defense. I do not have cutting or drilling abilities, I can only break through with pure
strength, using power to force my way through is the best method." Fang Yuan's
thoughts collided intensely in his mind.

His body continued to rise, as he looked down. In just a few breaths of time, the swamp
crab's body was full of crabs.

These crabs were as large as tigers, they were fearless. Some has sharp crab legs,
resembling needles. Some had claw like limbs, and were very fast.

This was the special ability of the swamp crab — it could reproduce at any time and
place, summoning a crab army that would move according to its will.

"Very good." Fang Yuan's gaze was cold and dark, he breathed in deeply and activated
the killer move, myriad self!

With the expenditure of one bead of green grape immortal essence, he activated the
core Immortal Gu.

Thereafter, large numbers of Gu worms started activating in a certain pattern.

Fang Yuan's eight fists pounded at the swamp crab below him.

Bam bam bam…

Each fist exploded with a formless fist qi, the shadows of the fists were flying as his
punches rained down like a torrential storm!

The swamp crab cried out pitifully, it was being pressed into the ground by the
unceasing fist qi.

Thousands of fist qi slammed on the swamp crab's back, causing its hard shell to
become deformed. The fist qi that dispersed formed and gathered, becoming one of
Fang Yuan's strength path phantoms.

Ten breaths later, an army of strength path phantoms formed on the swamp crab's
back.

"This is…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng was shocked, this was the first time he had seen this killer
move.

The strength path phantom army surrounded the swamp crab, and the crab army
collapsed at once, the swamp crab was unable to endure the attacks and cried out,
trying to put up resistance, but it could not prevent its imminent defeat.

No matter how many strength path phantoms it killed, Fang Yuan continued to attack,
and more strength path phantoms were produced every moment.
"Ahhhh, my desolate beast! What killer move did this rascal use, I have never seen it,
it is actually so strong! This killer move has definitely got to be an immortal killer
move!" In the secret room, Lang Ya land spirit could see all that was going on, he lost
his cool as he started shouting.
Lang Ya land spirit felt heartache when he looked at his swamp crab.

The swamp crab was lying down flat on the ground, unable to stand up. Its nine pairs
of legs were almost entirely torn to pieces, and even one of the enormous steel pincers
at the front was shattered.

Such a battle outcome caused the inkman Gu Immortal and Tai Bai Yun Sheng to feel
a chill from the depths of their hearts.

Fang Yuan struck with over ten thousand strength path phantoms, of which over three
thousand still remained. He calmly stored the remaining phantoms into his immortal
aperture.

These phantoms could only exist for a period of time and beyond that limit, the fist qi
would dissipate and the phantoms would disappear along with it. But as long as they
could be used, Fang Yuan would not waste even one of them.

Ever since he returned to Hu Immortal blessed land from northern plains, he had been
penniless; he did not even have one immortal essence stone, thus he was not able to
replenish large numbers of mortal Gu.

From the battle just now, he had already probed: With just the eight armed immortal
zombie body, it was hard for him to pose much threat to the heavy armored swamp
crab.

The only option thus was to use his killer move, myriad self.

The core of this killer move was a soul path Immortal Gu that Fang Yuan possessed,
and so it required green grape immortal essence to be activated.

The situation earlier was not clear, thus Fang Yuan decisively gave up a bead of green
grape immortal essence to take control of the situation.
The killer move myriad self was indeed created from the convergence of enslavement
and strength path, its might was extraordinary. The swamp crab, which had brought
huge trouble to Fang Yuan once before, causing him to use all his strength in order to
barely deal with it, could not even raise its head from the beatings of myriad self, it
continued to be in a disadvantage with no hopes of freeing itself.

"You rascal, entering my home without a word and also injuring my desolate beast,
how will you compensate me?!" Lang Ya land spirit furiously chided Fang Yuan.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was engrossed in looking at this land spirit from behind Fang Yuan.

Lang Ya land spirit was thin with white hair, having a beard that reached his chest and
a ruddy face like that of a baby's. He was wearing a loose robe over his whole body
and the two sleeves were fluttering in the air. If not for him seething with anger and
staring at Fang Yuan with his eyes wide open, his demeanour would no doubt look
elegant and sagely.

Fang Yuan was already familiar with Lang Ya land spirit, he stared at the shackles
around Lang Ya land spirit, frowning: "You have been sealed, no wonder I could not
hear any news of your divine sense in treasure yellow heaven. According to northern
plains' time, we have not met for merely more than half a year, how could you end up
like this?"

Lang Ya land spirit's eyes opened even wider as he snarkily retorted: "Talk about
yourself, how did you become like this? Neither human nor ghost! Advancing to a Gu
Immortal and yet degenerating into a zombie, hehe, you should still have plenty of
lifespan though."

"Hmph, Lang Ya land spirit, you have lived for so many years yet you don't even know
the simplest logic of give and take? Only by giving up one thing can you gain another,
if I didn't turn into a zombie, how could I be in front of you again and hold such
powerful strength? But you, the longer you lived, the more you regress, now you can't
even refine Gu. You are really making your main body lose face." Fang Yuan sneered,
intentionally provoking the land spirit.

Lang Ya land spirit's sore spots were prodded and he immediately stamped his foot in
anger.

Not long ago, Lang Ya blessed land had suffered an attack from a mysterious force;
Lang Ya land spirit was able to repel the invaders but he ended up sealed by a qi path
killer move.

Thus, he ended up having to invite his best friend to remove the seals.

Lang Ya land spirit started cursing at Fang Yuan: "You shitty kid, you still have the
nerve to talk about me? True Yang Building's fall was definitely caused by you, right?!
Hehe, so many people died, two super forces lost their tribe leaders, the whole of
northern plains' Gu Immortals are searching for you, the main culprit. You are now
everyone's target, your life must be pretty hard now, right!"

The inkman Gu Immortal and Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expressions changed.

The inkman Gu Immortal's pupils shrunk slightly, feeling an intense urge to cover the
land spirit's mouth.

But the land spirit had already said everything, it was too late.

'How could you blurt out such a matter? Are you not afraid those two will attack to
silence us?!' The inkman Gu Immortal's heart could not help but tremble with fear;
these two were actually the people who had turned northern plains on its head and
even wrecked Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's arrangements! Too dangerous! The
situation was going south!

The next moment, both Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng gazed coldly at the inkman
Gu Immortal.

Even if the inkman Gu Immortal had high position and authority normally and had
extraordinary strength himself, right now he could feel his heart going cold under the
gaze of these two ruthless monsters.

"Lang Ya land spirit, why are you not introducing us to this person?" Fang Yuan
chuckled, his voice was so hoarse that it was borderline uncomfortable to hear.

'I can't let Lang Ya land spirit reply, who knows what this loose-lipped guy will say?'

Thus, the inkman Gu Immortal summoned his courage and stood up, greeting: "My
name is Mo Tan Sang, I live in inkman city and am the king of northern plains' inkmen."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng raised his brows, he had not expected this person to have such an
origin and immediately looked at the Inkman King in another light.

Currently, the five regions were dominated by humans. Variant humans were living
while pressured on all sides; many were sold as slaves or raised as pets, their
livelihood was rather difficult.

But in northern plains, inkmen had the most favorable status among the variant
humans.

Many variant humans had no fixed residence and would have to wander around like
vagabonds. But inkmen had established a city in northern plains, which possessed
three inkman Gu Immortals.

Mo Tan Sang was the inkman city's king. Under his leadership, the inkmen were able
to resist pressure from various forces and withstand the covetous gazes of countless
Gu Immortals. It was not easy to maintain the inkmen's survival, it served to show how
talented and skilled the Inkman King was.

"Inkman King Mo Tan Sang…” Fang Yuan muttered inwardly.

He had an impression of this name.

In the chaotic war of the five regions during his previous life, the Inkman King took
advantage of the lack of attention paid to him due to the human tribes being too busy
in their internal conflicts, to grab the opportunity and develop rapidly, greatly
expanding the inkman forces.

When northern plains' human forces wanted to suppress him, he actually disregarded
his dignity as the king and threw himself to Liu tribe. He took a servant's rite to Liu
tribe's supreme elder and became a servant to him.

Liu tribe was one of the super forces, thus the inkman forces were protected. The
inkman forces grew stably under this layer of protection.

Later, when Liu tribe weakened, the Inkman King immediately gave up on Liu tribe to
collaborate with Ma Hong Yun on equal terms.

Before Fang Yuan self-detonated, the inkmen had hundreds of cities and occupied one-
third of northern plains' lands.
From this one could see how talented and insightful the Inkman King Mo Tan Sang
was. Not only did he have unique foresight and courage to take resolute actions, he
could also bow and submit when necessary; he was not someone who could be
belittled.

Fang Yuan lightly praised: "So it is the Inkman King, sure enough, you have a majestic
aura beyond that of ordinary people."

"I am not worthy of such high praise." Inkman King quickly replied modestly.

The person before him was the main criminal in destroying Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building, he had to be extremely vigilant against such a dangerous person.

He took the initiative to explain: "Lang Ya land spirit and I have been very good friends
for many years. In truth, inkman city has always had close relations with Lang Ya
blessed land. We in inkman city have some attainment in qi path, and it turns out Lang
Ya land spirit was sealed using a qi path method. Thus I hurried over to help. Sir is a
dragon who roams the sky, stirring up a storm and causing the whole of northern
plains to be in a state of unrest. I cannot help but admire such grandeur. All along, our
inkman city has been jointly suppressed by the Huang Jin tribes. Back then, Giant Sun
Immortal Venerable was even more overboard, demanding inkman cities to offer
tribute in terms of countless female inkmen. In a way, you have helped us inkmen take
revenge by destroying Imperial Court blessed land. You are also the land spirit's
friends, so you are my, Mo Tan Sang's, friends as well. If you have any plans in the
future, feel free to visit inkman city."

He was indeed the Inkman King, such outstanding eloquence that completely
expressed his goodwill in just one conversation, especially speaking in neither a
servile nor overbearing tone, it was extremely hard to come by.

"Who is friends with this rascal?" Lang Ya land spirit shouted in dissatisfaction.

However, he felt happy in the depths of his heart when he heard Fang Yuan praising
his friend, and the anger he felt previously had reduced.

Fang Yuan nodded to the Inkman King, replying with deep intent: "If there is an
opportunity, I will definitely come to experience life in inkman city."

He then looked at Lang Ya land spirit and continued provoking him without concern:
"Land spirit, even if I am not your friend, you should still welcome me and refine a Gu
for me. Did you forget I still have one chance left to make you refine Gu! If I want you
to refine Gu, you will do it even if you don't want to!"

Lang Ya land spirit could not put up a facade at all, his temper flaring up immediately.

Normally, Gu Immortals would be polite and even flatter him to request him to refine
Gu.

When had he ever received heard disrespectful words like Fang Yuan's?

But Fang Yuan was speaking the truth, he still had the final chance to request for Gu
refinement. Lang Ya land spirit was Long Hair Ancestor's obsession, and he must abide
by the agreement his main body had agreed to back then.

"You damned scoundrel, I am so angry, my anger is going to explode!" Lang Ya land

spirit shouted, his face completely red with fury.

But suddenly, he grinned with happiness: "Ahahaha, I am trapped, this qi path seal is
too troublesome, there are a total of seventeen or eighteen layers of seals. Just now,
Inkman King only unsealed the first layer! Hahaha, I really can't help you refine Gu
right now, my hands are tied, this is wonderful!"

He had been bored to death since he was sealed, not being able to do refinement meant
his greatest hobby had been taken away.

But right now, he was feeling quite happy about it.

It was all Fang Yuan's fault.

Seeing this weirdo Lang Ya land spirit shouting and laughing like a buffoon, Tai Bai
Yun Sheng felt this trip was worth it, his horizons were broadened!

Inkman King was silent, he was the leader of a large force and was not willing to easily
offend Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan coughed before speaking solemnly: "Alright, let's talk about serious affairs.
Since you can't refine Gu, forget about it. I have another matter for coming over this
time, I want to make a transaction with you."

"Transaction, what transaction?" Lang Ya land spirit asked.

Inkman King immediately turned vigilant, Lang Ya land spirit might have high
intelligence but his nature was frank, it was hard to say that he wouldn't be cheated.
Inkman King was the land spirit's good friend, if Fang Yuan truly was conspiring, he
would stand up and expose Fang Yuan's scheme.

"The transaction is simple, you should remember the thing about me being a wisdom
path Gu Master, right? I will deduce Immortal Gu recipes for you while you will pay
immortal essence stones as remuneration. This is a win-win deal." Fang Yuan replied.

"Deduce Gu recipes?" Lang Ya land spirit opened his eyes wide as he became dazed,
but at the next moment he started laughing loudly.

He was swaying back and forth in his laughter, if his hands were not bound, he might
have been slapping his thighs together in laughter.

Lang Ya land spirit ridiculed: "Fang Yuan, oh Fang Yuan, you are now a zombie and still
think you can deduce Gu recipes? Moreover, Immortal Gu recipes? This old man
advises you to get rid of this thought!"

Inkman King, however, said: "An Immortal Gu recipe, even if it is a remnant recipe, has
a high price. If we give it to sir to deduce it, but you fail in the process, then wouldn't
we be handing you the contents of the Immortal Gu recipe for nothing?"

Lang Ya land spirit was startled to awareness, immediately yelling in rage: "Great, you
actually wanted to swindle me of Immortal Gu recipes!"

Fang Yuan had already prepared for this and laughed, opening his monstrous palm to
reveal an Immortal Gu: "Look, what is this?"
At once, everyone's attention was attracted to the Gu worm in Fang Yuan's palm.

The immortal aura of the Gu worm was radiating with the laws of the world, without
doubt, it was an Immortal Gu. But no one knew which Immortal Gu it was.

Only Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heart shook, as he remembered what Fang Yuan had revealed
to him in the past.

"This Gu, this Gu…” Lang Ya land spirit watched with shining eyes: "I have never seen
this Gu before, this is a new Gu."

He jumped in front of Fang Yuan, his nose was only two inches away from the Gu, next
he sniffed like smelling a flower.

He screamed: "Ah, this is the aura of luck path, this is a luck path Gu worm. Good lad,
you destroyed True Yang Building, but it seems you had many gains."

Fang Yuan immediately mocked: "To think that the grand Lang Ya land spirit would
have such shallow knowledge. This is not a new Gu, it had appeared ten thousand
years ago. Let me teach you, this Gu's name is Calamity Beckoning, it was invented by
a certain generation's fairy of central continent's Spirit Affinity House, Mo Yao."

"Mo Yao?" Inkman King heard this and his eyes shone: "If I remember correctly, this
woman is a rare legend in inkman history. She cultivated to rank seven, and had
overwhelming charm, even the grand Sword Immortal Bo Qing was attracted to her!"

Inkman King talked with a fanatical expression, like he was speaking of a treasure: "I
apologise about my demeanor, but I have been looking up to senior Mo Yao as my role
model since youth, thus I am very familiar with her stories."

Fang Yuan found this a little humorous, to think that this Inkman King was a fan of
Fairy Mo Yao.
But now was not the time to chit chat with the Inkman King. Fang Yuan used this
chance to mock Lang Ya land spirit.

Lang Ya land spirit was so ashamed from his words that his face turned red, he wanted
to find a hole to hide himself in.

He grumbled under his breath, but he did not rebuke Fang Yuan. After all, he really did
not know this Immortal Gu.

After Fang Yuan made some snide remarks in a mystifying tone for a while, he saw
that the time was right and took back calamity beckoning Immortal Gu, fishing out
another Immortal Gu.

"Lang Ya land spirit, didn't you say you were well learnt and knowledgeable? I will
give you another chance, see what Gu worm this is?'

Lang Ya land spirit stared with wide open eyes, he moved forward to take a closer look.

After a few breaths' time, he took a deep breath, his nervous expression became smug:
"Of course I know this Immortal Gu, its name is Cleanse Soul, it is a cultivation
assistance type Gu for soul path Gu Immortals. The cultivation of soul path includes
strengthening the soul, refining the soul, and pacifying the soul. The best way to
strengthen the soul is Dang Hun mountain's guts Gu, the best way to refine the soul is
Luo Po valley's bewilderment fog and Luo Po wind, as for pacifying the soul, it would
be the pacifying soul soup in Bewitching Lake. This cleanse soul Immortal Gu can
refine a Gu Immortal's soul, getting rid of all the impurities. But if it was used
excessively, it would get rid of even the essence of their soul."

"Oh? You actually recognise this Gu!" Fang Yuan pretended to be shocked, thinking in
his heart: "So this Immortal Gu is called Cleanse Soul, I called it Split Soul in the past,
I guess I was wrong."

This cleanse soul Immortal Gu was the core Gu of the killer move myriad self.

The killer move, myriad self, could form strength path phantoms of Fang Yuan, these
strength path phantoms had a trace of his soul, thus Fang Yuan could manipulate them
freely like an extension of his own body, it was agile and flexible.

But precisely due to this, the killer move myriad self expended Fang Yuan's soul
foundation.
Lang Ya land spirit saw Fang Yuan's shock and his smugness intensified on his face.

But Fang Yuan quickly said: "Count yourself lucky, you coincidentally recognised this
Immortal Gu."

"Hey, what do you mean luck, this is my strength."

"If you really have strength, how could you not recognise calamity beckoning
Immortal Gu?"

"You!"

"Never mind, take a look at this Gu, I'm sure you cannot recognise it."

"Show me, I will definitely know what it is!" Lang Ya land spirit shouted.

Fang Yuan took out another Gu.

Lang Ya land spirit concentrated his attention on analyzing, he laughed a few breaths
later: "Haha, this is the cloud path Immortal Gu, Rising Azure Cloud."

"Rising Azure Cloud?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng interjected.

"That's right." Lang Ya land spirit said proudly, shaking his head: "This Gu is a
movement type Immortal Gu, it has a long history. Gu Immortals can use it to easily
travel through mountains and cross water bodies. But what is most valuable, is that
this Gu's ascending and descending speed is extremely fast, it far exceeds most other
Gu of the same rank."

"So this Immortal Gu is called Rising Azure Cloud." Fang Yuan thought about it,
appearing as if he was not satisfied, he took out another Immortal Gu.

"Land spirit, it seems you might possibly have some skill. Look at this Gu." Fang Yuan
said.

"What do you mean might possibly, of course I have skill!" Lang Ya land spirit rebuked,
his eyes were shining as he looked at Fang Yuan's palm.

After a few breaths, his expression changed: "Oh, it's you."

"What Gu is this?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng asked again at an appropriate time. At this point,
he had already understood Fang Yuan's intention.

Although Fang Yuan had captured these Gu in True Yang Building, he did not know
their origins, he had been guessing.

There was no doubt that familiarizing oneself with unknown Immortal Gu was very
troublesome.

The most direct method was to consume immortal essence and activate the Immortal
Gu, to directly see their effects. But this had some flaws.

Firstly, immortal essence was precious. Secondly, Immortal Gu had huge power, it
might cause harm to oneself if used wrongly. For example, calamity beckoning Gu and
Spring Autumn Cicada could not be used blindly. Thirdly, some Immortal Gu have very
peculiar uses, even if they were activated, they would not show any effect if the target
or environment was inappropriate.

Even though wisdom Gu could help Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan could only make deductions
based on the information he already had.

Lang Ya land spirit did not suspect a thing, he flaunted his knowledge: "This Immortal
Gu is peculiar and vile, it is a one time consumable Gu. Although I have never seen it
personally, I have heard about it in historical records, back then I paid close attention
due to having a special impression of it. This Gu's name is Woman's Heart. It is
different from ordinary Immortal Gu, its refinement and nurturing occur together."

Fang Yuan was immediately intrigued.

Gu worms were classified into nurture, use, and refinement, these three aspects.
Generally with the three aspects, although they affected each other, each still stood
alone.

An Immortal Gu with nurturing and refinement combined into one, Fang Yuan had
never seen any. But Fang Yuan was very familiar with a type of Gu worm that combined
use and nurturing, this was the rank five blood guillotine Gu that had a vile reputation.

Then, what exactly was this woman's heart Gu that combined refinement and
nurturing?
Fang Yuan was curious, but he could not ask directly. At this point, Tai Bai Yun Sheng
cooperated and asked: "It can actually combine nurturing and refinement, this is the
first time I've heard of this despite my long life."

Lang Ya land spirit gave Tai Bai Yun Sheng a look: "Lad, you are still young, you have
not lived for long enough. The variety of Gu worms is as wide as the sea. The three
aspects of nurturing, use, and refinement are extremely vast and profound. As the
saying goes: A woman's heart is the deadliest poison. This Immortal Gu, Woman's
Heart, is a poison path Immortal Gu, with a lethal poison. To nurture it, you will need
the hearts of women. The process of feeding would also be the process of continually
refining and promoting the Gu. The more hearts fed to it, the more powerful its
poison."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression changed: "It needs the hearts of women? Such evil and
cruelty, this is a demonic Gu!"

"Mm, actually, you can use the hearts of female variant humans to replace it, but the
effect would be worse than human hearts. To achieve the same toxicity, you will need
many more hearts." Lang Ya land spirit recalled.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression was solemn: "Even variant humans are people, they
have parents, they have flesh and blood, love and hatred, how can they be sacrificed
so easily? Just to feed a demonic Gu?"

Saying this, Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked at Fang Yuan in worry.

Fang Yuan was expressionless, he put away the Immortal Gu Woman's Heart, and took
out another Immortal Gu: "Lang Ya land spirit, I admit you have a degree of skill. But
this level is still slightly inferior to me. Hahaha, the Immortal Gu in my hand now, there
is no way you can guess it!"

Fang Yuan seemed to have complete confidence, Lang Ya land spirit's gaze was
immediately attracted to the new Immortal Gu.

"This is also a luck path Immortal Gu." He sniffed with his nose, turning nervous.

But a few breaths later, his nervousness vanished, he breathed out deeply: "I know
this Immortal Gu, haha, back then, my main body had seen this Immortal Gu during a
discussion about cultivation with Giant Sun Immortal Venerable."
"Oh? Such a coincidence?" Fang Yuan showed a look of disbelief.

"Of course!" Lang Ya land spirit's eyes were burning with fire, Fang Yuan's disbelief
made him extremely upset.

To prove himself, he spilled all that he knew: "This Immortal Gu is called Connect Luck.
It has a very special use, it can allow a Gu Master's luck to be connected to other
people's luck. If one has good luck, it will be shared to the other person. Similarly, if
one has bad luck, it will also affect the other party."

"If you have luck inspection Gu, you can inspect the formless luck of other people. If
you see a person with good luck, you can use this connect luck Immortal Gu. But this
is not the best method to use it, because luck is like a tide, its rises and falls are
uncertain. If you do this, you still would want to use another Immortal Gu, Break Luck,
in tandem."

"Another better method is to coordinate this with other luck path Immortal Gu, to
connect your own luck to the luck of mountains and valleys, to the luck of a long river,
or the luck of a blessed land or grotto-heaven, or even the luck of an immemorial
desolate beast."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng immediately understood the reasoning behind this, he stated praise:
"That's right, famous mountains and valleys have been around for ages, blessed lands
and grotto-heavens are unlikely to be destroyed, and immemorial desolate beasts are
on par with rank eight Gu Immortals. The luck of these things is much more reliable
than humans."

Lang Ya land spirit sighed: "Luck path takes a peculiar direction, while also piercing
deeply into the Great Dao of heaven and earth. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, who
first created it, had amazing talent, he was extraordinary. Back then, Giant Sun
Immortal Venerable discussed about Dao with my main body for seven days and seven
nights, even my main body was full of admiration for him."

Inkman King continued: "In history, the ten venerables were all supreme existences.
Even as an inkman, I am full of admiration for them."

He had understood Fang Yuan's intentions since long ago, it was to obtain knowledge
about the Immortal Gu from Lang Ya land spirit.

But he did not expose this.

Fang Yuan did not harm Lang Ya land spirit, Inkman King had no need to ruin his
tenuous relationship with Fang Yuan for no reason.

Fang Yuan nodded at the Inkman King, before turning to Lang Ya land spirit and
saying: "Let's go back to the deal, I am full of sincerity, I had never thought of taking
your Immortal Gu recipes for myself. Land spirit, when I deduce the Immortal Gu
recipe for you, I will place an Immortal Gu with you as collateral. By then, if I fail to
analyze it, but had already seen the Immortal Gu recipe, you can take this Immortal
Gu. You will feel assured in this case, right?"

The value of an Immortal Gu far exceeded any Immortal Gu recipe.

Lang Ya land spirit exchanged eye contact with the Inkman King, before shouting:
"Rascal, it seems you are very confident in yourself. Okay, this deal is not risky for me
at all, in fact, I profit from it. I will say this first, I will give you only three Immortal Gu
recipes. It doesn't matter which one it is, but you need to completely deduce an
Immortal Gu recipe to count as a success. If you succeed in deducing the recipe of an
Immortal Gu, hand it to me and I will pay you the immortal essence stones, as well as
another remnant recipe."

"Okay." Fang Yuan did not hesitate, he immediately agreed.

After successfully coming to an agreement with Lang Ya land spirit, Fang Yuan
breathed out a sigh of relief.

This transaction was simply too crucial, the profits would be the key for Fang Yuan to
break free of his current problematic situation.

Although he knew of many ways to earn immortal essence stones from his previous
life's memories, these methods needed time and planning, or involved great risk.

The deal with Lang Ya land spirit was the only one with little risk, coupled with high
rewards.

After thinking about it for a while, Fang Yuan left the cloud path Immortal Gu, Rising
Azure Cloud, in Lang Ya blessed land as the collateral of the deal.

Rising Azure Cloud was a movement type Gu, Fang Yuan did not lack a movement
Immortal Gu, he already had Worldly Wave Trace. The latter was suited for water path
Gu Immortals, its effect was greater when used in an environment that had rivers,
lakes, or the sea. Meanwhile, Rising Azure Cloud's strong point was in ascending and
descending, its normal movement speed across places was slower than Worldly Wave
Trace.

Fang Yuan only cared about practical use, to him, Worldly Wave Trace was much more
useful.

That night in northern plains, Fang Yuan returned to Hu Immortal blessed land alone,
while Tai Bai Yun Sheng stayed in Lang Ya blessed land.

Fang Yuan was very satisfied with this trip.

Although he consumed one bead of green grape immortal essence, under that
situation, without knowing the real circumstances inside Lang Ya blessed land, he
needed to quickly defeat the swamp crab and gain the initiative of the situation.
Immortal essence was indeed precious, but it should be used when needed. Immortal
essence that was not used had zero value!

Not mentioning one bead of green grape immortal essence, even if he had to use eight
or ten, Fang Yuan would use them without hesitation if needed.

He concluded that this time, he put in little investment, but made huge gains.

Firstly, he took back Fixed Immortal Travel.

The return of Fixed Immortal Travel was an extremely pleasant surprise. With Fixed
Immortal Travel, Fang Yuan could cross the regional barriers, he could step into all
five regions. Using the advantage of his rebirth, he could set up schemes everywhere,
obtaining the biggest benefits.

Even at worst, if Immortal Crane Sect breaks into Hu Immortal blessed land and
destroys it, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng could retreat while bringing along Dang
Hun mountain and wisdom Gu.

They could attack if they progressed, and defend if they retreated.

Although Fixed Immortal Travel was a rank six movement Immortal Gu, it gave Fang
Yuan the greatest advantage in this situation.

Rising Azure Cloud and Worldly Wave Trace added together could not achieve
something like this.

At this point, Fang Yuan felt his pressure reducing.

Secondly, he had formed the Snowy Mountain alliance with Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li
Shan.

Hei Lou Lan had the Great Strength True Martial Physique, one of the ten extremes,
she had huge potential and once she advances into an immortal, her battle strength
would be terrifying.

Fairy Li Shan was a famous character in northern plains, on one hand, she was the
third leader of Snowy Mountain blessed land, but on the other hand, she had a wide
range of friendly relationships, and had dealings with many of northern plains'
righteous path Gu Immortals.
There were scumbags and weirdos among righteous path Gu Immortals, and the
demonic path even more so had its outliers. Every conflict originates from benefits,
the righteous and demonic paths were not just enemies out to kill each other. They
also cooperated, made transactions, and even worked together secretly.

Fairy Li Shan had the mountain pledge Immortal Gu, this Gu was the reason why she
was so popular with everyone.

Dong Fang Chang Fan had created an alliance with the righteous forces, he needed
mountain pledge Gu. Demonic path Gu Immortals were even more suspicious of each
other, such a huge organisation like Snowy Mountain blessed land could be built all
because of the foundation of mountain pledge Gu.

Because the alliance created using mountain pledge Gu could not be broken, this was
the key to gaining the trust of demonic path Gu Immortals.

Fang Yuan allied with them because on one hand, he could gain powerful assistance,
while on the other hand, he could settle his biggest problem of not getting timely
updates about information in the world.

Fairy Li Shan had wide connections, it was much easier for her to gain information
compared to Fang Yuan.

And thirdly, Fang Yuan obtained the information of four Immortal Gu.

He had snatched them when destroying the formless fists, they were Cleanse Soul,
Rising Azure Cloud, Woman's Heart, and Connect Luck.

In terms of value, starting from the lowest, the first would be Rising Azure Cloud. To
Fang Yuan, this Gu had the least value, he was exerting its greatest use by leaving with
Lang Ya land spirit as collateral.

Poison path Immortal Gu Woman's Heart, a one time expenditure Gu that combined
refinement and nurturing, it had slightly greater value. Generally speaking, these one
time use Gu had powerful effects, like the Immortal Gu Gruel Mud.

Above Woman's Heart was Immortal Gu Cleanse Soul. Cleanse Soul could refine the
soul, its effect was far greater than Fang Yuan's wolf soul Gu. Fang Yuan had guts Gu, it
was easy to strengthen his soul. Before he enters Luo Po valley, Immortal Gu Cleanse
Soul would be the best replacement…
In addition, Cleanse Soul was the core Gu of the killer move myriad self. This had even
greater value.

Fang Yuan made an evaluation, if he did not use the killer move myriad self, his battle
strength was lower than ordinary rank six Gu Immortals. But once he used this killer
move, his battle strength surged, he would be equivalent to a first rate rank six Gu
Immortal.

Of course, compared to Fang Yuan's blood path battle strength in his previous life, he
was still weaker.

In Fang Yuan's previous life, he was a demonic path overlord, at the peak of rank six,
and was only a step away from rank seven. His battle strength was truly fearsome, he
was at the top of rank six, he even had the shocking battle result of winning twice
against ordinary rank seven Gu Immortals.

Last was connect luck Immortal Gu.

This luck path Immortal Gu was unexpectedly Fang Yuan's greatest gain! Its value even
surpassed Cleanse Soul.

Even though Cleanse Soul was myriad self's core, it was not irreplaceable.

But the importance of connect luck Immortal Gu, to Fang Yuan, was simply unique!

Fang Yuan's first vital Gu was Spring Autumn Cicada. This Immortal Gu was the cause
of his rise, without this mystical Gu, he would not have reached this stage. But at the
same time, this Gu had always been dragging him down.

Be it the pressure towards his aperture, or Spring Autumn Cicada's weakness — the
constantly low luck of the user, it gave huge problems to Fang Yuan, and even resulted
in many fatal crises.

If not for Fang Yuan's ability and ruthless personality, coupled with his many methods,
ordinary people in his place would have died long ago.

Spring Autumn Cicada was Fang Yuan's trump card, but it was also his greatest flaw.

With connect luck Immortal Gu now, it could resolve Spring Autumn Cicada's luck flaw.
Lang Ya land spirit had provided many uses for the connect luck Immortal Gu, the best
way was to use other luck path Immortal Gu along with it, using them together to link
the Gu Master's luck to a famous mountain or river, an immemorial desolate beast, or
even blessed lands and grotto-heaven. These existences have boundless and long lived
luck, they were not easy to destroy.

But Fang Yuan was not going to use this method.

Because he could not, he only had one luck path Immortal Gu, he could not use it with
other luck path Immortal Gu.

Fang Yuan's method was: To use connect luck Immortal Gu to link his luck with other
people's luck.

Lang Ya land spirit had earlier said: A person's luck was like a tide, its rises and falls
were uncertain. In connecting your luck to others, you had to be careful, otherwise the
user would be dragged down at times. If this was used with break luck Gu, it would
expend precious immortal essence, and it would also force the user to be on constant
alert.

But this weakness was non-existent to Fang Yuan.

Why?

Because he was someone who was reborn using Spring Autumn Cicada!

He knew who the lucky, famous, or extremely successful people were of this
generation, he even knew what their achievements would be, and when their
downfalls would occur.

"I can totally use my previous life's memories to find these future important people,
and use connect luck Gu to link my luck with them. Since I have Spring Autumn Cicada,
my luck will always be abysmal, after connecting our lucks, the one taking advantage
will always be me."

Fang Yuan thought about this and recognised the great advantage that Fixed Immortal
Travel gave him even more clearly.

If not for Fixed Immortal Travel, he would not be able to freely move between the five
regions, where would he have time to travel far and wide to look for those people who
were currently still nobodies.

The final gain from this trip were the three Immortal Gu remnant recipes he brought
back from Lang Ya blessed land.

These Immortal Gu recipes had very high completion rates, they were ninety percent
and above, there was even one piece with ninety-nine percent completion rate!

After resting for a while, Fang Yuan arrived at the underground cave.

Deducing an Immortal Gu recipe had too many elements to consider, the wills created
by mortal Gu were definitely insufficient, Fang Yuan had no hesitation, he activated
delight in water and mountain Gu.

He decided to do the easy one first, to settle the remnant recipe with ninety-nine
percent!

At the same time, in Lang Ya blessed land.

"Lang Ya land spirit, what do you think of my restoration?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's hands
were behind his back, he stood before Lang Ya land spirit and the Inkman King.

Inkman King saw the restored cloud soil as amazement shone in his eyes uncontrollably.

Earlier, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had taken the initiative to stay behind, when he had
suggested to heal Lang Ya blessed land, he did not see much hope. But to think that Tai
Bai Yun Sheng did such a great job, the effect was out of his expectations!

Lang Ya land spirit assessed Tai Bai Yun Sheng for a while, saying: "To think that at
such a young age, you are quite impressive. How did you do it?"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed bitterly, he was old and had white hair, to hear someone
call him young was a really peculiar and weird experience.

He took out landscape as before Immortal Gu, displaying it before the two of them,
and introducing it clearly.

Inkman King praised loudly: "To think that there is such an amazing Immortal Gu.
With this Immortal Gu, we can restore the blessed land's terrain and river flow, it can
greatly reduce the losses caused by heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities! This
Immortal Gu's value is immense!"

Lang Ya land spirit was also interested: "I have heard of this Immortal Gu, it once
belonged to Immortal Jiu Hui. Immortal Jiu Hui had inherited a certain true
inheritance from Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, not only did he have Landscape as
Before, he also had Man as Before. I have not seen this Gu of yours personally! Let me
research it, it is bound to give me new inspiration, I will give you five immortal essence
stones as compensation."

Lang Ya land spirit had many businesses, he was very rich and did not lack immortal
essence stones.

"Five immortal essence stones…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng hesitated before rejecting and
shaking his head.

Immortal Gu were one's personal secrets, they should not be exposed easily.

But Tai Bai Yun Sheng, for the sake of his future, learned from Fairy Li Shan and had
no choice but to expose landscape as before Immortal Gu. How could he hand this to
Lang Ya land spirit? He said he would research, but what if he ruins it during the
process?

Seeing that Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not agree, Lang Ya land spirit was very disappointed,
but he still footed the bill: "You restored all the cloud soil for me, according to our deal,
this is three immortal essence stones."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng waved his hand and rejected: "I will not accept these three immortal
essence stones. When Fang Yuan comes to hand in the recipe, give it to him along with
his compensation."

Lang Ya land spirit was stunned, before laughing wildly: "What? Don't tell me you
believe that the rascal can really succeed and complete the recipe? Hahaha, do you
know how many years these recipes have troubled me? Especially that recipe at
ninety-nine percent completion rate, even my main body could not finish it!"
"Lang Ya land spirit, isn't this a little inappropriate?" Inkman King glanced at Tai Bai
Yun Sheng, as he said this with worry. The other party included the fierce people who
wrecked Imperial Court blessed land and toppled Eighty-Eight True Yang Building!
Inkman King was very worried Lang Ya blessed land would be harmed if Fang and Tai
were angered.

Lang Ya land spirit was extremely frank and as if he had not heard Inkman King's
words, he satisfiedly said: "Hmph! That brat is too crafty, he dared to treat this old man
in such a vile manner, so I did it on purpose! I am teaching him a lesson to let him
understand the principle of respecting the old. Hahaha, what Gu recipe can he deduce?
What foundation does he have? He is clearly a strength path immortal zombie, did he
think this old man could not see it? Hmph, little Tai Bai has blind confidence in him. If
he can deduce the Immortal Gu recipe, this old man will personally crush his medicine
grinder and eat it!"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not respond, instead looking at the arrogantly laughing Lang Ya
land spirit with pity. He really wanted to say: It is not Fang Yuan whom I have
confidence in, but the wisdom Gu.

Fang Yuan quietly stood within the wisdom light halo.

After a while, he slowly opened his eyes, they were shining with joy.

"Success." He was deeply moved. In a few moments worth of time, he had deduced the
first remnant recipe to one hundred percent.

This perfected Gu recipe was the ninety-nine percent remnant recipe.

Fang Yuan gasped in surprise when he looked at this Gu recipe again: "This last step
was simply mystical, to think this was a Gu recipe I perfected."
He himself found it incredulous.

Deducing Gu recipes depended on one's foundations and inspirations. If one did not
have enough foundation in refinement path, it would be very difficult to deduce Gu
recipes. But even Gu Masters with deep foundations would often encounter problems
when deducing Gu recipes. They would be stopped at these steps, not able to progress
even an inch for years, there were even cases where Gu Masters would not make any
progress for decades or even a century.

To break through these barriers would require inspiration.

But inspiration was extremely hard to obtain, it could appear continuously over a
short period of time or not even appear once in many years.

Even if they had inspiration, that was only a possibility and it would have to be tested
and verified.

If it was successful, that would be true inspiration. If it failed, that would only be an
idea, a failed attempt.

"Wisdom Gu's might lies in being able to provide unlimited inspiration to Gu Masters.
I am a refinement path master, my foundation is enough and I only lack inspiration."
Fang Yuan once again sensed the power of a rank nine Gu.

This was still the case in which he had only stepped inside the wisdom light halo, if
there came a day when he truly activated wisdom Gu, who knows what the results
would be.

Fang Yuan suppressed the flood of thoughts and examined his mind.

There were still large amounts of joyful will in his mind.

The remnant Gu recipe had been extremely close to completion and had only lacked
the final push. Thus, Fang Yuan did not use much joyful will.

He concentrated and began deducing another Gu recipe.

The second Gu recipe was the Immortal Gu remnant recipe with ninety-seven percent
completion.
Fang Yuan did not have to consume much joyful will this time around either, only
expending one third to cross the barriers that were blocking the completion of the
Immortal Gu recipe.

Crossing these barriers meant resolving the greatest troubles, the thinking process
could then smoothly progress with everything else being obvious. Fang Yuan could
deduce them completely even if he relied only on his own ability.

But at the third Immortal Gu recipe, Fang Yuan encountered slight trouble.

He had to use up three beads of green grape immortal essence in a row before he was
able to perfect this Immortal Gu recipe.

The difficulty of this Immortal Gu recipe was quite high; when one problem was
solved, another would appear. Thus, even though its completion rate was already as
high as ninety-six percent, the amount of green grape immortal essence expended to
deduce it was two to three times as much as than the previous two.

But even so, when considering the deal, Fang Yuan profited hugely!

Fang Yuan hurriedly connected to treasure yellow heaven and contacted Lang Ya land
spirit with divine sense Gu.

Lang Ya land spirit laughed wildly and was thinking Fang Yuan had made contact to
admit defeat. So when Fang Yuan handed him a one hundred percent complete
Immortal Gu recipe, he was stunned for a while.

After a few breaths of time, all his attention was absorbed into the contents of the
Immortal Gu recipe.

"Amazing, amazing! This barrier could actually be broken in such way. Why didn't I
think of it, how could I not have thought about it!" He shouted. Were it not for both his
hands being trapped in the qi path seal, he would probably be slapping his thigh
fiercely.

The praise suddenly stopped, and an embarrassed expression showed on Lang Ya land
spirit's face.

He had not forgotten that a short while ago he had been extremely pessimistic of Fang
Yuan's ability. How could he have expected Fang Yuan would hand over a completed
Immortal Gu recipe to him not long after?

Lang Ya land spirit felt embarrassed, muttering: "Brat, who could have thought that
your line of thought is so weird, you actually hit the target while blindfolded, and
wildly deduced this Immortal Gu recipe. Consider it your luck this time, according to
our contract, perfecting a rank six Immortal Gu remnant recipe of a ninety percent or
over completion rate will be paid with ten immortal essence stones! Should I hand
them to you using treasure yellow heaven or will you come personally to take them?"

Transactions in treasure yellow heaven naturally required a fixed service charge. But
Fang Yuan would have to use Fixed Immortal Travel if he went to personally receive
the payment.

And every activation of Fixed Immortal Travel required one bead of green grape
immortal essence, it was a considerable price.

Fang Yuan thought it over, using treasure yellow heaven would mean a cheaper cost,
but it was hard to avoid leaving behind some traces which might be deduced by some
wisdom path Gu Immortals with harmful intentions.

But personally going to take them would mean too high of a cost, Fang Yuan was
somewhat troubled.

Lang Ya blessed land was in northern plains while Hu Immortal blessed land was in
central continent. The two were not in the same region so using hole earth Gu was not
possible. Only stargate Gu could be used.

"Land spirit, with your personality, you should have stargate Gu there, right?" Fang
Yuan asked.

"Hehe, brat, you really understand me." Lang Ya land spirit frankly admitted.

He had obtained stargate Gu's recipe from Fang Yuan. He first refined a set of stargate
Gu and gave them to Fang Yuan, refining another set afterwards for his own collection.

Fang Yuan nodded and transmitted his thoughts: "Treasure yellow heaven is not safe,
our transaction will be sensed by many and once the frequency of this increases, it
will bring us great trouble. Fixed Immortal Travel is convenient but the price to use it
is too high. It is better for us to link our two blessed lands and establish a stargate."
"Build a stargate?" Lang Ya land spirit shook his head and refused Fang Yuan's
suggestion without consideration, "Brat, I have been deceived many times by you.
Building a stargate is not a small thing, any calamity over your side will immediately
afterwards be directed here as well. If Lang Ya blessed land is discovered by someone,
my life will be difficult!"

Fang Yuan laughed loudly and did not attempt to persuade him, instead handing over
the second Immortal Gu recipe.

"You actually completed another one?!" Lang Ya land spirit received a huge shock.

This speed, wasn't it simply too fast?

"This method of resolving the problem is simply marvelous! You actually thought of
using this Gu and there is also refinement Gu material like intimate grass, how did you
think of them?" Lang Ya land spirit chattered on and exclaimed as he appreciated the
wonders of this one hundred percent completed Immortal Gu recipe.

"Hahaha, old man, the new generation replaces the old! You are already old and stay
all day in Lang Ya blessed land without knowing the developments in the outside
world. Even if you have your best friend, Inkman King, he is an inkman, how could he
come across the key aspects of human cultivation? Moreover, who am I?! I am a
peerless genius of wisdom path! One day, I will surpass Star Constellation Immortal
Venerable." Fang Yuan laughed arrogantly while spouting nonsense.

Lang Ya land spirit was dumbfounded.

He really wanted to retort, but the truth was right in front of his eyes. The two
Immortal Gu remnant recipes which had troubled him for countless years were solved
so easily by Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan suddenly heaved a sigh: "Sigh, do you know the loneliness of a genius? Since
my birth, I knew I was extraordinary, there was no one around who could have an
equal conversation with me. Some people even believed I was a monster, they were
afraid of my wisdom and envied my talent! I could only hide myself and appear to be
like a normal person, it was to the extent that no one could see that I was overflowing
with heaven defying talent. Wisdom path seemed to be the path the heaven arranged
for me, but from a twist of fate, I ended up becoming a strength path immortal zombie.
Tell me, isn't my life full of setbacks, even heaven was envious of my talents!"
Lang Ya land spirit could no longer bear to listen to this, stamping his foot: "Hey brat,
don't be so self-important! What is amazing about deducing two Immortal Gu recipes!
If you are really a genius, then deduce the final Immortal Gu recipe, only then will this
old man admire you."

Fang Yuan was silent.

Lang Ya land spirit raised his head: "Hmph, kid, this old man admits you have some
talent. But so what? Even my main body was stumped by that final Immortal Gu recipe.
Ponder over it properly for seven to eight years, maybe you will know how profound
this world is and how many stars there are in the sky. You will then learn to be humble,
ahahaha…”

"You mean, this Immortal Gu recipe?" The corners of Fang Yuan's lips pulled back as
he tossed out the third Immortal Gu recipe.

This was simply the final blow!

Lang Ya land spirit's laughter came to an abrupt stop, shortly afterwards, he shouted
in shock: "This, what is this? What, what in the world is this?!"

His voice contained a trace of panic.

Fang Yuan heaved a long sigh and said with a slow, sad voice: "I said it earlier, my
talents often provokes fear and envy. Sigh, nothing can be done, I am such a genius, I
was born this way…”

Lang Ya land spirit's panic this time was no small thing.

He was only formed from an obsession and was not shrewd.

This final Immortal Gu recipe was a huge impact to him.

"You really succeeded in deducing it? Incredible! Incredible! This Immortal Gu recipe
can actually be solved like this, your train of thought went in a completely different
direction! No wonder even my main body could not deduce it… This old saying has
come true: The mountain road twists around every new peak; a glimmer of hope
shines at one's darkest hour! The mountain road twists around every new peak; a
glimmer of hope shines at one's darkest hour!"
Lang Ya land spirit kept on mumbling to himself, he was at first completely shocked
before becoming ecstatic, finally he calmed down, his heart filled with frustration.

This Immortal Gu recipe had been perplexing him all along and even his main body
was stumped, unable to take the final crucial step.

Sometimes Lang Ya land spirit even thought that this Immortal Gu recipe was a
complete dead end and there was no way for it to be resolved.

He had given it to Fang Yuan to deliberately make things difficult, and had never
imagined it would truly be solved.

However, he obtained the complete recipe now.

The problem he and even his main body could not resolve, was solved by Fang Yuan.

His heart could not help but feel frustration and listlessness.
"Don't tell me that this kid truly is a wisdom path genius, one rarely seen in a hundred
years? No, such ability and wisdom is heaven defying, this talent is not just rarely seen
in a hundred years, there might not be one in a thousand years or even ten thousand
years!"

When he thought of this, Lang Ya land spirit immediately felt there was some sense in
Fang Yuan's repulsive character.

"Right, only a genius like this can have such a repulsive character. Like my main body…”
Lang Ya land spirit started to feel Fang Yuan's repulsive character was no longer so
disagreeable, and even felt a sense of appreciation for similar talents.

At Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan was calm and unruffled. He might have
become a zombie and his thoughts might have slowed down, but it was still more than
enough to bully a land spirit.

If it were possible, Fang Yuan did not want to take such risks. He would rather hand
over the Immortal Gu recipes one by one over long intervals, and not directly provide
the three Immortal Gu recipes like he was doing now.

This action was too eye-catching, it was sure to attract doubts and suspicions from
others.

Lang Ya land spirit was frank and open but he still had a good friend called Inkman
King, this variant human was a genuinely formidable character.

But Fang Yuan could do nothing about it, as the situation was forcing him.

He must earn a large number of immortal essence stones in a short period of time and
increase his strength, both to break through the current perils he was facing, and also
to delay the time before he was exposed.

If he worries over this and that, holding back on releasing the Immortal Gu recipes,
who would Fang Yuan cry to if this led to his defeat and death?

Fang Yuan smiled, Lang Ya land spirit had not responded but he knew: these three
Immortal Gu recipes were tossed out one by one like three bombs, they had already
shaken Lang Ya land spirit's mind. This was a good time to talk about conditions!

Therefore, he spoke: "Lang Ya land spirit, I will speak frankly with you, I need
immortal essence stones and you need Immortal Gu recipes, we will be collaborating
a lot in the future. Building a stargate will be beneficial to both of us."

"Stargate…” This time, Lang Ya land spirit hesitated and did not immediately refuse.

Fang Yuan displayed his exceptional talent in wisdom path which caused Lang Ya land
spirit to have a newfound respect for Fang Yuan. Thus, the land spirit began to pay
serious attention to Fang Yuan's suggestion.

Fang Yuan persuaded again: "Land spirit, do you think your Lang Ya blessed land will
be safe just because we don't build a stargate? Don't forget, you have already suffered
from three waves of attacks, every wave stronger than the previous. No doubt, Lang
Ya blessed land's location has already been discovered, you are already being
observed by some great force. After we build a stargate, we can even take this
collaboration to the next step; at crucial times, I could come to protect you through
the stargate."

"Protect me…” Lang Ya land spirit was finally moved.

He thought of the impressive battle scene when Fang Yuan beat down the swamp crab,
it was truly a formidable display.

Moreover, these three waves of attacks had completely disrupted Lang Ya blessed
land's peaceful environment, creating an enormous sense of danger in Lang Ya land
spirit.

Fang Yuan asked at this time: "You haven't sold stargate Gu at treasure yellow heaven,
right?"

"Not yet, I have no lack of immortal essence stones." Lang Ya land spirit replied.

Fang Yuan laughed brightly: "This is even better. Stargate Gu is a new innovation, it is
not like hole earth Gu which has to be planted on the ground and therefore discovered
easily. You would need to activate stargate Gu every time you want to open a stargate,
thus it is very hidden. Even if you feel something wrong, you can destroy the stargate
Gu in your hands at the crucial moment, won't that work? There is simply no threat in
building a stargate."

Fang Yuan talked gliby, his words impacting on the depths of Lang Ya land spirit's
heart. Lang Ya land spirit finally agreed: "Alright, we will build a stargate. But let's put
the collaboration aside for now, and first handle the transaction of deducing Immortal
Gu recipes."

The land spirit added another sentence: "I will be in charge of refining the stargate Gu,
I will lend it to you."

With this, he would be in greater control of the situation, after all he still felt a little
uneasy.

Over at Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan exposed the smile of a winner and
clenched his eight fists in joy.

Success!

With this, he had attained initial approval of collaboration with Lang Ya land spirit,
connecting to Lang Ya blessed land would make future transactions much profitable.
Not only could it save some money, it would also give an additional retreat path.

Besides this, Fang Yuan was able to prevent the supply of stargate Gu to treasure
yellow heaven's market which could have given huge advantages to other Gu
Immortals.

Lang Ya land spirit provided the stargate Gu which also saved Fang Yuan some trouble.

If Lang Ya land spirit could feel safe with this, Fang Yuan was happy to comply.

"I must form a good relationship with Lang Ya land spirit. I won't be cheated by doing
transactions with him, and can also earn large amounts of immortal essence stones.
As long as I handle this relationship properly and continue to deepen it, who knows,
one day Lang Ya land spirit might lend me some Immortal Gu to use." Fang Yuan
calculated inwardly.

Lang Ya blessed land contained many Immortal Gu, among them were beast
enslavement Immortal Gu and Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus.

By borrowing Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan would be able to save a large expense in
nurturing them.

How cost effective was it!

Fang Yuan was taking one step but had already planned the next ten steps. Lang Ya
land spirit was also very happy, feeling his luck was truly good for finding a wisdom
path genius rarely seen in ten thousand years. All the Immortal Gu remnant recipes in
his possession had hopes of being perfected!

Fang Yuan had intended to receive stargate Gu through treasure yellow heaven, but
the cautious Lang Ya land spirit refused.

Fang Yuan could only use green grape immortal essence and make a trip to Lang Ya
blessed land to take the stargate Gu.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng still remained there as there were still several rivers in the blessed
land that he needed to restore.

The round trip, as a result, cost Fang Yuan two green grape immortal essence.

But with this journey, he brought back one stargate Gu, three new Immortal Gu
remnant recipes and also thirty immortal essence stones.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng wanted Fang Yuan to take the three immortal essence stones he was
being paid, but Fang Yuan refused and left it to Tai Bai Yun Sheng. After all, Tai Bai Yun
Sheng also required cultivation resources, the stronger he became, the more help he
would be to Fang Yuan compared to three immortal essence stones.

The stargate could not be immediately built — Fang Yuan did not have any more
starlight firefly Gu.

Without the starlight from starlight firefly Gu, the two stargates were unable to be
activated.

Fang Yuan summarized the transaction this time.

He used a total of five beads of green grape immortal essence to deduce Immortal Gu
recipes. When he returned alone from Lang Ya blessed land earlier, he used up one
bead of green grape immortal essence. To take one stargate Gu, he had to go to Lang
Ya blessed land and return back to Hu Immortal blessed land, consuming two green
grape immortal essence beads. He had invested altogether eight beads of green grape
immortal essence.

And his gains were a whole thirty immortal essence stones.

"I have only nine green grape immortal essence remaining now." Fang Yuan had
formed a middle grade blessed land and the few green grape immortal essence he had
obtained were heavily used up in this back and forth trip from northern plains.

However, Fang Yuan was not anxious.

He had become a zombie and his immortal aperture was dead, no longer able to
produce green grape immortal essence by itself. But he could extract immortal
essence from immortal essence stones and turn them into his own green grape
immortal essence.

Back then, First Gen Gu Yue, who had turned into a blood wight, also used primeval
stones to recover his primeval essence. The logic between the two was the same, it
was only a difference of ranks.

That is to say, Fang Yuan could use up all these thirty immortal essence stones to turn
into his own green grape immortal essence. One immortal essence stone could be
treated as one bead of green grape immortal essence which meant the amount of his
green grape immortal essence had increased to thirty-nine beads!

"But immortal essence stones are worth more than green grape immortal essence, the
former is used as currency while the latter can only be used by an individual. Unless
necessary, I should not rashly refine these immortal essence stones to green grape
immortal essence. Anyway, as long as I can continue transacting with Lang Ya land
spirit, I will have more and more immortal essence stones. Now, let's connect to
treasure yellow heaven and check."

Fang Yuan was full of confidence when connecting to treasure yellow heaven this time.

The purchasing power of immortal essence stones was extremely strong. Back then,
Fang Yuan used one immortal essence stone to buy a myriad wolf king and a wolf
group with over thirty thousand wolves.
Thirty immortal essence stones were sufficient to be called a large sum.

In his previous life, Fang Yuan had established the Blood Wing Demon Sect and as a
demonic path overlord, the greatest amount of immortal essence stones he had at one
time was also no more than sixty-four. Naturally, he spent a lot in his previous life. This
number was the result of his expenditure and profits constantly offsetting each other.

Fang Yuan sat down and closed his eyes, sending his consciousness towards his
immortal aperture.

The immortal aperture was a scene of deathly stillness, the sky was grey and the
ground was black, and the air was filled with a putrid odor.

Mo Yao's will was still imprisoned inside, monitored from time to time by Fang Yuan.
The mirror willow planted earlier had already died, becoming a collapsed pile of
rotten wood on the ground.

With a shift of Fang Yuan's mind, a new connecting heaven Gu fluttered up to the air
in his immortal aperture and formed a passage to treasure yellow heaven.

Fang Yuan then activated divine sense Gu, forming a continuous stream of divine sense
which followed the passage created by connecting heaven Gu and entered treasure
yellow heaven.

He was now an immortal zombie, no longer needing the help of Little Hu Immortal,
and could make transactions himself.

Treasure yellow heaven was still the same, the vast space rippling with lemon-like
yellow light. There were no mountains, rivers or forests, and also no birds, beasts,
insects or fish, there was not even a sky or ground, the only things here were was all
sorts of treasures and goods.

Gu worms, Gu recipes, killer moves, beast groups, variant humans, vegetation, ore
veins, soil, water, fine wine and all sorts of goods. Each of them quietly floated in air,
releasing all sorts of colors, giving off large or small treasure light.

The brighter and larger the treasure light was, the more the good was worth. But
treasure light was only an initial estimation, one might not be able to infer from the
treasure light if the item was tampered by the Gu Immortals or not.
This was the largest exchange market among the five regions' Gu Immortals, it allowed
for bargaining, while taking a fixed service charge. This also tested the Gu Immortal's
discernment skills; if they bought counterfeit goods, they could only blame their bad
luck as treasure yellow heaven would not be liable for any loss.

Fang Yuan wanted to buy starlight firefly Gu first.

This type of Gu worm emitted pure azure starlight, it was a prerequisite for activating
a stargate.

His divine sense searched around and soon found a large group of starlight firefly Gu,
there were over one thousand.

Fang Yuan was familiar with the seller, it was Star Lord Wan Xiang.

Star Lord Wan Xiang seemed to be star path Gu Immortal; he not only sold starlight
firefly Gu, but also star dart Gu, stellar fire Gu, falling meteor Gu, star river Gu and so
on.

It was obvious that Star Lord Wan Xiang's blessed land produced star path mortal Gu
and he sold these Gu worms to generate revenue.

Even Gu Immortals who did not cultivate star path would often buy some star path Gu
worms for refining, researching killer moves or other purposes.
"How much are you selling this group of starlight firefly Gu for?" Fang Yuan's divine
sense sent over.

"How may I address you, sir, and how many starlight firefly Gu do you need?" Although
Star Lord Wan Xiang was not around, he left behind a will near his goods.

But this will could be seen to have a great appearance, it was dazzling like the stars,
extremely appealing to the eyes. Fang Yuan's wisdom path attainment was low, he did
not recognize its origins.

"You can call me Eight Arm Immortal, I want to buy this entire group of starlight firefly
Gu." Fang Yuan transmitted.

Fang Yuan was using his own blessed land to connect to treasure yellow heaven, and
he had also changed his divine sense Gu and connecting heaven Gu, thus Star Lord
Wan Xiang did not realise that Fang Yuan was the former 'Fox Immortal', he thought
Fang Yuan was a stranger.

But listening to Fang Yuan's tone, he seemed like a big spending customer, thus Star
Lord Wan Xiang's will immediately became enthusiastic: "Starlight firefly Gu is an
olden antiquity Gu worm, now it is almost extinct. My starlight firefly Gu are in
excellent condition, and I have over a thousand and two hundred of them. How about
this, I will sell them to you at a price of four immortal essence stones."

Fang Yuan laughed: "You're trying to scam me, don't think I am unaware of the normal
selling price. I was introduced to you by someone, thus I came here. You are not the
only one selling starlight firefly Gu, there is still Fairy Yao Guang and Di Yuan, I can get
the starlight firefly Gu from them as well."

Fang Yuan had once instructed Little Hu Immortal to deal with all three of these Gu
Immortals. Not only did he buy over a hundred thousand starlight fireflies, as well as
their food, star fragment grass, he also bought the experiences of the three of them in
planting star fragment grass, he spent a lot.
Star Lord Wan Xiang's will was slightly startled, he now knew Fang Yuan was well
aware of the market rate, his words changed: "Hehehe, I was kidding earlier, don't take
it seriously Sir Eight Arm Immortal."

Fang Yuan interrupted him, saying: "I will pay two immortal essence stones to buy a
thousand and five hundred starlight firefly Gu."

Star Lord Wan Xiang immediately rejected this, saying: "Sir, this is simply too low, I
cannot sell it at this price."

After some bargaining, both of them took a step back, using three immortal essence
stones, he obtained one thousand and two hundred starlight firefly Gu.

After buying the starlight firefly Gu, he did not leave, instead he asked: "Do you sell
any star path killer moves?"

"Could it be that sir is also a star path Gu Immortal? Hehehe, of course I sell them, take
a look. I have three star path killer moves here."

Fang Yuan started browsing.

The first star path killer move was called 'dazzling star armor', it needed large
numbers of starlight Gu, a few bane star Gu, several star shield Gu and so on to be
activated. This was a defensive killer move, once used, a full body armor would form
on the Gu Immortal's body, shining like starlight.

The second killer move was called 'spring star rain'. It needed large numbers of star
rain Gu, small numbers of spring wind Gu, some star shoot Gu and others, once used,
it would form a jade colored rain, drizzling non stop for three days and three nights.
The rain would be rich like oil, it could provide nutrients to crops and greatly increase
productivity. This killer move was used to nurture plants, and manage the blessed
land.

The third was called 'spiral drill star spear'. Like the name implied, it was an offensive
killer move. It needed small numbers of spiral bone spear Gu, several star river Gu,
countless star dart Gu, and large numbers of shooting star Gu.

These killer moves' details were very interesting.

The numbers of Gu worms were usually classified into large numbers, several, some,
and a few, vague terms like these without actual real numbers. At the same time, the
ways to construct these killer moves were also not specified, including the sequences
of activating the Gu worms, as well as the relationships between different Gu worms.

Only the general statuses of the killer moves were mentioned, like what rank five Gu
were needed, and what effects the killer moves had.

Only after the killer moves were bought would their details be clearly stated.

Star Lord Wan Xiang spoke at an appropriate time: "Killer move dazzling star armor
is sold at half an immortal essence stone. Spring star rain was created by my main
body personally, only a few Gu Immortals have bought it now, thus the value is slightly
higher at one and a half immortal essence stones. Spiral drill star spear costs one
immortal essence stone."

Killer moves were priced according to their rarity, flaws, strength and power, backlash,
whether they can be easily countered, and the conditions of the Gu worms that
compose the killer move. But they had one common point, they were usually not
cheap.

In treasure yellow heaven, ordinary mortal killer moves were priced higher than
mortal Gu recipes of the same rank. But at rank six and above, the price of immortal
killer moves were far less than Immortal Gu recipes.

Dazzling star armor, Fang Yuan knew this killer move even though he was not a star
path Gu Immortal, it was extremely common. Half an immortal essence stone was too
expensive.

Fang Yuan had planned to buy a star path offensive killer move, he remembered a
mortal killer move called icy stardust. This killer move had a wide range, the star path
Gu worms that were used in it were common, and it was also very effective in dealing
with enemies. The stardust had defense piercing ability, and even if it could not break
the defense, it would stick to enemies and emit frost energy that would slow them
down.

As for Star Lord Wan Xiang's spiral drill star spear, Fang Yuan had not heard of it.

This meant that this offensive killer move's value was not high.

In the five hundred years of Fang Yuan's previous life, during the chaotic five regions
war, the war ruined old and inefficient systems, causing the birth of many new
inventions.

Fang Yuan did not remember spiral drill star spear, that meant it was not outstanding,
it had been out of use since long ago back then. A killer move that was out of use
definitely had many weakness.

But the spring star rain killer move made Fang Yuan's eyes shine.

This was a surprising find.

Fang Yuan thought of the star fragment grass, it was the food of the starlight fireflies,
as well as their home. The stronger and larger the starlight fireflies, the more starlight
firefly Gu could emerge from them. Fang Yuan's desire towards starlight firefly Gu was
going to persist for a long time.

This, he needed this killer move.

Fang Yuan looked over this spring star rain killer move another two times.

He noticed a problem.

The Gu worms that made up this spring star rain had one star path Gu worm called
star shoot Gu, it was a consumable Gu.

Fang Yuan had never heard of this Gu, this was the first time he had heard of it.

Fang Yuan thought about it and realized: This was Star Lord Wan Xiang's ploy.

After Gu Immortals bought the killer move, spring star rain, every time they wanted
to use it, they would need to expend star shoot Gu. Meanwhile, only Star Lord Wan
Xiang sold this star shoot Gu.

Star Lord Wan Xiang wanted to turn this one time killer move purchase into a
continuous trade.

Fang Yuan probed and asked: "I will offer two immortal essence stones for your spring
star rain killer move and the star shoot Gu's recipe."

Star shoot Gu was only rank three, such a mortal Gu recipe was not worth half an
immortal essence stone, this price was extremely high. But as expected, Star Lord Wan
Xiang rejected him without hesitation. His explanation was that this star shoot Gu was
naturally formed in his blessed land, there was no recipe.

This was a really good excuse.

Some blessed lands, if managed well, due to the peculiarity of the environment, would
give birth to new Gu.

Not only can Gu Immortals refine and create new Gu worms, nature could do the same.

Fang Yuan knew that this was very likely to be an excuse, but he could not request to
enter Star Lord Wan Xiang's blessed land to check.

The blessed land was the Gu Immortal's headquarters, it involved their most private
matters. Only if they had a really good relationship and trusted each other deeply
would they invite another Gu Immortal into the blessed land.

Fang Yuan saw that Star Lord Wan Xiang was unwilling, thus he suggested: "Alright, I
will pay two immortal essence stones to buy spring star rain and dazzling star armor,
these two killer moves along with some star shoot Gu. I want enough star shoot Gu to
activate spring star rain ten times."

Star Lord Wan Xiang heard this and shook his head: "The expenditure of star shoot Gu
for six uses of the killer move would be worth half an immortal essence stone. Sir is
only offering two immortal essence stones, yet I have to provide dazzling star armor
as well. This is a loss for me, I will not do it."

Fang Yuan snickered: "Star shoot Gu is only a rank three mortal Gu, each activation
only uses about five hundred at most. Activating the killer move six times would
consume three to four thousand of them, you are selling that for half an immortal
essence stone?"

"Sir might not know, star shoot Gu is naturally created in my blessed land, its
production is very slow. It cannot be bought outside because it is a unique product of
my Myriad Star blessed land." Star Lord Wan Xiang was very courteous, but his
underlying meaning was, buy it if you want to, but if you do not buy it, you will not
find it elsewhere.

He had the confidence of dominating the market of this Gu.

Fang Yuan laughed, continuing to bargain, while the other party refused to relent.

During this process, he realized that in the other party's mind, dazzling star armor's
value was still very high.

"It seems that before the war of the five regions, dazzling star armor had not been
spread by the respective forces, thus this killer move's value is still very high."

War was a very efficient method of interaction.

Especially in this world.

During peacetime, primeval stones, immortal essence stones, all these had great value
and could not become widely used currency, the economy could not prosper.

But during times of war, battle merits, sect contribution points, all these replaced
primeval stones and immortal essence stones as currency, they pushed for the
development of all aspects of the economy.

After realizing this, Fang Yuan stopped being forceful. He used two immortal essence
stones to buy spring star rain and enough star shoot Gu to activate the killer move ten
times.

After completing this transaction, Fang Yuan continued to search in treasure yellow
heaven.

He found out that in treasure yellow heaven, Gu Immortals had increased air bubble
fish's price up to at least ten times that of before.

Fang Yuan investigated for a bit and realized that the situation was the same as in his
memories. During the end of last year, two Gu Immortals had fought above air bubble
sea, causing intense poison to spread in the sea, turning it into a death zone.

Rare goods were more expensive, with the production of air bubble fish falling
drastically, the price naturally shot up.

"The five regions have regional walls that isolate one another, this causes them to have
their own independent events, and they barely influence one another. Since rebirth, I
have affected southern border, northern plains and central continent. Among them,
northern plains' influence was the largest, it is now a huge mess. Second was central
continent, followed by southern border, after all, what I changed in southern border
were only events at the mortal level. As for western desert and eastern sea, they are
still the same."

Using Spring Autumn Cicada, Fang Yuan learnt about the inertia of the river of time as
well as the butterfly effect. This sort of lack of change and change interweave together,
it was evident that Fang Yuan's understanding towards this world's law of time was
becoming deeper.

As for air bubble fish, Fang Yuan remembered that during the five regions war, this
fish group would be extremely popular among Gu Immortals, the price would be even
higher than now.

That was because an air bubble fish group could boost the rate of mortal Gu appearing
in insect groups.
During peacetime, Gu Immortals raised Gu, their demand to purchase large quantities
of mortal Gu was not high. Purchasing was a secondary option, in most cases, the
primary method was the blessed land's own production. The time flow was different
in blessed lands compared to the outside world, one day in the outside world was
many days inside the blessed land. One year outside would mean many years in a
blessed land, while each year, there would be a certain output harvested. Gu
Immortals would normally not choose air bubble fish, because the price was too high,
they would rather simply wait for some time.

But during wartime, when Gu Immortals frequently fought against each other, they
would avoid using their Immortal Gu trump cards often, mortal Gu would be the
common method of attacking, and their expenditure would be huge. Thus, air bubble
fish became a sought after commodity among all Gu Immortals during the five regions
war.

In fact, Fang Yuan had once bought air bubble fish to increase the production of his
starlight firefly Gu.

But unfortunately, towards the end of his northern plains trip, he lacked money, thus
he had to sell almost all of his wolf group, fox group, and large numbers of air bubble
fish and hairy men.

Fang Yuan had a chance to profit from air bubble fish, but life was full of unexpected
changes, because he sold them too soon, he made a loss instead.

Right now in Hu Immortal blessed land, there were very few air bubble fish.

"I still have to buy air bubble fish, but not now. In a few years, air bubble sea would be
repaired, and the price of air bubble fish will be lower. By then, I will invest some
immortal essence stones and buy a huge group of them. Maybe I should breed these
air bubble fish in large numbers, so that during the five regions war, I can make a huge
profit…”
Fang Yuan had just bought over a thousand starlight firefly Gu, they could last him for
a long time, he was not in need of air bubble fish to boost their production.

"Are you Little Immortal Xing Luo?" A moment later, Fang Yuan found his target.

Coincidentally, his target was also looking at yellow treasure heaven.

"That would be me. Senior, what would you like to buy? The price is negotiable." Little
Immortal Xing Luo's divine sense transmitted, it was quite enthusiastic, even as much
as having a tone of flattery.

Fang Yuan looked, the goods she was selling were not only small in quantity, they were
very common, almost nobody would pay attention to her, she was evidently quite poor.

She was indeed a Gu Immortal, but not all Gu Immortals were wealthy. Battle, refining
Gu, research, undergoing tribulation, all these would greatly expend the Gu
Immortal's foundation and wealth.

Fang Yuan knew from his memories: This Little Immortal Xing Luo was a lone
cultivator, a newly advanced female Gu Immortal with weak foundations, she was at
the toughest part of her career in starting her trading.

Little Immortal Xing Luo was a huge figure in the mortal realm, she would be revered
and respected by mortals. But in treasure yellow heaven, among the many Gu
Immortals, she was not outstanding at all.

"But who would know, during the five regions war, this Little Immortal Xing Luo would
starting shining brightly, using her killer move icy stardust to quickly accumulate
wealth from battle, becoming quite the famous figure later on."

Fang Yuan sighed and admired the mystical powers of time and destiny.

According to the prophecy of the three venerables, the five regions war was the start
of the great era, when this generation's Great Dream Immortal Venerable would be
born.

The great era where each rank nine Gu Immortal was born had a common point, that
was during the chaotic battles, large numbers of new Gu Immortals would rise up.

The new replaces the old, the waves of an era would cause brilliantly shining ripples.
Among paths, forces, individuals, they would collide and interact, causing the way of
Gu to develop at a rapid pace, it would be an era of change.

Fang Yuan was one of them.

He started off with blood path, becoming a central continent Gu Immortal. But
unfortunately, he had only experienced the first half of this new era before he had to
use Spring Autumn Cicada to self-detonate.

"Do you sell killer moves?" Putting his mood aside, Fang Yuan asked Little Immortal
Xing Luo.

"Mm, I have one killer move here." Little Immortal Xing Luo was a bit embarrassed:
"This is an ice path killer move that I obtained coincidentally, it is called icy yarn. Its
price is half an immortal essence stone, this is the lowest price for a rank five killer
move." Her last sentence showed her fear of Fang Yuan suppressing the price.

Fang Yuan took a look at the content, humming in discontent: "This icy yarn killer
move needs so many rank five Gu, and the defense is a wide range defensive effect…”

To use large numbers of rank five Gu at once, the user had to be a Gu Immortal, mortals
have limited primeval essence and could not do that in most cases.

A wide area defense meant that the defensive strength would be lower than a single
target defensive killer move. Meanwhile, Gu Immortals often fought alone, unless they
were enslavement path Gu Immortals. But enslavement path Gu Immortals had their
own enslavement path defensive methods, why would they choose an ice path killer
move?

Little Immortal Xing Luo laughed bitterly in her heart, Fang Yuan hit the nail on the
head, because of these reasons, the killer move icy yarn was not easy to sell.

But Little Immortal Xing Luo had no choice, she had limited goods in her possession,
and she was a lone cultivator, she needed huge amounts of resources to kickstart her
cultivation.

Although she became a Gu Immortal, she was left penniless after the tribulation, most
of her Gu worms were destroyed. She had made an elaborate development plan, she
wanted to plant a vast number of shiver trees in her blessed land. Her blessed land's
environment was very suitable to grow shiver trees, but she lacked the most crucial
start up fund.

She had billions of primeval stones in her possession, but not a single immortal
essence stone.

The sellers of shiver tree seeds numbered in only a few people, most of them wanted
specific items for trade, or immortal essence stones. They had no need for the stuff
that Little Immortal Xing Luo had.

Hearing Fang Yuan say that, Little Immortal Xing Luo's heart lost all hope.

After the last few months, she had gotten used to disappointment.

But the next moment, Fang Yuan said: "I am researching star path killer moves
recently, I am a little interested in this icy yarn killer move. But half an immortal
essence stone is too expensive! If you have any innovative small killer move, add it in
and I might buy this for half an immortal essence stone."

"Innovative small killer move?" Little Immortal Xing Luo's hopes were reignited, she
thought about her own star path killer move 'six-nine stardust'.

'Six-nine stardust' was her personal creation, it used six rank three Gu and nine rank
four Gu, but could unleash the attack power of a rank five Gu.

She had once been extremely proud of it, but soon her horizons broadened, and she
understood that there was a mountain above a mountain, a man above another man,
she became more modest.

Little Immortal Xing Luo only hesitated for a moment, her desire towards immortal
essence stones had won her over.

"Junior has a small killer move, but I'm afraid it might be useless to senior." She said
carefully.

Fang Yuan's heart jumped, but his tone was still very calm: "Oh? Tell me about it."

After seeing the six-nine stardust killer move, Fang Yuan held in his joy and evaluated:
"Mm, this killer move is barely acceptable, who knows, it might bring me some
inspiration. Well, since my mood is great today, I'll take care of a newbie like you.
Hahaha, this is half an immortal essence stone!"
"I finally have half a piece, I'm just half short!" Little Immortal Xing Luo was overjoyed,
when they parted, her tone was full of well wishes for Fang Yuan.

Afterwards, Fang Yuan spent another two immortal essence stones, buying large
amounts of Gu refinement material and mortal Gu worms.

After spending another two stones, he bought a group of elderly hairy men.

Hairy men were almost always the most expensive among slaves.

These hairy men, although they were old and would die in a few years, were very
experienced in Gu refinement.

Fang Yuan had intended to refine a few sets of stargate Gu, but this Gu's success rate
was very low, back then, even though Lang Ya land spirit refined it himself, he still
failed many times. If Fang Yuan tried, it would waste a huge amount of his time, he was
going to let these old hairy men refine it for him.

Central Continent, Immortal Crane Sect, Fu Hu blessed land.

Fang Zheng had a solemn expression as he stepped into the tunnel.

The tunnel was huge and wide, every one hundred steps, there would be an elite
rockman guard, the defense was like an iron fortress.

These rockmen were all trained by the blessed land's owner, all of them had at least
rank four battle strength and were skilled in earth path Gu worms.

Every one thousand steps, there would be a huge rockman, his size would be at least
three times that of a normal rockman. Even in such a wide tunnel, they could only
squat down on the ground.

But rockmen were born to dig tunnels and live underground, these rockmen did not
feel any discomfort.

Every time Fang Zheng walked in this tunnel, he would feel apprehensive. Especially
when he could feel the rank five Gu Master aura permeating from these huge rockmen.

"Our Immortal Crane Sect's strength is simply too great! If these rank five rockmen
were all brought outside, I'm afraid all the other sects would be shocked." While he
passed a huge rockman, Fang Zheng muttered to the spirit incubating flea.

Lord Sky Crane, who was inside the spirit incubating flea, said: "Not really. Which sect
would not have their trump cards and foundation? Especially the other nine great
ancient sects, they are no weaker than us. But the current owner of Fu Hu blessed land
is the third supreme elder of our sect, Lord Tiger Demon. The rockman slaves that he
nurtures are the best in central continent! Even in treasure yellow heaven he has huge
influence, his wealth and abilities are not something us mortals can begin to imagine."

Fang Zheng's heart had a longing feeling: "What sort of realm is Gu Immortal, they can
actually rear so many rockmen, this is truly amazing!"

Lord Sky Crane replied: "Each Gu Immortal is an elite of the elites, an absolute genius,
a dragon among men, they all have great opportunities and chance encounters. They
have all cultivated step by step from a mortal identity, Fang Zheng, you are rank five
now, maybe one day, you will become a Gu Immortal!"

Fang Zheng shook his head continuously: "Master, I know my limits. My rank five
cultivation was mostly due to the sect's relic Gu. The sect is nurturing me with all its
effort, using the resources on me. My rank five cultivation cannot compare to you,
master, who cultivated step by step. But now, I think that rank five is not something
rare, look at this tunnel, there are at least thirty huge rockmen."

"Fang Zheng, it is good that you feel indebted to Immortal Crane Sect's generosity
towards nurturing you. But do not put yourself down, man is the spirit of all beings,
although variant humans call themselves humans, these rockmen might look strong
and brave, but in one on one battles, they are unable to compare to the rank five Gu
Masters in our sect, what they specialize in are group battles." Lord Sky Crane laughed.

"Is that so?"

"Lord Sky Crane said: "These rockmen are very stupid, it was because they
encountered a rich master that they could have such accomplishments. Do you think
these rockmen can compare to the elders in our sect? If I was still alive, I could deal
with more than ten of them at once. Alright, we are at the blood pool."

Fang Zheng heard the words 'blood pool' and his muscles contracted involuntarily.

He pushed the door in front of him, entering a cave.

This cave was as large as a plaza; blood colored light filled the cave along with a dense
bloody odor. In the center of the cave, a round hole had been dug out, inside of which
blood gurgled and emitted hot air.

Fang Zheng took a deep breath before taking off his clothes in a familiar fashion, when
naked he then entered the blood pool, immediately taking large gaping breaths due to
the scalding blood.

He soon adapted to the temperature of the blood and stood still at the center of the
blood pool. The blood pool reached up to his waist, revealing his chest and most of his
arms.

"Begin. Do it one by one, don't be anxious. First is iron blood Gu." Lord Sky Crane
reminded.

Fang Zheng slowly closed his eyes and activated iron blood Gu as instructed.

Immediately, the Gu worm's power started transforming his blood. His red blood
began to darken and become denser, the blood flow also became extremely slow.

As a result, Fang Zheng's fair skin also darkened.

"Maintain iron blood Gu, activate blood blade Gu." Lord Sky Crane said again.

Fang Zheng activated blood blade Gu; his body shuddered, his skin burst open forming
over a hundred wounds from which large numbers of blood blades shot out - they
were all pitch black iron-blood blades!

Shortly afterwards, blood like molten iron slowly flowed out of the wounds.

Fang Zheng had a cold expression, he did not feel any pain, instead, intense pleasure
attacked his mind. This was the effect of iron blood Gu, it could turn pain to pleasure
and help the Gu Master to adapt to battles, even a weak Gu Master could turn into a
warrior addicted to battle.

This was one of the achievements of Immortal Crane Sect from years of researching
blood path.

This blood slowly flowed into the bright red blood pool, dying the nearby area around
Fang Zheng black.

"It is the crucial step now, use blood merge Gu." Lord Sky Crane reminded.

Fang Zheng gritted his teeth as he activated blood merge Gu.

Immediately, under the effect of the Gu worm, the more than one hundred wounds on
his body burst out with an intense suction force. The surrounding blood was being
absorbed without pause.

"Ahh…” Fang Zheng groaned softly, the intense pain had turned into intense pleasure.
He gritted his teeth hard, his body trembling nonstop.

As large amounts of blood were absorbed, his body inflated, turning into an abnormal
fatty. His body was over three times the size of his original self. His skin burst open
and the thick, snake-like veins twisted around in his body.

The elegant and handsome young master had transformed into a nauseating, ugly
monster.

"Don't forget your goal, you need to resist this pleasure. Fang Zheng, activate failed
blood demon flower Gu!" Lord Sky Crane was monitoring Fang Zheng's situation and
hurriedly reminded him.

The words 'failed blood demon flower Gu' shook Fang Zheng's mind and he was barely
able to get past the intense pleasure, gasping as he activated failed blood demon
flower Gu.

Fang Zheng tightly clenched his fists, a large amount of blood in his body was rapidly
being corrupted. Under the effect of the Gu worm, vines started growing out of his
blood.

These thin vines pierced Fang Zheng's skin and soon coiled around his body.
Flower buds started growing out of the vines and quickly blossomed, turning into
pretty blue flowers resembling chrysanthemums.

"Urghh—! Fang Zheng tightly gritted his teeth, groaning softly in pain. His face was
pale, his whole body was like soil with many demonic flowers growing forcibly on him.
This intense pain was ten times more terrifying than a woman giving birth!

Even iron blood Gu's effect was not able to resist this kind of pain.

Fang Zheng almost shattered his white teeth from the pain. His face turned pale white
and blue veins popped up on his forehead, making him look malevolent and terrifying.

"Your blood is boiling, your organs and your body will be burned by your own blood
if this goes on. Use cold blood Gu quickly." Lord Sky Crane reminded nervously.

Fang Zheng activated cold blood Gu with great difficulty.

His blood quickly cooled down till he was shivering from the cold; he was finally out
of the deadly crisis.

"That will do, demon flowers will greatly increase the effects of your blood path Gu
worms. You are just a step away from success, use blood sense Gu!" Lord Sky Crane
said with a hurried tone.

"Blood sense…” Fang Zheng lowered his head, his gaze had turned blurry from the
pain. From the many drills he had done before, he was finally able to persist and
activate this blood path investigative Gu worm.

Several breaths later, Fang Zheng spoke: "I… I can sense… underground, southeast,
distance is five to six thousand steps."

"Great, you did it again! You are on the verge of success, it is the final step, use blood
scar Gu to mark the position."

"Arghhh…” Fang Zheng started to shout unconsciously at this time. His gaze was
completely blurry, the weakness caused his body to be on the verge of collapse. He
exerted all his strength to extract all the potential he had to activate blood scar Gu.

He was delirious, there was still enough primeval essence in his rank five aperture but
he could only mobilize a small portion. The primeval essence was like a small creek
flowing slowly into blood scar Gu.

However, blood scar Gu had extremely large demand for primeval essence; Fang Zheng
could only persist for eight breaths of time before he finally collapsed, falling down
into the blood pool, unconscious.

An incense burner was letting out wisps of smoke, this quiet room had no windows
and was extremely dim.

He Feng Yang was wearing a white robe with a black belt, sitting on a meditation mat
with wide sleeves.

He looked young and mild like jade. His dark green brows were sharp and long,
reaching up to his waist. At this moment, his serene and deep eyes were staring at the
spirit incubating flea in front of him.

The spirit incubating flea was floating in the air, and Lord Sky Crane's soul was
reporting the results of Fang Zheng's training.

He Feng Yang said with a dissatisfied tone: "Sure enough, despite letting him live in Fu
Hu blessed for eight years and also giving him many relic Gu to become a rank five Gu
Master in a short period of time, he still can't achieve a simple thing like
simultaneously activating six to seven Gu worms."

Lord Sky Crane considered his words before speaking: "Fang Zheng is young, he is still
lacking in the basics of multitasking. But this subordinate feels he is a very hard
worker and he has made large progress rapidly. Recalling the first attempt, he only
lasted a breath of time after activating blood merge Gu before he fainted."

"Therefore I added iron blood Gu, the result was that in the second try, the pleasure
was too much for him, the blood flowed out wantonly till he fainted. He lasted for three
breaths of time." He Feng Yang interrupted Lord Sky Crane in displeasure.

Lord Sky Crane quickly said: "Lord Supreme Elder, truthfully speaking, even this
subordinate would find it hard to multitask under such intense pain and pleasure.
Fang Zheng is not far from success, he was able to persist for eight breaths of time this
time. One needs to last for ten breaths of time to activate blood scar Gu successfully.
And he is only lacking the last two breaths of time. As long as we can train a few more
times and allow a little more time, we can…”

"Enough! How much more? You still want to train more? Time, time, just hear yourself,
how much time has been wasted in your plan? How long? Years! There is still no
improvement, Dang Hun mountain is still not in our hands. Don't you know how many
dissatisfied voices are there in the sect, how many disciples are requesting the higher
ups to open the exchange of guts Gu?"

"Subordinate is incompetent and even implicated Lord Supreme Elder, I have

committed a heinous sin!" Lord Sky Crane begged for mercy when he saw He Feng
Yang become furious.

He Feng Yang took some deep breaths before waving his sleeve: "Leave now, there is
only a month before the sect convention. Before I go to the sect convention, I want to
hear the good news of your training succeeding, and that we can start our plan to
capture Hu Immortal blessed land!"

"But lord, a month is too short, Fang Zheng will not be able to endure excessive
training. We can nurse his physical health with Gu worms, but the intense pleasure
and pain will injure the soul and can even cause his soul to shatter!" Lord Sky Crane
inquired.

He Feng Yang chuckled: "Isn't the collapse of his soul exactly what you want to see?
Thus, you can seize his body and resurrect. Wasn't this your initial plan?"

His smile turned gentler as he said this: "This Fang Zheng has only gone on a crash
course to reach rank five Gu Master, his nature is still childish. He is insufficiently
tempered, how could he compare to you, Lord Sky Crane? After we use him to seize
Hu Immortal blessed land, you can return. Sigh, since Su San and Zhou Wu were killed
by that demon Song Zi Xing, there are fewer and fewer capable subordinates like you
at my side."

The gentler He Feng Yang's tone became, the colder Lord Sky Crane felt in his heart,
he replied in a grateful tone: "Receiving such importance from Lord Supreme Elder,
this subordinate will definitely repay lord's kindness greatly and offer my life in
sacrifice!"

"Good, take your leave now." He Feng Yang waved for Lord Sky Crane to leave.

The quiet room now only had He Feng Yang, his smile gradually disappeared before
being replaced by a grave expression, his gaze somewhat tense.

After Fang Yuan seized Hu Immortal blessed land, he had been in charge of this matter
and now a year had passed, the sect's pressure on him was growing larger day by day.
Especially his enemy in the sect — Gu Immortal Lei Tan, who had publicly ridiculed
his incompetence several times.

The sect convention a month later was a tough barrier. If He Feng Yang could not show
any progress, it would be very difficult to cross this barrier. He could almost hear Lei
Tan's mockery echoing throughout the convention.

"But it won't be long… as long as this plan succeeds, I can shut the mouths of all those
petty people like Lei Tan. I would have the greatest contribution to the sect over these
last years! In the attack against Hu Immortal blessed land, I will personally make a
move. Moreover, I have invited Fairy Cang Yu and Old Lord Can Yang. Fairy Cang Yu
has similar battle strength to me, and has at least three mortal killer moves. While Old
Lord Can Yang is a rank seven Gu Immortal with an offensive Immortal Gu!"

"The only problem is that the land spirit can prohibit the use of all mortal Gu. I don't
have any Immortal Gu to use, so I might not be able to do much. The only method is to
consume green grape immortal essence. Fortunately, Hu Immortal blessed land was
originally barren and not managed properly, how much green grape immortal essence
could it have accumulated? I don't believe Fang Yuan can exhaust our three Gu
Immortals' combined strength! As long as Hu Immortal's immortal essence is
consumed, the land spirit will be powerless and won't be able to restrict mortal Gu. At
that time, hmph!"

He Feng Yang mumbled to himself, gradually calming his tensed mind.

At the same time, in an underground cave in Hu Immortal blessed land.

Fang Yuan slowly stepped out of the wisdom light halo, a satisfied smile on his face.

Just now, he had successfully deduced the killer move, icy stardust.
The starlight firefly Gu were like a swarm of bees, flying in the air, giving off blue
starlight.

The starlight was being drawn in by an invisible force, gathering into a stargate.

This was a huge circular door, it was made up of starlight, it shined like an illusion, it
was like a scene within a dream.

As time passed, the starlight firefly Gu continued to dwindle in numbers, as the dead
starlight firefly Gu fell to the ground from midair.

One leg stepped out of the stargate into Hu Immortal blessed land, next, the entire
person walked out of the stargate.

It was an old man, he had white hair and deep wrinkles, his eyes were tired but bright,
it was Tai Bai Yun Sheng who had returned from Lang Ya blessed land.

"I am back again…” Tai Bai Yun Sheng was covered in dust, he looked at the scenery in
Hu Immortal blessed land, sighing to himself.

Although he had not lived here for a long time, he felt that this was his home.

He had a sense of belonging to this place.

At this time, Fang Yuan flew over from the sky: "Hahaha, Old Bai you came back at a
good time, come, see the killer move that I just deduced."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng saw this familiar figure and laughed heartily: "Oh, is that so? I
bought a cloud path defensive killer move from the Inkman King, why don't we fellow
disciples have a friendly match."

Saying this, he flew into the air.

Fang Yuan heard this and raised his eyebrows, he stretched out one of his right arms,
with his palm facing the sky, and his fingers straight.

A lump of starlight soon began to form in his palm.

"Oh? Is your killer move a star path killer move?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng saw this starlight
lump and was shocked.

He flew into the sky, as a ring of white clouds appeared around him.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was at the center of these white clouds, the clouds were like a huge
belt, moving around along with Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Fang Yuan slowly moved his fingers, grabbing the starlight lightly in his hands.

"Old Bai, get ready to take this." He growled, as he flicked a finger, a speck of starlight
shot out like lightning.

The starlight speck's size was small, but extremely fast, it flew in the air, shooting
towards Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

"Decent speed." Tai Bai Yun Sheng evaluated, from such a long distance, with him
completely focused, he had a chance to dodge it. But because they were exchanging
blows, he wanted to test his own cloud path killer move, thus he stood still and took
the starlight head on.

When the starlight got close to Tai Bai Yun Sheng, the white cloud ring suddenly
rotated, at an extremely fast pace!

The cloud ring blocked the starlight for him.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng stopped the cloud ring, he gazed with rapt attention, only to see that
at the area where the cloud ring had blocked the starlight, it had turned blue, and frost
energy was oozing, creating a layer of frost.

In response, he said laughingly to Fang Yuan: "It seems this killer move that you
deduced isn't too amazing. You have to know, my killer move has not been fully
activated yet."

The corners of Fang Yuan's mouth opened, showing his sharp, uneven teeth: "Neither
has mine, take this!"

He flicked his fingers, as countless specks of starlight were shot out instantly.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was still at the same spot, but the cloud ring around him was
rotating faster and faster, it was almost like a white ball had formed around him.

Fang Yuan's specks of starlight were blocked by the cloud ring completely.

Fang Yuan did not stop attacking, he showed an interested gaze. The pure white cloud
ring was gradually turning blue from the starlight, and its speed was getting slower.

"Your killer move has a great freezing effect, it can slow your enemies." Tai Bai Yun
Sheng evaluated: "My killer move also has another effect."

Saying this, he continuing activating his killer move.

The cloud ring that had almost been frozen into a blue ice statue exploded, with a loud
bang, the blue frost turned into vapor as it spread towards the surroundings.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng showed joy, praising himself: "My cloud ring can store the attacks
of enemies, when it reaches its limits or when I activate the following effect of my killer
move, I can make the cloud ring explode, to let my enemies face their own attacks!
Junior brother, it seems my killer move is stronger than the one you deduced."

Fang Yuan snickered: "Old Bai, it is still too early to say that."

Saying so, he flicked his wrist, and threw the entire starlight lump towards Tai Bai Yun
Sheng.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's heart shuddered, he quickly activated his killer move, and five
cloud rings formed around him. With him as the center, the cloud rings expanded out
with varying sizes, the cloud rings were like five concentric circles surrounding him,
protecting him in the center.

The starlight lump came attacking, but the five cloud rings rotated rapidly, their
afterimages produced an illusory white ball.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed loudly, he was in the middle and felt extremely safe.
But right at this moment, the starlight lump exploded.

Ding ding ding, dang dang dang…

Large amounts of starlight specks flew everywhere, colliding into one another, the
explosion covered Tai Bai Yun Sheng's entire body, as frost energy burst out.

"The force of this explosion far surpasses the force of the individual starlight specks
added together." Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression changed, the five cloud rings had
turned blue, and their speed fell.

"Again!" Fang Yuan raised his eight arms, with his monstrous arms simultaneously
grabbing at the air like claws.

The next moment, lumps of starlight formed in his palms.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng saw this and his pupils shrunk, he did not dare to be overconfident,
he quickly activated his Gu worms and rapidly rotated the rings.

Fang Yuan stood on the spot, his eight arms fired shots consecutively, the starlight
lumps flew like a meteor, bombing in the direction of Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Bam bam bam…

The explosions were right next to his ears, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's appearance turned
pathetic, as he dodged around. The five cloud rings had reached their limits, they self-
detonated one by one, while the force of the detonation allowed him to regain his
momentum.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng quickly replenished the five cloud rings, as Fang Yuan continued to
unleash his explosions, but he managed to maintain his defense.

"Enough." Fang Yuan suddenly stopped.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng breathed roughly, he slowly flew towards Fang Yuan: "What is the
name of this killer move? What percent of its full power did you use?"

Fang Yuan replied without any shame: "I named this icy drill stardust, this is my
unique creation. When I activate it fully, I can unleash a water vat sized starlight lump
up to six times, but the bigger the lump, the slower the speed of movement. Because
the more stardust there is inside, the more they collide, and the energy used up would
reduce their speed."

"That is to say, you did not even use fifty percent of the killer move's power! How is
your killer move so strong? Although it cannot compare to an immortal killer move,
the power is already far superior to most mortal killer moves." Tai Bai Yun Sheng
gasped.

Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "When I was in Imperial Court blessed land, I found an
inheritance, it came from a famous poet of northern plains, Dou Min Jun. He was
creative and created a brand new star Gu. This star Gu can increase the attack power
of star path Gu worms, it is like the weakened version of amplify effect Gu. When I
deduced this killer move, I fused this Gu into it, thus the power was this great."

This was the true reason why Fang Yuan chose a star path attack method.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng realized at once: "So that is it. I knew it, my defensive killer move is
called nine cloud ring, when activated at full force, nine cloud rings can exist at once.
Not only is the defense incredible, it can be replenished at any time, and can even
return the attacks of enemies back to them. This cost me two whole immortal essence
stones!"

Fang Yuan nodded: "Your killer move is definitely worth the price, in fact, this will be
priced at two and a half immortal essence stones in treasure yellow heaven. Inkman
King is giving you a favor."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed: "I understand this clearly, he was considering my
landscape as before Immortal Gu. He is also a Gu Immortal, he needs to undergo
tribulations and calamities, when his blessed land suffers damage, he would need to
ask me to repair it! Landscape as before Gu is my way to earn a fortune from now on."

"Old Bai, when your business expands in the future, I am sure many Gu Immortals will
come to you for help. Come, let's talk while flying."

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng slowly flew towards Dang Hun mountain.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked back, only to see that on the battlefield earlier, there were
still dozens of blue star clouds. The insides of these clouds were still emitting a
cracking noise, it came from the collision of starlight specks.
As the frost energy spread around the star clouds, their color faded with time.

"Junior brother, you are incredible. This icy drill stardust is worth at least four
immortal essence stones if you sell it in treasure yellow heaven." Tai Bai Yun Sheng
sighed.

"If not for wisdom Gu, how would I have endless inspiration?" Fang Yuan replied
plainly.

Actually, with just wisdom Gu, if he did not have Little Immortal Xing Luo's ice path
killer move, icy yarn, and her smaller killer move, six-nine stardust, he would not be
able to deduce the killer move icy drill stardust.

When Little Immortal Xing Luo started rising up, she was extremely poor, using the
opportunity of the five regions war, she used her self-created icy stardust killer move
to accumulate her wealth, finally gaining prominence and becoming a relatively
famous character.

Fang Yuan's intention was to make an attempt of buying the former version of icy
stardust from her.

When he saw icy yarn and six-nine stardust, he guessed that these two killer moves
were the foundation of Little Immortal Xing Luo's new self-created killer move.

After he spent half an immortal essence stone to buy it, he rushed towards wisdom Gu
and used the light of wisdom to make deductions.

Wisdom Gu's halo brought him unlimited inspiration, and Fang Yuan was a person
who had been reborn, he had seen the power of icy stardust with his own eyes, this
gave him the proper direction, avoiding the need to deduce blindly.

Eventually, he combined Dou Min Jun's inheritance within, deducing the killer move
icy drill stardust.

This killer move was different from icy stardust, it had a smaller range but much
greater power.

One could say that using the inheritance of Dou Min Jun, he had already slightly
surpassed icy stardust.
"Rank nine wisdom Gu is truly phenomenal. I simply cannot imagine the effect when
it is used fully. Honestly, I am a little envious of you. After becoming a zombie, you
could receive such benefits!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked at Fang Yuan with admiration.

Fang Yuan shook his head: "There are a lot of flaws by becoming a zombie. Firstly, I
have to thank Red Lotus Demon Venerable, next, I could reach this step because of
coincidences and lucky opportunities. If not for the peculiar situation back then,
allowing me to reach an arrangement with wisdom Gu, how could I utilize the light of
wisdom?"

"That's right, if not for Red Lotus Demon Venerable breaking fate Gu, after we die, our
souls would be sucked into the door of life and death, slumbering in the death domain
for all eternity. How would anyone be able to remain in the world, to become a
zombie!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng sighed deeply.

"Alright, before I left, I urged you to indirectly ask about the details of luck path from
Lang Ya land spirit. Now that you've returned, what information did you obtain?" Fang
Yuan asked.

Ever since he learned that Long Hair Ancestor had discussed about Dao with Giant
Sun Immortal Venerable for seven days and seven nights, this idea emerged in him.

Lang Ya land spirit was far easier to deal with than Mo Yao's will.

But Tai Bai Yun Sheng shook his head, he showed a strange smile: "After I repaired a
few rivers, I was chased out by Lang Ya land spirit in a hurry. He has to eat his medicine
grinder chips, he is very busy."

"Eat his medicine grinder chips?"

Half a month later, Fang Yuan went to Lang Ya blessed land again.

Clouds and mists filled his vision, it was a scene of white, among the turbulent sea of
clouds, the twelve cloud buildings were motionless. Many large rivers resembling
dragons were flowing above the cloud soil.

After Tai Bai Yun Sheng's restoration, Lang Ya blessed land had returned to its former
state.

Fang Yuan was brought into a cloud building, meeting Lang Ya land spirit.

Lang Ya land spirit still had layers of qi path seals. But there were originally eighteen
layers of seals, under the Inkman King's help, three layers were removed, only fifteen
were left.

Inkman King stood beside Lang Ya land spirit, he did not dare to act arrogantly in front
of Fang Yuan, he initiated greetings: "Sir Fang Yuan, how have you been?"

Fang Yuan smiled at him, his protruding fangs made his smile look very scary.

He turned to look at Lang Ya land spirit, tossing a rank four east window Gu towards
him: "Look."

The east window Gu was floating silently before Lang Ya land spirit.

Lang Ya land spirit could not stretch out his arms, but Fang Yuan lent him the east
window Gu so his consciousness could enter it.

After checking the contents, he nodded in satisfaction, praising: "Not bad, quite
impressive! You completely deduced these three Immortal Gu recipes! Incredible, this
thought process is spectacular!!"

"Land spirit, I did not come here personally to listen to your rubbish." Fang Yuan
interrupted Lang Ya land spirit rudely, pointing out his intentions.

Lang Ya land spirit was not stupid, he willed and summoned thirty immortal essence
stones: "This is your remuneration!"

Fang Yuan took these immortal essence stones and placed them in his immortal
aperture.

His earnings this time was not as much as previously. That was because deducing
these Immortal Gu recipes had costed him six beads of green grape immortal essence.
If not for the stargate which had already been built, he would have to waste another
two green grape immortal essence beads, raising his cost to eight…

Even though these Immortal Gu recipes were also remnant recipes with at least ninety
percent completion rate, each of them needed in-depth analysis. Some Immortal Gu
recipes were very hard to deduce, there were hurdles one after another, the longer he
had to think, he would expend more wills.

But even so, the profits were still immense.

Inkman King watched with an envious gaze as the two finished their transaction,
before smiling: "Sir Fang Yuan, actually, each transaction need not be done using
immortal essence stones, right? Over here in Lang Ya blessed land, there are many
valuable goods that cannot be found in treasure yellow heaven. We can trade using
them. To speak the truth, my inkman city also has some precious goods that sir might
be interested in. Not long ago, your senior brother, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, had bought a
killer move from me."

Inkman King saw that Fang Yuan had ample funds and wanted to do business with
him.

Fang Yuan heard this and smiled: "Inkman king, your suggestion is great, I just happen
to lack three small swamp Gu, and six pine island Gu, I wonder if you have them?"

This problem stumped the Inkman King. He showed an awkward expression: "I am
ashamed, this is the first time i've heard of Small Swamp and Pine Island."

"These are all olden antiquity Gu worms, small swamp Gu can change the terrain,
forming a small swamp. Pine island is the same, it can create a floating island on top
of a sea. There is a huge tree in the middle of the island, the tree roots would extend
and hold the soil together." Lang Ya land spirit explained.

Next, he asked Fang Yuan curiously: "These Gu worms have all been eliminated from
use, right now, Gu Immortals have better and cheaper ways to change the terrain of
their blessed lands. Why do you want these Gu worms?"

"You don't need to ask about my intentions, from your tone, I assume you have these
Gu worms in Lang Ya blessed land?" Fang Yuan asked mysteriously.

"Of course!" Lang Ya land spirit raised his head, saying arrogantly: "Every time I obtain
a new Gu recipe, I will refine a few Gu worms to keep them as part of my collection. I
have collected up to a hundred small swamp Gu and pine island Gu, I can sell them to
you. But the materials to refine these Gu worms are now all extinct. You will need to
pay an immortal essence stone."

Goods were more expensive when they were rare, small swamp Gu and pine island Gu
were not even sold in treasure yellow heaven.

Fang Yuan had no hesitation, he tossed an immortal essence stone to Lang Ya land
spirit and obtained three small swamp Gu and six pine island Gu.

Next, he looked at Lang Ya land spirit curiously: "Strange, you collect so many Gu
worms, how do you settle the issue of feeding them?"

Fang Yuan had been troubled in these last days over the feeding of Gu worms,
especially the Immortal Gu that he had.

Lang Ya land spirit gave him the answer: "The problem of feeding mortal Gu is easy,
just create a special environment and let them hibernate. But you can't do this for
Immortal Gu, even if they hibernate, you need to feed them, but the food that you feed
them will be halved compared to normal times."

This answer was a little disappointing to Fang Yuan.

"Can you go into detail?" He asked.

"I believe you have gone to Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's true inheritance
secluded domain, right? True inheritance secluded domain is a special environment,
it can cause Gu worms to hibernate, mortal Gu will not need to be fed, and the feeding
cost of Immortal Gu would be greatly reduced."
Fang Yuan frowned: "Even so, true inheritance secluded domain had so many
Immortal Gu of many different kinds, I do not believe that Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building could plunder sufficient resources at every interval of ten years to feed these
Immortal Gu."

"That is because Giant Sun Immortal Venerable used food path methods. Food path is
a very secretive path, it specialises in research on how to feed Gu worms, variant
humans, wild beasts, and even humans, these very tough questions. Don't ask me
questions about food path, I know nothing about it. The Immortal Gu that I have are
all fed in the most traditional methods."

Fang Yuan did not give up: "Back then, your main body and Giant Sun Immortal
Venerable refined Eighty-Eight True Yang Building together, would you not know the
food path methods that he used?"

Lang Ya land spirit rolled his eyes: "The main body had once made an oath with Giant
Sun Immortal Venerable to not reveal any information regarding the food path
methods. This is a huge secret, actually, I want to know about it too. But in the
memories that I inherited, there is no such information."

Fang Yuan nodded, he knew that land spirits were honest and could not lie, he was
only asking casually.

Although he had completed the transaction, Fang Yuan did not leave yet, he had
another objective in coming here.

He took out a star shoot Gu, placing it before Lang Ya land spirit: "Can you reverse
refine the recipe of this Gu?"

Lang Ya land spirit could not stretch out his hands, he could only sniff this star shoot
Gu, saying: "This Gu has obviously been tampered with, the Gu recipe is very hard to
recreate, at the very least, a refinement path grandmaster is needed. With just this
rank three star path Gu, it is impossible to reverse refine its recipe! Because this is a
new Gu, it will need to be researched and that would result in some costs…”

Fang Yuan smiled, stretching out one of his right palms, and spreading the five fingers:
"I have over five thousand star shoot Gu."

Star shoot Gu was a necessary Gu worm in formulating the killer move spring star rain,
Fang Yuan tried using it once and found that the killer move was very effective.
He had bought so many star shoot Gu at once, precisely with the intention of reverse
refining it. But right now, his intention was even stronger.

"Five thousand… of course I can reverse refine the recipe. What a pity, I am currently
sealed, I can't do anything." Lang Ya land spirit sighed.

Fang Yuan frowned: "This qi path seal still has fifteen layers, how long would it take to
remove them all?"

"At least a year." Inkman King said.

"So long?"

"There is no choice, this seal is definitely an immortal killer move, the more it is
unsealed, the more difficult it becomes." Inkman King showed a bitter smile.

Long Hair Ancestor was one of the three supreme grandmasters in refinement path
history, their names were commemorated in legends throughout the ages. Lang Ya
land spirit's current refinement path realm was at least at grandmaster level.
Meanwhile, Fang Yuan was only a refinement path master.

If he could get Lang Ya land spirit to help, that would be the best. But now that Lang
Ya land spirit was sealed, he could not refine Gu, and would not be able to reverse
refine the recipe.

"Actually, it is not impossible to reverse refine the recipe." Inkman king suggested:
"Lang Ya blessed land has many old hairy men, right? These old hairy men all have
refinement master attainment. When the time comes, let them work for the land spirit
while Lang Ya land spirit directs them personally, wouldn't that work?"

Lang Ya land spirit rolled his eyes at Inkman King: "A layman's silly words! Refinement
path is profound and deep, many methods and killer moves require the relevant
wisdom, cultivation, and talent, as well as huge amounts of practice. Do you think that
many refinement masters would add up to one refinement grandmaster? Bullshit!"

Inkman King was stunned by the scolding, but he only laughed and did not dare to
rebuke.

"In that case, forget about it. When you are unsealed, we'll discuss it again." Fang Yuan
said his goodbyes, turning around and leaving.
This matter was not urgent at the moment.

"Lad, even if I am unsealed, I will not reverse refine it for you for free. Prepare three
immortal essence stones!" Lang Ya land spirit shouted towards Fang Yuan who was
leaving.

Fang Yuan did not turn around, he waved his hand as he stepped into the stargate,
vanishing.

"Hmph, rascal kid." Lang Ya land spirit muttered as he watched him disappear.

After Fang Yuan returned to Hu Immortal blessed land, he entered Dang Hun palace,
starting on the matter of sealing Spring Autumn Cicada.

He had already obtained small swamp Gu and pine island Gu, these were the final
missing pieces.

Seven days and seven nights later, Fang Yuan planted large numbers of Gu worms in
his first aperture as well as the area around his stomach.

These Gu worms' effects were interlinked, they amplified each other and formed a
strong seal. On one hand, they helped the first aperture to alleviate Spring Autumn
Cicada's pressure. On the other hand, part of Spring Autumn's Cicada's aura was
expelled to be directed towards the outside of his body after some modifications.

Thirdly, and most importantly, the seal would not affect the activation of Spring
Autumn Cicada.

"The seal can last for four years. This way, I have resolved the problem of Spring
Autumn Cicada bursting the first aperture for the time being." Fang Yuan checked that
there was no problem and sighed in relief.

This tough problem was finally settled, he felt a heavy weight being lifted off his
shoulders.

The process of sealing Spring Autumn Cicada was not easy. After all, he was using
mortal Gu to seal an Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan's soul was so exhausted it faded slightly.

After succeeding in the sealing, Fang Yuan fell asleep, not wanting to get out of bed for
three days.
Three days later, Fang Yuan slowly woke up.

His heart was in serenity, he did not feel tired or restless anymore.

"It seems that the zombie body cannot compare to a live physical body in one more
aspect, that is, not only does my soul gets weakened more easily, it also is more prone
to agitation." Fang Yuan found another drawback of the zombie body.

If the soul was weak, it could be easily resolved by using guts Gu to strengthen his soul.
There were many guts Gu on Dang Hun mountain, these were all items of the highest
quality for strengthening his soul.

But the irritation of the soul required pacifying the soul. The best way to pacify the
soul was to use the Bewitching Lake's water, found in Obsession Death Domain. This
water was recorded in <>, it was praised by Verdant Great Sun as an excellent wine.

Fang Yuan did not have the waters of Bewitching Lake, but even if he did, he would not
dare to drink it. He used the ancient method, the most effective one — sleeping.

"If I had a normal person's body, I would just need to rest for a while in order to pacify
the irritation in my soul. But after becoming a zombie, I would need to sleep for three
days straight. Soul path involves strengthening the soul, refining the soul, and
pacifying the soul, these three aspects, but most soul path Gu Masters focus on the
first two. Now that I think about it, that should be because sleeping is an excellent way
to pacify the soul, thus they did not need to invest in this aspect."

After sealing Spring Autumn Cicada, Fang Yuan gained a deeper understanding of soul
path.

Next, he calculated this month's balance.

After dealing with Lang Ya land spirit twice, he earned sixty immortal essence stones.
But he also spent a lot.
In treasure yellow heaven, he bought more than a thousand starlight firefly Gu, the
killer moves spring star rain, icy yarn and six-nine stardust, large amounts of Gu
refinement materials, large numbers of mortal Gu, as well as a group of old hairy men.
And finally, to seal Spring Autumn Cicada, he bought small swamp Gu and pine island
Gu, he spent a total of twenty immortal essence stones.

Right now, Fang Yuan had thirty and a half immortal essence stones left.

Do not think that this was a lot of immortal essence stones, Fang Yuan also spent much
of his green grape immortal essence.

When deducing Immortal Gu recipes, he could only do it by himself, the first time he
traded with Lang Ya land spirit, he only had nine green grape immortal essence beads
left. After the second deduction, he spent six immortal essence beads, and improving
the sealing method on Spring Autumn Cicada consumed one bead, right now he had
two beads left.

It was necessary to improve Spring Autumn Cicada's seal. Earlier, his estimated cost
was twenty-three immortal essence stones. After the improvement, it fell to twenty.
This way, he saved two immortal essence stones.

Only having two beads of green grape immortal essence left was very dangerous. If he
met with a mishap, Fang Yuan would only be able to use myriad self twice before he
would be unable to deal with the situation, especially now, when Immortal Crane Sect
was close to attacking.

Fang Yuan used fifteen immortal essence stones, converting them into his own green
grape immortal essence.

This way, his green grape immortal essence rose to seventeen beads, while his
immortal essence stones fell to fifteen and a half pieces.

Right now, the crisis with Spring Autumn Cicada's aperture had been temporarily
resolved. And his predicament was also relieved after allying with Hei Lou Lan.
Dealing with Lang Ya land spirit earned him huge amounts of immortal essence
stones, it was the source of the strength to resolve Fang Yuan's problems.

The absolutely terrible situation was alleviated slightly. It was like a land of darkness
with dark clouds looming, after Fang Yuan's immense efforts, he managed to create an
opening, allowing sunlight to pierce into the land of darkness.
Right now in front of him, was another problem, and this problem had to be resolved
quickly.

That was the feeding of Immortal Gu.

Fang Yuan was not worried about feeding mortal Gu. But feeding Immortal Gu was
becoming a huge issue.

All in all, Fang Yuan had too many Immortal Gu, he had Spring Autumn Cicada, Fixed
Immortal Travel, Calamity Beckoning, Delight in Water and Mountain, Worldly Wave
Trace, Rising Azure Cloud, Cleanse Soul, Connect Luck, and Woman's Heart.

Ordinary Gu Immortals did not even have a single Immortal Gu. Fang Yuan had nine.

This was a great boon, as well as a huge burden.

Spring Autumn Cicada was fine, it consumed the water in the river of time, it did not
need feeding.

Fixed Immortal Travel was once fed with one bead of green grape immortal essence a
year ago in central continent time, that could last for six years. But one year in central
continent was not one year of time passing by for Fixed Immortal Travel. During this
time it was in Imperial Court blessed land, Fang Yuan's aperture, and Hu Immortal
blessed land, all of these had faster time flow than central continent.

And this six years was a theoretical number, the more Fang Yuan activated Fixed
Immortal Travel, the more this time would shrink.

Right now, although Fixed Immortal Travel could still hold on for a while, it was close
to needing to be fed again.

The remaining Immortal Gu were troublesome.

These recent days, Fang Yuan had been investigating and finally obtained crucial
information.

Calamity beckoning Immortal Gu's food was the black blood of the desolate beast, six
headed snake.

Delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu needed large amounts of earth qi, water
qi, and some laughter stones.

Worldly wave trace Gu needed tens of thousands of underworld jellyfish, as well as

thousands of deepsea lightning eels.

Rising azure cloud Gu needed the dragon scale of the desolate beast, cloud dragon, as
well as tens of thousands of eyeballs from wind scythe birds.

Cleanse soul Immortal Gu needed the flesh and blood of over ten thousand white lotus
giant silkworm Gu.

Connect luck Immortal Gu needed five thousand kilograms of sand from the resting
area of the ancient desolate beast, worldly sand gull.

As for the poison path Immortal Gu, Woman's Heart, Lang Ya land spirit had earlier
said that it fed on women's hearts. This Gu combined nurturing and refinement, the
more hearts used to feed it, the stronger the poison.

"Among these Gu worms, calamity beckoning Gu was just refined, it already needs
feeding and is very weak now. The Immortal Gu, Delight in Water and Mountain and
Worldly Wave Trace, are components of the Immortal Gu House Water Pavilion, they
had been inside Imperial Court blessed land all these years and have been fed well.
Cleanse Soul, Connect Luck, Woman's Heart and Rising Azure Cloud were all
hibernating inside true inheritance secluded domain, during these many years, Giant
Sun's will had only fed them half of the resources they needed. Now that they are out
of the true inheritance secluded domain, they have woken up fully and are extremely
hungry, they need food."

"Thankfully, I passed Rising Azure Cloud to Lang Ya land spirit, with him feeding it, it
will not die of hunger. I have also left two Immortal Gu, Landscape as Before and Man
as Before, with Tai Bai Yun Sheng, that's his problem to deal with." Fang Yuan analyzed.

Even so, the pressure on him was quite intense.

Feeding Immortal Gu was not merely a question of immortal essence stones.

This world was not like Earth, Earth was a highly commercialized society, as long as
one had money, they could buy nearly anything.

But in the Gu world, the economy was not developed, there were monopolies in many
markets, and countless precious and rare resources. Immortal essence stones were a
hard currency, but they could not serve all purposes.

For example, looking at the food he needed, the desolate beasts six headed snake and
cloud dragon, as well as the ancient desolate beast worldly sand gull, they were hard
to come by and had great strength equivalent to Gu Immortals.

Although treasure yellow heaven occasionally sold the flesh, bones and other parts of
desolate beasts, they showed up infrequently and would be purchased within
moments when they were available in the market.

Even earth qi and water qi were not easy to extract.

White lotus giant silkworm Gu and laughter stones were very rare goods, they were
hardly seen in treasure yellow heaven.

In contrast, Woman's Heart was much easier to feed, although it was slightly
troublesome, the difficulty was lower.

There was another crucial point, that was time.

Fang Yuan did not have ample time to slowly prepare these foods.

Thus, he had no choice but to purchase these rare resources in treasure yellow heaven,
even though this would make the price higher, and wisdom path Gu Immortals would
be left with huge amounts of traces to make their deductions.

But Fang Yuan was now known as Eight Arm Immortal, for the time being, no one
would connect it to Hu Immortal blessed land.

Even if they would, he had to do this.

After all, the survival of the Immortal Gu was much more important than being
suspected!

Of course, he had asked Lang Ya land spirit long ago, as well as Hei Lou Lan and Fairy
Li Shan, unfortunately he did not get ideal results from them.

Lang Ya land spirit had once owned laughter stones, but he had used them up when
refining Gu.
And several years ago, there was a Gu Immortal who returned from eastern sea,
sending Fairy Li Shan a batch of deepsea lightning eels. But there were only a hundred
of them, and they were merely used as ornamental attractions. Later, because Fairy Li
Shan did not take good care of them, all of these eels died.

But this gave Fang Yuan a reminder.

Eastern sea…

In Fang Yuan's previous life, when he was a mortal, he traveled over the five regions,
he went everywhere and had once stayed in eastern sea for a while.

Eastern sea had abundant resources, the most in the five regions, even central
continent could not compare to it.

Moreover, over these recent years, eastern sea had been in turmoil, there were many
opportunities available there, and the benefits would be huge too.

If Fang Yuan had not been stuck with Dang Hun mountain's problem, and due to Tai
Bai Yun Sheng being the easiest path to resolving it, his first choice would have been
eastern sea.

Thinking about Lan Xu blessed land, blue dragon whale, rainbow island and so on,
Fang Yuan made his decision.

He summoned Tai Bai Yun Sheng: "Old Bai, how has your cultivation been?"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed heartily, he could not stop talking: "Its great, my progress
is very smooth. I helped Lang Ya land spirit repair his cloud soil and earned three
immortal essence stones. Next, I restored several rivers and earned another two
immortal essence stones. I then bought the defensive killer move nine cloud ring,
spending two immortal essence stones. Finally, I bought seeds of float ball tea in
treasure yellow heaven, spending another stone."

"Float ball tea seeds are very common, you actually spent an entire immortal essence
stone, it seems you bought a huge quantity. But your choice is correct, I have seen your
blessed land, there are far more time path resources than space path resources. Float
ball tea grows slowly and floats in the air. You can maximize your advantages and
minimize your weaknesses. In a few years, when the float ball tea plants mature, you
will be able to reap the harvest and sell them." Fang Yuan evaluated.
"That is exactly the case." Tai Bai Yun Sheng patted his leg: "After the float ball tea
plants reach a certain scale, I will bring in a group of jade hummingbirds, developing
my blessed land with that as the base."

Fang Yuan looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng, saying: "Jade hummingbirds are mutated
beasts, the price of a jade hummingbird group will not be cheap."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng replied calmly: "I have already thought about it, from now on I will
use Landscape as Before to earn immortal essence stones, and learn from Fairy Li
Shan's example. I believe my Landscape as Before is not inferior to Fairy Li Shan's
mountain pledge Gu."

Fang Yuan nodded: "You have landscape as before Gu, wherever you go, you will be
extremely popular."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng sighed: "It is a pity that showing myself in public is inconvenient
now, we are the only survivors after Imperial Court blessed land was destroyed. Right
now, we are already considered the top suspects by northern plains' Gu Immortals. If
we are exposed, the consequences would be unthinkable. Also, the most crucial
witness, Ma Hong Yun, has vanished, it seems a certain Gu Immortal is holding him
captive, it is possible that we might have already been targeted by some Gu
Immortals."

"That is why I think that eastern sea would be a good place for you to go." At this point,
Fang Yuan finally stated his true intentions.
"Eastern sea?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was surprised.

"Right. There are many sea areas in eastern sea, the culture and style there are greatly
different from northern plains. You will certainly have great benefits when you go
there. Especially in one of the sea areas, air bubble sea. This sea produces abundant
air bubble fish but due to a fight between Gu Immortals recently, it has been poisoned.
The owners of this sea area, Ni clan, Qiu clan and Ba clan are having headaches
because of this." Fang Yuan explained.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng immediately became excited: "This feels like a major business
opportunity. Junior brother, you are right, we can't move in northern plains but we can
go to eastern sea. There are regional walls between the five regions, and the higher
one's cultivation, the more difficult it is to cross these barriers. But we have Fixed
Immortal Travel and can thus ignore the regional walls."

"However, Old Bai, you need to be careful. Gu Immortals might not be able to casually
travel between regions, but the disturbance in northern plains is too large and is
already known by the other four regions, too. Central continent's ten great sects have
deep foundations and even their own pawns in all the other regions. I had planned to
seize Immortal Gu Dark Limit before going to eastern sea, but there has not been much
progress at Hei Lou Lan's side. Danger will lurk everywhere in this trip, you need to
be extremely careful." Fang Yuan sincerely reminded.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was deeply moved: "I understand, but junior brother, you don't need
to worry. I have been wandering around in northern plains for most of my life, I might
not be too skilled in a head-on confrontation but I still have more than enough ability
to protect myself."

Fang Yuan nodded. He also acknowledged this point, otherwise he would not have
arranged for Tai Bai Yun Sheng to go to eastern sea.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was experienced and knowledgeable along with being a flying
master, thus his escaping ability was top-notch. Moreover, he now possessed a
formidable cloud path defensive killer move, nine cloud ring.

"When you enter eastern sea, don't immediately make dealings with Ni, Qiu and Bai
clans, instead proceed to Hai Shi blessed land. Among the five great trading markets
in the world, treasure yellow heaven is first and Hai Shi blessed land is second. Hai Shi
blessed land should have missions for saving air bubble sea, you can then use this
pretext to get in contact with the three clans and save a lot of trouble." Fang Yuan
reminded.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng agreed: "I will definitely go make a trip to Hai Shi blessed land."

Fang Yuan continued: "I need some specific food to feed my Immortal Gu: tens of
thousands of underworld jellyfish and thousands of deepsea lightning eels. These two
are specialities of eastern sea. Also, see if there are any laughter stones in Hai Shi
blessed land, the blood of the desolate beast, six headed snake, and cloud dragon
scales. This is the list of items I require, here."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng accepted the list and revealed a serious expression: "Junior brother,
your matters are my matters as well. I will be sure to settle this with all my effort."

Fang Yuan gave a bright smile: "Old Bai, just do your best. Before departing, I hope you
can make a trip to Dang Hun mountain and consume some guts Gu. This Gu is among
the highest quality Gu around for strengthening one's soul, it is always best to be
prepared just in case."

"Junior brother, here we go again! I have said it many times, these guts Gu are your
property, how can I covet your wealth as a senior brother!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng
immediately refused. This was already his sixth time refusing such an offer.

Fang Yuan was already his benefactor, he, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, placed this favor deep in
his heart, never to be forgotten, so how could he covet Fang Yuan's guts Gu?

Fang Yuan mumbled before conceding: "Strengthening the soul is extremely beneficial
for you, how about this, I will sell these guts Gu to you for one immortal essence stone.
It just so happens that I lack immortal essence stones to buy food for my Immortal
Gu."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng wanted to say something but Fang Yuan waved his hand and
continued: "Senior brother, danger will be lurking on all sides during this trip to
eastern sea, I hope you will arm and prepare yourself properly, otherwise, if some
accident occurs to you, I will feel guilty. I try to pay attention to all details when I do
something, I hope you can understand."

His words contained sincerity and genuine friendship.

Especially when Fang Yuan called him 'senior brother' which he rarely said, Tai Bai
Yun Sheng's eyes reddened, he rapidly blinked his eyes and breathed out: "Alright, I
understand your intent, junior brother, we will make this transaction."

A day later, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had made all the preparations and left Hu Immortal
blessed land together with Fang Yuan, arriving at eastern sea.

"I will hand over both moving perspective cup Gu and stargate Gu to you. We will
maintain contact frequently, if there is any significant matter, please inform me
beforehand." Fang Yuan reminded.

"Junior brother, go back without any worries. If Immortal Crane Sect attacks, don't
forget to call me!"

Fang Yuan nodded and without saying anymore, he activated Fixed Immortal Travel,
disappearing from the spot.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng stored the stargate Gu and looked at the surrounding sea, after
identifying the direction, he rapidly began flying.

When he appeared again, Fang Yuan had arrived at western desert.

He was standing on an exceedingly tall sand dune, all around him was a boundless
desert with countless sand dunes extending everywhere.

The scorching sun shone down, there was no wind and the temperature was so high
it made one have the feeling of being broiled. But Fang Yuan had an immortal zombie
body and did not feel even a trace of warmth.

The coarse and fine sand granules shone like gold under the sunlight.

Fang Yuan looked at the sand dune under him. This sand dune was several times taller
than other sand dunes. It shone with golden light and its contours were soft and
smooth; the whole sand dune was a scene of nothingness except for a short tree on
the peak.
This tree was not even eight feet tall, the branches were short, thin and twisted like
monstrous claws, making it look extremely ugly. But the strange thing was, it had an
enormous shadow of light.

This shadow of light was extremely large, reaching five or six hundred feet. The
shadow of light was like a flourishing tree with many branches and leaves. The tree
branches were white as snow, the flowers were pink like cherries. There were clusters
of small fruits among the floral leaves that had yet to ripen, with all sorts of colors.

This tree's origin was huge; it was an ancient desolate tree, named thousand wish.

It would finish growing in three hundred years, flower at its six hundredth year and
bear fruit at the nine hundredth year.

The number of fruits it produced was always precisely one thousand.

Right when the fruits completely ripened, people could bring Gu recipes and make a
wish under the tree. If the wish succeeded, the fruits would open and the
corresponding Gu worms would fly out.

These Gu worms could be mortal Gu and also could be Immortal Gu!

But if a wish for Immortal Gu succeeded, the amount of fruits would decrease
accordingly.

In Fang Yuan's previous life, this desolate tree had caused a huge battle among
western desert's Gu Immortals. Finally, several super forces came to an agreement and
tried to partition this tree between themselves.

But on the day the fruits ripened and fell down, all sizes of forces, big and small, allied
and burst through the blockade created by the super forces, causing chaos throughout
the place.

A lone cultivator rank five Gu Master, with the surname Han and name Li,
unexpectedly became the first to arrive under the thousand wish tree, his wish gave
him a space path Immortal Gu named Phantom Heaven.

Fang Yuan was a rank four Gu Master back then who sought to obtain profits in the
chaos. After experiencing great dangers and difficulties, he arrived before the ancient
desolate tree, and was also able to obtain a Gu worm.
But this Gu worm was only a rare rank four Gu.

Even so, this rare rank four Gu gave a tremendous boost to Fang Yuan's battle strength.

"Back then, I had to fight through such a tight siege defense to arrive in front of this
tree, and the fruits were already sparse by then, only fifty or sixty were left. I have now
arrived here in this life, but it's too early. The fruits still require over two hundred
years to completely mature."

Fang Yuan's heart was deeply moved and he smacked this ancient desolate tree, but
the thousand wish tree did not even budge.

This desolate tree had astonishing defense and could continue to stand tall against the
attacks of Immortal Gu.

Fang Yuan had a deep impression of it.

The regretful thing was that not long after that chaotic battle, Xi clan's rank eight
ancestor, Xi Jian Ping, exited his seclusion and suppressed all the experts forcefully, his
might awing the entirety of the great desert; the thousand wish tree was taken away
by Xi clan and planted at Xi clan's blessed land. Since then, Fang Yuan had not been
able to see the thousand wish tree again.

Fang Yuan did not have methods to transplant the thousand wish tree, even if he had,
he did not have any place to plant it in.

Hu Immortal blessed land had a terrain of grassland and not desert terrain.

The thousand wish tree required this kind of extreme environment to survive.
Moreover, if the thousand wish tree was moved impulsively now, the floral leaves
along with the thousand wish fruits would wither and fall, wasting the previous
millennium of effort.

Fang Yuan walked down the sand dune and left this place.

Only after walking for a whole half a day and countless li, he had truly left the range of
the thousand wish tree.

Fang Yuan glanced back; there was only flat desert with no signs of sand dunes let
alone the gorgeous shadow of light of the five to six hundred feet tall tree.
He was not surprised.

This thousand wish tree had an ability of shrouding a radius of a huge distance in
illusion. When leaving this illusion, one must leave on foot. And approaching it was
extremely troublesome; the illusion would emerge repeatedly and could even make
people move around the same spot without realizing.

"It was because of this that I and others could fish for benefits." Fang Yuan smiled. He
had Fixed Immortal Travel so he could ignore this illusion.

However, the goal of this trip was not this ancient desolate tree.

It was instead the person who had gained enormous benefits from a thousand wish
fruit and became a Gu Immortal expert later.

This person's name was Han Li.

"Han Li was a mortal. But after repeated fortuitous encounters, his nature became
steadfast and courageous. His starting point was much lower than mine, when he had
just started his cultivation, I was already a rank three Gu Master in southern border.
But at the time of my self-detonation, he had already become a Gu Immortal at the
peak of rank seven, a famous powerhouse of western desert. Many influential figures
of central continent's ten great sects suffered losses from him. But right now, he is only
just a child. According to the , he should be living in a mortal hamlet near Huang clan."

Fang Yuan's target was Han Li.

Ever since Fang Yuan understood the effect of connect luck Immortal Gu, he had
intended to use his rebirth advantage to get rid of the weakness of Spring Autumn
Cicada wearing down his luck.

He planned meticulously and ruled out many people, leaving behind only a few
targets.

Han Li was one of them.

These targets were people who would attain great success in the future, having large
potential, as well as huge luck.

People like Hunting King Sun Gan of southern border, who would only be at rank five
all their lives, were simply ignored by Fang Yuan.

Little Immortal Xing Luo was a Gu Immortal but her luck was not good and she would
at most reach a small scale of fame, Fang Yuan ignored her too.

There was Shi Chao Yu, who would be able to become a rank seven Gu Immortal, but
his journey was filled with ups and down, his luck was definitely not good and he was
also excluded.

Only people like Han Li and Ma Hong Yun, who had smooth journeys with repeated
fortuitous encounters, were Fang Yuan's targets.

However, Ma Hong Yun's whereabouts were unknown at present and Fairy Li Shan
was exerting her full efforts to investigate it; Fang Yuan's first target thus became Han
Li.

After leaving the thousand wish tree, Fang Yuan used mortal Gu to disguise as a man
with a yellowish face and a robust body. Then he directly flew towards Huang clan.
The entirety of western desert was a vast desert. Oases were like stars in the sky,
shining among this sea of sand.

Humans lived here by relying on the oases.

Western desert, Sha Jing oasis.

Huang clan as an upper tier force had hundreds of years of history here, they occupied
the most important resources at the center of this oasis.

At the outer parts of the oasis, there were small sized forces that submitted to this
Huang clan.

At the even further outer areas, near the fringe of Sha Jing oasis, there were mortal
villages. These mortals had a tough life, they had huge numbers and were all under
the control of Huang clan and other forces of Gu Masters.

In these villages, there was a Han village, near Han village, there was a small natural
grassland.

Although it was called a grassland, it was much more desolate than northern plains,
there was sand everywhere and blades of red dagger grass were sharp as swords,
stabbing into the deep parts of the sand, trying to absorb the meager water content.

A group of children were bending their backs, holding sickles as they laboriously cut
down these grasses.

These children were not even ten years old, but they had to come out and work, to
make money for the family, this was common in mortal families.

The dagger grass had sharp edges, these children were all wearing leather gloves, but
there was one without gloves.
This bare handed child sniffed his mucus as he held the sickle, cutting the dagger grass
and placed them into the basket on his back.

The radiance of the setting sun was still very hot, these children were all breathing
roughly as it shined on them, sweat pouring on their backs.

Finally, the sky turned darker, as the sun was at the horizon, only half of it could be
seen now, as the children stopped their work.

"Quickly leave, it is night time, the small ghost jackals are coming out to hunt for food."
The child with the largest body frame spoke, like he was their leader.

"How much did you gather? Wow, that's a lot!" As usual, they started comparing with
each other.

"I ate until I was full today, that's why I have strength, hehe."

"But the grass that you cut is still less than Han Li."

"Hey, Han Li, you are amazing, you can cut the grass without wearing gloves, yet there
are no injuries on your hands, how did you do it?" A small lass with a ponytail asked.

Han Li giggled.

The children returned to the village together, they were talking excitedly along the
way, when they returned to the village, they split up, returning to their homes.

Han Li returned home too, he pushed the broken wooden door and realized that his
parents were not back yet.

His father was a farmer, he was planting wire cotton at the west part of the village, he
had been plowing the fields these days, going out early and returning home late.

His mother had a job that everyone in the village admired. Every day she would enter
the outer area of the oasis, doing odd jobs and cleaning for a small sized Gu Master
clan.

Han Li stood beside one quern-stone, he poured the dagger grass in his basket inside,
then he picked up a wooden pole and ground the grass down.
He put in a lot of effort, before long, he was full of sweat.

After the grass was turned into paste, he took out a bag and poured a portion of the
rice husks inside into the quern-stone as well.

He mixed them together, creating a paste-like food ingredient.

He poured the food into a wooden basin.

Next, he brought the wooden basin to the side of the house.

There was a flimsy looking stable beside the house, inside were three fat sand scorpions.

These sand scorpions were fat like pigs, they were no threat at all. Upon hearing Han
Li's footsteps, the three fat sand scorpions rushed out from the shadows of the stable.

"Go ahead and eat, these were all cut down by me painstakingly." Han Li flipped over
the wooden basin, pouring the paste-like food on the ground.

The three fat sand scorpions surrounded the food and ate, they chewed loudly and
made a humming noise.

"Eat, eat, eat more and grow faster…” Han Li's small body was sprawled on the stable,
he looked at these sand scorpions as he muttered.

These fat sand scorpions were not Gu, they were ordinary creatures.

But the meat of the scorpion was plump and delicious, the money obtained after
selling the meat would be a huge sum for the entire mortal family.

To Han Li's family, these three fat sand scorpions were their most important assets.
Thus, even if Han Li did not get to eat dinner himself, he had to feed these three fat
sand scorpions.

Gulp, gulp, gulp…

At this time, Han Li's stomach started growling.

Han Li jumped down from the fence, he rubbed his tummy and returned home,
starting to cook dinner.
He had to cook dinner for his family every day.

The rice they ate was the most common sand rice in western desert, the texture of this
rice was very bad, it was hard to swallow. But it was easy to cultivate, it was the main
crop that mortals ate.

As Han Li worked next to the stove, he did not know that someone had been watching
him for half the day.

As night descended, at the graveyard that was several li away from Han village, Fang
Yuan was sitting still like a statue.

The reason he chose this place was because of how deserted it was.

At night, Fang Yuan came here and activated up to a thousand investigative Gu, he put
the whole of Han village under his supervision.

The primeval essence of Gu Immortals was unlimited, as long as they had enough Gu
worms, they could do things at the efficiency of thousands of mortals or more.

In the darkness, Fang Yuan slowly opened his eyes, he assessed: "The age fits, it should
be this kid."

As he thought about it, he activated the rank five luck inspection Gu.

Looking from afar, he saw that above Han village there was a lump of a luck cloud. This
luck cloud's size was not big, it was grey-white and looked very thin.

This was a collection of luck, these villagers had a sense of belonging, thus they felt
that they were a collective body, resulting in their luck gathering together.

Fang Yuan looked below the luck cloud.

Smoky traces of luck were rising from the villagers, after rising for two hundred
meters, they merged into the luck cloud.

And among the traces of luck in the luck cloud, there was one especially eye-catching
portion of luck.

This luck was like a huge stone, it was floating in the air above Han Li's family, a
hundred steps away from the ground. There was a crack on the surface of the stone,
and a trace of luck was leaking from that crack, it had a golden color and was rising
up, fusing into the collective luck cloud.

"What luck is this?" Fang Yuan looked in amazement.

He did not obtain the luck path true inheritance, he was quite unfamiliar with the
meaning of the different forms of luck.

For the time being, he decided to name this form of luck, calling it monolith luck.

Only Han Li was at his home right now, seeing this, Fang Yuan could confirm that Han
Li was the future rank seven Gu Immortal, the guy with countless fortuitous
encounters.

Fang Yuan then tried to look above him, but saw nothing.

"What a pity, after becoming an immortal zombie, I cannot detect my own luck
anymore, unless I get the rank six luck inspection Gu. But who knows how my luck is
now? Is it still the black coffin luck?" Fang Yuan muttered to himself, he had always
been very curious towards luck.

But just as he was about to take out connect luck Gu, he heard someone shouting:
"Little thief Ling Hu, you are hiding here, do you think I, Plump Lady, can't find you! I
chased you for countless miles, quickly return my immortal essence stones!"

Fang Yuan was secretly shocked, he turned around and looked, only to see a human
figure made of moving sand, shouting at him from far away.

Fang Yuan's heart sank, he shouted: "Plump Lady? You got the wrong person, I am not
the person you are chasing."

"Bullshit! Little thief Ling Hu, everyone knows you are an expert in disguise, do you
think that I would not recognize you when you disguise your appearance like this! You
have some guts, stealing from me, I will beat you till your intestines are blown out!!"

Not only was the human shaped moving sand figure shouting, at the same time, there
was a furious growl in the air as well.

The voice was like thunder, it pierced heaven and earth. The entire oasis was shocked
by this and went into chaos!

Fang Yuan frowned deeply, he did not think that by disguising as a normal human and
hiding his zombie appearance, he would unexpectedly be treated as a thief by
someone else.

He stood up and turned around to look.

Only to see that at the north-east area, yellow sand was flying in the air and intense
winds were blowing, the sound of the wind was like the roaring of beasts, continuous
and loud.

The yellow sand on the formerly peaceful ground was whipped up like tidal waves in
the sea.

The sand waves attacked one after another.

Fang Yuan took a deep look at the monolith luck, before moving his body and charging
towards the attacker head on.

Soon after, he saw the culprit.

This was an extremely fat female Gu Immortal, she had a thick waist and broad
shoulders, she was like a water tank. She stood on the yellow sand waves as she
arrogantly and furiously looked at Fang Yuan.

She stretched out a finger, scolding: "Little thief Ling Hu, you…”

Just as she spoke, Fang Yuan attacked!

"Heavenly zombie transformation!" Fang Yuan purposely shouted, before removing

his disguise, showing his immortal zombie appearance.

At once, a six meter tall monster with a green face and sharp fangs, blood red eyes,
eight monstrous arms and bulging muscles appeared before the female Gu Immortal,
Plump Lady.

He looked ruthless and terrifying, radiating killing intent.

Plump Lady was shocked, she said: "You…”

Fang Yuan stepped on the ground, causing a loud sound, the ground was cracking
under his pressure, as he flew towards Plump Lady like a cannonball.

Plump Lady saw Fang Yuan's ruthless charge and her heart shook, she quickly raised
her arms.

Swish swish swish!

Three huge sand waves immediately rose into the air, reaching hundreds of meters in
height.

The huge waves came crashing, Fang Yuan snickered as he raised his speed, crashing
towards them.

Bam bam bam!

In the blink of an eye, he scattered the three huge sand waves and appeared before
Plump Lady.

Plump Lady's heart was pounding, she finally realized she had found the wrong
person. But she was someone with a fiery temper, Fang Yuan's fierce and ferocious
actions aroused her anger.

"I'll let you taste my killer move — martial sand armor!" She shouted loudly, as two
traces of yellow sand gushed out from her ears, the sand quickly gathered and
enveloped her entire body.

In a few breaths of time, she had turned into a sand giant that was about the size of
Fang Yuan, but she had a thicker body.

Fang Yuan charged forward, as the sand giant roared, slamming with both its arms,
displaying unrivalled fearlessness.

Boom boom!

With two loud bangs, the eight armed immortal zombie's fists met with the sand
giant's.

The sand giant's fist scattered into yellow sand, while Fang Yuan's fists were fractured.
Plump Lady took a step back, as the scattered yellow sand merged to create the sand
giant's fists again. Fang Yuan, however, took a huge step forward, while his fractured
fists were recovering rapidly, his remaining six fists slammed at the sand giant.

Crash crash crash…

At once, the two engaged in fierce combat, yellow sand was flying in the air as the
sound of bones breaking could be heard continuously.

Plump Lady was more shocked as she fought on: "Who is this person? Why is he so
insane like a demon, he is even more ruthless and fearless than me!"
Fang Yuan laughed wickedly, his eight arms turned into fists and slammed, they
opened into palms, slashing and smacking, they also became claws or piercing fingers,
he showed his immense attainment in close combat.

Plump Lady relied on martial sand armor's thick defense normally to engage in her
relentless assaults, she was used to bullying other Gu Immortals. But in front of Fang
Yuan, she was at the losing end.

Fang Yuan's fist shadows were flying, he moved nimbly as Plump Lady desperately
dealt with his attacks, she could only parry his attacks but not retaliate.

Suddenly, Fang Yuan saw an opening and got close to her, his eight arms were like
pythons coiling around her, as his two monstrous claws destroyed the sand giant's two
arms like a drill.

The sand giant roared, knocking its fat tummy towards him.

Fang Yuan snickered in his heart, he had been expecting this, his figure moved quickly
as he flew to the sky above the sand giant.

His left knee slammed towards it, and with a bang, the sand giant's head was scattered.

Before the yellow sand regenerated, Fang Yuan's right leg chopped at it like a battle
axe.

Bam!

The yellow sand scattered, as the defensive killer move was broken, Plump Lady
vomited a mouthful of blood, collapsing to the ground like a falling meteor.

Fang Yuan tore the yellow sand open, like an eagle scavenging for food, he flew down
from the sky, bringing the intense winds with him, he was bent on killing Plump Lady.
Plump Lady who was falling saw Fang Yuan chasing her and showed an expression of
fear.

She attempted to pull some distance from him, but Fang Yuan's speed was faster.

Bam!!

With a loud explosion, Fang Yuan charged down from a high altitude, directly
slamming Plump Lady into a deep part of the desert.

Large amounts of yellow sand was sent flying, the huge impact created a large circular
crater, it was a thousand steps wide and about thirty meters deep.

"Oh?" Fang Yuan stood at the pit of the crater, he had a surprised look as Plump Lady's
'corpse' suddenly disintegrated into a pile of sand.

At the same time, he heard her shrill laughter from the air: "Oaf, I will let you taste my
attacking killer move — Burial Dragon Sand Coffin!"

As she said this, the yellow sand around the crater gushed down like tidal waves, filling
up the entire round crater.

Fang Yuan could not dodge in time, he was buried within.

The surface of the desert was as flat as a mirror, Plump Lady's mouth was oozing with
blood as she sat on a lump of yellow sand, her palms were placed together as her eyes
were staring wide open, activating her killer move maniacally.

On the surface of the mirror-like desert, the sand statue of a certain horned dragon
appeared.

This horned dragon statue coiled around, the dragon's head bit its tail, gathering the
surrounding sand and forming a great force to suppress Fang Yuan who was under the
sand.

The intense battlefield had turned peaceful once more.

"Huff!" Plump Lady let out a breath of turbid air, she wiped her sweat as she finally
relaxed: "It is over. My burial dragon sand coffin can form an incomparable pressure,
emitted on my enemy in all directions. Once my enemy is trapped, they cannot move
until they are turned into meat paste. In the past, I forcefully suppressed a desolate
beast, evil dragon, not to mention restraining a lone zombie?"

Plump Lady muttered to herself, her words had great effect as she quickly calmed
herself down.

But right at this moment, there was a loud explosion from beneath the ground —

Bang!

"What sound is that?" Plump Lady's body shook, she became nervous again.

Bang!

The loud bang could be heard again, it was like there was a giant underground beating
a drum.

"Damn it, it is my burial dragon sand coffin!" Plump Lady became alert, she stood up
abruptly, but her vision turned dark, her body was swaying as she almost fell onto the
yellow sand on the ground.

She was indeed injured.

When Fang Yuan tore the martial sand armor, his strong punch had heavily injured
her.

At the crucial moment, she used her killer move as a body double, attracting Fang
Yuan's attention as she hid inside the yellow sand that was flying all over the place.

After that, she used her killer move burial dragon sand coffin and trapped Fang Yuan
underneath the sand.

"Impossible! Even a desolate beast, evil dragon met its end under my killer move's
power. This killer move is worth at least three immortal essence stones in treasure
yellow heaven!" Plump Lady spoke to herself.

Bang!

Right at this moment, there was another explosion.

The originally fearsome and powerful evil dragon statue shook, it was covered in
cracks as sand fell off the statue.

Plump Lady's heart shuddered along with it, she stared with her eyes wide open, her
gaze was fixed on the desert below her feet.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The loud sound descended again, it became more and more frequent, the ground was
shaking along with it.

Plump Lady's mouth was dry, her heart was pounding from shock as she felt that her
killer move was not trapping a person, she was trapping a fearsome monster that was
even fiercer than the desolate beast evil dragon!

Bam!

The huge dragon statue could suppress him no longer, it completely disintegrated.

The surface of the desert swelled up like a tumor, sand burst out and rained down, as
a huge figure appeared before Plump Lady once again.

It was a moonless night, winds were blowing intensely, giving off an eerie and scary
feeling.

An eight armed monster that was six meters in height, Fang Yuan who had a green face
and sharp fangs was like a demon god incarnate, he bought fear and nightmares to
this world.

Different from before, he was covered in a black armor, the armor was spiky and
looked very fearsome. It was extremely thick and could make Fang Yuan's tall and
mighty heavenly zombie body become even more imposing, his demonic aura was
oozing everywhere.

This was Fang Yuan's defensive killer move!

If Plump Lady lived for another four hundred years, she would recognize this: During
the chaotic five regions war, this was the most common defensive killer move, 'hair
armor'. It had the rank five indestructible steel mane Gu as its core, with several
hundred Gu worms as assistance, it allowed a Gu Immortal to grow an absurd amount
of hair all over their body, to form body armor. Not only was this cheap and efficient,
it had great defense and the Gu worms used were easy to replenish if they were
damaged.

After Fang Yuan became an immortal zombie, his hair had become tough as steel,
when he used hair armor, the effect was greater than most ordinary bodies of Gu
Immortals.

Using hair armor and his immortal zombie body, he took on burial dragon sand coffin
directly without taking any injury!

This killer move had appeared four hundred years in advance, Plump Lady could not
recognize it, but it did not hinder her from evaluating this killer move's value.

"This defensive killer move is stronger than my martial sand armor. If it is sold in
treasure yellow heaven, it would be sold at two and a half immortal essence stones!"

Thinking of this, Plump Lady's battle intent fell again: "Sir, I am Mo clan's Gu Immortal,
I am chasing a thief, I mistook you for him. I believe that you are not Ling Hu Xu now,
this is a misunderstanding! It is said that friends are often made after a fight, we
should…”

Fang Yuan laughed coldly: "Hehehe, interesting. Mo clan's Gu Immortal, if I kill you, it
will surely be very enjoyable."

This was the first time Fang Yuan had spoken in this battle. His voice was hoarse and
terrible to listen to, Plump Lady shuddered when she listened to him.

Mo clan was a super force in western desert, an overlord that dominated a territory.

But Fang Yuan was fearless, he had no consideration for Mo clan at all.

Plump Lady's heart sank to rock bottom: "Where did this demonic cultivator come
from? Such incredible battle strength, high quality among rank six Gu Immortals, yet
he is so arrogant and ruthless!"

Next, Plump Lady saw a pair of wings growing on Fang Yuan's back, his wings were
black that of a bat's, black and huge, they flapped!

The bat wings vanished like an illusion, but it caused Fang Yuan's body to shoot
forward at lightning speed.

"So fast! This is a killer move especially for movement!!" Plump Lady's pupils shrunk,
she had made up her mind to run.

She screamed shrilly, her plump face could not conceal the immense fear and shock
she felt.

Seeing that Fang Yuan was getting close, Plump Lady's body burst out with a dazzling
yellow light. The yellow light caused her body to move back rapidly, she escaped in the
opposite direction at lightning speed.

Fang Yuan activated the movement killer move 'light illusion bat wings' again, but
could not catch up to her.

A few breaths later, Plump Lady vanished into the horizons.

"Plump Lady suffered a huge loss, she even used her killer move light sand escape, her
foundation will definitely be affected. This guy is so absurd, he actually fought till
Plump Lady escaped!" Far away, Ling Hu Xu hid deeply within a sand dune as he
suppressed his aura, not daring to show any flaws in his concealment.

"She escaped quickly." Fang Yuan snorted, he stopped at the battlefield and used
investigative Gu to search.

Ling Hu Xu did not dare to breathe loudly, he felt that the investigative Gu's aura had
been sweeping the area where he was hiding in.

Fang Yuan searched for a long time, but seeing that there was no effect, he left.

"He's finally gone, eh, weird! Why is my heart in so much unrest!" Ling Hu Xu had just
wanted to come out, when suddenly his heart shook and he changed his mind.

Time had slowly passed and it was already late at night.

A figure moved like a phantom, descending from a high altitude, it was Fang Yuan.

He had purposely left, turning around and flying into the clouds, secretly inspecting
the ground. He had waited for a long time but did not see anyone.
He snorted coldly, giving up on his search and returning to Sha Jing oasis.

"So close, so close! This demon is really scheming and cunning, thankfully I was
careful, otherwise, I would've fallen for his trap." Ling Hu Xu curled up in the sand
nearby, breaking out in cold sweat from fear.

In the darkness, his eyes were moving randomly: "What is the origin of this demon?
Where did he come from? What unspeakable secrets does he have?"

Ling Hu Xu was extremely curious: "But this demon's investigation methods cannot
discover me, should I trail him and see what he is up to?"

But when he thought about Fang Yuan pretending to leave and returning, his thoughts
were extinguished like a candle.

"This demon is not only ruthless and cruel, he is also very crafty and cunning, I should
forget about it. Anyway, the immortal essence stones are already mine…”

Ling Hu Xu discarded this thought, he did not dare to come out of the desert's surface,
he drilled underground.

He did not have much battle strength, but he had many movement killer moves, his
speed underground was unexpectedly not slower than an ordinary Gu Immortal's
flight.

He chose the opposite direction as Fang Yuan and left.

Fang Yuan returned to Sha Jing oasis once again.

Lights lit up the oasis, as loud noises resounded everywhere.

Even though Fang Yuan had purposely gone far away, the battle of the Gu Immortals
still caused quite the commotion, the mortals were all panic-stricken.

Fang Yuan ignored them, he used luck inspection Gu and found Han Li again.

He was extremely alert, he concealed his traces as he used connect luck Gu secretly.
This time, it was smooth sailing and there were no more accidents.

The two had their luck connected, Fang Yuan could see that Han Li's monolith luck
was shrinking at an shocking pace.

Soon after, the monolith luck was filled with cracks, it crumbled.

A few breaths later, Han Li's luck fell to an ordinary mortal's smoke trace level.

Next, his faint gray-white smoke turned black.

"Oh no." Fang Yuan saw this and his heart sank.

At the same time, Han Li was eating with his parents who had returned.

He was extremely hungry, he gobbled up the food.

"Eat slowly, son." His mother laughed dotingly, she was very concerned about her son.

"Guh, guh!" Suddenly, Han Li grabbed his throat, his eyes were wide open, he choked!

"Son, quickly spit it out!" His parents were shocked, they moved frantically.

But they did not manage to save Han Li.

He was dead.
Han Li woke up in his bed, he slowly regained consciousness and opened his eyes.

Beside his bed, his parents were kneeling on the ground, kowtowing to an elderly Gu
Master non-stop, they were expressing their gratitude.

"Doctor Mo, thank you for saving our son!"

"Doctor Mo, we will remember your kindness for the rest of our lives!"

"Father, mother…” Han Li spoke with much difficulty, he muttered softly.

"My son, my precious son! You are finally awake!" Han Li's mother heard his voice and
jumped onto the bed, crying from joy.

"Little rascal, you are finally awake! Quickly thank Doctor Mo, if he was not here by
chance, you would have died." Han Li's father was overjoyed, he quickly reminded him.

"Doctor, Doctor Mo, thank you for saving my life." Han Li saw Doctor Mo and fear
flashed across his eyes.

"Mm, I am the Gu Master that is stationed in Han village, it was natural for me to save
you. You were lucky today, you met me when I was patrolling the village." Doctor Mo
laughed.

Next, he left quietly while Han Li's parents were thanking him with all their hearts.

"Oh? This is interesting." Fang Yuan did not leave, he was lurking nearby, watching this
scene.

After he succeeding in connecting their luck, Han Li's luck fell drastically, it rapidly
turned into a thin layer of deathly black luck.

If Han Li was a Gu Master with ample strength, he could ignore this luck. But he was a
mortal, and a weak child among mortals, he was immediately killed by the backlash of
this deathly black luck, choking on his food.

Fang Yuan wanted to save him immediately.

He had large numbers of mortal healing Gu, a matter like choking could be easily
resolved, he could be saved as long as a long time had not passed.

As long as a person is not dead, their luck would not stop. If Han Li died like this, Fang
Yuan's disastrous luck would only be alleviated for the moment, but it would continue
getting worse, the root of the problem would not be solved.

If Han Li was alive, then by connecting his luck to Fang Yuan's all the time, Fang Yuan's
horrible luck would slowly improve.

But the moment he was about to make a move, a figure jumped out of a large house in
the village, rushing towards Han Li's house.

Seeing the movement Gu he was using, this was evidently a rank two Gu Master.

Fang Yuan squinted his eyes, he silently got closer to the village, deciding to watch the
event unfold.

When this rank two Gu Master arrived at Han Li's house, he straightened his clothes
and pretended to be carefree, next he 'accidentally' discovered Han Li choking.

Because of the pleas of Han Li's parents, he saved Han Li and revived him.

"From their conversation, this Doctor Mo should be a healing Gu Master that is

stationed in the village. But it seems that Han Li and this Doctor Mo have some secret
connection." Fang Yuan thought.

In order to control mortals, Gu Master forces would send one or two Gu Masters to
look after the respective villages in turns.

Like Gu Yue Jiang Ya on Qing Mao mountain, he was this kind of stationed Gu Master.

When Han Li and his family fell asleep, Fang Yuan sneaked into the house. He went to
Han Li and used a mortal Gu, causing him to fall into deeper sleep.
Fang Yuan stretched out his eight huge arms, he searched all over Han Li's body and
soon, he found something amiss.

There were quite a few Gu worms on Han Li's body, his entire body's flesh and blood
seemed to be influenced by Gu worms.

These arrangements felt very familiar to Fang Yuan.

A weakness of a zombie was that their cognition would slow. Fang Yuan could not find
the key point and had to use the wills he stored in his mind to assist in thinking.

He looked through his memories and soon found the truth: "It turns out this so called
Doctor Mo is refining human medicine Gu."

This human medicine Gu is a rank three Gu. It uses a human child as the main
refinement material, taking years to slowly nurture and grow.

Once the human medicine Gu was refined, it could only be used once to increase a
person's lifespan, but it had huge drawbacks.

"That Doctor Mo is no longer young, it seems he wants to use human medicine Gu to

increase his lifespan, thus he placed his sights on Han Li. No wonder Han Li could grab
the leaves of the dagger grass without any gloves, that was because his body had
already been modified secretly. This is also why Doctor Mo came over quickly when
Han Li choked, that was because he had placed a Gu worm in Han Li's body that could
monitor him. And finally, even though Han Li choked to death, he could still be revived
easily, that was because the human medicine Gu's refinement process caused his
vitality to increase greatly." Fang Yuan realized at once.

Even though he found out Doctor Mo's scheme, he did not do anything to stop him.

"If Doctor Mo mysteriously dies, Han village would definitely be investigated. If he

does not die, in order to refine human medicine Gu, he would need to take good care
of Han Li. There are still three to four years until human medicine Gu finishes refining,
while I just need Han Li to be alive."

Fang Yuan activated luck inspection Gu again, checking Han Li's luck.

Ever since the luck connection had succeeded, Han Li's luck had fallen drastically, his
special luck was gone, becoming like that of a normal mortal, a thin layer of luck
resembling faint smoke.

Fang Yuan observed for a while, noticing that the black color in Han Li's luck had
vanished, turning into a grey-white color.

Fang Yuan heaved a sigh of relief.

He summed up his experiences this time to reach a conclusion: Black color represents
death, without the black color in his luck, Han Li was in no danger of dying for the
moment.

As the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining, there could be great fortune after
surviving a near death experience, after Han Li's crisis just now, his luck had been
improving.

"Thinking about it, I narrowly survived a disaster in northern plains by relying on my

own strength and schemes. Ever since I escaped from the wind veil of assimilation,
half of my black coffin luck has most likely dissipated. But even so, Han Li was nearly
killed by my luck. It seems I have to find a few more targets and connect our luck
together."

Fang Yuan's gaze shined for a bit, in the end, he secretly placed some Gu worms on
Han Li's body before leaving.

Using his superior methods, there was no way the rank two Doctor Mo could find
them.

One day, if Doctor Mo tries to harm Han Li, he will definitely suffer severe
consequences.

"Lad, I gave you three lifelines. From now on, you will have to rely on yourself. Hehe…”

Fang Yuan arrived silently, and left unnoticed, not leaving behind a single trace.

He first went far away from Sha Jing oasis, before activating Fixed Immortal Travel at
an empty location.

At the next moment, he appeared in central continent.

A huge heavenly river flowed down from the sky, it flowed through the entirety of
central continent, towards the eastern side of central continent, into eastern sea.

At the downstream parts of the heavenly river, because of the impact caused by the
water, it formed a huge fertile plain.

There were abundant resources in the plain, people and nature flourished in
abundance, countless small and middle sized sects were established here.

Among these sects, there was one small sect that was inconspicuous, but had quite the
grand name, it was called Universal Life Academy.

Fang Yuan hid in a forest, observing them from afar.

The academy was in a mountain valley, there were only a few rooms here with only
one square. It seems that they were currently holding a sect competition, as there
were two stages in this square, with hundreds of Gu Masters watching below the
stages.

This battle between mortal Gu Masters was extremely short, there was nothing too
outstanding. But in the eyes of the spectators, it was extremely exciting.

Especially for the youngster, Hong Yi, who was standing among the crowd, this
competition had great meaning.

"I have bull strength, tiger strength, and even obtained the Gu worm 'rewind' by
chance, my battle strength is first-rate among rank two Gu Masters. During this
competition, I must shock everyone with my skill and obtain the number one spot in
the academy. This way, I can force my father to relent and place my mother's memorial
tablet in the ancestral hall!" Hong Yi clenched his fists, deciding in his mind.

At the same time, Fang Yuan who was far away muttered with bright shining eyes:
"Found you, Hong Yi."

This Hong Yi's luck was not worse than Han Li, he was also a rank seven legend that
appeared during the five regions chaotic war. He cultivated strength and soul path, he
had exemplary talent and was extremely skilled in self-creating killer moves.

He had many fortuitous encounters, he obtained the body of an ancient rockman king,
he deciphered an inheritance left behind by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable,
and even through a lucky coincidence managed to subdue an ancient desolate beast,
white horn qilin, as his steed.

Even though he found his target, Fang Yuan did not strike immediately.

"Right now, this scene is in the middle of broad daylight, I will cause quite a commotion
when I use Connect Luck, I might be discovered."

This was not Han village.

In Han village, there was only one rank two Gu Master stationed, but here, it was an
entire sect full of Gu Masters.

Not only this, there were three to four other small to mid sized forces in the valley.

In this entire plain at the downstream of the heavenly river, there were countless sects.
Among these mortals, there were even some lone cultivator Gu Immortals. These Gu
Immortals were all creators of the sects, if Fang Yuan used connect luck Immortal Gu
here, he might be discovered by them.

"I can only wait until night when everyone is asleep. I will arrange many mortal Gu
and try to conceal the area, it is worth a try…”

Fang Yuan was very experienced and cunning, he would never be lacking in patience.

When it was night time, Universal Life Academy became silent, as Fang Yuan opened
his eyes: "Very good, I have arranged over ten thousand Gu worms in the vicinity of
the valley, my preparations are complete. To conceal the aura of the Immortal Gu, I will
need to use Connect Luck for half the night… hmm?"

Right at this moment, there was the sound of a spatial disturbance in his aperture.

A moving perspective cup Gu appeared out of nowhere in his immortal aperture.

There was a letter in the moving perspective cup Gu.

"Is Tai Bai Yun Sheng in trouble?" Fang Yuan's consciousness entered the Gu, he soon
found out that the letter did not come from Tai Bai Yun Sheng, but from Fairy Li Shan.

After the Snowy Mountain Alliance, Fang Yuan passed Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan
a moving perspective cup Gu each, while he kept the other half of their respective
moving perspective cup Gu.

The contents of the letter made Fang Yuan frown deeply.

This was a letter asking for help by Fairy Li Shan on Hei Lou Lan's behalf.

Hei Lou Lan was being chased down by her father, she was in great danger.

"How can this be? Damn it!" Fang Yuan sighed deeply, because of their oath, he had to
put aside his own matters and swiftly return to northern plains to assist Hei Lou Lan.

In any case, for the time being, Hong Yi was going to stay here, it would be easy for
Fang Yuan to find him.

"I'll let you off for now." Fang Yuan hurriedly retrieved most of his Gu worms, avoiding
leaving behind traces as much as possible, before he sneaked into a cave and used
Fixed Immortal Travel.

At the next moment, he arrived in a secret room at the third peak of Snowy Mountain
blessed land.

In the secret room, Fairy Li Shan was pacing back and forth worriedly, upon seeing
Fang Yuan, she got close to him: "You are finally back! I am extremely anxious, the
situation is terrible, Little Lan is being pursued by that evil scoundrel."

"Why aren't you helping her?" Fang Yuan frowned.

"I was going to act, but Little Lan urged me to continue hiding our connection, she did
not want our relationship to be disclosed. You came alone? Where is Tai Bai Yun
Sheng?"

"He has other matters now." Fang Yuan asked again: "How many Gu Immortals are
pursuing her?"

"Only two, one is Hei Cheng while the other is Xue Song Zi. I placed an investigative Gu
on Hei Lou Lan, her situation is very dangerous now. Quick, I will use my thoughts to
transmit the scenery to you, quickly go save her!"

Fang Yuan inspected the thoughts and used Fixed Immortal Travel. At the next
moment, he appeared beside Hei Lou Lan.
"Lou Lan, stop running. You are my daughter, why would I harm you? Don't listen to
other people's defamation. We as father and daughter have a huge misunderstanding.
I admit, it is true that I have the yin-yang life extension method, but this method
cannot harm lives. Your mother really passed away because of the earthly calamity."
Hei Cheng floated in the air, using a tone like one who felt unjustly treated, trying to
persuade Hei Lou Lan.

He wore a black robe and had fair skin, his eyes were dark and his face was like jade.
He had beautiful facial features and gave off a vibrant aura, he was truly a famously
handsome man among northern plains' Gu Immortals.

When he urged Hei Lou Lan, his tone was sincere, it was overflowing with emotions,
coupled with his good looks, outsiders who did not know the details might have truly
believed him.

But Hei Lou Lan already had clearly seen this man's true colors, she gritted her teeth:
"Evil scum, who would believe your hypocritical lies? If the yin-yang life extension
method really cannot harm lives, why don't you let me see it? Hehe, I believe that Xue
Song Zi at your side will also be very interested."

Xue Song Zi was tall and thin, he wore blue clothes and his snowy-white hair extended
to his feet, he stood beside Hei Cheng without saying a word.

He was a demonic path Gu Immortal, he controlled the seventh peak of Snowy

Mountain blessed land. Earlier, he had sponsored Ma tribe and Ma tribe lost in the
Imperial Court contest, thus he was heavily suppressed by Hei tribe.

Next, in order to obtain the strength path Immortal Gu, Hei Lou Lan exposed the secret
of Hei Cheng causing harm to Su Xian Er to him.

Xue Song Zi thus had a secret weapon to restrain Hei Cheng.

Hei Lou Lan had wanted to use Xue Song Zi to ruin Hei Cheng's reputation, but to think
that the two of them had actually ganged up.

Upon hearing this from Hei Lou Lan, Xue Song Zi's eyes moved about as he turned
around towards Hei Cheng with much interest: "Maybe I can help your daughter
evaluate it?"

Hei Cheng snorted, ignoring Xue Song Zi's words. He changed his attitude, his eyes
shining with cold light as he spoke to Hei Lou Lan calmly: "Daughter, you do not know
what is good for you."

Hei Lou Lan spat in response to his words, but what came out was blood.

She was in her true form now, she was bathed in blood as her armor was broken, she
was in a pathetic state. Her gaze however, turned more ruthless as her killing intent
boiled.

She showed a mocking expression on her face: "Father? Hehe, the grand righteous
path rank seven Gu Immortal, Lord Hei Cheng, actually brought along a demonic path
Gu Immortal with him to coerce his daughter. If this scene was shown to the world, I
wonder what would happen?"

Hei Cheng was indifferent towards such mocking words, he smiled lightly and showed
his deep and unfathomable shrewdness: "Lou Lan, you have nowhere to run. You have
the Great Strength True Martial Physique, it is ten times as hard for you to become a
Gu Immortal compared to normal people. Without my help, you cannot become a
strength path Gu Immortal."

"Hmph, kill me if you have the guts!" Hei Lou Lan showed her fierce nature, her
expression turned ruthless as her aura surged: "If you force my hand, I will self-
detonate! I will let all your efforts go down the drain, when your plans fail, I wonder
what you can do!"

Hei Cheng laughed: "If you die, how will you avenge your mother? You've endured this
and lurked for so many years, painstakingly developing, wasn't it all for revenge?
Unfortunately, mortal and immortals are worlds apart, even if you have one of the ten
extreme physiques and are able to bully some bottom-tier rank six Gu Immortals. For
you to kill me, a rank seven Gu Immortal, hmph, delusional!"

Although he said that, Hei Cheng still felt some agitation in his heart.
Hei Lou Lan pointed out Hei Cheng's concerns, although he had the Immortal Gu Dark
Arrow, this Immortal Gu could only be used to attack.

Hei Cheng did not have capturing methods, if he forced her hand, and Hei Lou Lan self-
detonates, he could not stop her.

Most importantly, such acts of harming his daughter could not be known to the public,
he could only work in secret.

Otherwise, with Hei Cheng's reputation and influence in northern plains' righteous
path, he could bring at least five to six Gu Immortals with him.

But now, he only brought Xue Song Zi.

And Xue Song Zi was a demonic path Gu Immortal of Snowy Mountain. He only would
care about benefits and could not be trusted. Although he seemed to be an ally, Hei
Cheng from the beginning was guarding against him.

Earlier, Hei Lou Lan had exposed his secret, after Xue Song Zi obtained this weakness,
he did not expose it to the public.

Destroying Hei Cheng's reputation could decrease Hei tribe Gu Immortals' pressure
on Xue Song Zi. But if he used it to threaten Hei Cheng, he would be able to gain more
benefits.

Thus, before the wind veil of assimilation appeared, Xue Song Zi found Hei Cheng in
person and threatened him with this secret.

Hei Cheng was stunned at that moment, his secret that had been hidden for so many
years was known by an outsider, he almost lost his bearings.

But he was an old and shrewd person, he quickly calmed down and used his glib
tongue to accede to a portion of Xue Song Zi's requests.

Next, Hei Cheng even urged Xue Song Zi to cooperate, as long as he assisted in the plan
and it succeeded, he would gain more benefits.

Xue Song Zi gave an overbearing request, he was interested in the yin-yang life
extension method.
Although Xue Song Zi was middle aged and also had lifespan Gu, who among Gu
Immortals would not be interested in a life extension method?

Hei Cheng was furious and helpless, he could only agree for now.

Thus, Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi's seemingly united but internally divided alliance
was formed.

Just as Hei Lou Lan, Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi were at a stalemate, a bright jade green
light burst out beside Hei Lou Lan.

The jade light dissipated, revealing Fang Yuan's huge body.

He was six meters tall and had eight arms, he had a green face and red eyes, his entire
body was covered in a black shiny armor which had many spikes on it.

Facing strong foes, Fang Yuan did not dare to be careless, he first used the defensive
killer move, hair armor, before using Fixed Immortal Travel to come here.

Although Fixed Immortal Travel could only transport humans, when Gu Masters use
Gu worms, they can form clothes and armor, and would not have to teleport naked
every time.

Back when Fang Yuan teleported from Three Kings blessed land to Hu Immortal
blessed land, because he was short on time and did not have the relevant Gu worms,
he had to teleport naked, and gave Feng Jin Huang an unforgettable experience.

"You are finally here." Hei Lou Lan saw that her reinforcement had arrived, her
expression brightened.

"Which Gu Immortal is this? Who are you?!" Xue Song Zi quickly asked in shock.

Fang Yuan rapidly looked at the two in the air, his voice was hoarse as his surging
killing intent was displayed: "The person who will kill you."

As he spoke nonsense with them, he transmitted to Hei Lou Lan: "Quick! We cannot
stay here for long, enter my immortal aperture and I'll bring you away."

Hearing that Fang Yuan was trying to kill him, Xue Song Zi flew into a rage: "Such
words."
Next to him, the Gu Immortal Hei Cheng reacted more quickly: "Attack! That Immortal
Gu is Fixed Immortal Travel, he only needs three breaths of time to escape. We cannot
give them any opportunities!"

As they spoke, Hei Lou Lan had already entered Fang Yuan's immortal aperture.

Xue Song Zi's expression turned severe, he waved his sleeves and created a curved
moon blade wheel that was the size of a horse carriage.

The blade wheel spun in the air, slashing at Fang Yuan.

Killer move — Icy Wind Blade Wheel!

The blade wheel made of ice was extremely sharp, it was oozing with frost energy and
was extremely fast when pushed by the wind.

Before the blade wheel had reached him, Fang Yuan could feel the icy winds blowing
on him.

"This killer move is very fierce, it has the essence of both ice and wind path, its value
is at least three immortal essence stones!" Fang Yuan squinted, he logically chose to
evade it.

Killer move — Light Illusion Bat Wings!

Two large phantom black bat wings appeared behind him, after the phantom wings
flapped, they vanished.

Fang Yuan gained a huge boost in speed, he moved like lightning and flew sideways,
dodging the icy wind blade wheel.

The blade wheel hit the ground, making a loud sound as it dug deep into the ground
like cutting tofu.

On the grassland, the blade wheel carved out a huge trench, and ice that was tough as
rocks formed on the sides of the trench.

Although Fang Yuan dodged the icy wind blade wheel, Hei Cheng's attack was right in
front of him.
This was a very inconspicuous small black arrow.

The body of the arrow was short, it was about half a person's arm length, it was black
and did not give out any aura of danger.

But precisely because of this, Fang Yuan was on extreme alert.

This was the attack of the Immortal Gu Dark Arrow.

Hei Cheng was experienced in battles, he was ruthless and used his trump card from
the start!

Fang Yuan quickly activated his killer move, light illusion bat wings, but the black
arrow was like a magnet attracted to him, it changed directions agilely and was fixed
on Fang Yuan, he could not shrug it off at all.

Immortal Gu Dark Arrow's attack could home in on enemies and turn in different
directions, its speed was fast. Even though Fang Yuan was a flying master, he could not
shake it off. As the distance between him and the dark arrow shortened, he fell under
greater threat!

Fang Yuan's defensive killer move, hair armor, although it had a high price to
performance ratio, and was widely spread during the five regions chaotic war, it was
only a mortal killer move, Dark Arrow could pierce it in one hit.

Even though Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body was strong, it could not resist the
might of Dark Arrow.

Especially when this dark arrow ignored Fang Yuan's body, heart and other areas, only
aiming for his sole weakness — his brain.

After becoming an immortal zombie, Fang Yuan's heart, throat, anus, and all other
areas were no longer weak points in his body, even if they were destroyed, he would
still function fine and would not take too much damage.

But his brain was different.

If his brain was destroyed, his mind would also perish. Fang Yuan would be unable to
think, unable to act, and would be at his enemy's mercy.
Activating Fixed Immortal Travel required three breaths of time, but the dark arrow
chased relentlessly, Fang Yuan did not have the time for it.

Fang Yuan moved around rapidly, the many mortal Gu that made up his killer move,
light illusion bat wings, were starting to be worn down.

"It is over." Hei Cheng laughed coldly, waving his sleeves and shooting out another dark
arrow.

"My dark arrow Immortal Gu is merely rank six and can only shoot out up to three
dark arrows at the same time. No matter who you are, making me use two dark arrows
to deal with you, it should be your honor." Hei Cheng looked at Fang Yuan struggling
at the brink of death as he evaluated arrogantly.

"Hmph, what are you so proud of, I was just toying with you." Fang Yuan spoke in a
hoarse voice and laughed suddenly.

Two dark arrows attacked him at once, he knew he could no longer avoid using green
grape immortal essence, activating the Immortal Gu Worldly Wave Trace.

Swoosh!

A huge wave appeared below Fang Yuan's feet.

The waves moved quickly, Fang Yuan stepped on them as he quickly created some
distance from the dark arrows.

The power of an Immortal Gu was truly extraordinary.

Earlier, Fang Yuan had used light illusion bat wings no less than a hundred times, but
he could not escape from the dark arrows. But right now, he had just used Worldly
Wave Trace once and immediately moved far away from it.
"Another Immortal Gu!" Xue Song Zi's expression changed, his gaze was heated,
looking extremely jealous and envious.

To think that in order to obtain wooden chicken Immortal Gu, he spent so much effort
in scheming, yet his plans still failed him.

The immortal zombie in front of him actually had Immortal Gu, which most ordinary
Gu Immortals did not have, and he even had two!

"Hehehe, Hei Cheng, Xue Song Zi, that will be all for today. Enjoy your life from now
on, because you do not have much time left." Fang Yuan's tone was chilling.

He stepped on the flying wave, at the same time, a jade green light flashed on his body.

Three breaths of time later, Fixed Immortal Travel carried him across space, leaving
this battlefield.

Two dark arrows arrived at his former location, only hitting the last trace of jade light
remaining.

"Oh no, they ran away!" Xue Song Zi's expression was extremely ugly, he questioned
Hei Cheng: "Aren't you a rank seven Gu Immortal? Why couldn't you stop them!"

"Xue Song Zi, mind your tone." Hei Cheng was expressionless, he gave Xue Song Zi a
cold glance.

Xue Song Zi was pressured by Hei Cheng's grand aura, his expression became less
overbearing.

Hei Cheng spoke calmly: "The other party has two movement Immortal Gu, unless we
have an Immortal Gu that can seal the environment, we can only watch them escape.
However, the tracing method I used on Hei Lou Lan is extremely secretive, it is a killer
move at the peak of the mortal level. As long as she shows up in northern plains again,
I will detect her."

"Also, this was not a fruitless trip, we have already found out that Hei Lou Lan has a
force backing her. Without help, there is no way she could've reached this stage. I just
did not expect an immortal zombie with two movement Immortal Gu to show up. It
seems the force behind Hei Lou Lan is not simple at all. Hehe, the situation is getting
interesting."

Saying this, Hei Cheng showed a faint smile, he felt no dejection after this loss.

He did not strike against Hei Lou Lan, on one hand, he was wary of her self-detonation,
on the other hand, he wanted to draw out her mysterious backer.

"What are you saying?" Xue Song Zi's gaze focused.

"Immortal zombies are often the result of Gu Immortals who are forced by
circumstances when they have no way of extending their lifespan. Do you think this
immortal zombie is truly the person supporting Hei Lou Lan behind the scenes?" Hei
Cheng asked with deep meaning.

Fang Yuan did not fight against them, he only displayed his flying master attainment
when he dodged the dark arrows.

But this attainment was nothing special for Gu Immortals who had lived for hundreds
of years.

At this moment, Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi did not know Fang Yuan's true battle
strength, and Fang Yuan did not receive much of their attention, they thought he was
a normal immortal zombie.

Xue Song Zi's gaze flickered: "I understand what you mean. This immortal zombie is
not the crucial person, his two movement Immortal Gu are most likely loaned to him
by others."

Hei Cheng nodded: "That's right, this mysterious person is likely to be someone we
know. They sent an unfamiliar immortal zombie over here to help, that means it was
not convenient for them to appear."

"This mysterious person is leaving no clues for us, how will we investigate?" Xue Song
Zi felt a headache, an enemy hiding in the dark was the most troublesome kind, not
only did he feel restrained, he did not know who to trust and who to target.

"They have already shown a flaw." Hei Cheng laughed loudly: "Be it Fixed Immortal
Travel or Worldly Wave Trace, they are both related to central continent. Such an
obvious clue is enough for us to discover many things. As long as I can uncover the
true identity of that person, I will be able to take them down all at once!"

Saying this, Hei Cheng showed a ruthless expression on his face.

Fixed Immortal Travel brought Fang Yuan back to Fairy Li Shan's residence.

"Little Lan, how are your injuries?" Seeing that Hei Lou Lan was leaving Fang Yuan's
immortal aperture while covered in blood, Fairy Li Shan was very nervous, she quickly
went over and checked.

"Little aunt, it is not a problem. That scoundrel did not attack me seriously, he was
only putting on a show." Hei Lou Lan laughed, as if she was not the one injured.

Fairy Li Shan's heart was eased, she let out a breath of turbid air: "It seems that your
guess is right, Little Lan, that scoundrel really planted some tracking method on your
body. This method is extremely well hidden, we could not find it even after searching
intensely several times."

Fang Yuan heard this and his gaze turned cold, he looked at Hei Lou Lan closely: "That
is to say, you were discovered by Hei Cheng on purpose?"

"I would not say it was on purpose." Hei Lou Lan looked into Fang Yuan's eyes without
any fear: "Earlier, little aunt found some crucial information, it was regarding the
whereabouts of Ma Hong Yun. Ma Hong Yun was taken away by a northern plains Gu
Immortal, Qin Bai Sheng, his blessed land is situated in crimson reed marsh. I went
there intending to sneak into the blessed land and see if the information was true. I
didn't expect that Hei Cheng was also nearby, the moment I stepped into crimson reed
marsh, he detected me."

Fang Yuan nodded, he believed what Hei Lou Lan said.

Of course, this was not because he trusted Hei Lou Lan, but because this was part of
the Snowy Mountain Alliance — allies could have personal secrets, but they could not
lie. If you did not say it, then that is fine. But if you spoke, it had to be the truth,
otherwise the oath would kill you.
"Ma Hong Yun, as his name suggests, has fortune that rivals heaven. If I connect my
luck to him, it would be far more effective than Hong Yi and Han Li." Thinking of this,
Fang Yuan asked: "How reliable is the information that Ma Hong Yun has been
captured by Qin Bai Sheng?"

Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan looked at each other, as Fairy Li Shan said: "According
to our analysis, there is a seventy percent chance that we can believe it. During the
battle inside the wind veil of assimilation, dozens of Gu Immortals from the righteous
and demonic path were involved. I was there at the time, it was a chaotic scene. After
the battle, everyone had their own guesses on who captured Ma Hong Yun, and that
resulted in dozens of small conflicts, but they were all proven to be wrong."

"This time, our information is different from the rumors, we have reason and evidence.
Evidently, an insider had purposely leaked the information, Qin Bai Sheng is a rank
seven lone cultivator Gu Immortal, he is a famous expert in the metal path, and also
has his blessed land to defend himself. But Ma Hong Yun's matter involves Giant Sun
Immortal Venerable's luck path true inheritance, this has too much of an attraction to
northern plains' Gu Immortals. Especially when Qin Bai Sheng does not have the
Huang Jin bloodline, everyone is jealous of him."

Fang Yuan nodded: "That is to say, this is a troublesome matter, if Ma Hong Yun was
really captured by Qin Bai Sheng, then soon, a band of Gu Immortals are going to attack
crimson reed marsh."

"That is exactly so!" Hei Lou Lan laughed heartily, her beautiful black pupils radiating
with light: "The way I see it, this information should be true to a huge extent. Luckily,
little aunt did not expose her identity this time, when the righteous and demonic Gu
Immortals team up, they will need little aunt's mountain pledge Gu. At that time, we
will be able to find a chance and intervene in this matter. If there is a chance for us to
obtain the luck path true inheritance, we will strike. If not, we will take a step back,
using the time in which that old scoundrel Hei Cheng is engaging in battle, I will have
a chance to ascend to immortal!"

Hei Lou Lan was a formidable person, like Fang Yuan, she was very skilled in scheming.

Fang Yuan asked coldly: "Although this was the first time I met Hei Cheng, I can confirm
that he is no simple character, if he refuses to join this, what will you do?"

To Hei Cheng, although the luck path true inheritance was important, it could not
compare to his lifespan. There are so many people fighting for the luck path true
inheritance, it is like a battle of tigers and wolves, he might as well stay uninvolved
and settle the issue of Hei Lou Lan instead.

Fang Yuan's words directly addressed the problem, Hei Lou Lan's brows rose, she
replied enthusiastically: "I do not have much time left, it has been fortunate I have had
little aunt's help these recent days. In half a month, I will have to ascend regardless of
the situation! If Hei Cheng comes to find trouble then, it will be a perfect time to deal
with him once and for all!"

In her words, she had already disregarded the possibility of death, her fearless and
resolute disposition was fully displayed.

"That means, there is a possibility I have to fight Hei Cheng? By then, we cannot escape,
in order to protect you, I will to fight him head on?" Fang Yuan's gaze was uncertain.

Fairy Li Shan said: "Fang Yuan, don't forget, when a Gu Master ascends to the realm of
immortal, there will be a huge influx of heaven and earth qi. Under that special
environment, Hei Cheng's battle strength would be heavily suppressed. Little Lan's
ascension is extremely important, I will be there personally. Together with Tai Bai Yun
Sheng, we have three Gu Immortals on our side."

Hei Lou Lan replied graciously and understandingly: "Fang Yuan, in order to save me
this time, you used Fixed Immortal Travel three times, and lost three green grape
immortal essence beads. You also used one bead to activate worldly wave trace Gu,
according to our alliance, you will be compensated twice the amount, that is eight
immortal essence stones."

"That's right." Fang Yuan looked at Hei Lou Lan, it was so easy for intelligent people to
communicate.

Fairy Li Shan spoke suddenly: "Eight immortal essence stones, I can give that to you
right now. But I also have other things, Fang Yuan, perhaps you should take a look, you
might be interested in them."

Saying this, she took out two killer moves and one Gu recipe.

Fang Yuan looked through them and was very interested.

Of the two killer moves, one was called 'poison breath', a poison path killer move. It
could turn a Gu Immortal's breathing into a poisonous gas. The killer move had little
strength, but its advantage was sustainability. If a long time passes, the Gu Immortal's
surroundings would be covered in a layer of poisonous gas, it would unceasingly
poison all the surrounding people and things.

But this killer move had a flaw, it was easy to hurt oneself. Especially an ordinary Gu
Immortal's body, they needed to protect and heal their nostrils, throat, and lungs.

This weakness was non-existent to an immortal zombie like Fang Yuan.

The other killer move was called 'Kong Sheng Tian'. Kong Sheng Tian was the name of
a person, he was the Gu Immortal who created this killer move. He was quite famous
within Gu Master history, he controlled the number four Gu in the list of Top Ten
Mystical Gu, qi escape Gu.

Spring Autumn Cicada was only ranked at seventh, while qi escape Gu was fourth, it
was reverse refined from the legendary reputation Gu. In terms of flying speed in a
straight line, it was the number one Gu in the world, no Gu was its match!

And this killer move was also a movement killer move. Back then, Kong Sheng Tian
referred to qi escape Gu to create it. It could open the small pores on the Gu Immortal's
body and blow out small air currents, causing the Gu Immortal to fly forward quickly.
Not only was it fast, it could change directions very agilely.

The killer move Kong Sheng Tian was very suitable to Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan had a zombie's body, his body's pores were tough and durable, even if they
were destroyed, his terrifying recovery speed would heal them quickly.

As for the Gu recipe, it was an ancient strength path Gu recipe, it could refine the rank
five group strength Gu.

Undeniably, these three items had been collected by Fairy Li Shan for some time, they
were specially prepared for Fang Yuan.

They were allies who had made an oath under Snowy Mountain, it was a good thing
for Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan for Fang Yuan to be strong.
Fang Yuan thought a moment and said to Fairy Li Shan: "I will take this poison breath
killer move and the ancient Gu recipe. How many immortal essence stones for them?"

Fairy Li Shan replied: "Poison breath is two immortal essence stones and the group
strength Gu's recipe is two immortal essence stones as well, so altogether it is four
immortal essence stones."

Fang Yuan nodded, agreeing with Fairy Li Shan's quotation.

Poison breath was not an ordinary killer move and was indeed worth two immortal
essence stones.

Group strength Gu might only be a rank five mortal Gu, but it was already extinct and
as such its high price of two immortal essence stones was normal.

Fairy Li Shan took out three things, but this group strength Gu recipe which was the
most unremarkable among them had the greatest attraction to Fang Yuan.

However, although the offer was fair, Fang Yuan was low in cash and wanted to haggle
to save as many immortal essence stones as possible.

Thereupon, he said: "This group strength Gu recipe might be rare but it is an ancient
Gu recipe; the refinement materials are very ancient and are now hard to find."

Fairy Li Shan smiled: "Fang Yuan, I have already considered this. I had originally
planned to give this group strength Gu to Little Lan, the reason I am selling it to you
now is because the main material in refining this Gu, stone monkey fur, has recently
appeared in the market."

Hei Lou Lan added: "Right, in treasure yellow heaven, a Gu Immortal by the name of
Shi Lei who calls himself Immortal Monkey King has managed to research and
produce stone monkey fur in his blessed land. This Gu refinement material that had
been extinct for countless years has now actually reappeared in his hands, causing
quite a big commotion in treasure yellow heaven."

"In group strength Gu's recipe, the rarest material is stone monkey fur, while the
others might be rare but as long as you look for them, you will be able to buy them,
search for them or find substitutes using your own refinement path foundation."

The implied meaning of this was that no haggling would be accepted.

Fang Yuan was not discouraged: "Stone monkey fur? This ancient material might have
reappeared now but it is entirely monopolized by Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei, the
price will definitely not be cheap, right?"

"There is an old saying, 'good things are not cheap'. Fang Yuan, I have personally
witnessed your immortal killer move, myriad self, and I still remember its astonishing
might. There is no need for us to continue probing each other, group strength Gu is
worth much more to you than to normal Gu Immortals. Two immortal essence stones
is already quite cheap." Hei Lou Lan refused to yield any benefits.

If the other party understands you clearly, the situation would be rather troublesome
to deal with.

However, Hei Lou Lan was right as well, four immortal essence stones in total was a
fair price.

Fairy Li Shan did not cheat Fang Yuan of immortal essence stones, but she would not
incur losses as well.

"Alright." Fang Yuan observed the situation and did not persist. Hei Lou Lan and Fairy
Li Shan were not Lang Ya land spirit, excessive haggling would only be insulting their
intelligence.

Both sides completed the transaction shortly afterwards.

Fang Yuan obtained the poison breath killer move and the ancient group strength Gu's
recipe, as well as four immortal essence stones.

As for the movement killer move, Kong Sheng Tian, it was not suitable for Fang Yuan.

Kong Sheng Tian opened all the pores in one's body from which air would shoot out
and propel the body. This killer move had extreme speed and could also give great
flexibility in changing direction.

However, the opening of the pores in the whole body would greatly reduce Fang Yuan's
defense.

Moreover, Fang Yuan's defensive killer move, hair armor, covered the whole body
without leaving behind any gaps. If Kong Sheng Tian was used, he would not be able
to use hair armor. If he used hair armor, Kong Sheng Tian could not be used.

These two were not compatible.

Fang Yuan thus gave up on the killer move Kong Sheng Tian.

His quantity of immortal essence stones increased to nineteen and a half, but he had
huge pressure in converting them to green grape immortal essence and feeding his
Immortal Gu.

Fang Yuan was still lacking in cash and could not casually buy the relatively useless
killer move.

When leaving, Fang Yuan did not extravagantly use Fixed Immortal Travel, instead
opting to use a stargate.

Before leaving, he checked Hei Lou Lan's luck.

Hei Lou Lan was at rank five peak stage, her luck could be perceived by the rank five
luck inspection Gu.

Hei Lou Lan's luck had already recovered from the extremely low state when she went
against Ma Hong Yun. Her luck was like a giant pillar with the color of an azure sky,
giving a feeling of being long lasting.

"Hei Lou Lan's luck clearly is at the level of Han Li's and Hong Yi's. From this, it seems
her Gu Immortal advancement has a high probability of succeeding. But one can't just
look at luck in everything, otherwise why would Hei Lou Lan die so suddenly in my
previous life? One's luck might be good, but it depends on whether they can grasp it.
Now it seems, Hei Cheng might be involved in Hei Lou Lan's unexpected death?"

Although Hei Lou Lan's luck was strong, it was written in detail in the Snowy Mountain
Alliance that allies could not intentionally inflict harm to each other.
Fang Yuan was plagued with bad luck, and connecting his luck with her's would mean
having an intent to harm.

Moreover, according to his previous life's memories, Fang Yuan was not too optimistic
of Hei Lou Lan's future. Fang Yuan did not have break luck Gu, thus he could not
carelessly connect luck and must choose his targets carefully.

Back in Hu Immortal Blessed Land, Fang Yuan took out eight immortal essence stones
and converted them to his own green grape immortal essence.

He had used Fixed Immortal Travel many times, going back and forth from western
desert, central continent, eastern sea and northern plains. He also used worldly wave
trace Gu in the fight against Hei Cheng, using up a total of six green grape immortal
essence.

He originally had seventeen green grape immortal essence beads, but only eleven
remained now.

In consideration of the frequent battles recently, Fang Yuan refined eight immortal
essence stones and increased his green grape immortal essence to nineteen beads.

With this, the amount of immortal essence stones on Fang Yuan was eleven and a half.

Fang Yuan reviewed his battle with Hei Cheng and felt satisfied about it.

Whether the result was victory or defeat was of no concern to Fang Yuan. He would
not become angry or feel humiliated just because of failure. He would also not feel
overjoyed and arrogant because of victory.

What he prioritized were the gains and losses.

He used up four beads of green grape immortal essence in this battle, but was able to
obtain even more trust from Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan. At the same time, he also
obtained four immortal essence stones, the poison breath killer move and group
strength Gu's recipe.

He had clearly made a good profit.

"But if I were to speak of a loss, it would be worldly wave trace Immortal Gu." Fang
Yuan took out the Immortal Gu Worldly Wave Trace.
Right now, the Immortal Gu's aura was no longer as stable as before and revealed a
trace of weakness.

The Gu worm did not have a healthy luster, instead appearing dark and gloomy.

Fang Yuan was aware of why: "Worldly wave trace Gu was not fed properly back at
Imperial Court blessed land. When the wind veil of assimilation appeared, Mo Yao's
will activated Water Pavilion to battle, and after I obtained her Gu worms, I activated
this Immortal Gu several times. It has already reached a certain limit and need to be
fed. If it is still not fed and I activate it excessively, it might die from hunger."

Worldly wave trace Gu was the first Immortal Gu in Fang Yuan's possession that was
'crying of hunger'.

It could be foreseen that as time passed, many more Immortal Gu would cry out in
hunger and would need to be fed.

However, worldly wave trace Gu's food was tens of thousands of underworld jellyfish
and thousands of deepsea lightning eels.

Fang Yuan inquired Little Hu Immortal land spirit. After Tai Bai Yun Sheng left, the
land spirit took over Tai Bai Yun Sheng's work of paying attention to movements in
treasure yellow heaven.

However, although Fang Yuan had taken the initiative to post requests for the goods in
treasure yellow heaven, there were few who responded.

This was not a highly commercialized society like that on Earth, the economy here was
not developed and one could not buy whatever they wanted to buy.

Fang Yuan used moving perspective cup Gu to send a letter to Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng gave him a piece of good news. He had already arrived at Hai Shi
blessed land and smoothly got into contact with some Gu Immortals, moreover, he also
saw someone selling underworld jellyfishes in Hai Shi blessed land.

Only deepsea lightning eels were rarely seen as Gu Immortals had to enter the deep
sea to capture them, which was not only dangerous, the sea areas where they were
abundant were already controlled by Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance.
Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance housed the headquarters of Zombie Alliance within all
five regions. They were very powerful, a level stronger than even the super forces of
eastern sea.

Thus, Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance was domineering and rampant in their actions.
They blockaded several large sea regions and controlled the large numbers of
resources within themselves.

This maintained and fostered their strength, making them become even more
domineering to others.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng suggested Fang Yuan to join Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance and then
purchase the deepsea lightning eels internally. This was not only convenient, the price
within Zombie Alliance would also be cheaper than outside.

Fang Yuan was moved but he had ascended to Gu Immortal in northern plains, his
immortal aperture had northern plains' heaven and earth qi.

There were differences between the heaven and earth qi of the five regions. With just
a simple test, one's origins would be clear.

It was not impossible for Fang Yuan to join Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance with the status
of a northern plains immortal zombie status. But he had to join Northern Plains
Zombie Alliance for his major plan.

This major plan had huge prospective yield, and Fang Yuan had been thinking of
risking an act of disguise even if he was not an immortal zombie to join Northern
Plains Zombie Alliance.

However, as an immortal zombie now, it was no doubt much more convenient to join
Northern Plains Zombie Alliance.

"Joining Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance might make it convenient to purchase lightning
eels, but if Tai Bai Yun Sheng is given some time to make connections, he would be able
to purchase them, just that the price might be a bit higher. Although I won't be able to
activate worldly wave trace Gu as much as I wish, it should hold on for some time."
Fang Yuan was not willing to give up on his major plan, thus he refused Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's suggestion in the end.

After resting and reorganizing for a while in Hu Immortal Blessed Land, Fang Yuan
activated Fixed Immortal Travel to arrive at central continent again.

Universal Life Academy was located in mountain valley, and under the curtain of night,
lights were lit up, making it appear quiet and tranquil.

Hong Yi was sitting cross-legged on the bed, finishing his daily routine of nourishing
his aperture. He opened his eyes, his pupils shining brightly, revealing a look of
expectation and excitement.

"I have placed in the top ten in today's competition without even having to reveal my
true strength. Heaven is helping me, letting me coincidentally get a bye in the
competition. People are treating me as just a lucky fellow. Tomorrow is the
competition of the ten strongest, they will underestimate me and won't expect my true
strength. The day after tomorrow is the decisive battle, as long as I use this Gu to break
the opponent's defense, there is no need to mention what will happen next."

As he thought of this, Hong Yi took out a rank two Gu worm, Rewind. This was an
extremely rare time path Gu worm which could be used to both attack and defend, its
ability was to rewind an enemy's Gu worm to its state before the activation.

For instance, the enemy condensed a fire ball, but under rewind Gu's power, the Gu
worm would return back to before activation and the fire ball would disappear.

However, rewind Gu had extremely huge demand on primeval essence; even Hong Yi
with his A-grade aperture and over ninety percent primeval essence could only
activate it once.
Hong Yi had decided long ago, he was going to use rewind Gu to deal with his
opponent's defensive Gu.

As long as the other party did not use two defensive Gu at the same time, Hong Yi
would just need to hit the opponent's body with one strike to heavily injure him,
obtaining victory.

But if the opponent had two defensive Gu activated at the same time, Hong Yi would
not go on the offensive immediately, he would start a drawn out battle. The enemy
would definitely expend primeval essence faster than him if he uses two defensive Gu.

One could say, with this Gu in Hong Yi's hands, he had a great advantage, he was most
likely the winner of this competition.

"If I get first, mother's memorial tablet would be placed in the ancestral hall, she would
be given a proper status. Hmm?"

Suddenly, Hong Yi frowned, for one instant, he felt like his heart was empty, like
something precious had been stolen from him.

"Don't tell me, because my wish is finally going to be fulfilled, I am starting to feel
apprehensive? There is nothing valuable on me besides rewind Gu, what could be
worth stealing?"

Hong Yi shook his head, he laughed bitterly, forgetting that weird sensation he felt
earlier.

Far away in the valley, Fang Yuan breathed out deeply: "Connect Luck succeeded."

For the luck connection this time, he purposely made the best use of his time, rushing
here immediately after resting in Hu Immortal blessed land for a while, thus, he did
not come across any surprising disturbances.
Fang Yuan used luck inspection Gu to check Hong Yi's luck.

His luck was previously a milky white color, it was very special, giving people a feeling
of vigor and vitality. His luck was gathered into a lump, forming the tall image of a
scholar sitting and reading. The scholar's image was rather similar to Hong Yi, he had
a lively expression.

But after connecting with Fang Yuan, this white scholar luck shrunk, it was not even
thirty percent of the original.

The scholar's clean and smooth robe became a tattered shirt with random patches
sewed onto it everywhere to maintain it. It was like a rich young master had turned
into a poor man's child, a pitiful student. His expression was not so lively anymore, his
face was thinner and his expression was darker, like he had experienced a terrible
encounter.

"It seems that connecting my luck to these targets had its use. When I connected my
luck to Han Li, I almost killed him. But this time, the connection to Hong Yi did not
cause his luck to become deathly luck. It seems my own luck has improved greatly."
Fang Yuan was gratified in his mind.

Just when he was about to leave, he suddenly felt a tug in his heart. He found two
hidden Gu Masters lurking in this valley.

In order to undergo the luck connection, Fang Yuan had set up many Gu worms near
Universal Life Academy's valley. On one hand, he wanted to conceal the aura of the
Immortal Gu, but it was also to surveil the surroundings and provide early warnings
to him.

One could say that the entire valley was under Fang Yuan's supervision.

Fang Yuan closed his eyes and concentrated.

These two hidden Gu Masters were not weak, they were rank five Gu Masters.

They were at the other end of the valley, secretly moving while talking softly.

"Sect Leader Fan Yi, are you sure that there is a zhi forest and earth horses underneath
the surface of this valley?"
"Valley Lord Yuan Bai, there is no mistake, I saw it personally! Don't be anxious, follow
me into the cavern, when you see it for yourself, won't you believe me?"

"Hmph, this is the territory of Universal Life Academy, if the principal of Universal Life
Academy, Hong Xuan Ji, discovers us, we will be forced to bear the consequences of
failure."

"Although Hong Xuan Ji is strong, he is lacking in investigative methods, otherwise, he

would've found the great resources lying here already. We are intentionally hiding
ourselves while he is unaware, how can he discover us?"

"Sigh, if we are discovered, our reputations would be ruined, the leaders of two sects
venturing into Universal Life Academy late at night."

Fang Yuan heard the entirety of their conversation.

"Zhi forest, earth horses?" He thought.

Zhi forests grew underground, usually for dozens of li. The lingzhi inside were as large
as trees, their meat was plump and juicy, they could be fed to Gu worms, used as Gu
refinement materials or sold.

Earth horses were mutated beasts native to zhi forests. There were usually two or
three in a single portion of zhi forest, they lived as a family. The hoof of the earth horse
was the main ingredient of the rank five earth escape Gu. The eyes of the earth horse
could refine the x-ray vision Gu, the tail hair of the earth horse could refine the smoke
dust Gu.

The earth horse's body was full of treasures, it was no wonder the two rank five Gu
Masters, Valley Lord Yuan Bai and Sect Leader Fan Yi, were interested.

But to Fang Yuan, the earth horses and zhi forest did not have any appeal.

An earth horse was a mutated beast that could be on par with a myriad beast king. But
a family of earth horses was only two to three myriad beast kings. There were many
people selling zhi forests in treasure yellow heaven, it was a common good and did
not even require immortal essence stones to purchase.
"But for Universal Life Academy, the underground zhi forest is a huge benefit and an
important stockpile of resources. Unfortunately, they are still kept in the dark now."

Fang Yuan thought about it, he followed behind the two rank five Gu Masters from afar,
successfully entering the underground zhi forest.

As he estimated, this was an ordinary zhi forest, it was about ten li in size, and there
were three earth horses. They were a family living in the zhi forest.

"What a huge zhi forest!" Sect Leader Fan Yi exclaimed as he walked in the forest.

"This is a land of treasures, why did it not appear in my valley? Sigh!" Valley Lord Yuan
Bai touched the branches of the lingzhi, saying in jealousy.

Fang Yuan took a detour around them and got to the center of the zhi forest.

There was the largest lingzhi here, it was six meters tall, reaching the ceiling of the
cave. The flesh of the lingzhi was like a huge umbrella, spreading out in a circular
manner.

This was the lingzhi king.

Fang Yuan lowered his head and came to the lingzhi king.

Next to the lingzhi king, there were three earth horses guarding it, along with some
metal consuming ant groups. Among the ant groups, there were some wild metal path
Gu, and the lingzhi king also had some wild wood path Gu worms.

But these were all mortal, Fang Yuan did not conceal his immortal zombie aura, he
came here without any obstruction.

Fang Yuan stretched out one monstrous claw, grabbing the stalk of the lingzhi king.

The lingzhi king trembled intensely, causing the ceiling of the cave to shake and debris
to fall. The earth horses were suppressed by Fang Yuan's immortal zombie aura, they
did not dare to get close, and only made cries from afar.

After Fang Yuan searched for a while, he pulled back his zombie claw.

In his monstrous claw, there was a heart.

This was the lingzhi king's heart, it was soft and hot, the surface was milky white, this
was completely made of lingzhi flesh and gave off a meaty fragrance.

"As long as I plant this lingzhi king's heart, soon, a new forest will form." Fang Yuan
took the treasure from right under their noses.

The soil of Hu Immortal blessed land was not suited to plant large areas of zhi forests.
But to sustain a small area of it, there were no issues, of course, there were also not
much benefits in doing so.

Fang Yuan was doing this purely for fun.

As for this huge zhi forest and the earth horses, Fang Yuan had no need for them. It
was troublesome and time consuming to move them into Hu Immortal blessed land,
he would rather purchase them directly in treasure yellow heaven if needed, it was
more convenient.

After losing the heart, the lingzhi king would not die, but the zhi forest would stop
growing, it would have to recuperate for over a decade.

"What sound is that?" Far away, Yuan Bai and Fan Yi glanced at each other, Fang Yuan
taking away the lingzhi king's heart caused quite a commotion, along with the wailing
horses.

But when Yuan Bai and Fan Yi got to the lingzhi king, Fang Yuan had vanished without
a trace, he had left.

The remaining earth horse family exerted their anger and furious emotions on the two
of them instead.

The intense battle quickly attracted the attention of Universal Life Academy.

Hong Xuan Ji lead a band of Gu Masters and rushed here, in shock and joy.

Yuan Bai and Fan Yi sighed in their hearts, feeling extremely unlucky.

After an intense battle, Hong Xuan Ji chased away Yuan Bai and Fan Yi, he gave orders
to the elders of the academy who were in ecstasy: "The matter of the zhi forest is
extremely important, from today onwards, we will halt the sect competition, and call
back the disciples and elders who are out on missions. From now on, there will
certainly be difficulties, Yuan Bai and Fan Yi are sure to gather other sects to exert
pressure on us. We have to defend this zhi forest, it is our foundation to rise up!"

"Yes, lord principal!" The Gu Masters responded.

On the other hand, Hong Yi, who was sound asleep, had no idea that the sect
competition that he was looking forward to had been canceled.

His desire to give his mother a proper status, that dream was going to have to be
delayed for a long time.

Swish swish swish…

Waves were crashing on Fang Yuan's face, but such mild force could not make him feel
anything.

This place was not in central continent, it was in southern border.

The river before him was the number two river of southern border — Jade Dragon
River.

Southern border had three great rivers, the first was red dragon river, the second was
jade dragon river, and the third was yellow dragon river.

Red dragon river had water red as blood, jade dragon river had green waves in it, while
yellow dragon river was something Fang Yuan had traveled on in this life, it was yellow
in color and had the most sediments.

Fang Yuan toyed with the lingzhi king's heart in his hands, after taking this heart, he
did not leave immediately using Fixed Immortal Travel, he went to a corner of the
valley and left behind many Gu worms before activating Fixed Immortal Travel.

These Gu worms all self-detonated as he was leaving, eliminating the aura of Fixed
Immortal Travel, by doing this he could avoid anyone tracing him.

Right now, he was waiting for a person.

This person was another one of his targets, he had amazing luck and many fortuitous
encounters, rising to a legend from a nobody. During the five regions chaotic war, he
was a rank seven Gu Immortal, a famous person on the same level as Hong Yi and Han
Li.

But different from Han Li who joined a clan later, and Hong Yi who was a member of a
sect, this person was a lone cultivator from start to finish, he had several good friends
and family, but he did not join a particular force.

When Fang Yuan was about to self-detonate in his previous life, there were rumors
that central continent's Heavenly Court was about to recruit him.

As for whether this information was true or not, Fang Yuan had no way to verify it.

But now that Fang Yuan had been reborn, that was not important.

"In my memories, this person had been ostracized his entire life after his clan
banished him. By this riverside, he obtained the inheritance of a rank four Gu Master,
it was just enough for him to use. Using this inheritance, he earned a living while
repelling the dangers of the wild. He grew stronger step by step, grabbing onto a huge
opportunity and obtaining the black yellow mother qi Gu, the inheritance of a daoist
master, he won nine out of ten times when rock gambling, and dominated all of the
southern border gambling dens."

Fang Yuan recalled.

He knew this place due to the 'Biography of Ye Fan'. Every important person's history
was usually recorded down in words and pictures.

Ye Fan was Fang Yuan's target this time.

And here was the start of Ye Fan's rise. Tonight, he would have his first fortuitous
encounter.
The stars were like diamonds brightening the night sky.

River winds blew softly, the howling of beasts and cries of birds could be heard,
contrasting with the otherwise quiet environment.

Fang Yuan waited patiently, but he did not see Ye Fan's arrival over the entire night.

As time passed, after the second and third day, Ye Fan did not appear at any point.

"Don't tell me, 'Biography of Ye Fan' was wrong?" Fang Yuan could not help but think,
but he quickly rejected this thought: "No, the Gu Master inheritance near the riverside
is still around, Ye Fan has not taken it. I'll wait…”

What Fang Yuan did not know was that, a thousand li away, Ye Fan had met with
trouble.

Huff huff huff…

Ye Fan breathed roughly, he looked at the huge shadow of a sprawling beast near the
cave entrance with much fear.

"Damn it, why am I so unlucky? I was just banished from the clan, I hid in a cave to
stay for the night, but I woke up to find out that the cave entrance was sealed!" Ye Fan
cursed in his heart, he was nervous but helpless.

This cave only had one entrance, but this fierce beast was blocking it.

Ye Fan did not have any method to dig holes, his strength was very low but this beast's
body was huge, it was a beast emperor.

"Why did this beast emperor come here alone without a single beast as its guard?
Don't tell me it is an old emperor that was chased out by the new emperor?" Ye Fan
looked at the beast in front of him, analyzing nervously in his heart.
As he continued observing, he quickly found out that this beast emperor was a paper
tiger.

This dog shaped beast emperor was covered in wounds, its body was not too big, but
it was sprawled on the ground, its eyelids were drooping weakly.

On its snow-white fur, there was multi-colored markings resembling flower petals on
a snowy field.

"Haa… haa… haa…” Ye Fan listened closely, hearing the dog emperor's extremely weak,
whimpering cries.

Watching its dry belly that was so thin its bones could be seen, Ye Fan finally
understood: "Although this is a beast emperor, it is extremely hungry, it has little to no
battle strength."

Reaching this conclusion, Ye Fan let out a breath of turbid air, at the same time, he felt
a bit of pity in his heart.

They were in similar situations, this beast emperor's fate was very much like his own.

Ye Fan slowly got close to the dog shaped beast emperor, the beast emperor had no
reaction, it allowed him to get closer.

Ye Fan did not dare to breathe loudly, he squatted by the beast emperor's side and
stretched out his arm, placing it on its forehead.

The soft fur was extremely comfortable to Ye Fan, it was a little warm and wet.

This beast emperor had a fever, it was covered in sweat that made its fur wet, its bodily
functions were barely functional.

"Beast emperor, oh beast emperor, you are about to die, maybe one day, I will be just
like you. But meeting me is your good luck, after all, I was the village's most famous
beast doctor." Ye Fan muttered to himself, he felt great pity for this beast emperor and
started to heal it.

He activated his Gu, healing the beast emperor's injuries, and also alleviating its
illness. Next, he took out some precious food and water, feeding them to the beast
emperor slowly, letting it recover its strength.
Ye Fan was in no hurry, he stayed in this cave for seven days, as this dog shaped beast
emperor finally recovered.

Although it was still weak and did not have a single wild Gu, not even capable of
defeating a thousand beast king. But it was out of danger now, its fever subsided and
it could run freely, it was running around Ye Fan excitedly.

Ye Fan saved it, it treated him as its closest person. Every time Ye Fan returned to the
cave bringing food and water, it would run over and wag its tail happily around him.

Later, when it recovered some battle strength, it went out to hunt with Ye Fan, helping
him to find food.

The human and dog quickly established a deep relationship.

When Ye Fan decided to leave the cave and venture far away, the dog shaped beast
emperor followed suit.

"This is the eighth day, why has Ye Fan not appeared yet?" At jade dragon river, Fang
Yuan was anxious.

In about five to six days, Hei Lou Lan would be undergoing tribulation.

By then, Fang Yuan needed to defend her, not only to help her survive the heavenly
tribulation and earthly calamity, but also to deal with the combined attacks of the rank
seven Gu Immortal Hei Cheng, and the rank six Gu Immortal Xue Song Zi.

To estimate a Gu Immortal's battle strength, there were many elements to consider,

but the most crucial four were — immortal essence, killer moves, Immortal Gu, and
the Gu Immortal's personal attainment in fighting.

During his northern plains trip, Tai Bai Yun Sheng who had newly advanced to a Gu
Immortal was at the bottom of all rank six Gu Immortals in terms of battle strength.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had immortal essence and healing Immortal Gu, but he did not have
killer moves or sufficient mortal Gu. Most importantly, his personal attainment in
fighting was terrible.

Thus, he was heavily suppressed by Hei Lou Lan who had the Great Strength True
Martial Physique.
Right now, Fang Yuan had little immortal essence, although he had many Immortal Gu,
they were all waiting to be fed and it would be difficult for them to bear immediate
use. Even though he had the killer moves icy drill stardust, light illusion bat wings, and
hair armor, during his normal form, his battle strength was only at the upper-tier of
rank six. But if he used the immortal killer move myriad self, his battle strength would
reach the peak of rank six.

Fang Yuan defeated the western desert Gu Immortal Plump Lady, her battle strength
was also at the upper-tier of rank six. She had three powerful mortal killer moves,
especially in the end when she used the movement killer move to escape, Fang Yuan
could not even catch up to her.

But Fang Yuan had the immortal zombie body, together with light illusion bat wings
and hair armor cooperating together, the most important part was his ruthless and
rich battle talent, that resulted in Plump Lady's battle intent dissipating, and she could
only run.

Xue Song Zi's battle strength was also at the upper-tier of rank six.

He was a rich person among Gu Immortals, even though he lost a huge sum in funding
Ma tribe, he still had thick foundations, he did not lack immortal essence. According
to Fairy Li Shan's information, he had collected a lot of killer moves long ago, as
someone from the demonic path, he had always focused on battle strength, his
attainment in fighting was also not ordinary.

Xue Song Zi, all in all, was an experienced Gu Immortal, if Fang Yuan did not use myriad
self and Immortal Gu to fight with him, the result would be unclear.

Meanwhile, Hei Cheng's battle strength was at the middle-tier of rank seven!

Compared to Xue Song Zi and Hei Bai, Hei Cheng's rank seven blessed land had greater
qualifications, it produced red date immortal essence that was one rank higher than
green grape immortal essence.

He was a Gu Immortal of a Huang Jin tribe, he did not lack killer moves. He had the
Immortal Gu Dark Arrow since a long time ago. According to Fairy Li Shan's
information, Hei Cheng had fought and obtained an Immortal Gu in northern plains
several months ago, as to what Gu it was, Hei Cheng did not expose it.

Speaking of Hei Cheng's battle records, they was not ordinary, he had fought against
several righteous path Gu Immortals, and even fought to the death with demonic path
Gu Immortals, he had killed several demonic path Gu Immortals.

Hei Cheng did not lack immortal essence and killer moves, he had uncommon fighting
attainment, and only lacked Immortal Gu, if he had one or two more Immortal Gu to
use in battle, his battle strength would rise to the upper-tier of rank seven.

Although Fang Yuan had fought with Hei Cheng once before, it was for an extremely
short time and Fang Yuan did not fight him directly, his goal was to retreat with Hei
Lou Lan.

Honestly speaking, although Fang Yuan had many Immortal Gu, there was not a single
one that was used for attack or defense. When the dark arrows were shot out, Fang
Yuan could only dodge and not take them directly. Thankfully, with cleanse soul
Immortal Gu as the core Gu of the killer move myriad self, Fang Yuan had his own
immortal killer move.

Precisely because of this trump card, Fang Yuan had the qualifications to fight one on
one with Hei Cheng

Fang Yuan compared the battle strength of both sides, he was clear in his heart. Hei
Lou Lan's impending tribulation would bring great pressure to Fang Yuan.

"Ye Fan has not arrived here yet, I have less time to prepare for when Hei Lou Lan
undergoes tribulation now. Maybe I should give up on waiting and return to Hu
Immortal blessed land to make preparations, and try to raise my battle strength to the
limit."

After waiting for so many days, Fang Yuan's heart was wavering.

Especially when he recalled that the last two times he attempted a luck connection,
accidents occurred, causing them to fail. During Han Li's attempt, Plump Lady
appeared and fought with Fang Yuan, only after he showed off his ruthlessness did she
run away. When he did it with Hong Yi, Hei Lou Lan was being assaulted and Fang Yuan
had no choice but to save her instead.

"Don't tell me that this time, when I attempted to connect my luck to Ye Fan, an
accident occurred again? But this time, it did not happen to me but Ye Fan instead?"

Fang Yuan's guess hit the nail on the head.

Luck was ever changing, it was like tides, rising and falling at times.

There could be great fortune after surviving a near death experience, after Fang Yuan
escaped with his life from the wind veil of assimilation, his black coffin luck had
dissipated by half.

And after that, he connected his luck to Han Li and Hong Yi, they were all chosen due
to their strong luck, only inferior to Ma Hong Yun. Fang Yuan's luck thus improved
drastically.

This time, when he tried to connect to Ye Fan's luck, the contest of luck between the
two no longer resulted in Fang Yuan encountering trouble, but instead, Ye Fan's luck
was induced to avoid him, and give Ye Fan an opportunity to dodge this crisis.

Ye Fan made good use of this opportunity, dragging on time for seven days and seven
nights, and subduing a beast emperor.

But it was a pity, when he got close to jade dragon river, Fang Yuan's heart had only
wavered, he had not left.

"Oh? This dog emperor beside Ye Fan, isn't it that Ying Ming inside Three Kings blessed
land? It actually survived, and is following Ye Fan now?" Fang Yuan recognized the dog
emperor, he felt a little surprised.

This was something not recorded in 'Biography of Ye Fan'.

The luck connection to Ye Fan was very successful, there were no accidents, or rather,
Ye Fan's lateness was already the accident.

Ye Fan was much weaker in strength, from start to finish he did not discover Fang Yuan
or his scheme against him. This proved once again: Good and bad luck are not decisive
elements, as long as one's strength was sufficient, they could resist bad luck and grab
onto opportunities.

Ye Fan's luck was rather special as well.

His luck had a coffin.

But this coffin was not like Fang Yuan's black coffin. It was bronze and ancient,
mysterious with nine dragons of luck guarding the surroundings of the coffin.
After connecting to Fang Yuan's luck, the nine dragons shrunk to four, and the bronze
coffin was half as big as before.

Fang Yuan was satisfied with this result.

Ye Fan's luck had shrunk in half, but a large portion still remained.

"Hong Yi, Han Li, and Ye Fan's luck have been connected to mine, the four portions of
luck are equally distributed. Ye Fan's current luck is at the same intensity as mine, Han
Li and Hong Yi."

After going through so much, Fang Yuan had finally settled the second weakness of
Spring Autumn Cicada.

Not only was his absolutely terrible luck gone, it was even better than ordinary people,
he could be said to be a person with strong luck.

"It is a pity that such candidates are hard to find. Although there are still a few in my
memories, they have not been born yet." Fang Yuan sighed out in pity, targets with
thick and sustainable luck were very rare, at this point in time, Fang Yuan could find
only these three.

At this moment, the matter regarding luck connection had come to an end, Fang Yuan
looked at Ye Fan getting close to the river inheritance as he smiled lightly.

With a flash of jade light, he vanished.

Fang Yuan could faintly sense Hei Lou Lan's tribulation would result in a huge battle.

Hei Cheng was an experienced rank seven Gu Immortal, his battle strength surpassing
Fang Yuan's. Xue Song Zi was the owner of the seventh peak of Snowy Mountain
blessed land and was also not an easy opponent.

Even if Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi did not create trouble, a tribulation of the Great
Strength True Martial Physique would far surpass the severity of those of normal
people.

Fang Yuan immediately started making preparations after he returned to Hu Immortal

blessed land.

He needed to raise his battle strength in a short period of time. Battle strength usually
depended on four aspects: immortal essence, killer moves, Immortal Gu and battle
attainments.

Fang Yuan was already very strong in his individual fighting attainment and it would
be difficult to raise in a short period of time.

He could only concentrate on the other three aspects to raise his battle strength.

Fang Yuan first looked at his funds.

To connect luck with Ye Fan, Fang Yuan made a trip to southern border and returned,
costing him two beads of green grape immortal essence, which meant he had
seventeen remaining.

It was clear this amount was far from enough in a huge battle. According to Fang
Yuan's previous life's memories, it was normal to spend dozens of beads of immortal
essence in a huge battle, and sometimes it could even surpass a hundred.

Fang Yuan also possessed a lot of Immortal Gu, thus he urgently needed to replenish
his green grape immortal essence.

And to replenish his green grape immortal essence, Fang Yuan only had one way and
that was to refine immortal essence stones.

However, Fang Yuan only had eleven and half immortal essence stones on him.

Fang Yuan entered the underground cave and appeared before wisdom Gu again.

"Wisdom Gu, I brought you some rather interesting stuff." He greeted.

In <>, wisdom Gu communicated with Ren Zu frequently, but legends were not exempt
from exaggeration.

Fang Yuan was also probing in regards to this.

No matter what he said, wisdom Gu would remain silent, instead, the wisdom light
halo flickered a few times.

Fang Yuan laughed.

According to his previous experiences with wisdom Gu, the flickering of the light of
wisdom represented wisdom Gu's agreement.

Upon this, he smoothly took out the lingzhi king's heart and planted it on the spot.

Within a few breaths of time, the soil ruptured and stems of small lingzhi mushrooms
sprang out, which then rapidly grew and hardened, reaching the heights of tables and
chairs.

Hu Immortal blessed land's soil quality was different from the soil quality in Universal
Life Academy's land, and was not suitable for the growth of mushrooms.

This was the limit that the mushrooms could grow here.

Fang Yuan did not feel any regrets as it was just a passing thought from him. He then
casually sat down on a lingzhi mushroom.

The lingzhi trembled violently, but unexpectedly was able to bear the heavy weight of
Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body.
This cave had been empty before, but now it was no longer dull; wisdom Gu was like
a curious baby, flying and fluttering around the shorter mushrooms. At first, its speed
was slow and careful, but soon its flying tracks revealed its cheerful state, like a baby
finding an interesting toy.

"Wisdom Gu, let's get back to the main matter." Fang Yuan looked on for a while before
speaking.

Wisdom Gu stopped on top of a lingzhi and emitted the light of wisdom again, which
shrouded Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan silently activated delight in water and mountain Gu and began to deduce
an Immortal Gu remnant recipe.

Seven days later, he had succeeded in perfecting three Immortal Gu remnant recipes.
Using a stargate, he completed the transaction with Lang Ya land spirit, gaining forty
immortal essence stones.

According to the price agreed upon beforehand, perfecting an over ninety percent
complete Immortal Gu remnant recipe would pay off ten immortal essence stones,
while perfecting an eighty percent or more completed Immortal Gu remnant recipe
would pay off twenty immortal essence stones.

Among the Immortal Gu remnant recipes Fang Yuan perfected this time, two were
ninety percent completed remnant recipes while one was an eighty-nine percent
completed remnant recipe.

Not all Immortal Gu remnant recipes with Lang Ya land spirit were ninety percent or
over completed remnant recipes, there were many with lower completion rates.

Fang Yuan obtained many immortal essence stones in every transaction but he also
had to spend a lot of immortal essence stones to completely deduce the Immortal Gu
remnant recipes. Normally, his net profits were around twenty-six immortal essence
stones in every transaction with Lang Ya land spirit.

He got a piece of good news from Little Hu Immortal land spirit when he returned to
Hu Immortal blessed land: A Gu Immortal seemed to have found the dead body of a
six headed snake and its parts and organs were being separately sold in treasure
yellow heaven.
Fang Yuan immediately activated divine sense Gu and connected to treasure yellow
heaven using his Eight Arm Immortal identity to contact the seller.

His calamity beckoning Gu fed on the black blood of the desolate beast six headed
snake.

However, when Fang Yuan saw the store, there was skin, flesh, bones, eyes and snake
tendons, but there was no blood for sale.

"When I found this desolate beast carcass by accident, the six headed snake had
already been dead for close to a hundred years. Thus, the black blood had completely
seeped out. I am truly sorry." The seller replied.

Fang Yuan discerned the corpse of the six headed snake and saw that the Gu Immortal
was indeed telling the truth.

Fang Yuan was not discouraged, however. And still decided to buy the bones of this six
headed snake.

The six headed snake was a desolate beast with strength comparable to rank six Gu
Immortals. Its whole body was a treasure and every part could be used in the process
of Gu refinement.

Fang Yuan had a lot of money on hand, directly buying off the whole skeleton, spending
three immortal essence stones.

The bone marrow in the bones could produce blood. In his previous life, Fang Yuan in
his previous life was a blood path expert and excelled in extracting blood. With this
skeleton, calamity beckoning Gu's food was taken care of.

After buying the skeleton, Fang Yuan then went to the store of Immortal Monkey King
Shi Lei.

As expected, divine senses were moving around frequently here and the business was
thriving, all because of the Gu refinement material - stone monkey fur.

Shi Lei did not personally stay in treasure yellow heaven, instead leaving behind a
proud will to look over the store.

Wisdom path inheritances were rare, but wisdom path Gu were not rare in treasure
yellow heaven. Almost all Gu Immortals had some for the convenience in trading in
treasure yellow heaven. If not, Fang Yuan would not have bought so many wisdom
path Gu back then.

"How much are you selling this stone monkey fur for?" Fang Yuan inquired Shi Lei's
will.

Shi Lei's will stiffly said: "One immortal essence stone for one hundred pieces of fur!"

Even Fang Yuan who was very experienced was shocked by this price: "How is it so
expensive?"

Shi Lei's proud will raised his head: "Expensive? You can go buy in other places then."

Fang Yuan snorted inwardly, this stone monkey fur was researched by Shi Lei, how
could other places sell it? This was the benefit of monopolizing the market, the price
could be casually set. On the contrary, even though the price was so high, many Gu
Immortals were buying it.

Which Gu Immortal did not have Gu recipes and Immortal Gu remnant recipes! Maybe
one or two them might happen to require this stone monkey fur as a refinement
material.

There were also a portion of Gu Immortals who had other intentions.

They bought stone monkey fur to attempt to research the secret of its production. If
their blessed lands could also produce it, they could get a share of these exorbitant
profits.

"Don't say I didn't tell you later, if you want to research the production of this stone
monkey fur, you need at least a thousand strands of fur. If it is any less, you won't be
able to research anything." Shi Lei's proud will also knew of the Gu Immortals'
intention and instead used this to peddle the goods, not in the least worried of the
secret of stone monkey fur's production being researched by others.

Fang Yuan attempted to haggle but Shi Lei's proud will did not yield, impatiently
saying: "Go away, go away, don't make a disturbance if you are not buying! There are
plenty of other buyers! A poor wretch, and still wishing to buy ancient Gu refinement
material!"
Fang Yuan snorted.

Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei was a rank seven Gu Immortal with a fiery and arrogant
temper. Not only was he good at managing his blessed land, he also had outstanding
battle strength.

He was conceited but it was true he had the capital to be conceited.

During the five regions chaotic war, he had dominated a territory. Later when Feng Jiu
Ge perished while invading Lang Ya blessed land, there was no one that could suppress
Shi Lei and his battle strength grew to the extent that even central continent's ten
great sects could not restrain him.

He was unruly and untamed, not willing to be under anyone, creating chaos in central
continent and even publicly announcing he would attack leading immortals!

A great battle was imminent and Fang Yuan urgently required stone monkey fur to
refine group strength Gu, thus regardless of how haughty Shi Lei's proud will was, he
could only suffer this grievance silently and buy stone monkey fur.

He used five immortal essence stones to buy five hundred stone monkey fur.

With stone monkey fur on hand, Fang Yuan started refining group strength Gu.

Group strength Gu was an extinct Gu classified under strength path; its ability was to
converge the strength of a group into one. If it was matched with the killer move
myriad self, it would greatly raise Fang Yuan's strength.

Fang Yuan did not want to refine just one rank five group strength Gu, the more he had
the better. At this moment, the old hairy men he had purchased before could finally
display their worth.

These old hairy men did not have long to live but each of them was a refinement path
expert. Fang Yuan divided the group strength Gu recipe into different parts, leaving
the unimportant, high success rate and repetitive procedures for the hairy men to
work on. And he, as a refinement path master, concentrated on the crucial procedures.

They worked for three days and three nights without any rest, refining a total of forty-
five rank five group strength Gu.
Gu refinement had its own difficulty, the higher the rank, the easier it was to fail. If
every Gu refinement had succeeded, the five hundred stone monkey fur would have
turned into five hundred group strength Gu.

However, after spending large numbers of refinement materials and all the stone
monkey fur, Fang Yuan only obtained forty-five in the end.

This success rate was the result of the group strength Gu recipe already being easy to
refine and having a high success rate.

Fang Yuan could also naturally use the light of wisdom to improve group strength Gu's
recipe or find substitute materials for stone monkey fur.

However, Fang Yuan did not have the time to slowly deduce these.

Even if he had time, he might not have the necessary refinement path foundation. After
all, this was an ancient Gu recipe and was vastly different to the current systems of
refinement path.

Even if had the foundation and time, he had to calculate his expenses and benefits. The
deduction process would cost him green grape immortal essence. And he was unable
to estimate this amount of green grape immortal essence.

After refining group strength Gu, Fang Yuan did not rest, instead he used the light of
wisdom to ponder upon his killer move, myriad self. He spent a day of time before he
was finally able to perfectly merge the forty five group strength Gu with myriad self.

While Fang Yuan was refining, Little Hu Immortal finally completed her assignment,
finishing the construction of the blood pool in the western part of Hu Immortal
blessed land.

The blood pool was extremely large, like a lake. In the center of the pool, the six headed
snake's skeleton was bobbing up and down; the intense odor of blood pervaded over
a huge surrounding area. There were large numbers of Gu worms in the pool, creating
a formation which continually consumed the skeleton to create black blood.

The core of the Gu formation was the rank five Battle Bone Wheel which Fang Yuan
had obtained from northern plains.

Hu Immortal blessed land's time flow was five times faster than the outside world of
central continent. Because of this, Fang Yuan was able to make as much preparation
as he could when there were only five to six days remaining till the appointed time in
northern plains.

Time passed and the day of Hei Lou Lan's tribulation approached closer and closer.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng returned to Hu Immortal Blessed Land through a stargate.

He brought a pleasant surprise with him.

"Underworld jellyfish… deepsea lightning eels… you actually managed to gather these
ingredients." Fang Yuan inspected the goods as he looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng in
surprise.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had singlehandedly obtained the food to feed worldly wave trace Gu
without any issue!

This was out of Fang Yuan's expectations.

"When I displayed landscape as before Immortal Gu, I was greatly welcomed by many
Gu Immortals. They took the initiative to interact with me, at the moment, there are
already Gu Immortals who have invited me to join Hai Shi blessed land. However, this
matter can only be approved after half of the elders in Hai Shi blessed land agree." Tai
Bai Yun Sheng said.

Fang Yuan nodded, Hai Shi blessed land was the biggest lone cultivator force in eastern
sea.

Gu cultivators that joined Hai Shi blessed land were mostly lone cultivators, but this
was different from northern plains' Snowy Mountain blessed land.

Snowy Mountain blessed land was the base camp of demonic path cultivators, they
were at odds with the righteous path forces. But Hai Shi blessed land mixed both
demonic and righteous path members, there were even more Gu Immortals here than
in Snowy Mountain, and there were many different factions which together controlled
the largest market in eastern sea. Precisely because of this, Hai Shi blessed land
became the most popular spot for Gu Immortals to sell their loot.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a lone cultivator, his landscape as before Immortal Gu was much
needed by many Gu Immortals.

But Gu worms were hard to snatch, one thought from Tai Bai Yun Sheng would destroy
Landscape as Before. It was completely understandable that the Gu Immortals wanted
to make Tai Bai Yun Sheng one of their own.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng continued: "I bought sufficient underworld jellyfish in Hai Shi
blessed land. After getting your letter, I left Hai Shi blessed land, searching for a
secluded island to use stargate Gu. But by coincidence, I met an immortal zombie who
called himself Shark Demon, he was a member of Zombie Alliance, and was bringing
large amounts of goods to Hai Shi blessed land to sell."

"He had many deepsea lightning eels with him, if these eels were sold in Hai Shi
blessed land, there would certainly be many buyers. I approached him and asked if I
could purchase them. Shark Demon was unwilling at first and had a terrible attitude.
But after knowing I was Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he changed his mind. He was willing to sell
the deepsea lightning eels to me, but I had to help him repair a secret blessed land. I
agreed to his request, and obtained the deepsea lightning eels without spending any
immortal essence stones."

"This Shark Demon actually trusted you this much?" Fang Yuan heard this and frowned
deeply.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed, replying nonchalantly: "Oh, he had a rule path Immortal
Gu called Death Sentence Awaits. I cooperated with him and accepted the use of Death
Sentence Awaits, obtaining his trust."

"Death Sentence Awaits is a rank seven Immortal Gu that belongs to the rule path, it
can set a person's time of death. Once the time was up, even a Gu Immortal would die."
Fang Yuan's frown intensified.

"That is right, this Shark Demon is a rank seven immortal zombie." Tai Bai Yun Sheng
chuckled.

"Old Bai, you are handing him your weakness. Actually, even without food to feed the
Immortal Gu, it would have been fine for the moment." Fang Yuan looked at Tai Bai
Yun Sheng, sighing.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed, patting Fang Yuan's leg, his height was obviously not
enough to reach Fang Yuan's shoulders.

He purposely explained: "Do you think I did it for you? No. That secret blessed land is
not owned by Shark Demon, it is Yu Lu blessed land. Fairy Yu Lu was the second
disciple of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable. It is a pity that Yu Lu blessed land's
entrance had already been destroyed. Shark Demon needs my Landscape as Before to
restore the entrance. I used this opportunity to gain his trust and also a chance to
explore Yu Lu blessed land."

Fang Yuan looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng deeply in the eye, not continuing this
conversation.

Two days later, the six headed snake's large skeleton had completed melted in the
blood pool, Fang Yuan obtained a great amount of black blood.

He fed calamity beckoning Immortal Gu this black blood, before using Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's jellyfish and eels to feed worldly wave trace Immortal Gu.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had indeed helped Fang Yuan greatly.

In an intense battle, worldly wave trace Immortal Gu would definitely be needed, after
feeding this Gu, Fang Yuan could use it without worries.

Checking his assets, Fang Yuan still had twenty-nine and a half immortal essence
stones, as well as seventeen green grape immortal essence beads.

Without hesitation, he used almost all his immortal essence stones and converted
them into his green grape immortal essence. He now had forty-six green grape
immortal essence beads and half an immortal essence stone.

"Forty-six beads… it's not enough." Fang Yuan went to borrow from Fairy Li Shan and
Lang Ya land spirit.

Fairy Li Shan lent him thirty immortal essence stones straight away without saying
anything.

As for Lang Ya land spirit, after urging him for so long, he only lent fifteen.

These three deals with Lang Ya land spirit did not establish too deep of a relationship.
Fang Yuan had wanted to borrow Immortal Gu from him, but seeing this, he did not
engage in fantasy.

He converted the forty-five immortal essence stones into green grape immortal
essence. At this point, he had an unprecedented amount of green grape immortal
essence, ninety-one beads.
The grand powers of the river of time was unstoppable by men.

As time continued to pass, the day when Hei Lou Lan went through the immortal
ascension tribulation had finally arrived.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng used a stargate to reach northern plains as per the
agreement.

Looking left and right, it was a field of snow with absolute silence. In the snowy field,
Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan had long since arrived.

"This place is…” Fang Yuan's gaze was hesitant.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng answered: "This is the absolute ice battlefield at the north-most part
of northern plains, legend says that Reckless Savage Demon Venerable had once
fought strong enemies in here and destroyed the place, creating an area of void. After
the battle ended, he turned into the immemorial desolate beast ice phoenix, breathing
out absolute profound ice to freeze and restore this place."

"That's right." Fairy Li Shan nodded: "Because this place has little vitality, the heaven
and earth qi here are not very thick."

Fang Yuan looked at Hei Lou Lan, smiling: "You purposely chose this place to undergo
the tribulation, are you afraid that the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity would
be too fierce? But without sufficient heaven and earth qi, the foundation of your
immortal aperture would be affected, as well as your future potential as a Gu
Immortal."

Fairy Li Shan opened her palm, as a Gu worm appeared: "If heaven and earth qi are
insufficient, we will use these Gu."

Fang Yuan looked over and his heart jumped: "Oh? The ancient qi path rank five Gu
worm — small family qi Gu? This is the first time I've seen it. Rumors say that this Gu
can absorb all sorts of qi from heaven and earth, storing them. It can advance to
become the Immortal Gu Big Family Qi!"

Qi path appeared before strength path, but it also declined earlier.

Fairy Li Shan was prepared to explain, but seeing that Fang Yuan recognized it, she
praised: "Fang Yuan, you are truly knowledgeable, not bad, not bad at all."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng heard this and his eyes shone: "This Gu worm is great! Heavenly
tribulations and earthly calamities form when heaven and earth qi are too thick and
accumulate. With this Gu worm, can we indirectly control the heaven and earth qi, to
reduce the force of the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity?"

"The immortal ascension of one of the ten extreme physiques has a terrifying heavenly
tribulation and earthly calamity. Oh, if I did not obtain this small family qi Gu, I would
have no confidence towards Little Lan ascending to Gu Immortal realm." Fairy Li Shan
sighed, staring at Hei Lou Lan with much concern and worry.

Next, her gaze flickered and she turned to Fang Yuan: "Fang Yuan, if Hei Lou Lan's
ascension succeeds, you will only need to return me half the immortal essence stones
you borrowed. At the same time, I will give you the recipe of small family qi Gu."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's gaze shone with joy, while Fang Yuan nodded emotionlessly.

"Other than the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity, what I am worried about
now is that old scoundrel Hei Cheng. When I entered northern plains last time, he
discovered me immediately, evidently, he has placed a tracking method on me, but I
could not find it at all."

After pausing for a while, Hei Lou Lan continued: "We have to make plans for the worst
possible outcome, Hei Cheng's tracking method is definitely not simple. If he comes
and attacks at the crucial moment, there is little possibility of me dealing with him.
But if I can endure past the taking in of qi, my body would be washed by the three qi,
it would be reinforced by the dao marks and cleansed completely, achieving a
qualitative transformation, even if Hei Cheng used an Immortal Gu tracking method,
it would be wiped clean. As long as we make it to the second step, we can leave."

"I understand, you can start." Fang Yuan said.

Hei Lou Lan nodded, closing her eyes.

The first step in advancing to Gu Immortal was breaking the aperture.

Apertures of the ten extremes were different from ordinary apertures, the latter
required the Gu Master to charge at the aperture walls to break them, but the former's
aperture walls had long been over burdened.

The moment Hei Lou Lan released the seal formed by Gu worms on her aperture, the
ten extreme aperture shattered on its own.

Her originally intact body immediately had a hole, as a huge attraction force towards
the heaven and earth qi burst out.

The deep blue sky started to form clouds. As the icy fields shook slightly, cracks
appeared on the thick surface of the ice.

Hei Lou Lan relaxed her body, she allowed the formless force created in heaven and
earth to lift her body into the air.

Her skin was white and pale like snow, her black hair was let down as she wore tight
fitting black clothing, showing off the curves of her body.

The wind started blowing.

In a dozen breaths of time, the winds were blowing wildly as the small wind became
an intense storm.

Clouds merged and covered the sky, looming above Hei Lou Lan. From the shattered
surface of the ice, traces of smoke started rising up — this was the sign that earth qi
had been drawn up above the ice ground.

Soon, it started snowing in the sky.

The clouds became thicker, and the color turned from grey-white to deep black.

Within the entirety of the surroundings, it was completely dark.

The winds blew and icy cold frost that could chill bones filled the entire area. At the
same time, earth qi burst out, cracking noises erupted, earth qi gushed out into the
world like a fountain.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Fairy Li Shan retreated, hiding their figures.

Only Fang Yuan remained, looking at the sky. His tall body was like an immovable rock
statue, the intense winds and snow could not move him at all.

These were all mortal level winds and snow, no matter how big they were, they could
not threaten this immortal zombie.
As snow covered the lands, and intense winds blew, they became louder and louder,
like the cries of demons and ghosts.

"As expected of a tribulation of the ten extreme physique, the heaven and earth qi here
are so thin, yet so much was still drawn. If this was any other region in northern plains,
it would simply be unthinkable!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng hid far away, not showing his
figure. Looking at this scene, his heart was shocked.

From the winds and snow, heaven and earth qi slowly became thicker.

Hei Lou Lan started to sprinkle the small family qi Gu.

These rank five Gu flew into the sky or landed on the ground, they started to absorb
heaven and earth qi and store them. They greatly reduced the speed of the accumulation
of heaven and earth qi.
"With small family qi Gu, there would be a way to influence the heavenly tribulation
and earthly calamity." Fang Yuan watched silently by the side.

The intense winds were howling, snow was descending along with sharp icicles,
crashing on Fang Yuan's body. Fang Yuan did not move at all, the immortal zombie
body was unharmed.

Bam bam bam…

Hei Lou Lan continued to sprinkle the small family qi Gu, when these ancient qi path
Gu worms had reached the limit of their capacity, she retrieved them. During this
process, many small family qi Gu had self-detonated and the absorbed heaven and
earth qi were returned to the world.

When a Gu Immortal ascends, because of the turbulence of heaven and earth qi, both
mortal Gu and Immortal Gu would receive backlash.

Even though Hei Lou Lan prepared the small family qi Gu, she could only influence the
heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity slightly, she could not control it.

As time continued to pass, unavoidably, the heaven and earth qi became thicker, and
were at the point of creating the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity.

As the howling of the winds continued, Hei Lou Lan's black hair danced in the air, the
snow and ice hitting her face. Clothes made using Gu worms were much more durable
than ordinary clothes. Thus, her clothes were fluttering in the air, not tearing even
under the pull of the intense winds.

Fang Yuan found it slightly weird: "It has already been so long, where is the heavenly
tribulation and earthly calamity?"

His eyes shone with radiance, by activating Gu worms to investigate carefully, the wind
and snow could not block his vision.
Fang Yuan went into high alert, heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities had many
variations, some were powerful and had strong auras, some were mysterious and
scary, he could not predict it, Gu Masters could only test their luck and be as prepared
as they could to deal with it.

Howl, howl, howl!

The sound of the wind was becoming sharper, it hurt the eardrums as Fang Yuan felt
some frustration in his heart.

Suddenly, he jolted to awareness, he activated his investigative Gu forcefully and

looked into the clouds. He immediately saw that a purple chime had formed, it was
moving slowly and emitting a sound.

It turns out the heavenly tribulation had formed already!

As the noise became louder and sharper, it fused with the wind, spreading over a
hundred li!

Even if Fang Yuan covered his ears, he could not block this noise. Although he had
prepared some sound path mortal Gu, his sound path attainment was too low, he could
not defend against it.

He felt more and more frustrated, his heart was beating faster, following the sound of
the chime, and his blood was starting to flow backwards.

Hei Lou Lan was groaning, blood was oozing from her mouth and nose, her state was
worse than Fang Yuan's.

Fang Yuan squinted, cold light flashing in his eyes: "This is the heart shocking noise
tribulation, when Gu Masters hear it, their blood would flow backwards, and their
hearts would beat faster. If a long time passes, their blood will flow towards the seven
orifices, and their heart would explode. I have the body of an immortal zombie, my
zombie blood is ice cold, it is almost stagnant, thus I am affected the least. But Hei Lou
Lan is the Great Strength True Martial Physique, her blood is the most active among
us, she is countered by the heart shocking noise calamity! We must destroy the source
of it, the purple chime!"

Thinking of this, Fang Yuan stopped hesitating, he activated light illusion bat wings
and flew into the sky.
He flew rapidly, but the closer he got to the purple chime, the more his heart was
shocked. When he was three hundred steps away from it, his heart was beating so
quickly even his muscles and tendons were vibrating.

Suddenly, Fang Yuan's body froze, he opened his mouth and vomited a mouthful of
green zombie blood.

A moment ago, his heart was unable to take the pressure and burst.

But Fang Yuan was an immortal zombie, his heart was not a weak point, such an injury
awakened his fierce nature.

He laughed freakishly, spreading all eight arms and using his killer move.

Icy Drill Stardust!

Eight starlight lumps formed and crashed towards the tribulation cloud.

They drilled into the tribulation cloud, slamming into the purple chime. The chime
was not strong, it broke immediately. The heart shocking demonic sound stopped, and
Fang Yuan's pressure was lifted.

But at the next moment, the tribulation cloud rumbled, as heaven qi gathered, a new
purple chime was about to be formed.

Fang Yuan's eyes shone with cold light, how could the heavenly tribulation and earthly
calamity be defeated so easily in one strike? This was not unexpected.

Icy Drill Stardust!

His eight arms gathered, using the killer move again, creating a huge icy drill stardust
lump.

Within the dark blue starlight lump, stardust fragments were shining brightly,
colliding into each other at a chaotic pace.

Fang Yuan shouted lightly, his eights arms pushed forward, sending the starlight lump
towards the tribulation cloud.

The larger the starlight lump, the slower its speed. But after colliding into the purple
chime again, a large amount of starlight specks remained, they were emitting a
crackling sound as they self-detonated.

Heaven qi gathered, forming more purple chimes, but were instantly destroyed by the
starlight lump.

The starlight lump could be seen shrinking with the naked eye, but the enchanting
heart shocking noise did not enter Fang Yuan's ears again.

Fang Yuan succeeded in suppressing the heavenly tribulation, but he did not let down
his guard. The immortal ascension of the ten extreme physiques, how could it be so
simple?

He continued to unleash icy drill stardust, although this killer move was a mortal killer
move, it had amazing power, after fusing Dou Min Jun's inheritance into it, this killer
move was worth four immortal essence stones.

Icy drill stardust continued to be replenished, as the purple chime continued to form
and break down.

Fang Yuan looked down at Hei Lou Lan below him.

The latter's breathing had soothed, her eyes were shut tight. Her expression was
determined, she sat cross-legged in the air, unmoving. On her beautiful pale face, there
were dried blood traces.

But the recovery of the Great Strength True Martial Physique was the best of the ten
extreme physiques, Hei Lou Lan's injuries had already recovered.

Her hands did not stop moving, she scattered small family qi Gu while retrieving the
ones that were full. She had changed her battle strategy, she scattered the small family
qi Gu on the ground and rarely in the sky.

One could deduce from this that she did not have many small family qi Gu, after all,
this was an ancient qi path Gu worm. Even if they had the Gu recipe, it was very
difficult to find refinement materials.

Even if Hei Lou Lan had ample time to prepare, she did not have many of this Gu with
her.
Fang Yuan retracted his gaze, at this time, he could hear some weeping noises.

The voice was desolate and pitiful, it sounded like the crying of a begrudged wife, or
the sleepy talk of a young maiden in love, it was a whisper that was very affectionate
and caring, but at times it also had the tone of hatred and grudge.

Fang Yuan heard this and even his immortal zombie body felt a sense of weakness. His
entire body could not exert strength, he was like a hero out of breath, together with
an endless longing for his homeland, his bravery fell short and his ambitions could not
be fulfilled. His firm fists and legs felt like they were hitting on cotton, it was like he
had just recovered from a terrible illness, he had no strength in him.

Fang Yuan shouted out in dismay, using his investigative Gu and looking up, he saw
that near the purple chime, a pink chime had appeared.

The chime continued to vibrate, creating a weeping noise.

This was the decadent noise tribulation!

Before Fang Yuan used his killer move to shatter the pink chime, enchanting noise
assaulted him again.

Bang… bang… bang!

The sound was like thunder, it was like the pounding of a giant, every sound was
hitting on the deepest parts of Fang Yuan's mind, in his mind, his thoughts could not
move, they were all shattered by this thunderous noise.

Tremor thought noise tribulation!

Immortal zombies have slow cognition, this heavenly tribulation directly countered
Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan felt an intense dizziness, he could not think and his body was wavering, he
almost fell from this high altitude.

At the moment of crisis, he used his remaining bit of clarity to activate delight in water
and mountain Gu.

Three green grape immortal essence beads entered delight in water and mountain Gu,
as joyful will burst out and spread in Fang Yuan's entire mind.

Fang Yuan had just stabilized his body when, swoosh!

Suddenly, there was a sharp noise near his ears, approaching rapidly.

Fang Yuan subconsciously tried to block it, but at the next moment, his five fingers
were all sliced off, the five fingers were covered by the wind and snow, vanishing
without a trace.

Swish swish swish…

The sharp noise continued to emit, getting closer to Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk, he focused his gaze and used three investigative methods
consecutively. He could faintly see that there were very thin invisible lines in the wind
and snow, it was sharp and formed a huge web, moving towards Fang Yuan without
giving him any place to dodge.

These invisible lines were not of material nature, they were all formed using sounds.

Fang Yuan watched with his hair on end: "This is the flying blade noise tribulation!
Hair armor! Light illusion bat wings!"

He activated his defensive killer move and his movement killer move.

Fang Yuan moved continually, his black armor broke apart and after leaving his body,
the fragments turned into black zombie hair.

Fang Yuan twisted left and right, he finally found a rather loose gap and broke through
the sound web.

But the invisible sound lines still came for him. The hair armor lasted for another three
breaths before reaching its limit and breaking.

Fang Yuan snorted coldly, he used his defensive killer move again, forming a new layer
of hair armor that barely covered his body.

He dodged left and right, his body moving like a phantom, as lumps of icy drill stardust
were shot up.
The stardust touched the sound web and were blocked, cut into pieces of fragments.

At the same time, Fang Yuan's fingers grew rapidly, his shattered heart formed once
again.

Howl howl howl…

Without the starlight lump's restraint, the first purple chime formed again.

The ghostly cries resounded again, Fang Yuan's blood flowed in reverse again, his
newly formed heart started beating rapidly as it went on the path of self-detonation.

Fang Yuan's gaze concentrated.

Be it the icy drill stardust, light illusion bat wings, or hair armor, they had been used
to their limits, yet the dangerous situation could not be alleviated!

This was only Hei Lou Lan's heavenly tribulation, the earthly calamity had not formed
yet due to the small family qi Gu's suppression.

In Fang Yuan's mind, huge amounts of joyful will were expended, in a short period, ten
percent were used up.

"My current battle strength is upper-tier of rank six, but I cannot do anything to this
heavenly tribulation. The ascension of the ten extreme physiques, the heavenly
tribulation and earthly calamity is truly terrifying, this is several times the power
compared to an ordinary Gu Immortal! Hmm?"

Suddenly, Fang Yuan's expression changed, his heart sank.

He found out that in this tribulation cloud, another four chimes of varying colors were
forming.

Earlier, with just four chimes, Fang Yuan was already near his limits. Now that four
new ones appeared, Fang Yuan could only use the immortal killer move myriad self.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng watched at a hidden location with much fear: "It seems the immortal
ascension of the ten extreme physique is not just several times as dangerous as an
ordinary Gu Master, it is at least a dozen times as terrifying."
He had thought that his own tribulation was tough. But to think that Hei Lou Lan's
tribulation was far more dangerous than his!

"Oh no, this is not an ordinary heavenly tribulation, it is one of the ten catastrophes,
eight layer enchanting noise tribulation, when all eight noises are emitted, it would
have a range of eight hundred and eighty li, heaven and earth would shake and
immortals would be exterminated!" Far away, Fairy Li Shan who had been hiding
recognized the eight chimes and almost wanted to help out.

"Eight layer enchanting noise tribulation… if all eight noises are emitted at once, the
strength would be unstoppable, this tribulation would end in failure without a trace
of hope of success." Fang Yuan's expression was cold, the tougher the situation, the
stronger his battle intent.

Crack crack crack.

During the process, all the mortal Gu he used were getting destroyed continuously.

The backlash of heaven and earth was causing him to lose a large number of mortal
Gu.

But Fang Yuan made ample preparations, he had prepared a large number of Gu
worms and his killer moves had never stopped activating.

Just as he was about to use myriad self, Hei Lou Lan who was below him opened her
eyes!
From Hei Lou Lan's eyes, a dazzling light was bursting out.

The light gathered and took form, like that of a real pillar, it pierced through the
tribulation cloud and shot the two chimes.

With a loud bang, the chimes broke, completely eliminated and was unable to
regenerate.

The light pillar only lasted for a moment before Hei Lou Lan shut her eyes, the entire
process was extremely short, only lasting a breath of time.

This was the light of divert disaster!

Hei Lou Lan used the Immortal Gu Divert Disaster!

The power of an Immortal Gu was extraordinary, it was a stark contrast to Fang Yuan's
mortal killer move icy drill stardust.

Hei Lou Lan controlled her breathing before opening her eyes again.

Two pillars of divert disaster light shot out, destroying two chimes again.

Fang Yuan was secretly shocked: "Such power, this was not a simple use of divert
disaster Immortal Gu, it was used together with mortal Gu. Using her sight to unleash
the attack, it is much more concentrated and precise. In other words, Hei Lou Lan had
already developed an immortal killer move using the Immortal Gu Divert Disaster as
the core!"

Hei Lou Lan had outstanding talent, not long after obtaining divert disaster Gu, she
developed an immortal killer move?

This was very strange and unthinkable to Fang Yuan, but the truth was right before
him, it was indisputable!
At this time, Hei Lou Lan opened her eyes again, eliminating two chimes again.

But at this time, she shut her eyes, two lines of fresh blood flowed down the corner of
her eyes. her eyelashes were trembling and her body was shaking. On her palm, she
held divert disaster Gu tightly, cracks were appearing on it and it was wailing out
softly.

This frantically created immortal killer move was not complete, it had very potent
weaknesses.

"Two chimes left!" Hei Lou Lan did not care about it, she gritted her teeth and opened
her eyes forcefully, destroying the heavenly tribulation's last two chimes in one shot.

Guh! Guh!

Her beautiful eyes had shattered at this moment, as two streams of blood poured out
of her empty eye sockets.

With a bang, the divert disaster Immortal Gu burst in her hands, breaking into light
particles, slipping from the cracks of her fingers and vanishing.

Hei Lou Lan had gone blind!

Although she had the Great Strength True Martial Physique and had terrifying
recovery speed, the injury in her eyes was due to the forceful activation of the
Immortal Gu Divert Disaster, dao marks of luck path were in her eye sockets, she could
not heal them.

The rank six divert disaster Immortal Gu was also destroyed in this process, becoming
history.

Hei Lou Lan was extremely resolute, she had the heart of a formidable character, after
paying a terrible price, she destroyed the heavenly tribulation for good, now only the
earthly calamity was left!

At this moment, Fang Yuan praised her in his heart: "Resolute!"

The immortal ascension of the ten extreme physiques gave birth to a terrifying
heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity. What's worse was that they still had a
strong foe waiting to interfere. Under the immense pressure of life and death, Hei Lou
Lan had no choice but to sacrifice divert disaster Immortal Gu, as well as a pair of her
eyes.

This was a decision common people would find hard to make.

Such sacrifice, it showed Hei Lou Lan's ambitious and ruthless disposition, she had an
unrivaled spirit.

As heaven qi poured down like he stream of a waterfall, earth qi gushed up like a

golden fountain. Hei Lou Lan's foundation and deep accumulation turned into a large
amount of human qi as it burst out from within her.

"This is the human qi of one of the ten extreme physiques?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng watched
with a dumbfounded expression.

Hei Lou Lan's human qi was many times more than Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng
combined.

The human qi of the ten extreme physiques was usually overwhelmingly thick, this
was mostly due to the ten extreme apertures.

Even with enough mental preparation, spectators were still shocked.

As the three qi converged, it formed a huge cocoon that covered up Hei Lou Lan.

At this point, she had reached the second step — taking in the qi.

Hei Lou Lan was focused on balancing the three qi, she took back all her small family
qi Gu and would not be able to face her enemies for the time being.

Crack…

Frozen rivers shattered, heaven and earth shook.

At this moment, a thunderous sound could be heard, as a huge frenzied ape jumped
out from deep within a frozen river.

With a loud thud, the frenzied ape landed on the ground, it created two huge holes
where it stood. The ice fragments were scattered around the huge holes.
The frenzied ape beat its chest, shouting out loudly. Its voice was so loud that even the
rumbling tribulation cloud froze for a second.

Its body was like snow, its eyes were red like blood, its monkey fur spiked out like
icicles, piercing towards heaven. It was hundreds of meters tall, large like a hill, it has
an incredible aura and was extremely fierce. Compared to it, Fang Yuan was like a bug
in front of a cat.

"The earthly calamity formed! It is an ancient desolate beast calamity! This is an

earthly calamity that only rank seven Gu Immortals encounter." Tai Bai Yun Sheng's
heart snak.

One name was echoing in Fairy Li Shan's heart: "Icefall Divine Ape!"

Fang Yuan's expression was still as water, the icefall divine ape's huge shadow was
casted down, it had rank seven battle strength. If it had Immortal Gu in it, then it would
be even harder to deal with, the battle situation would become much harder.

Hei Lou Lan focused on balancing the three qi, Hei Cheng did not appear, while Fairy
Li Shan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were hiding elsewhere, with this extremely dangerous
situation, a ruthless light flashed across Fang Yuan's eyes, he clapped his palms before
him, using his killer move earlier than planned.

Immortal killer move — Myriad Self!

Fist qi burst out, grand and overwhelming, like an overflowing river, it was like a
raging sea.

In just a few breaths of time, over ten thousand of Fang Yuan's strength path phantoms
appeared, surrounding his main body. They were in all directions around him, in the
sky and on the ground, in the formation of a sphere.

To prevent the likelihood of him having not enough time because of a fierce battle,
Fang Yuan had activated the immortal killer move myriad self several times before
going to northern plains.

The strength path phantom army was stored in his own immortal aperture. The
strength path phantoms could exist for a period of time, and because they were not
living beings, they were not affected by the death energy in his immortal aperture.
When Fang Yuan released a portion of them, his aura finally matched the ape's.

The icefall divine ape was ready to attack, it wanted to charge over, but seeing the
grand strength path phantom army, it opened its mouth, showing its sharp fangs as its
muscles contracted, it chose to wait and see.

The snow and wind blew, Fang Yuan was expressionless, his body was still like a rock
as he pointed at finger at the icefall divine ape.

Immediately, the army moved and war cries filled the battlefield.

Tens of thousands of strength path phantoms moved like a tide, they whipped up a
storm as they charged towards the icefall divine ape.

"Such might!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng watched with his heart pounding.

This was not the first time he had seen the killer move myriad self, back in Lang Ya
blessed land, Fang Yuan had used it once to beat up the desolate beast swamp crab.

But at that time, Fang Yuan only used one bead of green grape immortal essence to
summon ten thousand phantoms.

Right now, an army several times that size was attacking, as the army's momentum
rose, they had an imposing aura that could shake the world.

The army pushed forward, towards the icefall divine ape, and then splitting into four
along the way.

One went left, one went right, one went up, and the last one charge ahead.

The icefall divine ape's wild nature was awakened, it charged ahead instead of
retreating. Fang Yuan's strength path phantom army moved according to his will
fluidly, with his command, they spread out, like a huge web, encircling the icefall divine
ape.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Strength path phantoms roared, they were like ants attacking the
icefall divine ape collectively.

The icefall divine ape attacked left and right, it destroyed countless phantoms but
could not break through Fang Yuan's encirclement.
"it really is such a formidable killer move in this world! Together with his master level
attainment in enslavement path, no wonder Little Lan placed so much importance on
him." Seeing this, Fairy Li Shan was overjoyed.

One after another, strength path phantoms flew out of the aperture. Fang Yuan had
more than a hundred thousand troops in his immortal aperture, he only summoned
eighty thousand now.

Among these strength path phantoms, the most ordinary ones had two arms, some
had four arms, or even six arms. The more arms they had, the stronger their battle
strength.

The icefall divine ape roared angrily, it battled fiercely, its huge body and monstrous
strength, along with the icicles pointing outwards on its body, caused the strength
path phantoms to suffer heavy injuries before dying.

But only a portion of the scattered fist qi was expended, the rest would gather and
form into strength path phantoms once again.

Because of this, the reduction of the number of phantoms of Fang Yuan's army was
greatly slowed.

During the process, the joyful will in Fang Yuan's mind was used up intensely.
Manipulating tens of thousands of troops, the expenditure of his joyful will was
immense. In just a few dozen breaths, Fang Yuan had activated delight in water and
mountain Immortal Gu nearly ten times.

"Strange, this icefall divine ape has no Immortal Gu despite being an ancient desolate
beast, in fact, it does not even have a single mortal Gu! Where did the earthly calamity
find this oddity?"

Fang Yuan could see the truth behind the icefall divine ape, it had no Immortal Gu, or
even any mortal Gu, this ancient desolate beast's threat was greatly lowered.

"In that case, it is time to finish you off!" Fang Yuan's lips curled up, the ruthless light
in his eyes burst out as he entered the field directly, charging ahead.

The light illusion bat wings on his back flickered several times, as Fang Yuan's speed
increased like he was a shooting star. It was quite a sight, with the explosive sounds
along the way, he traveled a huge distance in a few breaths of time, descending like a
demon god, right above the icefall divine ape.

"Come, group strength support me!" Fang Yuan shouted excitedly in his heart.

At once, the forty-five group strength Gu in his immortal aperture were activated at
once.

Group strength Gu had completely been incorporated into myriad self by Fang Yuan,
once activated, it caused a new transformation in myriad self!

Hundreds of strength path phantoms dispersed, their strength had collectively

gathered in Fang Yuan under the might of group strength Gu.

Fang Yuan raised one right arm, slamming down on icefall divine ape's skull.

With a loud bang.

His entire forearm slammed on the divine ape's skull mercilessly.

The intense recoil caused Fang Yuan's forearm to burst open, as his bones were
shattered and his flesh and blood were reduced to dust.

As for icefall divine ape's skull, there was a huge hole in it. The crack in the hole spread
at lightning speed, affecting the entire ape's head.

At the next moment, the icefall divine ape's skull exploded!

Seeing this, be it Fairy Li Shan or Tai Bai Yun Sheng, they were so shocked their
eyeballs almost popped out.

Even Fang Yuan was shocked: "What is going on? The entire ape head was destroyed?
That shouldn't be, this is an ancient desolate beast!"

Killer move myriad self was completed by him alone, group strength Gu was added in
by him as well, he was very clear of his own strength after group strength Gu was
added. The most he could do was to cause the icefall divine ape's skull to crack and
bleed, but the entire head would not explode.

"Be careful!" At this moment, Tai Bai Yun Sheng could not help but show himself,
shouting a warning.
Fang Yuan turned around and looked, his pupils shrinking rapidly.

Icefall divine ape's huge fist had gotten close to Fang Yuan without him noticing
anything, it slammed down at lightning speed, like a poisonous snake's assault.

Fang Yuan could not dodge it in time, he was hit directly by the huge fist!
Boom. Fang Yuan was sent flying like an insect, making a huge arc in the air before
ruthlessly falling down on the hard ice surface.

Rumble!

Ice chunks scattered crazily, the force sent Fang Yuan flying like an artillery shell, he
pierced through the ice layer and traveled for an enormous distance before finally
stopping.

Fang Yuan lay amidst the broken ice, seriously injured. Even with an immortal zombie
body, he could not budge a bit. His whole body was like a torn sack, the dark green
zombie blood flowing out from the innumerable wounds, bones were fractured with
some piercing into skin and flesh while some jutted out of the body. Only three of the
eight arms were remaining. One torn off arm was lying not far away from Fang Yuan.

A long ice channel was created just now, cut open by Fang Yuan using his own body.

"Cough cough…”

Fang Yuan coughed for a while and stared with an incredulous gaze at the icefall divine
ape, it was still standing upright despite losing its head.

"What the hell is this?"

According to common sense, even an ancient desolate beast would die if their head
was smashed apart. But this icefall divine ape which had lost its head not only did not
fall down, instead it struck Fang Yuan with a very heavy counterattack.

Fang Yuan recalled that enormous punch, common sense would have stated that such
an enormous force would have already produced a sonic boom. But it was
unexpectedly noiseless during the whole process!
This absolutely was not something the icefall divine ape should have been capable of
accomplishing, because it did not have any Gu worms on it!

Fang Yuan tried to move his body; the immortal zombie body shuddered but still lay
down on the ice, its strength failing.

However, Fang Yuan could sense his body was rapidly recovering.

Zombies used death energy as life force. As long as they were not destroyed in an
instant, the abundant death energy would provide them with astonishing recovery
speed.

"Fang Yuan!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng quickly flew over and at the same time, pitch black
rays of light shone out from his hand and fell on Fang Yuan's body.

These pitch black rays of light were carefully prepared for Fang Yuan by Tai Bai Yun
Sheng, and were not some ordinary healing Gu worms.

Ordinary healing Gu worms would bring vitality and stimulate life force, but this was
of no use to Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body.

Fang Yuan needed to increase his death energy, the stronger the death energy, the
faster his recovery speed would be. Thus, zombies were also known as 'living dead'.

With Tai Bai Yun Sheng's help, Fang Yuan's recovery speed surged violently.

"Great." Fang Yuan gave a horrifying smile. He soon recovered his movement ability
and stood up from the ice surface.

Boom. An astonishing change happened to the icefall divine ape, it unexpectedly self-
detonated.

After the detonation, a large group of pegasi were left in the icefall divine ape's place.

These pegasi were anything but ordinary, different from the two winged pegasi of the
current era. They were larger than two winged pegasus by two to three times. On their
backs were at least two pairs of wings, while some even had three pairs.

These were ancient pegasus, the more wings they had, the stronger their battle
strength. Four winged pegasi were at the level of beast emperors while six winged
pegasi were desolate beasts!

In the current five regions, the ancient pegasi were already extinct.

Most of these pegasi were four winged pegasi while there were a few with six wings!

The pegasus group neighed before colliding with Fang Yuan's strength path phantom
army.

It was a massacre, Fang Yuan's strength path phantom army was steadily losing
ground, suffering heavy losses.

"This is not a beast calamity! What in the world is this?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng quickly flew
to Fang Yuan's side and looked at this scene with his eyes wide open.

The ancient pegasi and strength path phantom army started slaughtering each other,
creating a chaotic battle situation.

Fang Yuan suffered great losses.

It was because the strength path phantom had been in a loose formation to deal with
the giant icefall divine ape. Now that the giant beast was changed to a united group of
pegasi, the loose phantom army formation instead allowed the pegasus group to
rampage unhindered. Despite the strength path phantoms' coordination being
exquisite, forming into many small battle groups, they still had more defeats than wins
and suffered huge damage.

However, there were no corpses in this slaughter.

There was no need to speak of strength path phantoms which were condensed from
fist qi. The crucial point was that the pegasus group had intangible bodies that turned
into nothingness after they were killed.

"Could it be……” Fang Yuan's red eyes suddenly shone. He racked his brains, searching
for the answer in his memories, before a thought hit him as he considered an elusive
possibility.

This possibility made him look towards Hei Lou Lan.

However, Hei Lou Lan was covered in the enormous cocoon of three qi, which was so
thick that he could not even see her shadow. As long as she was able to consume this
three qi cocoon, her potential after becoming a Gu Immortal would be extremely deep
and her future prospects would be filled with bright radiance.

Fang Yuan turned around to look at the pegasus group. His eyes narrowed and a smile
appeared on his face; he waved his hand towards the back, transmitting his voice to
Tai Bai Yun Sheng who was rushing over: "Old Bai, step back and watch me."

He then showed his sharp teeth and charged forward.

He pierced into the chaotic battle of the pegasus group and strength path phantom
army.

In an instant, it was like Fang Yuan had poked a hornet's nest as countless ancient
pegasi charged towards him. He activated hair armor and raised his arms, protecting
his head.

After he locked in on a target, Fang Yuan suddenly shouted and pounced towards an
injured four winged Pegasus, forcibly smashing it down from the sky to the ground.

Bang. Man and horse crashed heavily into the ground, the ice surface cracked, forming
a deep pit.

Fang Yuan's whole body was filled with injuries, bones fractured in many places, skin
was opened and flesh split. The recovered body was once again crushed into a
miserable state.

Who knew how many pegasi attacked him when he charged into the chaotic battle and
smashed into the four winged pegasus.

These pegasi naturally would not let him go. Large numbers of pegasi gathered into a
white flood that fell down from the sky towards Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan used all his strength to suppress the intensely struggling four winged
pegasus under him, while the wills in his mind surged like boiling water, dissipating
intensely.

Two strength path phantom groups in the sky coordinated, and intercepted the diving
pegasus group like a giant scissor.
At the same time, large numbers of strength path phantoms surged out from Fang
Yuan's immortal aperture and formed a hemispherical formation above Fang Yuan,
resisting the fierce offensive of the pegasus group without any regard for the losses.

The four winged pegasus under Fang Yuan was anything but cute as it neighed and
struggled with all its power. It had such high strength that even Fang Yuan, a strength
path Gu Immortal with an immortal zombie body, was almost unable to contain it.

Time was pressing, the opportunity could not be lost. Fang Yuan raised his fists high
and smashed down ruthlessly, immediately bursting the pegasus's head, however the
headless Pegasus was still struggling as if the loss of its head had no affect.

Fang Yuan then punched down with all his eight arms, bombarding the pegasus with
heavy punches.

The thick ice surface below them could not endure this punishment and started
cracking.

A normal four winged pegasus was equal to a beast emperor with rank five battle
strength. Even if they had strong wild Gu worms, they would have turned into meat
paste under Fang Yuan's offensive.

This strange four winged pegasus did not have any Gu worms on it and when Fang
Yuan crushed it, it dissipated into thin air without leaving any hair, bone or even blood.

The next moment, however, Fang Yuan's narrowed eyes suddenly opened wide.
Following the complete destruction of the four winged pegasus, a formless will rushed
into his mind; his eyes revealed enormous shock and joy.

He kneeled on the broken ice surface and ceased all movement, resembling a statue.
Despite the fierce slaughter going on above him, he did not seem to notice anything,
as if he was in a dream.

"Fang Yuan!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was extremely worried when he saw this, flying
towards Fang Yuan.

"Come back, don't disturb him. This is a golden opportunity for him!" Fairy Li Shan,
however, suddenly transmitted her voice.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng narrowed his eyes, immediately asking in anger: "It seems you know
what this calamity is? Fairy Li Shan! We are allies, we came specially to protect Hei
Lou Lan in crossing the tribulation. You actually were deceiving us! What are you up
to?!"

"This is not deceit, don't forget the Snowy Mountain Alliance, if I had deceived you, I
would have already died according to the oath! This was only speculation which I am
now sure of." Fairy Li Shan quickly explained.

She had only hidden this crucial piece of information without mentioning it, it did not
mean she was deceiving them.

Even if they were allied, they could not just share all their secrets. Fang Yuan also
would not do that.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's breathing sped up as he flew rapidly while irritatedly asking at the
same time: "Then are you still not going to tell me now what the hell is this
speculation?!"

Fairy Li Shan let out a breath of turbid air and spoke quickly: "Tai Bai Yun Sheng, you
also know the origins of this icy plain. Back then, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable
fought a huge battle, destroying a part of northern plains, turning that area into void.
To repair the void, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable turned into an immemorial ice
phoenix, and breathed out extremely cold profound ice which froze this place, turning
it into a large icy plain."

"Get to the point!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng shouted.

Fairy Li Shan understood Tai Bai Yun Sheng's feelings and did not blame him,
continuing with her explanation: "Everyone knows Reckless Savage Demon Venerable
was a strength path Immortal Venerable, founder of the strength path and also of
transformation path. Without exception, every rank nine venerable is a child of the
Great Dao, the closest to the true essence of heaven and earth. Not only did laws follow
their words, every action of theirs carried true meaning and even the movement of
their gazes conveyed the profundities of nature. Even if they perish, their main killer
move would be imprinted in heaven and earth, forming a kind of heavenly tribulation
and earthly calamity."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng involuntarily recalled the formless hands: "Yes, I know about this."

Fairy Li Shan continued: "Back then, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable turned into an
ice phoenix and breathed profound ice to condense into the icy plain we are on now.
Don't forget the ice phoenix transformation is a transformation path killer move. As
the creator of the icy plain, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable imprinted the true
meaning of strength path and transformation path in the midst of this piece of heaven
and earth. A piece of speculation was circulated among a few Gu Immortals, or more
precisely a rumor. As long as a strength path or transformation path Gu Master
ascends to Gu Immortal in this icy plain, it will cause a resonance of dao fragments,
evoking the true meaning of Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's strength path and
transformation path."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng shook: "Then, then this means, isn't this?!"

"Right. the icefall divine ape was only a false appearance and the ancient pegasi were
also the same; they were true meanings of strength path and transformation path,
taking on the form of an earthly calamity! When someone completely shatters these
external forms, the small true meaning contained within would break out and enter
the body of their own accord! What is true meaning? It is the comprehension towards
heaven and earth, Great Dao and law fragments. Fang Yuan destroyed a pegasus and
obtained the true meaning within it. In other words, Fang Yuan is receiving teachings
from Reckless Savage Demon Venerable!"

Fairy Li Shan spoke shocking words and also revealed heavy envy.

How huge was an opportunity to receive the teachings of a rank nine venerable!

If one said the three qi converged to let the Gu Master comprehend heaven and earth
and gain natural inspiration, then passing tribulation in this place and obtaining true
meaning was to study under Reckless Savage Demon Venerable!
Fairy Li Shan continued with a deeply moved tone: "Reportedly, the rumor of Reckless
Savage Demon Venerable's true meaning came from the currently rank seven
Domination Immortal Chu Du of northern plains. It is said that when he became a
strength path Gu Immortal three hundred years ago, it was at this icy plain that he
passed his tribulation. It is just that there have been limited numbers of Gu Immortals
advancing over these recent years. And among these newly advanced Gu Immortals,
there are few that are of transformation path and even fewer of strength path. Thus,
this piece of speculation was very hard to prove."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng snorted but no longer hurried towards Fang Yuan.

Although Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan deceived him and Fang Yuan, this was after all
such an enormous benefit, thus Tai Bai Yun Sheng's anger dissipated for the most part.

He turned around and looked deeply at Hei Lou Lan. Hei Lou Lan was covered in the
three qi cocoon and she was progressing smoothly. The qi cocoon's volume was slowly
shrinking methodically.

'This woman has truly great ambitions, she is not satisfied with being a ten extreme
physique immortal, she also wants to learn from Reckless Savage Demon Venerable.
She is not afraid that her strength is lacking and she would die because of her greed.
Speaking of which, this style of taking risks is actually similar to Fang Yuan's, they are
both lunatics!' Tai Bai Yun Sheng heaved a sigh inwardly.

"So it was indeed like this, they are the external forms of true meaning, ahahhaah!"
Fang Yuan laughed loudly and slowly stood up from his kneeling position with his
expression revealing his high spirits.

He then gazed at the ancient pegasus group again, but the way he looked at them was
different this time.

His gaze was extremely heated, like a pervert that had his lust held back for several
thousands of years, who then saw an absolutely beautiful woman. Or like a bandit
whose greed would never be satisfied, seeing the world's greatest treasury!

"I have advanced to a strength path Gu Immortal but my strength path foundation was
shallow and I could only reach quasi-grandmaster realm in strength path! It is
extremely difficult to make one's realm progress even a little, and needs a sufficient
quantity of regular accumulation in order to initiate a qualitative transformation. But
now, as long as I kill these true meaning external forms, I can rapidly raise my strength
path realm, elevating it to genuine grandmaster realm!"

Memories and experiences of five hundred years of bitter struggles made Fang Yuan
extremely aware of the difficulty in progressing one's realm.

Realm represented the understanding of Great Dao! One's strength path realm was a
Gu Master's understanding of the Dao of strength. Realm was generally divided into
ordinary, quasi-master, master, quasi-grandmaster, grandmaster, quasi-great
grandmaster, great grandmaster, quasi-supreme grandmaster and supreme
grandmaster.

Most Gu Masters would only have ordinary realm in their whole lives. Quasi-masters
were geniuses or old, experienced Gu Masters.

Masters were extremely rare! For instance, in the Imperial Court contest which was
an assembly of heroes of the large northern plains, only Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun
Sheng had master level attainment in flying among those who reached Imperial Court
blessed land. While in enslavement path, there were only Jiang Bao Ya, Yang Po Ying,
Ma Zun, Chang Shan Yin (Fang Yuan) and Nu Er Tu, five masters over the entire
contest!

And speaking of refinement path supreme grandmasters, even throughout human

history, there had only been three: Long Hair Ancestor, Old Eccentric Tian Nan and Old
Immortal Kong Jue!

Every advancement of a realm meant an astonishing upgrade in one's battle strength!

It was because higher realm meant deeper understanding of the law fragments in
heaven and earth. It allowed Gu Masters to refine new, better Gu worms, create more
killer moves and display greater dominance of their paths.

Fang Yuan had the most understanding of blood path among all the major paths. In his
previous life, he was an awe-inspiring blood path grandmaster!
His battle strength was outstanding and he had created many new Gu worms of blood
path, and these new Gu had even surpassed Blood Sea Ancestor's in some aspects!

He had also researched many blood path killer moves, and despite them being mortal
killer moves, they had extraordinary power.

Fang Yuan now had the immortal killer move myriad self, the representation of the
convergence of enslavement and strength path, a unique killer move created from
squeezing out all his potential, and with the help of natural inspiration and wisdom
Gu.

But even with such a killer move, when his battle strength was considered, it was not
a match with his peak blood path attainment in his previous life.

Fang Yuan could suppress his immortal killer move myriad self by just using his
previous life's blood path killer moves.

He had even created, from initially nothing, some remnant recipes of completely new
Immortal Gu with his grandmaster realm. Of course, the completion rates of these
remnant recipes were rather low.

This was the world of Gu, and more than that, it was the world of Gu Masters.

Gu worms involved nurturing, use and refinement, and the bulk of these fundamentals
relied upon Gu Masters.

Generation after generation of Gu Masters brought forth new developments,

constantly using their plentiful creative prowess to research new Gu worms and open
new paths, which then created the extremely wondrous way of Gu which covered all
aspects! Thus, heroes were able to emerge like stars in the sky over the boundless
history of humans.

Gu is the essence of heaven and earth, man is the spirit of all living things!

The famed people of the past had accomplishments as high as the mountains that the
later generations would find hard to surpass. However, on the whole, the strength of
the five regions was growing steadily and becoming much more profound, surpassing
the eras of Immemorial, Olden Antiquity and so on.

"Gu Masters nurture, use and refine Gu, getting down to the basics, it is a process of
humans probing and studying nature, the world, and the Great Dao. Be it a xianxia
world, a magic-based world, or a scientific world, they are all the same, they are all the
exploration and study of nature and the world itself. It is only that the difference in
the world's laws make the exploration methods different."

Once can only learn if they explore continuously. Only by learning could they have
accumulation. And only with accumulation could they transcend the world!

"And in this world, the measurement of the stage-wise accomplishments of study of

heaven and earth, and the Great Dao is the realm of every paths! Great Dao is a closed
book, and for a Gu Master to study and explore heaven and earth, they have to use Gu
worms to approach the Great Dao with different methods, they need to constantly
summarize their comprehensions, need insights and require sufficient experience.
However, right now I am obtaining true meaning infusion which is as if I am observing
the world while standing on the shoulder of a giant! It is making Reckless Savage
Demon Venerable open the pages of the closed book to the parts which I can
understand and let me read it directly. This is a shortcut, an extremely rare fortuitous
encounter! This will save me a great deal of time and immense effort!"

Fang Yuan was more excited the more he thought of it.

'Hei Lou Lan! You are a lunatic! You actually wanted to learn from Reckless Savage
Demon Venerable while gaining natural inspiration, and obtaining the infusion of true
meaning. Hmph, are you not afraid you can't manage to comprehend them all and be
thrown into confusion, even failing your immortal ascension! However… your greed, I
like it a lot. This gift from you, I shall accept it all!'

Fang Yuan shouted inwardly; with such heavy profits ahead of him, he decided to not
leave behind even a little!

Myriad self! Myriad self! Myriad self!

He activated his immortal killer move nonstop; for the first time, he disregarded the
costs as he activated it frantically!

Countless strength path phantoms emerged, forming a huge army inside the immortal
aperture, their scale several times larger than before.

At the same time, large numbers of mortal Gu forming the immortal killer move
perished, this was the backlash from heaven and earth, and also the consequences of
Fang Yuan's extreme rate of activation.

However, Fang Yuan did not feel any heartache, everything was okay as long as the
core, cleanse soul Immortal Gu, did not have any problems. He had made ample
preparations for this trip and had brought large numbers of mortal Gu for
replenishment and substitution.

"Come!" Fang Yuan lifted his chest as countless strength path phantoms surged out
from his immortal aperture.

The strength path phantom army flooded the world, as if it could engulf mountains
and rivers. The sparse battle strength just before was immediately replenished and
soon surpassed the previous limit, reaching a new height.

Large numbers, no, a sea of strength path phantoms filled the whole battlefield.

"This… there are at least three hundred thousand!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng and even Fairy
Li Shan was stupefied at this sight.

The ancient pegasus group was firmly surrounded in the air by the strength path
phantom army.

The slaughter between the two sides had reached the climax.

Fang Yuan walked leisurely on the ice surface below the ongoing aerial battle.

Joyful will were created and rapidly expended in his mind. Under his command, the
army coordinated to form different groups, and like giant hands, they pounced upon
four winged pegasi without caring for losses.

Next, dozens of strength path phantoms worked together to forcefully push the four
winged pegasi down to the ice surface.

Then, Fang Yuan would slowly walk over, raise his eight thick giant arms and shower
down punches for the kill.

Miserable neighing sounds filled the area as pegasi were shattered apart. True
meaning rushed into Fang Yuan's mind and the profundities of the Great Dao were
rapidly absorbed. His movement stiffened for several breaths of time before
recovering once again.
Fang Yuan thus engaged in crazy slaughter of ancient pegasi.

"Refreshing!" After another true meaning infusion, he excitedly roared, his gaze was
so blood red that it was difficult to stare at it directly!

The strength path realm which would have taken years and even dozens of years to
raise, was rapidly advancing following the true meaning infusion.

Fang Yuan felt incomparable pleasure and enjoyment.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was watching with a dumbstruck expression, Fang Yuan's madness
made him feel a chill from the depths of his heart. Even Fairy Li Shan could not help
but be silent.

After less than half of the pegasus group was destroyed, the earthly calamity
transformed again. The pegasus group merged together to form thirty-three giant
snakes.

These giant snakes were as large as a house and had extremely powerful defense,
covered with black armor and shields. When they fell on the ground, they immediately
occupied terrain advantage.

"Another transformation and this time to shield snake?" Fang Yuan laughed
malevolently; he did not move, the strength path phantom army in the air had already
shrouded over the snakes like dark clouds.

By occupying the ground, these shield snakes only needed to defend the attacks from
above unlike if they were flying in the air where they could be attacked from all
directions.

Fang Yuan's slaughter immediately slowed down.

It took a good while for the huge army to handle one shield snake.

Fang Yuan laughed maniacally as he pounced down upon it.

The shield snake was filled with injuries and before it could raise its head, it was
bombarded by Fang Yuan's eight arms. The enormous strength from the overlaying of
forty-five group strength Gu directly destroyed the shield snake.
An enormous true meaning that far surpassed the previous ones charged into Fang
Yuan's mind.

The snake corpse that had lost its head suddenly dissipated, transforming into small
snakes; in few moments, the place was filled with a sea of ferocious and slippery
snakes.

Fang Yuan was in the process of comprehending essence of Great Dao and could not
budge, thus he fell in the sea of snakes.

The snake sea attacked madly, quickly covering his enormous body.

Fang Yuan's comprehension this time was different from before. In the previous true
meaning infusion, Fang Yuan felt like he had turned into a pegasus, living its life from
birth to death, from young to old, running on the firm ground and soaring on the vast
sky…

He sensed the unique body structure of Pegasus, the use of various strengths and the
ingenuity of using power.

And now, he turned into a snake from breaking out of the egg to devouring all kinds of
preys. He personally experienced the twisting snake body, the strength of its
constriction, the muscle rhythm when it swallowed its food, the force application
when its head moved like lightning to capture prey…

Not only was it raising the strength path realm, but transformation path and even
flying master attainment were advancing.

These experiences extended and stepped on the maxim of strength path. These
maxims covered extremely large information and were hard to describe using words.
Because the wonders of Great Dao could not be put to words; words would be too
simple, too dull, too shallow and simply not be able to portray its mysteries and
wonders!
"Fang Yuan!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's loud shout could be heard, Fang Yuan opened his
eyes and woke up from within the sea of snakes.

All around him, from head to toe, there were snakes. Countless snakes were coiling
around him, trying to constrict and bite him. If not for Fang Yuan's hair armor
protecting him, these small snakes might have drilled into his stomach already.

Fang Yuan laughed heartily, he was joyful instead of shocked!

He stretched out eight huge arms, grabbing with his hands as he destroyed dozens of
small snakes. Tens of true meaning infusions gushed into his mind.

His consciousness was foggy for a moment, but recovered immediately.

As he slowly adapted to it, and as his attainment level increased, his true meaning
absorption speed became faster and faster.

In the intoxication of killing, he even withdrew the hair armor and opened his mouth,
suddenly inhaling.

Immediately, countless small snakes slipped into his mouth.

He opened his mouth to chew, his sharp fangs tearing the snake bodies into shreds,
next he swallowed and the snake corpses vanished down his throat, disappearing
from this world.

Waves of true meaning filled his mind unceasingly.

Strength path true meaning, transformation path true meaning, all these small traces
were continuously absorbed by him. At the same time, with trial and error, he became
familiar with the new knowledge, it gave Fang Yuan a much deeper understanding in
other areas. For example, his flying attainment.
After Fang Yuan killed the third huge shield snake, his strength path attainment level
went from quasi-grandmaster to grandmaster realm.

Strength path grandmaster!

That is to say, if given a bit more time, Fang Yuan would reach the level of blood path
in his previous life! Because his blood path attainment level was also grandmaster
realm.

Right now, his mind was filled with countless thoughts and countless inspirations. His
understanding of strength path had reached a whole new level, he could create many
new strength path Gu worms and many mortal killer moves that were related to
strength path now.

But Fang Yuan was not satisfied, he continued slaughtering.

The earthly calamity failed after transforming into the icefall divine ape, the ancient
pegasi, and the shield snake group. Now, there was a new transformation, it turned
onto a group of rockmen.

Fang Yuan manipulated his army, he trampled on their heads and swallowed their
bodies in the sea, killing the rockmen, and understanding the power of thickness.

The earthly calamity turned into a bee group next, as Fang Yuan self-detonated his
strength path phantoms continuously, learning the power of piercing.

The earthly calamity transformed into a rhinoceros group, as Fang Yuan killed them,
he learned about the power of charging.

As his strength path attainment continued to rise, after he stabilized his grandmaster
realm, he began a charge towards quasi-great grandmaster realm.

Right at this moment, two bright rainbows, one black and one white, pierced the air
and descended.

"We finally found you!"

"You were indeed in the icy plain."

As the rainbows faded, two people, Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi, appeared.
The powerful enemies had come!

"So many strength path phantoms, what is going on?" Xue Song Zi's pupils shrunk,
before they shined in a bright, heated light: "Oh? This is… it seems the rumors were
true, undergoing tribulation in the icy plain will possibly attract Reckless Savage
Demon Venerable's true meaning!"

Hei Cheng's eyes were eerily looking at the battlefield, next his gaze focused on the
three colored qi cocoon.

After such a long time, Hei Lou Lan had not finished absorbing the three qi yet, her
human qi was simply too huge in quantity!

"Hehehe, Hei Lou Lan, you guys have nowhere to run, why don't you surrender." Hei
Cheng laughed heartily, he opened his right hand and revealed an Immortal Gu.

This Immortal Gu gave off an eerie blue light, it was a time path rank six Immortal Gu.

The aura of the Immortal Gu was surging, it resonated with the two time path
Immortal Gu in Tai Bai Yun Sheng's aperture, causing them to vibrate.

Fairy Li Shan's expression changed, she showed herself and stood in front of Hei Lou
Lan, she spoke coldly: "Instant Pause?"

This was the rank six time path Immortal Gu Instant Pause, it could freeze the time of
the target for six moments, with this Gu around, Hei Cheng did not have to worry about
Fang Yuan running away using Fixed Immortal Travel.

Hei Cheng saw Fairy Li Shan and he focused his gaze, he spoke with deep meaning:
"To think that the mastermind behind all this was Fairy Li Shan. Why are you sowing
discord between us father and daughter? Oh I see, as expected, which Gu Immortal
would not be interested in the yin-yang life extension method in my possession?"

Saying so, Hei Cheng laughed sarcastically, he showed a mocking expression to Fairy
Li Shan, oozing with confidence.

Fairy Li Shan's expression was solemn, her voice became louder as it filled the skies:
"Hei Cheng, you are destined to fail today. Don't think of causing any harm to Little
Lan, because the person stopping you will be me!"
Saying so, Fairy Li Shan stopped hiding it, she burst out the grand aura of a rank seven
Gu Immortal.

At the same time, the surface of the ice broke, countless tree roots grew rapidly, they
coiled around and moved like huge pythons.

The trees grew quickly, it soon became a forested area. After a few breaths, pear
blossoms grew, the smell of the flowers was fragrant and spread for several li.

Fairy Li Shan stood under the tree, her body was shielded by the leaves and branches,
vanishing.

Meanwhile, Hei Lou Lan was still balancing the three qi, she was on top of a pear tree.

Battlefield killer move — Pear Orchard!

"To think that third leader's cultivation level had secretly reached rank seven. Hei
Cheng, be careful, third leader cultivates earth and wood path, she had set up this
battlefield earlier, I am also a member of Snowy Mountain blessed land, I cannot battle
Fairy Li Shan due to the alliance rules." Xue Song Zi reminded.

Usually when Fairy Li Shan showed up in northern plains, she revealed rank six
cultivation. Few knew about her true cultivation level.

Hei Cheng's expression was calm, his gaze shifted to Fang Yuan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng and
Fairy Li Shan for a moment, before turning back to Hei Lou Lan.

"One immortal zombie, one rank six Gu Immortal, one rank seven Gu Immortal…” Hei
Cheng muttered, he snorted coldly, saying to Xue Song Zi: "Go deal with that immortal
zombie and the rank six Gu Immortal, after I kill Fairy Li Shan, we will take down Hei
Lou Lan."

His tone was filled with decisiveness and confidence.

Although Fairy Li Shan was rank seven, her battle strength should be at the lower tier
of rank seven, there would still be some disparity from Hei Cheng.

"Okay!" Seeing that the toughest foe was going to be dealt with by Hei Cheng, Xue Song
Zi agreed.
He flew down, straight towards the earthly calamity.

He was someone with some knowledge, he knew that the earthly calamity contained
a Demon Venerable's true meaning, even if he was not a strength path or
transformation path Gu Immortal, he wanted a share of it. Gu Immortals usually
ventured into many paths so that they could assist their main path, who would be
unhappy with a higher attainment?

"You're courting death!" Fang Yuan saw Xue Song Zi rushing here and shouted angrily,
a ruthless light flashing in his eyes.

"Merely a rank six immortal zombie, you dare to speak such words!" Xue Song Zi
snorted in disdain, he rapidly got closer.

In his first battle with Hei Cheng, Fang Yuan focused on retreating, to escape from the
area. Thus, he did not reveal his true battle strength.

Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi analyzed the situation, and assumed that Fang Yuan's two
movement Immortal Gu were lent to him by other Gu Immortals.

Even though Fang Yuan's strength path phantom army was fighting against the earthly
calamity intensely.

But first, the earthly calamity was already mostly destroyed, second, wide range killer
moves were very common, third, most immortal zombies had battle strength lower
than ordinary Gu Immortals, and finally, there was a rank six Gu Immortal and a rank
seven Gu Immortal on Fang Yuan's side, Xue Song Zi subconsciously underestimated
Fang Yuan's threat.

Xue Song Zi's speed was very fast, he was right above Fang Yuan in a moment's time.

"I'll let you taste my power!" He growled, he pushed with his hands and used his killer
moves.

Drifting Snow! Ice Mountain Awl! Snow Sparrow Crisis!

He used three killer moves at once, this showed Xue Song Zi extraordinary control
over manipulation of Gu worms.

These three killer moves were all attack type killer moves. In an instant, intense winds
blew as snow filled the air, countless snowflakes gathered into birds, they moved
fluidly in the intense wind and snow, with much intelligence, there were thousands of
them! Twenty to thirty icicles that were the size of small hills were covered in sharp
spikes as they flew towards Fang Yuan, trying to pierce through his body.

Fang Yuan laughed coldly, he waved his hand and the giant army moved!

The myriad self army moved with courage, their shouts overwhelmed the heavens,
everywhere the army went, the icicles collapsed, snow sparrows cried, and the sound
of the wind halted.

"Eh?!" Xue Song Zi's expression changed, only after fighting did he realize the truly
fearsome might of myriad self!

Seeing that the myriad self army was coming for him, Xue Song Zi growled angrily as
his hair stood up, traces and traces of frost energy shot out from them.

In an instant, the frost energy spread quickly and formed an ice crystal domain in the
air.

Battlefield killer move — Snow Domain!

"Towering pine tree, icy hair dragon stream!" Xue Song Zi growled, using two
defensive killer moves at once.

Immediately, pine trees erupted in the snow domain, from nothingness, they grew to
become large and bulky trees, the branches tied the trees together, forming many thick
walls of defense.

As for his long snow white hair, it extended and gave off a dragon's cry in the air. The
long hair turned into dozens of dragon shaped ice, coiling around his body and
forming a castle-like defense, with Xue Song Zi protected tightly in the center.

However, when the myriad self army charged over, pine trees collapsed, and ice
dragons shattered, the snow domain lasted for a moment before breaking apart.

"It's actually an immortal killer move! Who in the world is this immortal zombie?" Xue
Song Zi's expression was pale, his eyes showed panic as he retreated quickly, even
faster than when he came, he was in a pathetic state!
At the same time, Hei Cheng and Fairy Li Shan had engaged in intense battle.

The battle of the two had reached the climax right from the start.

Hei Cheng used dark arrow Immortal Gu to its limits, shooting three dark arrows into
the pear orchard, flying around and trying to locate Fairy Li Shan's true hiding place.

In the pear orchard, it was dense with vegetation, and pear blossoms fell from the
trees. The roots were tangled together and growing, as hundreds of sunflower king
lotuses appeared.

As the lotuses opened, beams of burning light shot towards Hei Cheng.

Hei Cheng's body shuddered, dark liquid oozed out of his black robe, dying the area of
sky around him black. This was also a battlefield killer move, called dark veil.

From the dark veil, black balls were shot out, pouring down like rain.

The black balls slammed into the pear orchard, forming huge pitch black spirals. This
was the killer move that Hei Lou Lan used in the imperial court contest — Dark Vortex.

The dark vortices expanded, corroding the trees and flowers, causing huge holes to
form in the pear orchard.

Meanwhile, the heated beams of sunlight also tore open some areas of the dark veil.

As the two continued to attack, the light beams fell in quantity while the number of
dark vortices increased, Hei Cheng quickly gained the upper hand.

As expected of a famous rank seven Gu Immortal expert of northern plains!

"Found you." Hei Cheng's eyes shined brightly, he laughed sinisterly as he used his
investigative killer move, discovering Fairy Li Shan's figure in the pear orchard.

He immediately used dark arrow Immortal Gu to its limit, as three dark arrows shot
out into the air, towards its target.

The pear orchard went into action, countless tree roots stretched out, moved and
coiled around like dragons, they desperately blocked these three arrows.

At the crucial moment, Fairy Li Shan was gritted her teeth, her eyes bright as a lamp.

She shouted in her heart: "Earth flower lotus burial!"

The ground exploded loudly, as a huge man-eating flower appeared at lightning speed.

The man-eating flower opened its mouth, swallowing a dark arrow. Next, the entire
man-eating flower's size shrunk, it was less than half of its original mass, but it could
trap the dark arrow temporarily.

Hei Cheng snorted, his gaze was shining as the swallowed dark arrow was trying to
escape, forming a sharp pointed bulge in the man eating flower's surface.

But next, more man eating flowers appeared from the ground. The second man eating
flower ate the first man eating flower, shrinking after that. The third man eating flower
ate the second man eating flower. Repeating the process, after seventeen to eighteen
man eating flowers were summoned, Hei Cheng's connection to this dark arrow fell
by at least thirty percent.

Hei Cheng knew that this dark arrow could not escape in the short run, his attention
was on his two remaining arrows.

Fairy Li Shan's expression was pale, she shouted lowly: "Fading heavenly flower."
A large number of pear blossoms flew, they were pure white as snow, they floated in
the air and turned into light specks.

The dark arrow's speed was fast, but the quantity of light specks was numerous, they
were thick and densely packed, during the process of the arrow's flight, it was
corroded.

The dark arrow was covered in light specks and hot sparks immediately were formed,
white spots appeared on the dark arrow, causing its speed and power to fall.

Hei Cheng snorted, he knew the other party was well prepared. He was openly being
targeted while his enemies were hidden, everyone knew about this Immortal Gu Dark
Arrow, thus his attack was countered.

But he was not to be trifled with, even though he did not develop an immortal killer
move using dark arrow Immortal Gu as the core Gu, but in the process of trying, he
had obtained several mortal killer moves that could cause changes to the dark arrows.

Hei Cheng stared, as he used a set of mortal Gu in his immortal aperture. The two dark
arrows changed directions, meeting in the air and fusing, becoming one again.

After fusing, the dark arrow was pitch black without a single light speck, it regained
its former speed and power.

The dark arrow shot like lightning, stabbing into a huge trunk in the pear orchard.

In Hei Cheng's field of vision, Fairy Li Shan was hiding in this tree trunk.

But at the next moment, Fairy Li Shan's voice came from the other side: "You fell for it,
Hei Cheng. Tree flower sheds tears!"

A bright flower bloomed in the tree trunk, and thick nectar oozed out from the center
of the flower, it was extremely fragrant.

Dark arrow hit a wooden puppet that resembled Fairy Li Shan, the nectar spread and
covered this dark arrow completely.

Thereafter, the nectar solidified, becoming like amber as it sealed the dark arrow
inside.
"Hei Cheng, today, you will undoubtedly fail!" Fairy Li Shan's body was on top of a tree
crown, although she was pale and perspiring profusely, her eyes were bright and she
had a vigorous aura.

A large part of Hei Cheng's great strength was due to the dark arrow Immortal Gu.

This was an attack type Immortal Gu, Fairy Li Shan only had mountain pledge Gu, she
could not face it head on. She could only exert her methods and use three mortal killer
moves to seal the dark arrows.

After the dark arrows were sealed, Hei Cheng lost his strongest means of attacking.

"Really? You think that's all I have?" Hei Cheng stood in the dark veil, looking down at
Fairy Li Shan as he showed a mocking smile.

Under Fairy Li Shan's supervision, he stretched out his arm, opening his palm and
revealing a black pearl.

This black pearl was about the size of a rice bowl, it was black and shiny, like a black
crystal. On the surface of this translucent pearl, one could see a boar shaped animal
sleeping inside.

Fairy Li Shan saw this pearl and her eyes immediately widened, she showed an
alarmed expression: "This is Dark Prison?"

Hei Cheng nodded slightly: "That's right, this is my Hei tribe's rank six Immortal Gu
House — Dark Prison."

His voice was plain, yet it contained a feeling of pride.

Hei Cheng was not Hei tribe's first supreme elder, but to ensure that this trip had no
accidents, he paid a huge price and borrowed this item from Hei tribe's first supreme
elder.

"This is bad…” Fairy Li Shan's heart sank to rock bottom. Dark Prison was a beast
stable, trapped inside was the ancient desolate beast, sharp tusk boar. If it was
summoned, Fairy Li Shan would be in deep trouble.

Be it pear orchard, earth flower lotus burial, fading heavenly flower, or tree flower
sheds tears, these were all mortal killer move. In order to deal with Hei Cheng's dark
arrow Immortal Gu, Fairy Li Shan had thought through it carefully and devised three
killer moves that could temporarily seal the dark arrows.

But because of this, her mind was worn out and her head was hurting. Although she
had the pear orchard battlefield, she had fallen into a disadvantage against Hei Cheng's
dark veil, she could only hang on and hope that Hei Lou Lan's tribulation would finish
soon, to allow her to come over and assist her.

However, sharp tusk boar was an ancient desolate beast, destroying pear orchard was
as easy as stomping on a garden. Once pear orchard was destroyed, the three 'flower
moves' that relied on pear orchard would weaken greatly, the dark arrows would
escape.

"If that happens, all the effort I put in earlier would go to waste!" Fairy Li Shan gritted
her teeth, but right at this moment, she heard a warning from Tai Bai Yun Sheng — be
careful!

Of what?

Fairy Li Shan looked back, seeing that a dark arrow had stealthily flown over, it was
thirty centimeters away from her.

"What? But I made arrangements around here…” Fairy Li Shan was shocked, but it was
too late.

The dark arrow flew over, piercing into her forehead, through her skull, and coming
out of the back of her head.

"Little aunt!" Hei Lou Lan screamed, she had finally digested all three qi and had
recovered her mobility. But the moment she opened her eyes, she saw that the relative
that had always taken good care of her was killed by a dark arrow piercing her skull,
dying a terrible death.

"It's over." Hei Cheng retrieved the ball shaped Dark Prison.

Fairy Li Shan had only sealed two dark arrows, when the two arrows combined earlier,
Hei Cheng had covertly shot out a third dark arrow. Using Dark Prison to attract Fairy
Li Shan's attention, he secretly utilized several mortal killer moves, together with dark
arrow, he took down all of the defenses around Fairy Li Shan.
However, at the next moment!

A flash of light shot over, as Fairy Li Shan returned to the state she was in a moment
ago, her injuries were gone and her skull was intact.

Immortal Gu Man as Before!

Far away, Tai Bai Yun Sheng breathed roughly as he said: "So close, I almost failed to
make it!"

Hei Cheng's pupils shrunk, his anger was rising.

He was not furious that Tai Bai Yun Sheng had ruined his battle result, but he was
angry at Xue Song Zi for not doing his best! They had agreed that he would kill Fairy
Li Shan while Xue Song Zi would kill Tai Bai Yun Sheng and the immortal zombie who
was Fang Yuan.

But the result was?

Tai Bai Yun Sheng could actually interfere in his battle!

"Xue Song Zi…” Hei Cheng gritted his teeth, he looked at the battlefield far away.

But what Hei Cheng saw was, Xue Song Zi's robe was tattered, he was escaping with
an expression of fear. His long hair had become much shorter, he was almost bald.

His face was bruised, a part of it was swollen and his body was covered in blood, one
of his arm was hanging awkwardly from his body, the bone had fractured.

Hei Cheng's pupils could not help but contract.

Xue Song Zi had healing Gu in his possession. For Gu Immortals, a fracture was not a
serious injury.

But the point was, the opponent gave Xue Song Zi absolutely no time to heal his
fracture!

This… exactly how strong was the enemy?

As if answering his question, the strength path phantom army numbering over two
hundred thousand shouted, a cry that could shake the earth.

They were a huge mob, even thicker than the tribulation cloud in the sky, chasing after
Xue Song Zi alone.

This was simply bullying!

Even this rank seven Gu Immortal Hei Cheng frowned deeply: "What is going on? Why
have these strength path phantoms not been destroyed yet, in fact, even more are
appearing?"

After that, he saw that half the phantom army was charging towards him.

Hei Cheng snorted coldly, he willed and several mortal killer moves were activated
together.

Thousand Demon Rampage! Dark Fire! Black Wind Break!

"Kill!" The myriad self army charged.

In several breaths of time, the wails of demons resounded, the dark fire dimmed, and
the black winds dissipated.

Hei Cheng who had always been confident and relaxed finally changed his expression:
"This power… this is an immortal killer move! This inconspicuous looking immortal
zombie actually has such high battle strength?"

The myriad self army pressed forth, charging into Hei Cheng's dark veil battlefield
fearlessly.

The pitch black battlefield that occupied half the sky was quickly being broken down,
it resembled the clothing of a beggar, extremely tattered.

Hei Cheng's eyes twitched, he had to retreat!

He was handsome and elegant, even when he retreated, he still kept his cool, his arms
were like butterflies fluttering in the sky, activating mortal killer moves one after
another.

But this could not stop the advancement of the myriad self army.
Just like a humongous tide, no matter how powerful his mortal killer moves were, they
were like rocks in front of a tsunami, or weak little fish, they were all swept away and
devoured mercilessly!

Hei Cheng squinted his eyes, his expression turned grim.

He finally understood how Xue Song Zi felt, facing the myriad self army, he was a great
rank seven Gu Immortal, a famous expert in northern plains, but now he felt a slight
sense of helplessness and weakness.

The army had formed into an overwhelming size, it was hard to resist!

"This immortal killer move… even if I use Dark Prison and release the sharp tusk boar,
it might not be its match!" Hei Cheng retreated under the pressure of the army.

Under this situation, if Hei Cheng wanted to turn the situation around, he would need
to kill Fang Yuan's main body using dark arrows. But two dark arrows were already
trapped by Fairy Li Shan, the remaining one could do nothing to Fang Yuan who had
Immortal Gu Worldly Wave Trace.

"This lunatic, how many beads of immortal essence did he use?!" Hei Cheng cursed in
his heart, his eyes were fixed on Fang Yuan who was on the ground.

Fang Yuan absorbed another trace of the Demon Venerable's true meaning, sensing
Hei Cheng's dangerous gaze, he looked back and gave Hei Cheng a smile of disdain.

At the same time, a large portion of the army charged towards Hei Cheng.

"This fellow!" Hei Cheng finally showed a trace of nervousness. Being pincer attacked
by two armies, he could only dodge in the sky. Even after he used countless mortal
killer moves, he could only halt the army's advancement slightly.

At this moment, the situation had become — two Gu Immortals being chased down by
Fang Yuan alone.

"Good job junior brother!"

Fairy Li Shan stood on the crown of a tree, seeing this, her expression froze slightly.
She did not expect the situation to become like this.
Over at Fang Yuan's side, he had finally destroyed the earthly calamity and obtained
all of the infusions of true meaning. His strength path attainment was still at
grandmaster realm, it did not break through again. But his transformation path
attainment rose to become a transformation master. As for his flying attainment, it
also grew significantly, he broke through master level and reached quasi-grandmaster
realm.

But Fang Yuan was not satisfied, he said to Hei Lou Lan: "Quickly, don't you have small
family qi Gu, release all of the collected earth qi, we might attract more earthly
calamities!"

Everyone heard this and was speechless.

Hei Lou Lan rolled her eyes, after the infusion of the three qi, the essence of her life
had been elevated, she had transcended mortals and became a Gu Immortal. Her body
was purified in all aspects, even the heavy injury in her eye sockets had healed
completely.

"I have to keep these small family qi Gu to refine Immortal Gu. Time is limited, let's
retreat!" Hei Lou Lan rejected Fang Yuan's suggestion and shouted.

Fang Yuan licked his lips, unsatisfied. But since she did not agree, there was nothing
he could do.

Everyone gathered and entered Fang Yuan's immortal aperture.

Fang Yuan looked at the icy plain battlefield longingly, finally using Fixed Immortal
Travel.

Three breaths later, he vanished, returning to Snowy Mountain blessed land.

"We're letting him leave?" Xue Song Zi and Hei Cheng gathered.

Hei Cheng's brows rose, he said coldly: "Even if I have Instant Pause, can you break
through the defense of these strength path phantoms?"

Xue Song Zi looked at the remaining myriad self army in the battlefield and was unable
to say a word.
In the quiet room at the third branch peak of Snowy Mountain.

It was fine weather outside. Clear blue sky, refreshing air and tall white snowy
mountains combined to form a tranquil and boundless view.

The fragrance of tea filled the quiet room.

Fang Yuan was gasping as he lay down with his body full of injuries; thin streams of
zombie blood flowed out from the wounds and accumulated on the ground.

However, he did not care and also did not feel any pain. Seven minutes had gone by
already since he had closed his eyes to rest.

Besides him, there were three others in the quiet room.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was standing next to Fang Yuan, quickly moving his hands, emitting
rays of black light that were healing Fang Yuan's injuries.

Fairy Li Shan was sitting at her old spot beside the window, absent-mindedly brewing
tea, while most of her attention was focused on Hei Lou Lan who was beside her.

Hei Lou Lan was sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed, her face looked solemn and
respectful like a jade statue.

There were three steps in immortal ascension: shattering the aperture, receiving qi
and releasing Gu. She had completed the first two steps when undergoing tribulation
in the icy plain. And after returning to the quiet room using Fixed Immortal Travel, she
had started the third step.

With her foundation, the creation of her immortal aperture was a settled matter. Right
now, she was probably refining Immortal Gu in her immortal aperture and resisting
the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity formed in there.

By the looks of it, she was going to complete this step alone and did not want an
outsider's help.

However, if there was any problem, Hei Lou Lan would immediately ask for help; Fang
Yuan, Fairy Li Shan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng would have to quickly enter Hei Lou Lan's
immortal aperture and resist the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity.

By the time the tea was boiling and gurgling, Hei Lou Lan let out a breath of turbid air
and slowly opened her eyes.

This movement immediately attracted the other three's gazes.

Fairy Li Shan stopped brewing and placed the teapot down in a hurry, asking in
concern: "Success?"

Hei Lou Lan nodded.

Fairy Li Shan took a deep breath, her eyes reddened as she spoke in a choked voice
filled with excitement and relief: "Little Lan, you have the Great Strength True Martial
Physique and now have succeeded in becoming an immortal, you possess a super
grade blessed land and have extraordinary potential. Truly, after a dark cloud comes
a clear sky, if sister knew of this in the afterlife, she would certainly be happy!"

When an ordinary Gu Master advanced to Gu Immortal, their blessed land could be

classified into one of three grades: high, middle or low.

When one of the ten extreme physiques advanced to Gu Immortal, they would be
taking an enormous risk and naturally would have bigger gains. If their immortal
ascension succeeded, their blessed land would be a super grade blessed land!

High grade blessed lands were formed with a size of 4700km2 to 6000km2, drew in a
large tributary of the river of time and created over thirty beads of immortal essence.
There would be plenty of heaven and earth qi remaining which could mutually interact
and refine the vital Gu and core Gu into Immortal Gu.

Super grade blessed lands were even larger with a territory of over 6700 km2. The
tributary of the river of time it drew in would be gigantic and the amount of green
grape immortal essence created would surpass fifty beads! If there was nothing
unexpected, it could create at least two Immortal Gu.

Hei Lou Lan appeared tranquil: "I have succeeded in advancing to Gu Immortal but
have yet to kill that old scumbag."

Her indifferent tone contained a deep and piercing hatred.

"Hei Lou Lan, I hate to be blunt but the chances of killing Hei Cheng with only the four
of us, even if he is alone, are rather low." Tai Bai Yun Sheng coughed, and said.

"Right, defeating a Gu Immortal is easy but killing is another thing altogether." Fang
Yuan heaved a deep sigh as he stood up, the injuries on his body had essentially healed.

Previously, in his battle with Gu Immortal Plump Lady in western desert, he had
obtained superiority but Plump Lady had still escaped.

This time, he battled Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi, his phantom army had taken the lead
and were able to wreak havoc, but they couldn't trap the two Gu Immortals and could
only let them retreat safely.

Myriad self was strong but there was nothing to be done about it if the enemy did not
engage you head-on.

Gu Immortals were smart and knew to avoid the enemy's strong points. In truth, Fang
Yuan's second battle with Hei Cheng could only be considered a draw.

It was true that Fang Yuan had the upper hand, but it was hard to maintain this
dominance for long; if the time was stretched on, the strength path phantoms would
dissipate and it would then be Hei Cheng's turn to counterattack.

This immortal killer move indeed could build up to a big advantage, but not to the
extent of being at complete dominance against Hei Cheng.

Thus, when Hei Lou Lan said to retreat, Fang Yuan did not oppose. He stopped at the
right time and activated Fixed Immortal Travel, bringing them back here.

Hei Lou Lan looked at Fang Yuan and gave a slight smile: "To be able to succeed this
time in resisting the enemy and allowing me to pass the tribulation is thanks to your
strength."
"Since we are allies, we naturally need to help each other out." A sharp light flashed
through Fang Yuan's eyes.

He helped Hei Lou Lan this time, and when Immortal Crane Sect attacks Hu Immortal
blessed land later, they would also have to help Fang Yuan according to the alliance
agreement.

It involved reciprocity in mutual benefits for both sides.

"According to the previous agreement, here is small family qi Gu's recipe. Also, of the
thirty immortal essence stones I lent, you only need to return half." Fairy Li Shan
spoke.

She by now had a hint of Fang Yuan's nature, only tangible benefits matched his tastes.

Fang Yuan accepted the recipe for small family qi Gu, then sighed: "In this battle, I won
and also lost, consuming over sixty green grape immortal essence. The fifteen
immortal essence stones I owe you, I am afraid it might take some time for me to
return them."

Fairy Li Shan was in a good mood because of Hei Lou Lan's success in advancing, she
immediately stated: "No need to hurry, whenever your circumstances are better, you
can return them to me and I also won't collect any interest on them. Also, didn't you
ask us about wisdom path inheritances?"

"Could it be that you have some clues?" Fang Yuan was pleasantly surprised.

Fairy Li Shan slowly said: "There is a clue. You are also aware of northern plains'
number one wisdom path Gu Immortal, Dong Fang Chang Fan's death some months
ago. He left behind an intact wisdom path inheritance for his successor, Dong Fang Yu
Liang, but Dong Fang Yu Liang is only a mortal and it will be hard for him to preserve
a Gu Immortal inheritance, especially when this inheritance is a wisdom path
inheritance."

"According to the tip-off, Dong Fang Chang Fan has placed this wisdom path
inheritance in a hidden place and even Dong Fang tribe's other Gu Immortals don't
know about its exact position. Only Dong Fang Yu Liang holds the key clue."

Even though just before his death, Dong Fang Chang Fan had formed a non-aggression
pact with Huang Jin tribes and other super forces.
However, he had not formed an agreement with demonic path Gu Immortals. His
capability had not reached the point where it could sweep through both righteous and
demonic.

Dong Fang Chang Fan's wisdom path inheritance had already attracted the covetous
gazes of many demonic path Gu Immortals. Even Dong Fang tribe's other Gu
Immortals had some thoughts on it.

Thus, Dong Fang Chang Fan made these arrangements, completely hiding his wisdom
path inheritance and leaving it to only his approved successor - Dong Fang Yu Liang.

Fang Yuan was forced to think: 'I have the wisdom path Immortal Gu Delight in Water
and Mountain, but my use of it is crude at best and I am unable to display the essence
of wisdom path. Treasure yellow heaven has wisdom path Gu worms on sale, but a
complete wisdom path inheritance would never be on sale. Wisdom path Gu worms
are easy to obtain while wisdom path inheritances are rather hard to get. If I can
obtain this complete wisdom path inheritance, I believe I will be able to use fewer
wills and thoughts to deduce more items.'

Dong Fang Chang Fan was the number one Gu Immortal of wisdom path in northern
plains while he was alive. His inheritance would naturally arouse Fang Yuan's interest.

But lying in front of Fang Yuan was a super force, the colossus Dong Fang tribe.

Dong Fang tribe had lost Dong Fang Chang Fan, but it still had several Gu Immortals
to maintain the situation. On the contrary, Fang Yuan had just been in an intense battle
with Hei Cheng and spent most of his green grape immortal essence, it was not
possible for him to display the same mighty presence of the myriad self army in a short
while.

"Right now, many demonic path Gu Immortals have already allied in secret to conspire
for Dong Fang Chang Fan's wisdom path inheritance. Back when Dong Fang Chang Fan
was alive, both the righteous and demonic path of northern plains suffered losses from
him, many were schemed against and suffered setbacks under his hands. Reportedly,
his successor Dong Fang Yu Liang has talents and aptitude as strong as Dong Fang
Chang Fan's. Most of northern plains' Gu Immortals are not willing to see a second
Dong Fang Chang Fan." Fairy Li Shan continued.

"Several months ago, some demonic path Gu Immortals already sought me out to use
my mountain pledge Gu to reach a temporary alliance in their scheme for the wisdom
path inheritance. But I had already made an alliance agreement with Dong Fang Chang
Fan by then and could not make any moves against Dong Fang tribe. Fang Yuan, if you
want, I can act as go-between and let you join this alliance. They would have a lot more
detailed information and will be of great help to you when you contend for the
inheritance."

Fang Yuan did not refuse but also did not immediately agree: "I need some time to
consider."

"There is no hurry." Hei Lou Lan said, "Right now, the biggest news in northern plains
is the matter of Qin Bai Sheng capturing Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun, holding the
essence of the luck path true inheritance. This matter has already caused a commotion
among most of the Gu Immortals of northern plains, even those rank eight old
monsters are said to have come out of their seclusions."

Hei Lou Lan revealed a ridiculing expression: "Hehe, Qin Bai Sheng is a rank seven Gu
Immortal, an expert among lone cultivators, having overpowering metal path battle
strength and even being somewhat stronger than that old scoundrel Hei Cheng, but
this luck path true inheritance is a thorny matter, almost all of northern plains' Gu
Immortals are looking to deal with him. Right now, Gu Immortals from all around are
rushing over, while Qin Bai Sheng is a lone force and even though he occupies a blessed
land, there will be countless difficulties for him in resisting these assaults, his life will
certainly be quite hard."

A cold light vaguely flashed in Fang Yuan's eyes before he muttered: "We are the
survivors of the wind veil of assimilation. Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun were also
involved in the event! Although they escaped early, they know about us and are
barriers for us to move freely in northern plains."

Since the destruction of Imperial Court blessed land and the collapse of Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building, formless hands had carried many Immortal Gu to all parts of
northern plains, causing chaos, commotion and frequent battles in the world of
northern plains' Gu Immortals.

Afterwards, when most of the escaped wild Immortal Gu had been captured, the
situation had calmed somewhat.

Now, however, the news of Qin Bai Sheng capturing Ma and Zhao caused
undercurrents revolving around Qin Bai Sheng to surge in northern plains and the
luck path true inheritance slowly formed tiny waves. As time passed, these tiny waves
would definitely evolve into a huge storm that would engulf the whole of northern
plains.

Fang Yuan, compared to other Gu Immortals, had much more reason to be involved in
this.

However, his current strength appeared rather weak in front of such an enormous
storm.

Without speaking any further, Fang Yuan took his leave and returned to Hu Immortal
blessed land alone.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng remained here to heal Hei Lou Lan. Hei Lou Lan had passed the
tribulation of her Immortal Gu, her immortal aperture was in ruins and required Tai
Bai Yun Sheng's Landscape as Before.
Hei tribe, Iron Eagle blessed land.

This was Hei tribe's base camp, the blessed land was huge and extensive, it was small
at the bottom and large at the top.

Because of Hei tribe's first generation ancestor's unique specialties, Iron Eagle blessed
land had little land, but the higher up in the air one went, the larger the space.

A sky that greatly exceeded that of ordinary blessed lands had countless circular
wooden eagle nests floating in it.

These eagle nests were like small hills, innumerable iron eagles rested in them. The
cries of eagles resounded endlessly, when a group of eagles flew, vast numbers of them
traveled in formation, it was a spectacular view.

At the highest part of this blessed land, there was a garden.

The garden's artificial mountain had a pavilion on it.

In the pavilion, four supreme elders of Hei tribe were sitting around a square stone
table, they had differing expressions.

First supreme elder had a solemn expression, second supreme elder was shutting his
eyes and resting, third supreme elder was thinking with a troubled expression, fourth
supreme elder's face was full of sweat.

The atmosphere was heavy, it was like the calm before the storm.

"My dear lord third elder, how long are you going to continue thinking?" Fourth
supreme elder urged with an impatient tone.

"Rush, rush, rush, you only know how to rush me, don't you know this is a crucial
moment? At this point, if I make the wrong move, my dozens of years of hard work
would go down the drain!" Third supreme elder yapped away, his emotions becoming
even more agitated.

He looked at first supreme elder in front of him, before looking at second supreme
elder to the left, both of them had unchanging expressions, third supreme elder could
not discern anything from their faces and the pressure in his heart intensified.

Right at this time, a figure slowly rose from below, quickly approaching this pavilion.

Hei tribe's second supreme elder opened a slit in each of his eyes, saying slowly: "Oh,
Hei Cheng is back."

Hei Cheng entered the pavilion and paid respects to the four supreme elders.

These four supreme elders had deeper foundations than him in both status and
cultivation. But with regards to battle strength, it was unknown until they fought
seriously.

But within the tribe, Gu Immortal would spar at most, how could they fight seriously?

Furthermore, in righteous path forces, other than central continent's sect system, the
other four regions looked at bloodline and seniority within their clans and tribes, even
if Hei Cheng had higher battle strength, he would still need to respect them as a junior
when he sees these four supreme elders.

"First elder, this is Dark Prison, I am returning it now." Hei Cheng took out the rank six
Immortal Gu House and returned it to first supreme elder after paying respects to
them.

First supreme elder took the Immortal Gu House Dark Prison, exclaiming: "You did not
use Dark Prison, it seems your operation was very successful?"

Saying this, first supreme elder's gaze was still fixed on the stone table, he was only
asking Hei Cheng casually.

Hei Cheng laughed: "It was very fortunate, this time the trip was smooth sailing, we
have successfully suppressed Qiao tribe."

Qiao tribe was a large sized tribe, because all of Hei tribe's members inside Imperial
Court blessed land had perished, Qiao tribe which was under them had become
tempted to try and leave their control.

"Hmph, Qiao tribe's Gu Immortal, Qiao Dong, became an immortal due to my guidance
back then. It has only been a few decades, his loyalty has wavered?" Second supreme
elder said plainly.

"Therefore, this time, I struck and taught that Qiao Dong a lesson. Within five years,
there should be no issues." Hei Cheng laughed calmly.

The suppression of Qiao tribe was an excuse HeI Cheng had prepared long ago.

Hei Cheng wanted to deal with his own daughter, Hei Lou Lan, this was not a righteous
thing to do, he could only do it secretly.

He had planned to use Dark Prison to suppress Hei Lou Lan, preventing her from self-
detonating. But he could not directly say this to the first supreme elder. Thus, he used
Qiao tribe as an excuse, saying: In order to prevent any accidents when suppressing
Qiao tribe, he borrowed Dark Prison.

"Five years?" Second supreme elder chuckled, shaking his head: "Northern plains is in
a complete mess now, True Yang Building collapsed, the culprit has not been found.
Wild Immortal Gu have been appearing constantly, all the different forces are fighting
intensely. Especially now, Qin Bai Sheng's incident is becoming more heated, this
involves Giant Sun's inheritance, even those rank eight old fossils are getting ready to
strike."

Fourth supreme elder sighed: "True Yang Building collapsed, Imperial Court blessed
land was destroyed as well, the Imperial Court contest has lost its meaning. What do
we do from now on? All of the Huang Jin tribes, what procedures will they follow, we
have no idea!"

Hei Cheng understood their intentions after hearing this, he lowered his head: "Junior
understands, I will be more strict in handling the tribes, especially Qiao tribe, Huo
tribe, and Zhuo tribe, these three vassals."

"That's right, this time, the entirety of Hei tribe died inside Imperial Court blessed
land. There cannot be no display of Hei tribe in northern plains, Hei Cheng, go out into
the blessed land and pick carefully, bring a portion of the tribesmen out and rebuild
Hei tribe in northern plains." Third supreme elder thought about his tough problem
as he gave his view on this matter.
"Yes, don't worry third elder. I have already started preparing. In half a month,
northern plains' Hei tribe will be rebuilt." Hei Cheng answered.

"Alright, alright, let Hei Cheng handle the matters of the mortal tribe affairs, we have
no worries. Third supreme elder, if you have the time to care about this, why don't you
decide on the problem ahead. What tile are you playing?" Fourth supreme elder urged.

Third supreme elder's gaze flickered, he was very hesitant, but he finally gritted his
teeth and made up his mind, playing a tile.

At the same time, he called out: "Three tiao!"

Immediately, all the other elders had differing expressions.

First supreme elder could not stay serious anymore, he laughed loudly, flipping over
his tiles: "Haha, I won!"

"Argh!" Third supreme elder patted his leg with much force, he grabbed his snow
white beard as he sighed: "If I knew, I would not have played three tiao, but six wan
instead!"

After hearing this, second supreme elder stared with his eyes wide open, he turned
over his own tiles, saying to supreme third elder: "Then play six wan, my set could've
won with either four wan or six wan."

"Alright, enough, stop arguing. Quickly make the deal, I'm waiting to recoup my
losses!" Fourth supreme elder said impatiently.

"Here, this is the Gu recipe that I researched after spending thirty years." Third
supreme elder admitted his loss, he slammed one east window Gu on the table in front
of first supreme elder.

First supreme elder took the east window Gu: "Alright, let's go to the next round. Same
rules, we are not to use any Gu worms to cheat. We will state the wager first, I have
two immortal essence stones."

"Ancient Gu recipe of crescent moon Gu."

"Twenty pieces of grey heart rock."

"A group of dragon eye fish, there is a fish emperor included."

Swish swish swish…

Eight arms swept around the stone table, shuffling the tiles.

Hei Cheng was silently standing at the side, he was very used to these four Hei tribe
supreme elders' gambling habits.

The game they were playing was called quartet sparrow battle tactic, it was invented
by a mortal genius back in earlier years of Hei tribe, mainly to bootlick the first
supreme elder.

After first supreme elder obtained it, he had been playing it daily with the other three
supreme elders, competing and engaging in 'battle'. Hei tribe's external affairs were
almost all handled by Hei Cheng.

"Then, elders, junior will take his leave." Hei Cheng said.

"Go, go." The supreme elders waved their hands, they had started assembling their
hand tiles as they replied to him halfheartedly.

A group of iron eagles flew outside the pavilion, they were screeching as suddenly, the
eagle group spread and three desolate eagles appeared, with battle strength
equivalent to rank six. One was a dragon eagle with a powerful aura, while the other
two were iron crown eagles, having great spirit.

"Shoo, shoo." Third supreme elder waved his sleeves unhappily: "So noisy."

"Hehehe." First supreme elder had a kind and merciful smile, he waved his sleeves and
a lot of food was sprinkled in the air.

The eagle group made happy cries, fighting for the food in the air.

Hei Cheng left Iron Eagle blessed land, flying towards the southwest direction, after
flying for several minutes, he met Xue Song Zi.

Xue Song Zi had rested sufficiently, he no longer looked as pathetic as before, but he
sighed when he saw Hei Cheng: "The situation has become troublesome. I just
obtained some information, do you know which force has control of fixed immortal
travel Immortal Gu?"

Hei Cheng replied: "You want to say, Immortal Crane Sect of central continent's ten
ancient sects?"

"You already knew? When?" Xue Song Zi was slightly unhappy.

Hei Lou Lan snorted coldly: "Not too long ago. Earlier, Dong Fang Chang Fan deduced
that Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's matter was related to central continent. Now,
Hei Lou Lan has a mysterious immortal zombie around her that controls Fixed
Immortal Travel. They are likely the same batch of people!"

Xue Song Zi's eyes narrowed, he fell into silence.

Honestly speaking, this information caught him off guard. He originally thought that
they were dealing with a small mortal woman, to think that such a huge force like
Immortal Crane Sect was involved now.

Although he had joined Snowy Mountain, this was only a loose alliance, demonic path
Gu Immortals were usually selfish and only cared about self interest, they were not as
united as the righteous path.

Hei Cheng's predicament was very awkward as well.

Although he was a Hei tribe Gu Immortal, something as shameless as targeting his

own daughter could not be known to everyone. Even though many righteous path Gu
Immortals were two faced and usually acted differently in public, they at least
appeared righteous to the world.

Hei Cheng's matter could not be exposed, thus he could only act alone, even Dark
Prison had to be borrowed using an excuse.

"Hmph, I wanted to kill a cat, but to think I messed with a tiger. Hei Cheng, I don't care!
Since your secret is in my hands, I want five hundred immortal essence stones. Give
me a copy of the yin-yang life extension method as well." Xue Song Zi broke the silence,
his expression was ruthless.

He was not sincerely working with Hei Cheng in the first place, after realizing that
Fang Yuan and others had deep backgrounds, he wanted to retreat now.
A cold light flashed in Hei Cheng's eyes, he stared at Xue Song Zi as he said slowly: "You
know my situation. If you force me, at most, both of us will go down, you will get
nothing!"

"You! Aren't you afraid…”

"Hmph, if I cannot catch Hei Lou Lan, I cannot gain lifespan, I am about to die, why
would I care about reputation?"

Xue Song Zi was shivering in fury after hearing Hei Cheng's unscrupulous words, his
eyes were blood shot: "Who could have thought that the grand Lord Hei Cheng is
actually like this."

Hei Cheng shrugged nonchalantly: "Hehe, think what you want. Xue Song Zi, you were
too naive. At this point, do you think you can keep out of this matter? Hei Lou Lan takes
revenge very seriously, she has Fairy Li Shan backing her, do you think Snowy
Mountain would care about you, the seventh peak's branch head, as opposed to the
third leader?"

"There is something else I want to tell you. Central continent's Gu Immortals are ready
to strike, the ten great ancient sects have created an allied force to charge into
northern plains. Right now, the entirety of northern plains is in chaos, I'm sure that
with Fairy Li Shan's skills, it would not be hard for her to use the central continent Gu
Immortals as an excuse to indirectly kill you, that does not violate the Snowy Mountain
union pact, right?"

Xue Song Zi's expression paled.

"Hei Cheng, you, you are actually threatening me! Rub me the wrong way and I will
make sure all your dirty deeds are known by the whole world!!" Xue Song Zi was
furious.

Hei Cheng sneered: "Go ahead, do it quickly. Truthfully speaking, Su Xian Er was your
Snowy Mountain's pawn, intentionally arranged to get close to me and infiltrate Hei
tribe's higher level. The so-called Su Xian's Night Elopement is no more than a
conspiracy. Not long later, Su tribe was annihilated, did you think it was my Hei tribe
that had a hand in it? Hmph! You guys from Snowy Mountain did it to conclude matters
for Su Xian Er, clearing away all the traces!"

"What? This, why haven't I heard of it?" Xue Song Zi showed an incredulous look upon
hearing this astonishing piece of news.

"What would you know? You are only the owner of the seventh branch peak. The
higher levels of Snowy Mountain always has only had three decision makers. I know
you don't believe me, but I have conclusive proof." Hei Cheng took out an east window
Gu and threw it to Xue Song Zi.

Xue Song Zi took the east window Gu and cast his consciousness into it, a while later,
his forehead was filled with cold sweat.

Hei Cheng gazed at the sky and heaved a long sigh, revealing a bleak look: "Back then,
I was publicly recognized as a Gu Immortal seed, but it was because I was ignorant at
my young age that I fell into the conspiracy. Su Xian's Night Elopement, hehe, Su Xian's
Night Elopement is nothing more than a meticulously planned conspiracy for the
demonic and righteous paths to infiltrate each other."

"I married Su Xian Er, we had Lou Lan, I truly thought the days would keep on passing
by blissfully. However, one day, a Gu Immortal suddenly appeared before me and
threw the conclusive evidence to me. And what you are looking at is only a portion of
this evidence."

"How can this be? How can this be?" Xue Song Zi mumbled.

This evidence turned everything upside-down.

Even if Hei Cheng used the yin-yang life extension method to scheme against his own
wife, this was actually a matter of enmity between righteous and demonic. Hei Cheng's
action of taking down his family when justice demanded it would not create reproach
but instead be praised and admired.

"You set me up! You set me up!!" Xue Song Zi pointed at Hei Cheng in extreme fury.

He had thought he was the one holding the initiative by having a handle on Hei Cheng,
but he had never expected to be instead entrapped by Hei Cheng.

Xue Song Zi naively followed Hei Cheng to hunt Hei Lou Lan and battle Fairy Li Shan,
causing his current worrying plight. Hei Lou Lan, Fairy Li Shan as well as central
continent's ancient sect force became a shadow that refused to leave Xue Song Zi's
mind.

Hei Cheng restrained his feelings and looked at Xue Song Zi: "And now, I have a new
piece of evidence. Do you remember when Hei Lou Lan was transcending the
tribulation, how did she address Fairy Li Shan? Fairy Li Shan and Su Xian Er are likely
to have a blood relation. I have Su Xian Er's blood with me and also Hei Lou Lan's
blood, I will have additional conclusive proof when we confront Snowy Mountain in
the future."

Xue Song Zi breathed roughly before he was able to forcibly calm down: "Good, Hei
Cheng, you are truly outstanding. I had not even extorted you of a few dozens of
immortal essence stones but was pulled into this messy business by you, being
plunged into your trap. Right, I must acknowledge that even if you take actions against
Hei Lou Lan, making every attempt to capture her, it could just be brushed off as a
father educating his daughter who hopes she would be aware of her mistakes. As long
as you don't use the yin-yang life extension method on Hei Lou Lan, I won't have any
real handle on you! But, your scheme can only stop here, you are a lone force while the
other has joined hands with a central continent influence. Hehe, Hei Lou Lan has
already become a strength path extreme physique immortal, it is now even more
difficult for you to capture her."
Hei Cheng sank into silence.

Xue Song Zi continued explaining, his thoughts becoming keener: "My situation is
worrisome but your days also won't pass by well. You harmed Su Xian Er, Hei Lou Lan's
hatred runs extremely deeply, and who is to say central continent's force also won't
look to trouble you!"

"Thus, you two are tied together, and you only have a hope of victory if you cooperate
with my side." A female voice suddenly interrupted Xue Song Zi and Hei Cheng's
conversation.

"Who is this?!" Xue Song Zi was truly startled.

A graceful figure slowly appeared. This was a female Gu Immortal who was wearing
purple garments; she was charming and lovely, and her beautiful face showed a light
smile.

Xue Song Zi was not someone with poor knowledge and after being dazed for a
moment, he reacted: "So it is Fairy Jiang Yu."

He then looked towards Hei Cheng.

All of northern plains' Gu Immortals knew that Fairy Jiang Yu was Hei Cheng's twenty
seventh concubine who was similarly a dark path Gu Immortal, and possessed dark
limit Immortal Gu, which could conceal inspirations and make it difficult for others to
make deductions.

The reason why Hei Lou Lan was able to hold on for so long, and not explode because
of the Great Strength True Martial Physique, was because Fairy Jiang Yu had used dark
limit Immortal Gu to seal the aura of one of the ten extreme physiques on Hei Lou Lan,
preventing its induction within heaven and earth.

However, who would have thought that upon seeing Fairy Jiang Yu, Hei Cheng's
attitude would turn extremely cold, he snorted: "As expected, you came."

"Many years ago, when I first brought evidence regarding Su Xian's Night Elopement
to you, I had said — I will appear when you need me." Fairy Jiang Yu revealed a
mysterious smile, "So what do you think? Like I said before, you won't be able to
capture Hei Lou Lan by just yourself, you will instead only create a bigger commotion.
You can only cooperate with my side to have hope."
Xue Song Zi looked at Hei Cheng then at Jiang Yu, his gaze traveling back and forth
between them.

He was shocked at how Hei Cheng and Jiang Yu were conversing. Fairy Jiang Yu's
identity was not ordinary, and seemed to be a representative of a mysterious force.
The reason Hei Cheng could know of the deceit that was Su Xian's Night Elopement
was because of Fairy Jiang Yu's notice.

Hei Cheng lowered his eyes. Fairy Jiang Yu was able to appear so close to him without
being discovered, this caused Hei Cheng's apprehension of Jiang Yu to deepen by a
layer.

Fairy Jiang Yu was on the surface a lone cultivator of northern plains, and Hei Cheng's
beloved concubine, but in truth was shrouded in a fog of mystery.

Hei Cheng fell into deep thought.

He was not at all afraid of Fang Yuan's myriad self army and actually had some disdain
towards it inwardly. Despite not having methods to confront it head-on, Gu Immortal
combat paid attention to contests in every aspect. Just based on how the myriad self
army was not able to chase down Hei Cheng, its threat had heavily decreased to him.

In the previous battle, if not for Hei Lou Lan's side taking the initiative to retreat, Hei
Cheng would have no doubt occupied the upper hand when the strength path
phantoms dissipated and could even turn around the situation to a victorious one.

Even Xue Song Zi who had been fleeing in disarray from the myriad self was not
worried about fighting Fang Yuan again.

The reason was that myriad self was an immortal killer move, Fang Yuan's immortal
essence expenditure was too high, and in spite of this it did not have true killing power.
Xue Song Zi could just activate mortal killer moves to resist it. After this was repeated
a few times, how much more immortal essence could Fang Yuan, as an immortal
zombie, still have? Once his immortal essence was expended, Xue Song Zi could
display his might and settle affairs with Fang Yuan.

Hei Cheng's apprehension was towards Fang Yuan's background, to Immortal Crane
Sect, and central continent's Gu Immortals.

He also had not expected that his investigation of Fixed Immortal Travel would involve
such a colossus. Dong Fang Chang Fan had already deduced that the collapse of Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building was due to the workings of central continent's Gu Immortals.

Central continent's Gu Immortals could destroy even Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's
arrangements. Let alone with the insignificant Hei Cheng?

Like Hei Cheng, Xue Song Zi also had similar worries.

They were both scared by Fang Yuan's 'background', if they knew Immortal Crane Sect
was thinking of every possible means to deal with Fang Yuan, they absolutely would
not be this nervous.

"Looking at the present situation, it seems we can only have the chance of success by
collaborating with your side. But before cooperating, as a fundamental part of good
faith, shouldn't you tell me which force you are representing?" Hei Cheng asked Fairy
Jiang Yu after pondering for a while.

Fairy Jiang Yu thought for a moment, she knew Hei Cheng was an uncompromising
person; if she lied or refused, he would probably just turn around and abruptly leave.

She decided to tell the truth: "Well, there is no harm in telling you. The force I
represent is spread throughout the five regions and its name is Shadow Sect."

Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi glanced at each other.

Central continent, Hu Immortal blessed land.

"Twenty-eight green grape immortal essence and half an immortal essence stone."
Fang Yuan calculated the wealth he had remaining.

After going through the battle during Hei Lou Lan's tribulation, Fang Yuan's hard
earned and accumulated funds immediately returned to their original state.

Before the battle, Fang Yuan had ninety-one beads of green grape immortal essence,
but he had activated the killer move myriad self close to fifty times, to form an army
of nearly five hundred thousand strength path phantoms.

During the battle, Fang Yuan repeatedly used delight in water and mountain Immortal
Gu, Worldly Wave Trace and other Immortal Gu, consuming over a dozen beads of
green grape immortal essence.
Thus, the remaining green grape immortal essence did not even total thirty beads.

"I still owe Fairy Li Shan fifteen immortal essence stones and fifteen immortal essence
stones to Lang Ya land spirit as well. I can delay the payment to Fairy Li Shan as long
as necessary. But I need to return the immortal essence stones I owe to Lang Ya land
spirit as soon as possible; if it is delayed, the interest will only get higher."

Fang Yuan's relationship with Lang Ya land spirit was still only ordinary.

When Lang Ya land spirit lent immortal essence stones to Fang Yuan, although he did
not demand an exorbitant price, but he still, as per convention, took a ten percent
interest.

That is to say, Fang Yuan would have to return at least sixteen and a half immortal
essence stones to Lang Ya land spirit. If a month passed, another one and half immortal
essence stone would have to be added.

Two months was three immortal essence stones and so on.

Even if a month did not pass, he would still have to pay one and half immortal essence
stones, this was the minimum interest.

How could outsiders lend money for no reason and without any benefits?

The alliance between Fang Yuan, Fairy Li Shan and the others had an agreement. When
one side helps other, the price they paid would be doubly compensated.

This agreement had been implemented in Fang Yuan's first battle with Hei Cheng.

However, this time, Fang Yuan did not just pay a price, he also obtained enormous
benefits.

His strength path realm advanced to grandmaster level, he raised transformation path
from practically nothing to master level, while his flying attainment advanced to quasi-
grandmaster level.

Adding in small family qi Gu and the fifteen immortal essence stones exempted from
the debt, these benefits had far surpassed the price Fang Yuan had paid, thus Fairy Li
Shan did not compensate.
"Thinking back now, Hei Lou Lan might have intentionally set this situation up,
attempting to use the Demon Venerable's realm's true meaning to make me work
myself to the bone." Now that Fang Yuan recalled the situation, he felt he had fallen in
Hei Lou Lan's scheme.

If not for the Demon Venerable's true meaning, Fang Yuan absolutely would not have
spent so much green grape immortal essence and formed such a large strength path
phantom army. If the situation was not good, Fang Yuan could have even retreated.
After all, the alliance agreement had no clause that said one had to fight till death.

The Snowy Mountain Alliance was quite lenient.

Fang Yuan had vaguely felt this during the battle. But this was an upright plot, even if
Fang Yuan discovered Hei Lou Lan's attempt, he would have still dived right in,
because the benefits were just that great!
In the underground cave, the air was filled with the rainbow colored light of wisdom.

A small mushroom forest was growing here. Wisdom Gu was sprawled atop the
mushroom king at the center of the forest, not moving.

Fang Yuan sat close by, using the light of wisdom to make his deductions.

Afterwards, he let out a breath of foggy air: "The second Immortal Gu recipe has been
completed."

He looked at his green grape immortal essence, he did not have much originally, only
twenty or so of them. After deducing two eighty percent remnant recipes, he had
eleven left.

"The third Immortal Gu remnant recipe is eighty-six percent complete, eleven green
grape immortal essence beads should be enough."

Fang Yuan looked at the delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu, it was glistening
brightly and had no issues.

Many days had passed since Hei Lou Lan's tribulation. Because it was used intensely
in battle, cleanse soul Immortal Gu was hungry already, while delight in water and
mountain Immortal Gu had been activated many times, but its condition was still good,
it was not hungry.

Fang Yuan felt baffled at first, but after he asked Mo Yao's will, who was in his immortal
aperture, he understood why.

It turned out Mo Yao's fake will needed to be replenished constantly.

Mo Yao did not have a Gu to produce fake will, she used many Gu worms to convert
the joyful will into fake will.
Thus, when she fed Gu worms, the one she paid most attention to was the delight in
water and mountain Immortal Gu. Delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu was
fed till it was completely full by Mo Yao's will, she did not feed it only when it was
hungry. Thus, even though Fang Yuan was using it extensively, there was still some
time until he needed to feed the delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu.

This was evidently a good thing.

After all, activating a hungry Immortal Gu forcefully could cause it to die.

Cleanse soul Immortal Gu was already hungry, thus, it was much more risky for Fang
Yuan to use the killer move myriad self. Perhaps the next time he used this immortal
killer move, cleanse soul Immortal Gu would be destroyed in the process.

Deducing Immortal Gu recipes was Fang Yuan's most important source of income now.
If delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu could not be used, Fang Yuan would fall
into a difficult situation again.

Fang Yuan activated delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu again, he started
deducing the third Immortal Gu remnant recipe.

This time, he had obtained the Demon Venerable true meaning infusion, it was quite
a bit of help to deducing Immortal Gu remnant recipes.

That was because the true meaning infusion was the same as taking in Reckless Savage
Demon Venerable's understanding towards cultivation, it directly increased Fang
Yuan's foundation, it could raise his realm of cultivation.

As for the deduction of Gu recipes, it one's own foundation as the basis, the stronger
their foundations, the higher the efficiency of the deduction.

Even though refinement path attainment level was the most important, because there
were many elements to consider, strength path and transformation path would be
involved as well in these thought processes.

Two days later, Fang Yuan completed his deduction, he obtained three complete
Immortal Gu recipes.

He brought these Immortal Gu recipes over to Lang Ya blessed land and completed the
transaction with Lang Ya land spirit.
Not only did he clear his debt and account for the expenditure of his green grape
immortal essence, he still earned eleven immortal essence stones as profit.

Everything was back on track now.

Eight days later, Fang Yuan handed another three completed Immortal Gu recipes to
Lang Ya land spirit and completed the fifth deal.

At this point, he had thirty-six immortal essence stones and twenty-seven green grape
immortal essence beads.

Fang Yuan slightly relaxed after that.

Because of the battle with Hei Cheng, he almost went into the red and his finances
threatened to collapse.

According to the economic term on Earth, he had almost caused the situation of a cash
flow shortfall.

"Although the immortal killer move, myriad self, has great strength, I need to consume
a bead of green grape immortal essence every time I use it. If I use it many times, the
expenditure would be huge. I need to be careful when I use it in the future, otherwise,
it will just drain my finances and cause me to lose out, even if I win the fight."

Fang Yuan inwardly alerted himself in his mind.

When Gu Immortals cultivate, they had to consider many aspects, not just victory in
battle.

Like the example of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu on Earth. Liu Bang could not defeat Xiang
Yu, he lost in battles while Xiang Yu won in battles. But Liu Bang was adept in
managing the economy and had strong backing. Even though he lost each fight, he had
the capital to rise up once again, thus he was able to fight even after losing.

Xiang Yu however, although he won his fights, he had no businesses, as time passed,
and they fought even more, the difference between Liu Bang and him became smaller.
Eventually, Liu Bang won one battle and that turned into complete victory.

As for the cultivation of Gu Immortals, it was the same logic.

Battles were just a part of cultivation.

The victory and loss of battles was not too important, the important thing was the
benefits behind them.

One had to look forward for everything, they could not be shortsighted.

Even though Fang Yuan could cause Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi to suffer greatly, he
had invested too much green grape immortal essence, in contrast, Hei Cheng and Xue
Song Zi spent much less immortal essence compared to Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan also went bankrupt after this fight, but Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi were in
good condition. If Fang Yuan had to fight them again now, Fang Yuan's battle strength
would definitely be lower compared to them. If they fought for several more times, the
winner would be obvious.

Hei Cheng had the rank six Immortal Gu House Dark Prison, could he not go all out
with it? Of course he could, but the situation did not call for it.

Those who could become Gu Immortals were not rash boors that were hot blooded,
they would calculate their gains and losses after every battle.

Of course, if not for the Demon Venerable true meaning infusion, Fang Yuan would not
have expended this much green grape immortal essence.

"If I use up my green grape immortal essence, I can still replace it with immortal
essence stones. But the Demon Venerable true meaning is an extremely rare
opportunity. If I cultivate slow and steadily, I would need at least decades to reach this
stage." Fang Yuan was very aware in his heart.

After Fang Yuan completed another two Immortal Gu remnant recipes, Tai Bai Yun
Sheng finally returned from Snowy Mountain.

"You did not see the environment of the super grade blessed land, sigh, I saw it with
my own eyes. Having over 6700km2 of land, the blessed land's time flow is thirty-eight
times that of the outside world! There is much vitality and great potential in it, I could
not help but feel jealous towards it. In my opinion, the biggest winner after the battle
of this tribulation is Hei Lou Lan!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng returned and started talking
incessantly, while sighing endlessly.
After Hei Lou Lan's tribulation, she asked for Tai Bai Yun Sheng to repair the super
grade blessed land. Thus, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was lucky enough to enter Lou Lan blessed
land, it could be said to be a truly eye-opening experience.

"A super grade blessed land is precisely like that, after all one of the ten extreme
physiques becoming an immortal is like skating on thin ice, it is a fight for survival in
a deadly situation. Compared to this, I am more worried about how many Immortal
Gu Hei Lou Lan managed to refine during the third step of this immortal ascension."
Fang Yuan asked.

"Her immortal aperture was created using the flying bear strength Immortal Gu, this
strength path Immortal Gu was given to her by Giant Sun's will. Flying bear strength
Gu is now her vital Gu, but she also elevated her original core Gu, self strength Gu, to
rank six. Other than these two, she also obtained a rank six strength qi Gu." Tai Bai Yun
Sheng replied.

When Tai Bai Yun Sheng ascended to an immortal, the remaining heaven and earth qi
created his two Immortal Gu, Man as Before and Landscape as Before.

Whether Hei Lou Lan's remaining heaven and earth qi had been more than Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's, nobody knew. But what Fang Yuan did know was that she had quite a number
of small family qi Gu, these Gu had stored up some amount of heaven and earth qi.

Fang Yuan analyzed what Hei Lou Lan had: "In this case, Hei Lou Lan is confirmed to
have four Immortal Gu. They are flying bear strength Gu, self strength Gu, strength qi
Gu, and slavery Immortal Gu. Divert disaster Gu had been destroyed during the
tribulation. But don't forget, she had once destroyed the flying bear phantom and
obtained flying bear phantom Gu after suppressing it. After that, I lost my connection
with the flying bear phantom Immortal Gu. I am not sure if this Gu was taken away by
the formless hands or if it is still with her now!"

Hei Lou Lan's strength grew extremely quickly, she had at least four Immortal Gu and
was a Gu Immortal herself now, her future was immensely bright.

Furthermore, she had a close relationship with Fairy Li Shan, after getting her help,
she skipped the initial stage of being a newly advanced Gu Immortal. Fairy Li Shan did
not lack immortal essence stones, with a huge amount of investment, Lou Lan blessed
land would develop quickly.
"Hei Lou Lan who has a super grade blessed land will undoubtedly greatly exceed me
in cultivation speed. I have a high grade blessed land, compared to other Gu Immortals,
it is also a great advantage, but Hei Lou Lan is like someone who has grown wings and
is soaring. Even though we formed an alliance with her, the alliance will eventually
end. After the time limit, we will need to be careful, Fairy Li Shan has a huge network
while Hei Lou Lan is a formidable person." Tai Bai Yun Sheng's tone was worried.

The rapid growth of the genius, Hei Lou Lan, had brought great mental pressure to an
elderly man like Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

But it was worse for Fang Yuan.

His cultivation was stagnant, as long as he was still an immortal zombie, his cultivation
level would not progress.

"As long as Hei Cheng is not dead, and Ma Hong Yun's matter isn't resolved, we will
have the basis to cooperate with Hei Lou Lan. You have to be very careful when you go
to eastern sea this time. Shark Demon is not easy to deal with, if you need
reinforcements, use the moving perspective cup Gu to contact me." Fang Yuan
reminded Tai Bai Yun Sheng to be cautious.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng rested in Hu Immortal Blessed Land for two days before setting off
to eastern sea.

He was afflicted by the death sentence awaits Immortal Gu, and had promised an
immortal zombie of eastern sea, Shark Demon, to explore Yu Lu blessed land, he had
no choice but to set off.

Fang Yuan stayed in Hu Immortal blessed land, he deduced Gu recipes to earn

immortal essence stones, while also placing priority on settling the important matter
of feeding Immortal Gu.

After he completed the sixth deal, he had more than sixty immortal essence stones.

His Woman's Heart and Connect Luck were showing signs of weakness, they were
evidently famished. Together with cleanse soul Immortal Gu, he had a total of three
Immortal Gu to feed.

Cleanse soul Immortal Gu needed ten thousand white lotus giant silkworm Gu as food.
Connect luck Immortal Gu needed five thousand kilograms of sand from the ancient
desolate beast, worldly sand gull's, resting area. Poison path Immortal Gu Woman's
Heart needed the hearts of women as food.

He had no idea how to get the first two, Fang Yuan decided to settle the easiest one
first.

Western Desert.

Sand dunes were continually connected together, forming a huge and wide area of
land.

The sun was high in the sky, the air was dry and hot, it felt like a person could be
cooked in this weather.

A large sized caravan was moving forward.

The camel bells ringed, and the sounds of the vehicles could be heard constantly.

The accompanying Gu Masters used all types of Gu worms, some to reduce the
temperature, some to summon winds, some to create fresh water, and some to
navigate.

"Who is this?" The caravan leader shouted. There was a gruesome monster in front of
the caravan.

This monster was six meters tall, it had bulging muscles and a large body. It had eight
arms, a green face and sharp fangs, with eyes red as blood. With one look, people felt
their hearts tighten as they felt a formless pressure.

The caravan went into a commotion.

"Two rank five, seventeen rank four, forty over rank three… This is quite a number." A
hoarse voice could be heard from the monster's mouth.

"Sir, who might you be? I am Mo clan's caravan leader, Mo Yan." One of the rank five Gu
Masters in the caravan cupped his fists and asked nervously.

Fang Yuan laughed ruthlessly, his eight monstrous claws opened instantly, the name
of the super influence, Mo clan, could not deter him.
He was like the incarnation of a demonic god, he rushed into the caravan and whipped
up a storm of blood and flesh.

Howling, screaming, crying, begging, all these noises tangled together, after a while,
they went silent.
After around ten minutes, the slaughter finally ended.

One's nose would be assailed by the thick smell of blood, the yellow sand was filled
with corpses.

Fang Yuan stood at the center of the corpses, he summoned woman's heart Immortal
Gu.

The Immortal Gu slowly rose up, floating into the air and emitting a reddish purple
light. The light filled the entire battlefield, in a few breaths of time, all the female
corpses in the entire battlefield started to tremble.

The vibrations of the corpses became more intense, as finally, with a loud pop, hearts
burst out of the bodies and rose up slightly, flying towards Woman's Heart which was
in the air.

Before they even got close, these bloody hearts were swallowed by the reddish purple
light in the air, turning into inky purple light lumps.

The light lumps were like young swallows returning to their nest, they entered
Woman's Heart.

Poison path Immortal Gu Woman's Heart slightly trembled, it let out a sharp screech,
as if it sounded overjoyed from being fed.

A moment later, all of the women's hearts in the battlefield had been fed to Woman's
Heart as food.

Fang Yuan called back Woman's Heart.

This Immortal Gu's hunger had been alleviated by quite a bit, but it was not full yet.

Fang Yuan frowned slightly: "At this rate, to feed the woman's heart Immortal Gu until
it is full, I will need four thousand more women's hearts. This caravan that I
slaughtered already had significant strength, such a large sized caravan is uncommon
in western desert."

Fang Yuan thought about it for a while before flying into the sky.

In the air, he stretched out his palm, pushing it towards the ground.

Immediately, thousands of fireballs appeared, slamming into the battlefield.

Explosions occurred as rocks and sand were sent flying, corpses were burnt as the
place turned into a sea of fire.

This was not a killer move, it was simply the power of quantity, he had used numerous
similar fire path mortal Gu.

Fang Yuan threw several black oil dragons.

The oil dragons flew into the sea of fire, raising its intensity and razing the battlefield
to the ground, all the traces left behind were gone.

After doing this, Fang Yuan flapped his light illusion bat wings and flew away at a rapid
speed.

He traveled north-east, past several large sized oases, before finding his target — a
small sized oasis.

Looking down from a high altitude, the oasis was like a jewel, encased in the golden
desert.

There was a lake in the oasis, its water was clear and blue, with trees growing around
it. There were many people living in this place, the marketplace were lively and it was
a scene of prosperity and peace.

Fang Yuan did not conceal his movements, he appeared above the cloudless sky, it was
very eye-catching.

A group of Gu Masters riding sand gulls flew up from the oasis.

"What monster is this?"

"It seems like a zombie!"

These Gu Masters were mostly young people, they looked at Fang Yuan's monstrous
appearance and couldn't help but mutter apprehensively.

They were almost all rank two, only the leader was a rank three Gu Master.

This group of people flew towards Fang Yuan, they stopped about three hundred steps
away from him.

The leader was very vigilant, he cupped his fists: "This is Zhou Xi oasis, controlled by
us, Lan clan. The sky above the oasis is a no-fly zone, I hope sir can land on the ground!
If you wish to enter the oasis, we have Gu Masters in charge of attending to visiting Gu
Masters from outside. Sir just needs to follow the procedures, as long as you meet the
requirements, you will be allowed to enter the oasis."

Fang Yuan continued to stare at the oasis, using his investigative Gu to check the area.

He was trying to find out if there were any Gu Immortals hiding in this oasis, because
only Gu Immortals could pose a threat to him.

According to normal circumstances, such a small oasis would not be a strong force,
there should not be Gu Immortals here. If there were, they would have expanded or
modified this oasis already.

After the leader said that, he saw that Fang Yuan was unmoved, he frowned as he said
coldly: "Did sir hear me? The sky above the oasis is a no-fly zone, this is general
knowledge in western desert. Sir flying above Lan clan can be regarded as a
provocation! I hope sir lands now, otherwise, don't blame us for…”

Bam.

Before the leader finished his words, Fang Yuan flicked a finger and sent a rank five
level attack at him.

The rank three leader could not react, he was blown to bits, his corpse scattered
everywhere.

"Huh?!"
"Lord elder!"

The other rank two Gu Masters screamed shrilly after a moment of shock.

At this moment, unparalleled fear filled their hearts. The high and mighty lord elder
did not even have a chance to react before he was killed in one hit.

This attack was too sudden, the rank two Gu Masters could not even clearly see what
actually killed their leader.

"Lord elder is dead, he was killed in an instant!"

"Quickly retreat, this person is not someone we can deal with!"

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

The rank two Gu Masters screamed, they scattered in the air, flying towards the oasis.

Fang Yuan snorted coldly, he waved his hands.

Bam bam bam…

With consecutive explosions, these rank two Gu Masters were turned into pieces of
flesh without exception. Even the sand gulls that they were sitting on were not spared.

A loud siren rang in the oasis.

Everything that had happened in the air was seen by the patrolling Gu Masters.

Fang Yuan looked down from above imposingly, seeing the mortals panicking and
running away, the flourishing market had gone into chaos. Large numbers of mortal
Gu Masters came out from the buildings, they faced up towards the sky, looking at Fang
Yuan with deep animosity.

"Mortals are truly like insects." Fang Yuan let out a deep breath, he then summoned
the hair armor and flapped his light illusion bat wings, flying like a meteor towards
the oasis.

"He's here! Attack him!"

"Be careful, the other party is very strong, he is at least a rank four Gu Master! He is
very likely to be rank five!"

"So what if he is strong? He is just one person, attack him!"

The Lan clan Gu Masters in the oasis screamed furiously, they unleashed a flurry of
colorful attacks.

But Fang Yuan's charge was not slowed, he easily broke through these obstructions
and crashed into the clan head pavilion at the center of the oasis.

Bam!

The loud crash could deafen one's ears, the huge impact caused the ground to shake.
The clan head pavilion had defensive Gu worms protecting it, but they were useless,
the place collapsed in an instant. Rocks flew and tiles burst, air currents pushed out
and carried the dust clouds with them.

As the dust and smoke settled, Fang Yuan's huge body and eight monstrous arms were
displayed before the Lan clan Gu Masters.

"He, he did not die!"

"Damn it, the clan head pavilion was destroyed by him! The ancestors' tablets are all
inside!"

"Kill, kill this demon!"

Everyone's emotions were stimulated, they surrounded Fang Yuan.

"All of you shut up!" Suddenly, an elderly man shouted, walking out from the crowd.

"Lord clan elder!" The surrounding people paid respects to this old man.

The old clan leader was very shocked, he deeply understood the defensive power of
the clan head pavilion. It was the central and most important place in the clan, it had
great defenses, even if ten people of the elderly clan leader's strength attacked it, they
might not break through.

But simply one blow from Fang Yuan destroyed the entire clan head pavilion.
Just one hit!

What did this mean?!

The elderly clan leader controlled his fear, he bowed deeply towards Fang Yuan: "Our
Lan clan has been neutral for many generations, we have not meddled with the outside
world. I am not sure if we have offended sir, but we will definitely compensate you
until you are satisfied."

The moment he said that, he immediately attracted the fierce rebuttal of the Gu
Masters.

"Lord clan leader, what are you saying?"

"This monster who is neither a human nor a ghost destroyed our clan head pavilion,
even elder Lan Duan died in his hands."

"Clan leader, our Lan clan has no cowards, the other party is already so overbearing,
we have to slaughter him into pieces to quench the hatred in our hearts!"

"Hehehe…” Fang Yuan laughed coldly, his voice was hoarse, everyone frowned when
they heard his voice: "There is actually someone who understands how to react to the
situation here, hmm, that's right, this small oasis is squeezed between many large
forces. If you did not know your place, you would not be able to stay as the clan leader.
Then listen to me, I want you to collect six thousand hearts within the next ten
minutes. Remember, these hearts have to be intact and they need to be women's
hearts, the hearts of men and young girls have no use."

"What?!"

"He… he actually wants six thousand women's hearts?"

"This is a demon, he is a lawless demon! He actually wants our clan to be his lapdog,
to collect hearts for him!"

The Gu Masters were in an uproar.

The elderly clan leader's expression was also uncertain. Six thousand women's hearts
was a huge number, there were many mortal villages around this oasis, but the
number of mortals was certainly not enough. That means, to reach six thousand, he
would need to sacrifice the clansmen in Lan clan.

Thus, the old clan leader's position would certainly be taken away. Nobody would
allow such a person to be their leader.

"Isn't sir's request too overbearing. Sigh, heaven cares for all living beings, in broad
daylight, how can anyone commit such heinous acts? I'm afraid Lan clan cannot help
you." The old clan leader sighed as he showed a merciful expression.

"Heh, then there's no other way. Even though this is more troublesome, it will do." Fang
Yuan laughed ruthlessly, his killing intent surged.

Light illusion bat wings flickered on his back, and a moment later, he appeared in front
of the old clan leader.

The zombie claws stretched out like lightning, grabbing the old clan leader's neck,
lifting him up easily.

"So, so fast!" The old clan leader's expression was pale, there was no trace of blood on
his face. He was completely shocked, how could he be captured by the other party in
an instant?!

Could it be that, he is not a mortal, but a Gu Immortal?

A horrifying thought appeared in the old clan leader's heart, he shouted anxiously:
"Ev… everything can be discussed… please have mercy… ple… argh."

Crack, the old clan leader's neck was smashed into powder by Fang Yuan.

The old clan leader's head hung to one side, he stared with his eyes wide opened, he
died without solace.

It was not that he did not want to use his Gu worms to retaliate, but Fang Yuan had
many mortal Gu in his immortal aperture that could seal and suppress Gu worms.

"He, he killed the clan leader!"

"No—! Lord clan leader! You cannot die!"

"Revenge for lord clan leader!"

The Gu Masters reacted and shouted angrily, like a rushing tide, they charged towards
Fang Yuan, using all sorts of attacks, unleashing a beautiful display of fireworks.

Fang Yuan did not dodge, he stood on the spot, allowing the attacks to hit his body
without moving at all.

Everyone's attacks lasted for a hundred breaths before stopping.

Gu Masters had limited primeval essence, with such an intense wave of attacks, they
could not keep it up for very long.

"Is he dead?"

"He was definitely beaten to a pulp already."

"Sigh, our poor old clan leader, we did not even manage to retrieve his corpse…”

But when the smoke dispersed, the Gu Masters eyes were opened wide, they saw that
Fang Yuan was still standing at the same spot arrogantly.

Even though the surroundings were a mess, his black armor was still extremely new
looking, even the broken spikes were regenerating rapidly.

A few breaths of time later, Fang Yuan's hair armor regenerated completely, there were
not even any marks on it.

Hair armor was a mortal killer move, it was made of several hundred Gu worms, and
dozens of rank five Gu worms. It was also used on the foundation of the immortal
zombie body, the defense was not something these Gu Masters could break.

Among the people attacking Fang Yuan, the one and only rank four Gu Master, the
elderly clan leader, had died. There were less than ten rank three Gu Masters
remaining, the rest were rank two and one.

Their attacks were very scattered, many of the attacks had canceled each other out, it
simply could pose no threat to Fang Yuan.

"This is your attack? It can't even scratch me." Fang Yuan chuckled, his laughter was
not loud, but it was very clear in everyone's ears.
An intense chill rose up in the hearts of the Gu Masters and spread rapidly.

Even though the weather was so hot, they felt like they were in an icy pit!

"You, what are you?" Everyone trembled, their hearts were filled with terror.

"Monster, this is a monster!" Someone screamed, he had lost his mind.

"Run, quickly run!!" Their morale had sank to rock bottom, one person running away
initiated the collapse of the entire group.

Fang Yuan was not surprised, the clan leader was dead, they had nothing to rely on. At
the same time, he purposely took the attacks head on, it was to destroy the morale of
these mortals.

Swoosh.

Fang Yuan smiled sinisterly, he chased up to a female Gu Master.

The female Gu Master's body froze, she stared at the monstrous claw piercing through
her back and out of her chest, as the monstrous claw pulled out, her heart was taken
away.

"Elder Lan Xin is dead too, run!" The surrounding Gu Masters saw this and were
shocked out of their minds, they ran away even more quickly.

Fang Yuan waved a hand and large numbers of fireballs spewed out, buildings
collapsed and fires were blazing. With another wave of a hand, wind blades were
dancing in the air, slaughtering everything in their path, leaving behind large numbers
of minced corpses.

"No, please, I'm begging you, don't kill me." This was an ordinary mortal woman with
a delicate face and a beautiful figure, she had preserved her own body well, she should
be a wife or concubine of a Gu Master.

Bam.

Fang Yuan flicked his finger, and the mortal woman's head exploded like a watermelon,
her headless corpse collapsed on the ground.
Fang Yuan walked past this corpse, as the palm of his downwards hanging hand
opened, the woman's heart burst out of the body and flew out, grabbed by Fang Yuan.

Woman's Heart let out a joyful scream, it stopped on Fang Yuan's shoulder, glowing in
a reddish purple light.

Be it the heart in Fang Yuan's hand or the surrounding corpses, as long as they met the
conditions, the purple light would swallow them and they would be absorbed by
Woman's Heart.

Fang Yuan walked briskly, wherever he went, a slaughter occurred. It was a path filled
with anguished wails, rivers of blood flowed.

Cleanse soul Immortal Gu was famished, it was too risky to use myriad self, and too
much of a waste of immortal essence.

Icy drill stardust could not be used, because the starlight lump exploded continuously,
it would mince the mortal corpses completely, even the hearts would not be spared.

Fang Yuan was only using mortal Gu, he did not use any killer moves, it was simply a
huge quantity of Gu worms.

But even so, the efficiency of killing was not low.

Western desert was different from the other four regions, Fang Yuan chose this place
purposefully. This was a huge desert, and the oases were like islands, even if a mortal
escapes out of the oasis, they would not get far. Western desert was a place with
unhindered vision, the desert stretched to the horizon, it was easy for Fang Yuan to
chase them down.

"This time, I will let you eat till you are full, little one." Fang Yuan walked in the pool of
blood, looking at the woman's heart Immortal Gu on his shoulder, his gaze was
extremely gentle.
The light of the setting sun shone on Zhou Xi oasis.

The lively atmosphere in normal times was replaced by thick smoke and fire today.

There was nothing left of the former serenity, buildings had collapsed, turning into
piles of ruins. In these ruins, on the streets, at the side of the lake, under the trees,
pools of blood were connected and corpses lined the ground.

Fang Yuan went back to the clan head pavilion, standing on a pile of broken concrete,
he placed the poison path Immortal Gu Woman's Heart back into his immortal
aperture.

After killing for a long time, he had finally fed Woman's Heart until it was full.

Woman's Heart combined refinement and nurturing, if he fed it any further, Woman's
Heart would enter the refinement stage, the more women's hearts it ate, the stronger
the poison.

But Fang Yuan had no intentions of refining the Gu at this point.

With his strength, slaying mortals was like slaughtering animals, but with so many
mortals, he still spent half the day on this.

Furthermore, Woman's Heart was a consumable Immortal Gu. No matter how strong
it was, it would be gone after one use. The prospects of investing in it were not great,
unless Fang Yuan had the Immortal Gu recipe of Woman's Heart.

Standing on the rubble of the clan head pavilion, Fang Yuan activated several hundred
Gu worms in his immortal aperture, undergoing a thorough search of the area.

After two breaths of time, Fang Yuan finally found an underground entrance.

He walked towards the entrance, his huge feet treaded and destroyed the ground
under him, exposing the entrance.

This entrance could allow a normal person to enter, but it was too small for Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan used force to take apart this entrance, after several hundred steps, the space
finally widened enough for Fang Yuan to walk while bending his waist.

A large stone door appeared in front of Fang Yuan.

On top of the door, there were words carved: "Important area of the clan treasury,
people not specifically assigned are forbidden from entering."

Fang Yuan snorted, he destroyed the stone door and hundreds of golden light blades
attacked Fang Yuan. A loud alarm rang, this was evidently the method of Lan clan in
defending against thieves. But it was a pity that not even a single spike on Fang Yuan's
hair armor was destroyed.

Fang Yuan entered the stone door, seeing a pile of primeval stones. Fang Yuan roughly
estimated that there were at least a hundred thousand in total.

If Fang Yuan was still a mortal, these primeval stones would be a huge fortune. But
now that he was an immortal with unlimited primeval essence, he had almost no need
for primeval stones.

But he still kept these primeval stones in his immortal aperture, it was simply a move
done in passing.

Soon, he broke through a second stone door, and entered.

He saw a huge amount of Gu refinement materials, they were classified and placed
here, these were all ordinary materials. Although Fang Yuan also needed them, these
materials were not in high quantity, when Fang Yuan truly wanted to refine something,
he would need a vast amount of materials, he would still need to purchase in bulk from
Gu Immortals.

But this was better than nothing, Fang Yuan would not leave empty handed, he sent it
all into his immortal aperture.

Next, beyond the third, fourth, and fifth stone door, they all had Gu refinement
materials, except that they were of different varieties and had different storage
conditions. Fang Yuan took all of these as well.

At the sixth stone door, he found Gu worms.

Large numbers of mortal Gu were stored here. This was Lan clan's Gu worm treasury,
the foundation of their entire clan.

Fang Yuan took them all away, with his abundant memories and great experience, he
knew all of these Gu worms, they were not necessary for him.

But to mortal Gu Masters, these were all precious Gu worms, including rank four and
five Gu worms among them. Getting one could change a person's life, their entire
future might turn around.

Like the liquor worm that Fang Yuan obtained on Qing Mao mountain, the bone flesh
unity Gu on Bai Gu mountain, and the all-out effort Gu in Shang clan city.

There were three Gu worm treasuries, and five primeval stone treasuries.

Other than that, there were treasuries hidden within treasuries, secret troves that did
not escape Fang Yuan's detection.

Some troves were ravaged, there were Gu Master corpses here and traces of fighting.
Evidently, when Fang Yuan was slaughtering the mortals, some greedy Gu Masters
knew that the clan was finished and barged in here, trying to take whatever resources
they could.

They fought here and took the treasures they could find, while a portion of people died
from the Gu worms defending the troves.

Fang Yuan walked past these troves, along the main path deep underground.

Along the way, he saw more and more corpses of Gu Master, and there were also sand
gull corpses.

These sand gulls were like a combination of seagulls and ostriches, they had large legs
with huge muscles, but they also had huge wings and could fly in the sky.

Sand gulls could run rapidly in the desert, while also flying in the sky and carrying
people, they only ate grass and drank clean water, they were easy to feed. With a mild
temperament, they were the most common steed among western desert Gu Masters.

The only problem was, sand gulls had very low fertility. Three to four out of ten sand
gull eggs would usually hatch and grow into healthy sand gulls.

However, this Lan clan raised many sand gulls, much more than other forces of the
same level. When Fang Yuan slaughtered the clan, he killed many sand gulls. He
estimated that Lan clan might have some secret technique to raise the fertility of the
sand gulls.

If so, that would be the only thing in this entire Lan clan that could somewhat interest
Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan walked for another few thousand steps, he saw more Gu Master corpses.
Finally, at one point, he saw a large number of Gu Master corpses and sand gull
corpses.

"It seems that the people who came in here met with the sand gulls' obstruction, they
all perished here. They took a risk to enter here, quite evidently, there is a huge benefit
attracting them." Fang Yuan analyzed.

Squawk squawk squawk…

After another few hundred steps, Fang Yuan was attacked by a wave of sand gulls.

There were a hundred sand gulls, among them, the sand gull hundred beast king was
injured, likely due to the fight with Gu Masters earlier.

But how could this trifling beast group be Fang Yuan's match? In just a few breaths of
time, Fang Yuan killed these sand gulls and continued moving forward.

The path was moving downwards, the depth was rather surprising to Fang Yuan.

After getting rid of ten waves of attacks from sand gulls, Fang Yuan walked out of the
tunnel, his field of vision widened as he entered a huge underground cave.

This cave was quite big, it was like a square.

There was a huge stone table at the center of the cave. There was a huge egg on the
table, it was the size of a house, it had a yellow luster but it was already quite dim.
There was a thick layer of yellow sand around the table.

The sand was extremely soft and slightly warm, it felt like cotton when one stepped
on it.

Many eggs were placed on this sand, slightly buried into them. These eggs were of
varying sizes, there were even some broken egg shells there.

"These eggs are all sand gull eggs. This is the breeding ground for Lan clan's sand
gulls." Fang Yuan walked into the cave.

To protect their home and eggs, a large number of sand gulls rose up and charged
towards Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan was unmoved, he waved a hand and a large number of wind blades cut
these sand gulls like harvesting crops, with another burst of frost, half of these sand
gull were frozen.

There were very few sand gulls that survived, they no longer had their previous
numbers, so their aura diminished and they started escaping in fear.

Fang Yuan had no interest in killing them all, the closer he got to the table, the more
his gaze was attracted to the huge egg on the table, he showed some joy on his face.

"This egg, is it the egg of a worldly sand gull?"

Fang Yuan stopped atop the stone table and came in front of the huge egg. He touched
the shell filled with cracks, there were several small holes on it, as transparent egg
white flowed out of the cracks slowly.

The egg white fell onto the stone table, following the crevices on the table as it flowed
down onto the yellow sand.

This was an egg of the ancient desolate beast worldly sand gull.

The life inside had perished in the egg. Even the egg white was leaking, this was
obviously a dead egg.

Sand gulls had low fertility, worldly sand gulls which were of the same breed had even
lower rates. But it was the life essence of an ancient desolate beast after all, even using
the egg white so superficially could greatly raise the fertility of these sand gulls.

Fang Yuan did not obtain the fertility method he had been guessing, he actually
obtained a dead egg of an ancient desolate bird instead.

This was an pleasant surprise.

"As expected, after using Connect Luck, I encountered something good? After
slaughtering a small to mid sized clan, I actually obtained something useful to me."
Fang Yuan sighed in his heart.

His connect luck Immortal Gu needed the sand of the resting area of the ancient
desolate beast, worldly sand gull, as food.

This sand was known as sand gull soil, it was a special resource formed from ordinary
soil due to the worldly sand gull's influence.

Originally, if Fang Yuan wanted to obtain the sand, he would need to buy it from others,
or find a worldly sand gull nest and take a huge risk to sneak in and steal the sand gull
soil.

But now that he had a dead egg of the worldly sand gull, he could use the life essence
in this egg to turn ordinary sand into sand gull soil.

"I need five thousand kilograms of sand gull soil to feed the connect luck Immortal Gu.
There is ample life essence in this egg, it should be enough. Even if it is not enough, it
will tide me through this tough time. I do not need to feed the connect luck Immortal
Gu until it is full, as long as it is not starving, that will do. After all, for the foreseeable
future, there are no suitable targets, connect luck Immortal Gu is unusable anyway."

Feeling joyous, Fang Yuan took this dead egg.

After returning to Hu Immortal blessed land, he started his preparations. He was a

blood path grandmaster in his previous life, now he had also become a strength path
grandmaster, these two paths both involved life and vitality.

He quickly had an idea, using six hundred mortal Gu to create a Gu formation,

extracting the life essence of this dead egg, forming a lot of vital energy.

Fang Yuan modified this method with the help of wisdom Gu, condensing the vital
energy into a light yellow juice.

Ordinary sand had turned into sand gull soil after a day and a night in this juice.

Three days later, Fang Yuan obtained enough sand gull soil to feed connect luck
Immortal Gu till it was full.

Therefore, the cleanse soul Immortal Gu in his hands was the only one he had an issue
in feeding.

To feed cleanse soul Immortal Gu, he needed the flesh of ten thousand white lotus
giant silkworm Gu, but the white lotus giant silkworm Gu was very rare. A hundred
thousand years ago, during the Late Antiquity Era, soul path flourished, and this Gu
worm had once been very popular.

Unfortunately, at this point, there were already very few white lotus giant silkworm
Gu in treasure yellow heaven.

Fang Yuan used the name of the Eight Arm Immortal to request for this Gu worm and
its recipe, but no one had answered him.
"Husband, Huang Er has been like this for three months. What should we do? I don't
know how to live if anything happens to her." Fairy Bai Qing looked at Feng Jin Huang
who was on the cushion, sobbing in a low voice.

She was a grand Gu Immortal of Spirit Affinity House, she had always been elegant and
noble to the outside world. But now that this concerned her beloved daughter, she lost
her bearings, she was no longer as calm as usual.

But in front of her, Feng Jin Huang sat on the cushion, in the posture of polishing her
aperture.

She wore a phoenix coronet, she had slanted eyes and there was a small red birthmark
between her eyebrows. Her appearance combined the gentle beauty of her mother,
Fairy Bai Qing, with the valiance of her father, Feng Jiu Ge, she had a dignified
disposition, yet also a matchless, fearless beauty.

She had incredible aptitude, her talent was overwhelming, she suppressed everyone
of the same age in the ten great ancient sects. If not for Fang Yuan ruining her
opportunity, Feng Jin Huang would have become the owner of Hu Immortal blessed
land already.

Her skin was fair like snow, her eyes were shut, she breathed slowly like she was
asleep.

About three months ago, Feng Jin Huang was meditating as usual, nurturing her
aperture. But an accident occurred during this ordinary cultivation session, she fell
unconscious ever since and nobody could awaken her using any method.

Ever since they found out about Feng Jin Huang's strange state, Feng Jiu Ge and Bai
Qing had been thinking of ways to save their daughter, but there had been no progress.

They asked the supreme elders of Spirit Affinity House, they had tried all sorts of
methods, but all of it was useless.
"Husband, do you think our Huang Er will stay asleep forever? Will she ever wake up
and see us again?" Fairy Bai Qing thought about this terrible fate and couldn't refrain
from welling up with sorrow.

Feng Jiu Ge sighed, he stretched out his arms to hug his beloved wife, consoling her:
"Qing Er, don't worry. Didn't first supreme elder say it? Our daughter had discovered
the true way to use dream wings Immortal Gu, thus she had reached a hidden region,
her entire soul had entered a mystical realm unknown to us. She did not lose her life
and is still alive and well. We should believe her, maybe this is a fortuitous encounter
for her."

Although Feng Jiu Ge and Bai Qing did not awaken Feng Jin Huang, their attempts were
not in vain, they had already found out the reason for Feng Jin Huang's coma was the
dream wings Immortal Gu!

Fairy Bai Qing leaned on her husband as she relaxed on his broad and powerful chest,
she felt slightly eased as she said: "When Huang Er was three years old, dream wings
Immortal Gu came to her on its own, I had been feeling uneasy since then. We have
never seen this Immortal Gu before, even after searching through all of Spirit Affinity
House's records, there was no information about it. In our tests, the effect of this Gu
expended the soul to create beautiful wings. But now it seems, dream wings Immortal
Gu's true effect is not this."

Feng Jiu Ge nodded, agreeing: "Your analysis is very reasonable. When Gu Masters
nurture, use, and refine Gu, if they are facing an unknown Gu worm, they would make
new discoveries when using the Gu, eventually understanding everything about the
Gu worm. Even for famous Gu worms, there are always new secrets hidden within
them. When Gu Immortals and Gu Masters obtain valuable experience, they would
treat it as an important secret to prevent others from learning about their information.
When Huang Er awakens, I am sure she will have huge gains, she will learn the true
way to use dream wings Immortal Gu. When I go to northern plains this time, our
family will have to depend on you. Inform me immediately when Huang Er awakens."

The ten great ancient sects of central continent had plotted for countless years, they
put in a lot of time and effort, expending manpower and resources, meticulously
planning and making arrangements, before finally having some progress in Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building.

But in the end, Fang Yuan used his previous life's memories and plucked the fruits of
their labor, using these arrangements for himself.

In the end, Imperial Court blessed land was destroyed, and Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building collapsed. This piece of information was a huge nightmare to the ten great
ancient sects of central continent, who had planned this for a long time.

The leader of this plan — Spirit Affinity House, was pressured by all the different
forces, not only from the other nine sects, but also internally within Spirit Affinity
House.

"The plot against Eighty-Eight True Yang Building started from the information left
behind by Fairy Mo Yao. All these years, our sect has been leading the way and holding
the most crucial methods. Now that such a huge change has occurred, not only must
we clear the suspicions, we also have to investigate the truth! As the person with the
strongest battle strength in our sect, even though I want to stay by my daughter, all of
the other elders have agreed that I will go to investigate this." Feng Jiu Ge sighed.

"Husband, you have to be careful during this northern plains journey. If anything goes
wrong, make escaping your priority. After all, over there would not be like in central
continent, there is no backup to assist you. Don't trust the people from the other nine
sects, back then when you challenged the ten great sects in successive battles, you won
many and faced zero losses, many people's reputations took a huge hit. All these years,
you have been the publicly recognized strongest person in the ten sects, suppressing
all of them. If Spirit Affinity House loses you, they might all sigh in relief instead."

"Don't worry, for you and our daughter, I will be careful." Feng Jiu Ge touched Fairy Bai
Qing's cheeks as he kissed her lips gently.

When their lips separated, he took out a rank five letter sending green bird Gu.

"This is a letter from Hu Immortal blessed land, that rascal Fang Yuan accepted Huang
Er's challenge." Feng Jiu Ge said.

"Him? Ever since Huang Er was born, she had only suffered a loss in this Fang Yuan's
hands. After Huang Er returned, she was so indignant and wanted to take revenge, I
got you to send him a challenge letter earlier, but he did not reply. To think that he has
replied now, what is his motive?" Fairy Bai Qing had a deep impression of Fang Yuan.

Feng Jiu Ge's gaze concentrated: "Ever since Huang Er lost, we had investigated this
lad thoroughly. He has quite the backing, there is a mysterious force behind him, he
actually dared to snatch Hu Immortal blessed land under the eyes of all ten great
ancient sects. But these smart alecks in Immortal Crane Sect acknowledged him as one
of their own, leaving us no way to make a move."

"This way, Immortal Crane Sect can exclude the rest of us nine sects and claim Hu
Immortal blessed land for themselves. If it had been me, I would have done the same."
Fairy Bai Qing said.

"Over a year has passed according to central continent time, even northern plains'
True Yang Building has collapsed in this period, the laughable thing is that Immortal
Crane Sect has not even succeeded yet, Hu Immortal blessed land is still in that rascal's
hands. What a joke." Feng Jiu Ge laughed in disdain.

"We can't say that. During this year, Immortal Crane Sect had first spent a lot of effort
to capture the ancient desolate beast, spirit rhino, then many of the Gu Immortals in
their sect were involved in the reincarnation battlefield, and now even Great Heavenly
Sword Sect which is under their control is trying to gain independence, Immortal
Crane Sect has too many things to deal with. Together with our nine sects exerting
pressure on them covertly after we learned the truth, obstructing them from attacking
Hu Immortal blessed land by force, all of these reasons resulted in Hu Immortal
blessed land being yet to fall at this point." Fairy Bai Qing said.

Feng Jiu Ge shook his head: "The force behind Fang Yuan is shrouded in mystery, we
do not know much about them yet. Yesterday, Immortal Crane Sect publicly declared
that Fang Yuan had turned on them after obtaining Hu Immortal blessed land, he is
now a traitor of the sect. It is evident that their soft tactics had no effect. Now it seems
like Immortal Crane Sect is going to deal with Hu Immortal blessed land forcefully
during this period of time. Hmph, I want to see what force it is, to be able to contest
with our ten great sects."

Fairy Bai Qing's gaze flickered, she seemed to have comprehended something: "I
understand this Fang Yuan's intention. He is not a member of Immortal Crane Sect, it
seems he knew that Immortal Crane Sect was going to deal with him. Thus, he sent
this letter, to interact with the outside world, so that he can resist Immortal Crane Sect
using Spirit Affinity House."

"But now, Immortal Crane Sect has an upright reason to strike, because Fang Yuan is
a traitor of Immortal Crane Sect. Immortal Crane Sect can attack Hu Immortal blessed
land righteously, while we cannot interfere."
Fairy Bai Qing was unresigned: "Is there no way for us to interfere? If Immortal Crane
Sect gets Dang Hun mountain, I'm afraid their sect's foundation will get much
stronger."

"As righteous sects, we have rules to follow. After all, there are so many other sects in
central continent observing us, if the ten great sects break established practices, will
we still be able to command those on our sides? Even though Immortal Crane Sect
initially deceived the other nine sects, they were indeed led into believing them for
some time, because Immortal Crane Sect had Fang Zheng who could be used as a
perfect excuse."

"Since Immortal Crane Sect's plan worked out, we had to acknowledge them. At least,
we cannot interfere this time. But if Immortal Crane Sect fails in taking down Hu
Immortal blessed land, our nine sects will have reason to strike. After all, everyone
knows about this situation right now, but because of rules and reputation, we are all
pretending to be ignorant. If Immortal Crane Sect fails, no one will allow them to take
Hu Immortal blessed land for themselves anymore." Feng Jiu Ge continued.

He paused before continuing: "Before going to northern plains, I plan to give my one's
own way Gu to Immortal Crane Sect for their use."

"Ah? What is your intention?" Fairy Bai Qing was slightly taken aback.

Feng Jiu Ge was very confident: "We do not know about the strength of Fang Yuan's
force, whether he can protect Hu Immortal blessed land is an unknown factor. If he
defeats Immortal Crane Sect, then the ten great sects will strike together to split up
this blessed land. But if Immortal Crane Sect wins, we can use my one's own way Gu
as a reason to gain some advantage from Dang Hun mountain as well."

Hu Immortal blessed land, Dang Hun palace.

"Declaring me as the sect's traitor, this means Immortal Crane Sect will attack Hu
Immortal blessed land very soon." Fang Yuan looked at the report in his hands with a
heavy feeling.

Cleanse soul Immortal Gu was not fed yet, under such circumstances, using the
immortal killer move myriad self was extremely risky.

If he was unlucky, he might lose the cleanse soul Immortal Gu for good.
This way, without myriad self, Fang Yuan would lose his greatest trump card.

"Immortal Crane Sect announced that I was a traitor in advance, but they did not
attack. They are evidently waiting now, trying to lure the force behind me to make a
move, so that they can fight it out. This is truly the demeanor and confidence of one of
the ten great sects."

Fang Yuan thought a little about it and knew that Immortal Crane Sect's attack would
be very powerful this time!

To him, the most important thing now was to find the white lotus giant silkworm Gu,
to feed cleanse soul Immortal Gu until it was full.

At the same time, he needed to accumulate funds, and prepare enough green grape
immortal essence.

Most Immortal Gu required immortal essence to activate.

Without immortal essence, no matter how many Immortal Gu he had, he could not use
their abilities.

What is the point of war? Money!

In this world, why do Gu Immortals fight? For immortal essence stones! It was about
immortal essence stones!

"Sigh, this is quite the problem. My funds that have just recovered are going to take a
huge hit again. Two consecutive battles would completely devastate my already weak
finances."
Central Continent, Fei He mountain.

At the highest point of the mountain, in the hall of affairs.

Gu Immortals were seated in a circle, their immortal auras radiated as they discussed
the important matters within Immortal Crane Sect.

"The spirit rhino's illness is getting worse, I need to purchase large amounts of
materials, to refine the healing Gu that can treat it. But to completely heal the spirit
rhino, I need a lot of healing Gu recipes and to carry out research on them. I estimate
that I will need three hundred and sixty immortal essence stones." Gu Immortal Shu
Zhi Ge spoke loudly.

Immediately afterwards, a Gu Immortal rebuked him: "The spirit rhino is an ancient

desolate beast, it has a very strong body. But now, it has already been sick for half a
year, why has it not recovered yet?"

"Shu Zhi Ge, are you trying to delay the treatment of the spirit rhino so that you can
reap some gains from the process?" A Gu Immortal questioned.

Shu Zhi Ge heard this and his eyebrows rose up, he screamed: "Fan Xi Liu, don't
bullshit me! Wasn't this all because you guys used a poison path Immortal Gu when
you captured it? Back then, I urged you, don't use it, don't use it, but in the end, to save
your efforts, you poisoned the spirit rhino. Now that there is trouble, you need me to
clean up after you!"

"You are the one bullshitting! Do you know how hard it was to capture that spirit rhino
alive? It is easy for you to speak like this!" Fan Xi Liu was just as fierce, shouting loudly.

Ding.
At this time, a bell rang, it was a crisp and clear sound.

The Gu Immortals' words were all swallowed by the sound of the bell, as this sound
continued echoing, it became louder.

Shu Zhi Ge and Fan Xi Liu, no matter how much they spoke, their voices would only
turn into bell sounds. They decided to keep quiet as everyone's gazes turned to the
origin of the sound.

At the centermost seat, there was an old man, it was the person with the highest
authority in Immortal Crane Sect, the rank eight first supreme elder that controlled
the entire situation.

Immortal Crane Sect's first supreme elder's voice was low and slow: "Now, Shu Zhi
Ge's suggestion requires three hundred and sixty immortal essence stones, to
purchase Gu recipes and Gu worms to heal the spirit rhino, we will vote now."

"I object. Three hundred and sixty immortal essence stones is too many. My budget
last time was merely two hundred immortal essence stones. Is healing a spirit rhino
more important than healing Gu Immortals?" Fan Xi Liu was the first to object.

A Gu Immortal beside him said: "The spirit rhino is important, but it is not crucial. The
most crucial matter now is the situation in the northwest, I object to this suggestion
as well."

"We will talk about Great Heavenly Sword Sect in detail later, now we are only
discussing the matter of healing the spirit rhino." First supreme elder interjected.

"I object." The third Gu Immortal said.

"Before expressing my decision, I would like to hear Lady Sang Xin's input. Our sect
had expended much effort to capture the ancient desolate beast spirit rhino, it was to
use the spirit rhino's blood to create an even more secretive information path Gu
worm. I wonder what Lady Sang Xin's progress is?" The fourth Gu Immortal looked at
Lady Sang Xin.

Lady Sang Xin was a rank six Gu Immortal, she smiled upon hearing this: "I am
ashamed! Right now, we are making little progress, the spirit rhino's body is full of
poisonous blood, the research of the information path Gu worm thus is progressing
slowly."
The fourth Gu Immortal nodded: "That means this matter has few prospects. Then, I
object."

Out of the eight Gu Immortals present, five objected. In the end, Shu Zhi Ge only got
two hundred immortal essence stones.

This was evidently much less than the three hundred and sixty he requested for. Shu
Zhi Ge snorted as he muttered something under his breath, expressing his
unhappiness.

Ding.

With another sound of a bell, regardless of whether Shu Zhi Ge was satisfied, first
supreme elder continued: "Then next, we will discuss the matter of the reincarnation
battlefield."

Lei Tan stood up from his seat, he had a muscular body, his blue hair pointed towards
the sky: "I have been in charge of the reincarnation battlefield's matters for over thirty
years. I am sure everyone knows how important the reincarnation battlefield is.
During the middle of this year, our sect had suffered a huge loss in the reincarnation
battlefield. Even though reinforcements were swiftly provided and we regained our
footing, the situation is still terrible. I need a rank six Gu Immortal's battle strength or
three desolate beasts to reinforce us, and one of the desolate beast has to be a nine
palace crane."

He Feng Yang immediately retorted: "A Gu Immortal's battle strength? Do you know
Immortal Crane Sect's current situation? Mu Xiao Xiao is recuperating from a serious
injury, Lin San Mei is in closed cultivation, we have a lack of manpower in terms of
battle strength. You are making such a request at this time?"

Lei Tan snorted: "If Immortal Crane Sect is chased out of the reincarnation battlefield,
can you, He Feng Yang, take responsibility?"

He Feng Yang snickered: "We have already invested a huge amount of resources into
the Reincarnation Battlefield, two Gu Immortals were already involved in it, we can
totally defend our side and maintain stability. Adding in forces will not solve anything,
because our competitors in the reincarnation battlefield are the other nine sects. The
more reinforcements we send in, the more reinforcements other sects would send,
they might even send more than us!"
Shu Zhi Ge nodded: "Agreed, reincarnation battlefield's situation is stable now, the
current objective should be to defend our territory."

Everyone looked around and started to vote.

Eventually, Lei Tan obtained the help of two desolate beasts, he looked at He Feng Yang
in hatred, gritting his teeth.

Ding.

"Next, we will discuss the matter of Great Heavenly Sword Sect." First supreme elder
said.

Gui Li heard this and firmed his gaze, sitting up straight.

Facing everyone's gazes, he spoke: "Great Heavenly Sword Sect has been under our
Immortal Crane Sect for nearly a thousand years. Protected by us, after such a long
time, they now have a third Gu Immortal. They want to get rid of this attachment and
separate from our sect. If they succeed, our sect's control over the northwest would
decrease significantly. Immortal Crane Sect's reputation will also take a huge hit. Even
though there is not much evidence, I have gone through extensive calculations, I
suspect that Myriad Dragon Dock is involved in this matter. If Great Heavenly Sword
Sect detaches from us and joins Myriad Dragon Dock, the situation would be even
worse. Our territory is connected to Myriad Dragon Dock's territory, the areas
surrounding Great Heavenly Sword Sect would combine into Myriad Dragon Dock's
sphere of influence if that happens."

"We all know how severe the matter is, you do not need to explain it. I'll ask you
directly, who is the Gu Immortal that you want to recruit from Great Heavenly Sword
Sect? How confident are you, is it the other party's scheme? And most importantly,
how much of a price do we need to pay to recruit that Gu Immortal?" Second supreme
elder asked.

Great Heavenly Sword Sect was a large sized force, it was unable to sustain the
cultivation needs of three Gu Immortals.

Central continent's current situation was that the ten great ancient sects had control
over the entirety of central continent, and eighty percent of its resources were split by
the ten sects. Only the ten great ancient sects could sustain a large number of Gu
Immortals.
For example, Great Heavenly Sword Sect, which was a subsidiary of Immortal Crane
Sect, had to hand over a huge amount of resources every month. The Gu Immortals in
Great Heavenly Sword Sect thus lack the resources they need. In this aspect, if there
were enough benefits, it was possible to make a Gu Immortal betray them.

If Great Heavenly Sword Sect loses one of its three immortals, it will only have two left
and its strength would fall, they could no longer stir up trouble.

Gui Li thought about his words as he said: "As the saying goes, nothing good is cheap,
the one we are trying to recruit is not a mortal but a Gu Immortal. I promised them
that they would be treated the same as us, after all, this is the standard for joining
Immortal Crane Sect. Other than that, there are some resources as well, about seventy
five immortal essence stones worth."

Pausing for a while, Gui Li continued: "In my humble opinion, we should not resort to
force for Great Heavenly Sword Sect's matter, if we can. After all, the deadline of Great
Heavenly Sword Sect's agreement to be our subsidiary sect is coming to an end. It is
perfectly fair for them to want to end this relationship and detach from us. If we
interfere forcefully, we would have no proper reason. Great Heavenly Sword Sect is
also near a territorial border, Myriad Dragon Dock may find an excuse to intervene."

From start to finish, Gui Li did not mention which Gu Immortal he was thinking of
recruiting.

Second supreme elder also did not pursue the matter.

All of the Gu Immortals present were supreme elders of Immortal Crane Sect, but they
had internal factions and conflicts as well.

A place with people will have conflicts over benefits, and when there is conflict of
interest, there are allegiances.

If Gui Li said it now, it might give rise to unnecessary conflict.

Great Heavenly Sword Sect's matter was extremely important to Immortal Crane Sect.
After voting, Gui Li's suggestion was approved.

Ding.

With a loud sound from the bell, first supreme elder said: "Next, we will discuss the
matter of taking back Hu Immortal blessed land. He Feng Yang, tell us about it."

Lei Tan snorted coldly, throwing a glance at He Feng Yang filled with ill intentions.

He Feng Yang stood up from his seat, showing a serious attitude: "Everyone, Hu
Immortal blessed land is a rank six blessed land, even though Hu Immortal did not
manage it well, Dang Hun mountain is in there. As we all know, Dang Hun mountain's
guts Gu can greatly raise a sect's foundation, it is useful even to us Gu Immortals."

Before he finished speaking, Gu Immortal Lei Tan questioned: "He Feng Yang! It has
already been more than a year, why is Hu Immortal blessed land not taken down yet?
In fact, there is not even any progress. Do you know the other nine sects are looking
at us like a joke now."

He Feng Yang was prepared for this, he spoke calmly: "Any person prepared to
accomplish grand feats would face much mockery from the people around him, if we
cannot endure this, how can we have any achievements?"

"I came here for a meeting, not to listen to your teachings. No matter what, it is
undeniable that you have not retrieved Hu Immortal blessed land yet." Lei Tan said.

"During this last year, I have been extremely busy over this matter, I had not relaxed
even a bit. A few days ago, I have already declared publicly that Fang Yuan is a traitor
of the sect, and that we will take him down soon. During these recent days, I have sent
informants to monitor the other nine great sects, we have not found any special
reactions from any sect. The crucial person of this operation has been appropriately
prepared, we just need Old Lord Can Yang and Fairy Cang Yu to assist in our move, and
we will be able to take back Hu Immortal blessed land." He Feng Yang said.

"Old Lord Can Yang is rank seven, while Fairy Cang Yu has decent strength among rank
six Gu Immortals, you have the nerve to request this? You are a grand Gu Immortal
yourself, but you need three Gu Immortals to deal with a mortal? You are killing a
chicken with an ox cleaver, this is what you have prepared after over a year?" Lei Tan
mocked and laughed loudly.

He Feng Yang's eyes were twitching, he controlled the anger inside him as he looked
around, calmly saying: "To ensure that nothing goes wrong, I have to make such a
request. I'm sure everyone here knows the situation. I used Fang Zheng to lie to the
nine sects, snatching Hu Immortal blessed land for ourselves in name. But ever since
the nine sects found out the truth, they have been targeting Dang Hun mountain,
obstructing us many times in secret. This time, we need to succeed, we cannot fail,
otherwise they will intervene. By then, the situation is not something our sect can
control anymore."

Hearing this, first supreme elder sighed lightly: "They have already obstructed us. He
Feng Yang, I have bad news for you, as well as good news."

He Feng Yang's heart shuddered: "First elder, please tell me."

"Never mind, look at it yourself." First elder flicked his finger, as a rank five letter
sending green bird Gu flew out.

He Feng Yang received it and his consciousness entered it, seeing the start, his
expression turned ashen: "What? They are requesting Old Lord Can Yang to go to
northern plains?"

In He Feng Yang's plan, Old Lord Can Yang was the greatest battle strength, he had an
attacking type Immortal Gu, he was the powerhouse that could hold the fort.

But before He Feng Yang had even acted, he lost his strongest general!

Second supreme elder said: "We can't reject them. True Yang Building collapsed for no
apparent reason, the cooperation of our ten sects to take down True Yang Building has
failed. All the years of hard work have gone down the drain, all of our investments
were wasted. This matter is too important, we have to organize a group to go
investigate the truth in northern plains. At the same time, in northern plains, all sorts
of Immortal Gu have appeared all over the place, thus this northern plains journey has
another major objective, that is to capture some Immortal Gu. If the Gu Immortal we
send has low battle strength, not only would we fail to gain anything, we might even
be sidelined and reduced into being a shield, losing out in all aspects."
"But the decision of staying or going for Lord Can Yang would affect the ownership of
Dang Hun mountain and guts Gu." He Feng Yang still wanted to fight for it.

"Feng Jiu Ge is the publicly recognized number one battle strength of the ten sects, he
is also the leader of this northern plains expedition. We have no justifiable reason to
reject his request. You know clearly that the sect's manpower in terms of battle
strength is very tight recently. Even if we refuse him forcefully, the other nine sects
will use excuses like not needing a burden to go with them, jointly pressuring us."

Hearing the first supreme elder say that, He Feng Yang's expression became utterly
dark.

Lei Tan smiled silently, he did not conceal his schadenfreude at all.

He Feng Yang felt he was so angry that he was going to blow up, he continued reading
the letter, but his expression suddenly froze, he said with mixed emotions: "This…
Feng Jiu Ge is actually lending one's own way Immortal Gu to me? He has also raised
one's own way Immortal Gu to rank seven! Rank six one's own way Immortal Gu is a
consumable Gu that can only be used thrice. But the rank seven one's own way Gu has
no such limits, it can be used as many times as possible, but the expended immortal
essence is much higher."

"What? I remember that He Feng Yang's one's own way Gu only had one use left. To
think that Feng Jiu Ge raised one's own way Gu to rank seven! No wonder he requested
for one's own way Immortal Gu, he had an agenda all along."

"But his luck is really good, Immortal Gu are hard to refine, there is a very low chance
of success, one's own way Gu was not his vital Gu, but he actually succeeded." Gui Li
said.

Shu Zhi Ge said: "Spirit Affinity House has a lot of assets, and has close relations with
Heavenly Court, their foundation is even deeper than Immortal Crane Sect. It is not a
strange thing that they could refine a rank seven Immortal Gu."

"With one's own way Gu, we will not be suppressed by the blessed land, we can use
mortal Gu freely." Lady Sang Xin looked at He Feng Yang.

"Feng Jiu Ge's scheme is great, on one hand he lent us one's own way Gu, if we succeed
in obtaining Hu Immortal blessed land, he would be able to get a share. On the other
hand, he took Old Lord Can Yang away, that was to lower our capability in the fight for
Hu Immortal blessed land." Second supreme elder analyzed.

Third supreme elder Lord Tiger Demon drank the wine in his bowl before smashing
it: "Damn! This is not the first time that the other nine great ancient sects have secretly
obstructed our sect in dealing with Hu Immortal blessed land! He Feng Yang! Hu
Immortal blessed land has been handled by you alone all along, I hope you can succeed
this time, do not leave any opportunities for the other sects. Slap their faces hard. I
want them to beg us to cooperate on selling the guts Gu!"

"I understand, third elder." He Feng Yang bowed.

The Gu Immortals discussed for a day and a night, they finally decided on what
Immortal Crane Sect would do for the next few months.

Two days later, Fang Zheng opened the stone door, entering the blood pool.

"Fang Zheng, after so many hardships in training, we have finally reached this stage.
Today, you will take revenge for your clansmen, you will make contributions to the
sect, you will do a favor to all the people in this world. We must succeed!" In his
aperture, the spirit incubating flea was vibrating, emitting Lord Sky Crane's voice.

"Yes, master! I will succeed!!" Fang Zheng clenched his fists, his expression was
extremely firm.

He walked to the center of the blood pool, letting the boiling blood submerge half of
his body.

Next, he breathed in deeply, using iron blood Gu. His blood became blacker and thicker,
his skin turned darker.

Immediately afterwards, Fang Zheng activated blood blade Gu while maintaining iron
blood Gu.

Sizzle…

From his body, hundreds of iron-blood blades flew out, shooting everywhere.

Hundreds of cuts appeared on his body, as blood like molten iron flowed out.

An intense pleasure hit him, Fang Zheng gritted his teeth as he entered the crucial step,
using blood merge Gu…

At the same time, on Tian Ti mountain, two Gu Immortals arrived.

One of them looked young and mild like jade. He wore a green robe and had a jade
pendant on his waist. What was most eye-catching were his dark green eyebrows, they
were sharp and long, reaching down to his waist. It was the rank six Gu Immortal of
Immortal Crane Sect, the one known as Winged Crane Flying Immortal, He Feng Yang.

The other was a young and beautiful looking woman, she had a good figure and her
face was like a peach, her eyes were thin and delicate, she wore a pink-blue flowery
dress, as it fluttered in the wind. She was another Gu Immortal of Immortal Crane Sect
— Fairy Cang Yu.

The two stepped onto Tian Ti mountain, towards the location of Hu Immortal blessed
land.

What they saw before them was a large green forest, it was plain and ordinary.

Hu Immortal blessed land was a separate small world, it was distinct from the world
of central continent. As long as there were no loopholes in the blessed land, or the
entrance of the blessed land was not opened, from outside, one could not see any signs
of its existence. If one did not know of its existence, even if Gu Immortals passed by,
they would not realize that there was a blessed land here.

Fairy Cang Yu looked around, the scenery was that of a jade green mountain with
chirping birds, not one person was in sight.

But she smiled to He Feng Yang: "It seems that there are indeed many people today,
and quite a few familiar faces too."
She and He Feng Yang did not conceal their traces, because their actions later would
cause a commotion that could not be hidden. Thus, when He Feng Yang started to
move, the other nine sects already knew about it.

Right now, Gu Immortals from the other nine ancient sects were already lurking close
by, observing He Feng Yang and Cang Yu's actions, obtaining first hand information.

He Feng Yang scattered his Gu worms as he praised: "I've heard that fairy has an
investigative killer move, known as micro sense, it can be sold for five immortal
essence stones in treasure yellow heaven, it has great effect."

"Lord Flying Immortal is too kind, I merely obtained it from a fortuitous encounter in
the reincarnation battlefield." Fairy Cang Yu delicately laughed.

"I will need fairy's help in this battle today." He Feng Yang's attitude was very gentle
and kind.

"Lord Flying Immortal is too polite, my weak methods cannot compare to the grand
Winged Crane Flying Immortal's myriad crane soaring flight. It would be a great honor
if I can witness it today." Fairy Cang Yu sighed.

He Feng Yang laughed.

As he said this, he had already scattered about ten thousand mortal Gu, after five
minutes, his preparations were complete.

"Next, we wait for the right time. Fairy, please." He Feng Yang waved his sleeves, as a
lump of white cloud flew out.

The cloud was only three meters from the ground, turning into the shape of a cushion.

He Feng Yang leapt onto it and sat down cross-legged.

This was a white cloud cushion Gu, it was rank five and could assist a Gu Master in
cultivating, increasing the effect of nurturing their aperture. Although the effect was
not great, years of accumulation would still be a significant amount.

After He Feng Yang ascended to an immortal, white cloud cushion Gu lost its primary
use, and could only be used as his seat.
The white cloud cushion was huge, He Feng Yang purposely left enough space for Fairy
Cang Yu.

But Fairy Cang Yu took a look and did not step onto the white cloud cushion, she flicked
her finger as a wood path Gu flew out.

The Gu worm drilled into the ground, several breaths later, peach trees started
growing, the branches intertwined together, forming a comfortable bed made of peach
blossoms.

Fairy Cang Yu lightly chuckled as she stepped onto the bed, half lying down and
relaxing herself.

At the same time, in Fu Hu blessed land, Fang Zheng was at the last step.

He activated failed blood demon flower Gu, as all of the flesh and blood in his body
became the soil and nutrients for the demon flower to grow. Countless vines grew out
of his skin, coiling around his body.

The beautiful and demonic blue chrysanthemums blossomed and opened brightly.

An intense pain assaulted his entire body, even iron blood Gu was having no effect,
Fang Zheng gritted his teeth as his expression contorted, he forced himself to endure
it.

"Quickly use cold blood Gu!" Lord Sky Crane's soul was observing Fang Zheng's
condition, at this moment, he reminded him.

Fang Zheng endured the inhuman pain as he mobilized his primeval essence,
activating cold blood Gu.

His body shuddered for a few moments, as the temperature of his boiling blood fell,
preventing him from suffering the terrible fate of being cooked alive.

"Use blood sense Gu." Lord Sky Crane gave instructions.

Fang Zheng gritted his teeth till blood was dripping out, he activated this rank five
blood path investigative Gu forcefully.

This Gu could allow him to sense others with the same bloodline as him. The closer
they were and the thicker their bloodline, the clearer the connection between them.

But this time, no matter how Fang Zheng tried to sense him, he could not see any
images.

"How can this be? You and Fang Yuan are brothers by blood, your bloodlines are of the
most close relations, meanwhile failed blood demon flower Gu can enhance the effect
of blood path Gu worms, how could you not sense anything after such a long time?"
Fang Zheng was in so much pain he could not talk, but Lord Sky Crane was monitoring
him closely, seeing that there was no effect, he became nervous, shouting in panic.

"Fang Zheng, hang in there! You have trained for so long, enduring so much inhuman
hardship, it was all for this. Our sect's two Gu Immortals have already set off, we are
waiting for you to lead the way! Do not give up, do not relax your concentration for
even a minute." Lord Sky Crane urged worriedly.

Fang Zheng's body was shivering intensely, he could not answer his master, he could
only use actions to express his obedience.

"You still can't sense him? Strange! Too strange! Fang Zheng, you have to extend your
sense towards the hole earth Gu in the blood pool. If Hu Immortal blessed land's hole
earth Gu has not been destroyed yet, then this hole earth Gu would connect to Hu
Immortal blessed land. It can help you greatly in sensing Fang Yuan!" Lord Sky Crane
reminded.

But Fang Zheng had already sent his sense over to the hole earth Gu, there was little
effect.

To him, he felt like he was in complete darkness, searching for his target was like
looking for a speck of light in complete darkness.

Be it Fang Zheng or Lord Sky Crane, they did not know about the changes in Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan had become an immortal zombie!

His body's blood had turned into a cold jade green zombie blood, from the original
healthy red blood.

This, no doubt, raised the difficulty for Fang Zheng immensely.

No matter how hard Fang Zheng tried, he could not sense Fang Yuan's existence!

"Damn it! Damn it!" Lord Sky Crane was extremely anxious, according to the
experience of their previous training, Fang Zheng's endurance had a time limit. Ninety
percent of the time had passed already, he was near his limit.

"Don't tell me, we have to use that trump card?" Lord Sky Crane was having an internal
struggle.

To ensure that this succeeded, He Feng Yang had secretly placed some blood path Gu
worms in Fang Zheng's body. Together with the Gu worms in the blood pool, it formed
a trump card that could prevent any accidents from happening.

But if they used this trump card, Fang Zheng would completely lose his mind, he would
activate blood sense Gu without caring about his life. Fang Zheng's soul would be
consumed intensely, and his blood and flesh would shrivel quickly, there was an
extremely high chance of dying!
Lord Sky Crane hesitated.

On one hand, he had instructions from He Feng Yang and was responsible for the heavy
task. Reason told him he needed to sacrifice Fang Zheng, this mortal child, for the
benefits of Immortal Crane Sect, and it was also the most appropriate choice.

But on the other hand, his sentiments were obstructing him.

Humans were not made of stone, how could they be devoid of emotions?

'Being with Fang Zheng day and night, watching him grow step by step, looking at him
unable to think properly sometimes, looking at him cultivate bitterly with all his effort
for vengeance, he really resembles me back then… '

Lord Sky Crane could not bear to sacrifice!

"Fang Zheng, you brat, I taught you so many times, this is the most basic refinement
method!"

"Sorry, master." Fang Zheng's hand was emitting smoke, the Gu worm in the palm of
his hand had already turned into a pile of ash.

"Fang Zheng, practice, practice, and practice more. A disciple of mine, the grand Lord
Sky Crane, can't even arrange the cranes in an arrow formation? Where would my face
go if this was spread?!" Lord Sky Crane shouted in fury.

"Sorry, master, I will definitely try harder… ugh!" Fang Zheng made more mistakes the
more nervous he became.
Two groups of cranes collided against each other in the air because of his last mistake.

The miserable cries of the cranes and the sounds of bone fractures resounded like
dumplings dropped into a pot, as they fell down to the ground.

The spirit incubating flea was dazed for a moment at beholding this scene before
erupting like thunder, "You fool!"

"Master, I was wrong, sorry." Fang Zheng faced the wall inside a room for confinement,
as he apologized to Lord Sky Crane.

"Stupid kid, what are you saying sorry for? You fought well!"

"Ah? Master, doesn't the sect prohibit internal fights?"

"Hmph, Zhang Nan's master is Xuan Ji Zi, back then I didn't find him pleasing to my
eyes and beat him till his head was swollen. I was also confined longer than you. I
might have died already, but as my disciple, how could you be bullied by others!" Lord
Sky Crane snickered.

"Master……” Fang Zheng choked with sobs, his eyes reddened and tears started
forming in his eyes.

"Idiot, what are you crying for. A man does not easily shed tears!" Lord Sky Crane
berated.

"Yes, master. Sorry, master!"

This crucial moment seemed to span endlessly.

The past scenes floated by one by one in Lord Sky Crane's mind. He seemed to hear
being called master again and again.

Lord Sky Crane roared in a voice so loud that it could awaken the dead: "Fang Zheng,
persevere! Have you forgotten the pain Fang Yuan inflicted upon you? Forgotten how
your fellow disciples beat you black and blue when you first arrived at Immortal Crane
Sect? Forgotten the grieving ghosts of your clan, forgotten how miserably your uncle
and aunt had died at Fang Yuan's hands? Your hatred, your effort, all of it need to be
shown at this moment! You can't fail, you can't give up!"

"I will definitely sense him, definitely!" Fang Zheng's spirit was stirred up when he
heard Lord Sky Crane's roar.

However, he still only sensed endless darkness.

No matter how much effort he exerted, no matter how he used his energy, he still could
not sense any indication.

"Why?! Why!" Fang Zheng's mind was shaken and was starting to turn chaotic when
the memories of that unbearable past hidden deep within him started surfacing one
after another.

The shadow which Fang Yuan had cast upon Fang Zheng since youth seemed to be the
same as this darkness he was sensing, causing Fang Zheng to feel boundless pressure
and not a trace of light.

Fang Zheng felt he was an extremely tiny speck in this vast darkness.

Hesitation, bewilderment, loneliness, helplessness, all sorts of feelings gushed in his

heart.

"Sorry, master, I… failed." Tears fell down Fang Zheng's eyes as his body reached the
limit and his mind was close to collapsing.

"No! You can't fail, I don't allow it!" Lord Sky Crane was also anxious, shouting
repeatedly.

However, Fang Zheng was slowly unable to hear him, he was about to fall unconscious
like in the previous drills.

"Damn it, damn it!" Lord Sky Crane shouted in his heart, he thought of his possession
plan, and thought of the punishment He Feng Yang would give if he failed this task.

"Fang Zheng, you brat, all my efforts to cultivate you are in vain. In the end, you are
still unable to get rid of that man's shadow! Since that is the case, then let me give you
a hand!!"
Lord Sky Crane's thoughts flashed before he finally convinced himself. The situation
also forced him into making this choice.

He used that trump card.

Instantly, the whole blood pool let out bright lights, sweeping away the previous
darkness.

Gu worms concealed around the blood pool activated one after another on Fang
Zheng's body.

"Ahhh——!" Fang Zheng's body spasmed intensely like he was electrocuted. He

fiercely raised his head and spread his arms, clenching his fists so tightly that the nails
pierced into the flesh.

An incomparable pain attacked his mind, causing his eyes to roll backwards and show
the whites.

Almost in the next breath of time, Fang Zheng's roar stopped abruptly; he lost his
consciousness, but under the effects of Gu worms, he still continued to activate failed
blood demon flower Gu, and was still using blood sense Gu to sense Fang Yuan's
existence.

The blood pool seethed and gurgled.

Squeak squeak… the failed blood demon flowers started growing rapidly, emitting
bone-chilling sounds.

Fang Zheng maintained his position, with his head raised and arms spread, without
budging in the slightest, like a statue.

The demonic vines had been small and thin like needles, but now these vines grew
thicker, at least as thick as fingers. The largest vine grew from the depths of Fang
Zheng's throat and extended out from his mouth like a python.

Besides this, there were vines growing out from his ears and nostrils.

Soon, vines grew out from every pore on his skin; Fang Zheng had thoroughly turned
into nourishment for the demon flowers, his body was cut open everywhere, there
was nothing remaining of his original appearance, just like a flower statue that had
been tastefully trimmed.

"Brat……” Looking at Fang Zheng transforming into this miserable appearance, Lord
Sky Crane's original anxiety and nervousness disappeared. He felt a bleak emptiness
that spread to the depths of his heart, it was extremely unbearable.

This unbearable feeling soon turned into a heavy guilt that filled Lord Sky Crane's
mind.

"Brat, master… has done you an injustice!" Lord Sky Crane's soul, which was stored in
the spirit incubating flea, was unexpectedly letting out drops of soul tears!

"Hmm? He Feng Yang's arrangements have been activated." In the depths of Fu Hu

blessed land, Immortal Crane Sect's third supreme elder slowly opened his eyes and
mumbled.

He thought of the matter that He Feng Yang had specially requested of him before he
left.

The third elder, Lord Tiger Demon, used his immortal essence to activate an Immortal
Gu that gracefully flew out of the hall.

This Immortal Gu was not Lord Tiger Demon's, but had been borrowed by He Feng
Yang from Lady Sang Xin. It was a rank six information path Immortal Gu - Mutual
Sense.

In ten or so breaths of time, the Immortal Gu descended down to over the blood pool,
above Fang Zheng.

"This is — Immortal Gu?!" Lord Sky Crane's eyes opened wide in shock.

Mutual sense Immortal Gu let out a grey light pillar, the smoke-like light pillar covered
Fang Zheng. Several breaths later, the grey light pillar was dyed red with Fang Zheng's
blood.

"Where… is this?" Fang Zheng's remaining consciousness surveyed his surroundings.

It was darkness around him, no matter where he walked and no matter how far, the
surroundings were still covered in deep and boundless darkness.
However, right at this time, a blood-red light speck appeared ahead of Fang Zheng.

"Ah? That is……” Fang Zheng tried walking towards the light; when he reached closer,
he sensed a familiar aura from the blood-red light speck, "This is older brother's, no,
Fang Yuan's aura! Master, master, do you hear me, I have succeeded! I finally sensed
him!"

Fang Zheng was extremely excited and tried to speak, but no words came out.

His mouth was opened so wide that it had almost deformed, it was being held in place
by the thick demon flower vines. But a joyful teardrop fell down from the corner of his
eye.

This tear fiercely shook Lord Sky Crane's soul, he sank down into deathly silence.

Fang Zheng approached the blood-red light speck, suddenly the light speck let out an
extremely powerful suction force that completely caught Fang Zheng off-guard,
absorbing his remaining consciousness.

At this moment, in Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan gave a sound of surprise and
slowly opened his eyes.

He sensed a blood pool, sensed Fang Zheng's body, sensed the lush, enchanting failed
blood demon flowers, sensed the spirit incubating flea, sensed the information path
mutual sense Immortal Gu above……

"So it is like this." Fang Yuan sneered, "My cute little brother, you are finally going to
die? No, in the words of the righteous path, you are sacrificing yourself for the group?
Hahaha."

"What happened?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng, who was sitting to the side, saw Fang Yuan
suddenly speaking and immediately questioned.

At the other side from him were Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan, who similarly casted
inquiring gazes at Fang Yuan.

"Such a coincidence, I had invited you guys to talk about guts Gu business, but it seems
Immortal Crane Sect is making an attack." Fang Yuan smiled. He then intentionally
lowered his eyes and waved his hand, "The other side used my own little brother and
used the Immortal Gu, Mutual Sense, to get my location. Everyone, first leave Dang
Hun palace and lie in ambush. My senior brother will explain the details to you."

Immortal Gu Mutual Sense could allow two parties to sense each other's situation.

At this moment, Fang Zheng and Fang Yuan had sensed each other's situation through
blood sense Gu and mutual sense Immortal Gu.

Naturally, because of the difference in strength between the two sides, Fang Yuan was
able to sense everything about Fang Zheng while Fang Zheng could only see things
through Fang Yuan's eyes. His perception was limited and he was not even able to
sense the immortal aperture inside Fang Yuan.

Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan glanced at each other, and saw the heavy mood in the
other's eyes.

They were hindered by the Snowy Mountain Alliance and could not easily avoid this,
they could only brace themselves to fight alongside Fang Yuan.

On Tian Ti mountain, He Feng Yang, who was sitting on a white cloud cushion Gu,
suddenly opened his eyes.

"The time is ripe!" A sharp light burst out of his eyes as he took out an Immortal Gu.

"Expand space Immortal Gu." Fairy Cang Yu softly breathed out when she saw the
Immortal Gu.

This Immortal Gu belonged to Immortal Crane Sect's second supreme elder, its ability
was to expand the space of a blessed land. He Feng Yang had borrowed it to use it as
the core of an immortal killer move.

Immortal killer move — Force Intrusion!

Over ten beads of green grape immortal essence were spent in an instant. An
enormous aura rose up and formed translucent ripples in the air.

Crack…

Like the sound of glass breaking, space broke apart in front of He Feng Yang and Fairy
Cang Yu, revealing the terrain of Hu Immortal blessed land.
He Feng Yang leisurely stored expand space Immortal Gu before glancing at Fairy Cang
Yu and inviting in a gentlemanly voice: "Fairy, please enter."

Fairy Cang Yu delicately laughed before stepping forward in the direction of Hu

Immortal blessed land.

Suddenly, lightning struck towards her!

Fairy Cang Yu's mind was immediately alerted.

The flash of lightning came quickly, it tore through the air and emitting a crackling
sound like that of sparks.

"Even though there are many Gu Immortals present, our sect had won in our scheme
earlier, according to the rules, the other nine great ancient sects can merely observe
this. If they are not from the nine sects, which demonic path Gu Immortal would dare
to take a risk and mess with Immortal Crane Sect?"

In an instant, Fairy Cang Yu's mind was flashing with thoughts.

At the same time, her fingers did not slow down, her ten dainty fingers were fluttering
around, about to activate a killer move to strike back.

But at the next moment, He Feng Yang stopped her: "Fairy, wait."

Saying this, he pulled Fairy Cang Yu to one side, while opening up the hole leading to
Hu Immortal blessed land.

The flash of lightning ignored the two of them, it entered Hu Immortal blessed land
through this hole.

Using this time, Fairy Cang Yu saw the lightning's true identity: "This is the earthly
calamity — Blue Charm Lightning Shadow?"

He Feng Yang laughed plainly: "This is an earthly calamity targeting Hu Immortal

blessed land, after Fang Yuan discarded a huge portion of Hu Immortal blessed land,
he sent it out of the blessed land. To think that this blue charm lightning shadow did
not vanish, instead it had been hiding on Tian Ti mountain."
"Great. Blue charm lightning shadow has good battle strength, about the mid-tier of
rank six. With it leading from the front, we would have an easier time." Fairy Cang Yu's
brows eased, she started smiling.

"Fang Yuan has decisiveness, he really is quite impressive, directly discarding close to
a quarter of the blessed land. But his strength is simply too low, no matter how much
he plots, it is useless."

He Feng Yang sighed, entering Hu Immortal blessed land along with Fairy Cang Yu.

Once they got in, a wave of heavenly power descended on them, sealing all of the
mortal Gu in their hands.

But immediately after, He Feng Yang and Fairy Cang Yu's bodies shone with an orange
and yellow light.

This was the effect of the rank seven one's own way Immortal Gu, it could prevent
their mortal Gu from being suppressed, and let them be activated normally.

Fairy Cang Yu shut her eyes, after a few breaths, she opened them again: "We are at
the west area of Hu Immortal blessed land, the blue charm lightning shadow has
already gone to the center of the blessed land, towards Dang Hun mountain."

He Feng Yang nodded: "As I expected, within Hu Immortal blessed land, the safest
place is Dang Hun mountain. The blue charm lightning shadow's first target is the
blessed land's owner. Back then, Hu Immortal was caught off guard and killed by the
blue charm lightning shadow. Since it is heading for Dang Hun mountain, that means
Fang Yuan is hiding inside Dang Hun mountain, let's go there."

"Okay. I've always wanted to see what the legendary Dang Hun mountain looks like."
Fairy Cang Yu laughed lightly.

"With the blue charm lightning shadow leading the way, we can also see what kind of
ambush the enemy has prepared." He Feng Yang said, activating expand space
Immortal Gu, using another immortal killer move as the hole behind him closed in the
blessed land.

"That's the immortal killer move, force closure."

"Immortal Crane Sect is so petty, they are not letting us watch."

"In this battle, if Immortal Crane Sect fails, whether the door is closed or not, we will
take over. If Immortal Crane Sect wins, whether the door opens or not, we will leave.
Letting us watch would not affect anything."

"Hmph, they are projecting their own shortcomings onto others. Did they really think
we would act out of greed?"

Outside, on Tian Ti mountain, the Gu Immortals from central continent's other nine
great sects were conversing using their divine senses.

"Bi Weng, how high do you think Immortal Crane Sect's chance of succeeding is?" Gu
Immortal Zhang Wen Jiu asked casually.

"Relatively high. Even though we have been obstructing them in secret, causing them
to only send two Gu Immortals in the end to take back Hu Immortal blessed land, they
still have the battle strength of two Gu Immortals and now the blue charm lightning
shadow. Fang Yuan who controls Hu Immortal blessed land is a mere mortal, how can
he block Immortal Crane Sect?" Bi Weng answered.

"That's not what I think. According to the investigation of us, Spirit Butterfly Valley,
Fang Yuan had refined Fixed Immortal Travel in Three Kings blessed land, and came
here alone. How is that possible? As a mortal, how could he refine an Immortal Gu,
how could he have an image of Hu Immortal blessed land's scenery? Behind him, there
is definitely a mastermind. Since the other party dared to snatch Hu Immortal blessed
land from the ten ancient sects, I am sure they have the battle strength to protect it.
Maybe, they might be able to resist Immortal Crane Sect's attack?" Rainbow Butterfly
Immortal Concubine Han Cai Xin said.

"Immortal Concubine also does not speak without reason." Gu Immortal Du Teng
laughed: "If Immortal Crane Sect fails, do we have a competition to decide the victor
or choose to have an agreement among the ten sects first before striking?"

This was a crucial problem, the Gu Immortals from the nine sects fell into silence.

"Of course we'll discuss it in detail another day. We are the ten great ancient sects, not
rabid dogs scavenging for food." Myriad Dragon Dock's Gu Immortal Guan Cao Ze
immediately said.

Among the Gu Immortals present, Guan Cao Ze had the lowest battle strength. If they
battled, he would be at the greatest disadvantage.
"This is inappropriate, this is inappropriate." Green Canary Boy shook his head.

"We should strike while the iron is hot, this is just a blessed land, we should decide on
it today and not waste more time!" Great Lord Lie Yang pretended to be unaware.

"Strange, didn't Vicious Lightning Fiend of your Myriad Dragon Dock just end his
closed cultivation? Why would you be sent here for this contest for Hu Immortal
blessed land?" Poison Count Lu Xu laughed coldly as he pointed out Guan Cao Ze's
weakness.

The Gu Immortals quickly formed a consensus, if Immortal Crane Sect failed, they
would have a competition to decide who the blessed land belongs to. If Immortal
Crane Sect won, they would also have a competition, the sect that places first would
have priority in reaching an agreement with Immortal Crane Sect for the guts Gu.

Guts Gu could raise the foundation of a sect, it was even useful to Gu Immortals. Any
sect would not be able to take it solely for themselves, when the other nine sects exert
pressure, they would be forced to sell it.

"You guys…” Guan Cao Ze was fuming on the outside, but he was snickering on the
inside.

At the same time as the discussion between the Gu Immortals of the nine sects, within
Hu Immortal blessed land, He Feng Yang and Fairy Cang Yu were slowly flying towards
Dang Hun mountain.

"This is a blood pool?" Halfway there, He Feng Yang gave a curious gaze.

He found that within Hu Immortal blessed land, there was a huge blood pool, it was
so huge it could be called a blood lake.

"Hmph, another blood path scoundrel!" Fairy Cang Yu frowned, saying in a despising
tone.

"Blood path cultivators harm all living beings in this world, as it can allow them to
raise their battle strength. This is the reason why countless Gu Masters choose this
path! Every ten years, Heavenly Court would issue the Demon Judgment Board, and
many blood path Gu Masters would be on it. Blood Sea Ancestor, he truly caused much
harm to the world!" He Feng Yang criticized, thrusting with his palm as a jade lightning
ball flew towards it.
Boom boom boom.

After a series of explosions, the blood pool was destroyed, turning into ruins.

After destroying the blood pool, the two immortals continued to fly towards Dang Hun
mountain.

On the way, Fairy Cang Yu shook her head: "This Hu Immortal blessed land is managed
too poorly, it is almost completely desolate. I've heard that this place had large groups
of foxes in the past, but now, after flying for so long, we have not seen a single myriad
fox group."

"There are few fox groups, but there are surely a lot of rockmen. Fang Yuan is a mortal
after all, he only knows how to use guts Gu to increase the production of rockmen. But
he does not know that he is pursuing tiny gains while discarding the foundations. Hu
Immortal was an enslavement path Gu Immortal, enslavement path was the main law
in her blessed land, it is best for rearing fox groups." He Feng Yang laughed in disdain.

"Hu Immortal blessed land is truly wasted in his hands. Once it is in our sect, Hu
Immortal blessed land will develop greatly, but I wonder who in the sect would be its
owner." Fairy Cang Yu sighed.

Hearing that, He Feng Yang sighed: "According to the rules, after we recover it, Hu
Immortal blessed land would be a public blessed land of Immortal Crane Sect, we
would only have a limited time in operating it after getting it. But this managing right
is also extremely lucrative. After all, the center of the blessed land is Dang Hun
mountain, it is a gold mine!"

"The scariest part is that this gold mine will never run out." Fairy Cang Yu nodded in
agreement.

The two of them talked along the way, not facing any obstruction. This raised their
confidence that the blessed land was in terrible shape.

They started to fly faster, and when they were in front of Dang Hun mountain, they
were already talking about 'what they would do when Dang Hun mountain belongs to
them'.

In the air above Dang Hun mountain, the blue charm lightning shadow was shrieking
and charging, attacking Dang Hun mountain.
But though it was formed from an earthly calamity, it had life as well, Dang Hun
mountain's vibration could attack its soul, its weakness.

"Fang Yuan, come out. You should know that Dang Hun mountain can only block the
blue charm lightning shadow because it has no Gu worms. Even if you raise Dang Hun
mountain's power to its limits, you cannot block two Gu Immortals." He Feng Yang
shouted, his voice could pierce through heaven and earth.

"Fang Yuan, a wise man submits to circumstances, I am sure the land spirit is beside
you now. Then you should know that Hu Immortal blessed land cannot seal our mortal
Gu. Furthermore, we've brought an Immortal Gu!" Fairy Cang Yu followed up,
pressuring Fang Yuan.

Thus, Fang Yuan walked out, standing on Dang Hun mountain's peak.

He Feng Yang's heart tightened, but he quickly relaxed. This was a rank six immortal
zombie, immortal zombies had great weaknesses, they could not produce immortal
essence and their blessed land would shrivel and break apart at set intervals, thus
their battle strength was usually below ordinary Gu Immortals.

"Immortal Crane Sect has finally lost their patience? You want my blessed land, aren't
you afraid I will destroy Dang Hun mountain?" Fang Yuan said.

"You are… Fang Yuan?" He Feng Yang squinted, he found it unbelievable. Only a year
had passed, how could Fang Yuan become an immortal zombie?!

While He Feng Yang was suspicious and confused, Fairy Cang Yu spoke beside him,
smiling: "We came prepared, of course, how could we allow you to destroy Dang Hun
mountain? If you think using Dang Hun mountain could threaten us, then you are very
much mistaken. Oh, that's right, we can even reduce Dang Hun mountain's pressure
until it is insignificant. By then, we would not need to strike, this blue charm lightning
shadow alone can kill you."

Fang Yuan looked at the blue charm lightning shadow in the air, this human shaped
lightning was growling non-stop, charging towards Dang Hun mountain but was
forced back each time by the intense vibrations.

Fang Yuan heaved a long sigh.

Fairy Cang Yu thought that this was a chance, and continued: "As long as you give up
the ownership of the blessed land, we can forget past matters, and even accept you as
a disciple of our sect!"

"But I remember, Immortal Crane Sect promised to give me the position of an elder
back then?" Fang Yuan retorted.

He Feng Yang laughed coldly: "Times have changed, Fang Yuan, you are a smart man,
can't you see the circumstances now?"

Fang Yuan heard this and he smirked: "Oh? The circumstances now… oh, let me have
a good look."

Just after he said this, the aura of Immortal Gu burst out in his body.

"This, this is?!" Fairy Cang Yu's beautiful face transformed.

"Immortal Gu, so many Immortal Gu!" He Feng Yang could not tell which Immortal Gu
they were, but the aura would not lie to him, his eyes were burning with an intense
light of greed.

But at the next moment, three figures appeared around Fang Yuan.

Hei Lou Lan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Fairy Li Shan!

Two rank six, one rank seven!

Not only that, each of them gave off an intense Immortal Gu aura, not concealing it at
all.

Fairy Cang Yu's complexion changed.

He Feng Yang's greedy gaze also turned into one of uncontrollable shock!

Fang Yuan's force was so powerful it was out of his imagination.

Next, one, two, three… six, seven, eight beast figures flew out from Dang Hun mountain
and arrived in eight surrounding directions.

Ice spike divine ape, phoenix feather lava crocodile, golden sand dark stallion, azure
dragon vine… eight desolate beasts formed an encirclement.
"This is a trap!" He Feng Yang growled, his body shuddering.

Fairy Cang Yu suddenly felt outnumbered, her face turned pale and she was speechless.

Even the blue charm lightning shadow in the air stopped its angry growl.

Fang Yuan's plain voice came from Dang Hun mountain once again: "Oh, I have seen
the current circumstances very clearly now, but the question is, have you?"