In the chaotic battle, Fang Yuan managed to escape.
When he returned to the place where the yaksha octopuses were, about half of them were still left.
He tried the same thing again, luring the remaining yaksha octopuses away.
"Oh no! Another ancient yaksha octopus, and ten desolate beast octopuses. They seemed to have moved out together!" Dragon Commander Ye Cha was stuck in the chaotic battle, seeing the octopus reinforcements, he cried out in bitterness.
What grudges did they have, what vengeance was it?
The other immortal zombies also bemoaned their terrible luck, what was going on?!
But they had other choice than to save Xing Xiang Zi first.
"Hold on!" Dragon Commander Ye Cha shouted, he did not stint on his immortal essence, he used them extensively.
Blazing Heaven Demoness had immense authority, the immortal zombies did not dare to defy her orders, they could only endure in the chaotic battle.
Thankfully, this mouth earthworm did not hide in the gravity soil zone, it was in a frenzy and its huge body lashed around, creating powerful sonic booms.
The immortal zombie did not dare to take the hits, they could only attack from afar, the damage accumulated slowly as the mouth earthworm's skin was damaged.
Originally, the situation was quite simple.
Even though the mouth earthworm was an ancient desolate beast, it was not the match of Dragon Commander Ye Cha and the others.
But with the yaksha octopus group, it became a three way battle.
They restricted each other and fought randomly, the scene became very chaotic.
The yaksha octopuses were the greatest in number, they encircled the immortal zombies and the mouth earthworm, forming a tight layer.
"Xing Xiang Zi, you must survive!" Landlord Lei Yu shouted.
Even though he was unhappy with Fang Yuan, the moment he thought that Fang Yuan could die from this, he burst out in cold sweat.
Fang Yuan's safety was a huge issue weighing on the immortal zombies.
During this period, the perpetrator, Fang Yuan was secretly sneaking into the territory of the yaksha octopuses.
Groups of yaksha octopuses lived in the two sides of the cliff walls.
The cliff wall in front of him had a huge protrusion. This yaksha octopus group made a hole in this protrusion and made it their home.
Fang Yuan sneaked inside, drilling into a bigger entrance.
The entrance of the hole was very big, it was for the yaksha octopuses to enter and exit. Desolate beast level yaksha octopuses were very big, not to mention the ancient desolate beast yaksha octopus kings.
Fang Yuan entered the hole and a thick smell of oil assailed him.
The hole extended in front of him, he looked ahead and only saw darkness.
But Fang Yuan's investigative methods were very rich, this darkness could not obstruct him.
He stretched out his hand and touched the walls.
The surface of the hole's walls were full of black oil, they were thick and sticky.
Why would the dry cave have black oil?
This was due to the yaksha octopus' habits.
Yaksha octopuses were a type of fierce beast that liked to hunt for prey in the black oil of Earth Trench. Therefore, their bodies would often have sticky black oil stuck to them.
When they enter or exit the caves, the black oil would spread from their bodies to the walls of the caves.
The oily smell that Fang Yuan smelt was due to this black oil.
In the black oil, there were lots of weeds and needle wood, they were rooted into the walls and the black oil provided them sufficient nutrients.
Guru guru...
When Fang Yuan touched the black oil and wiped along it, bubbles started appearing on the sticky black oil surface on the wall.
Next, dozens of tiny worms that were smaller than fingers flew out from the bubbles.
They were alerted by Fang Yuan's actions and flew out, but they quickly went back into the black oil.
The black oil was like glue, it was very sticky and stuck to the walls tightly. Inside, there was rotting vegetation as well as large numbers of insects.
The insects were of such a massive scale, there were bound to be wild Gu worms in them.
Fang Yuan only gave them a glance and realized that there were at least four wild Gu worms around him. Two were earth path Gu worms, one was dark path, and one was water path.
Of course, these were mortal Gu, Fang Yuan had no interest in taking them.
"Dragon Commander Ye Cha is able to raise large numbers of yaksha octopuses, is his immortal aperture mimicking this environment?" Fang Yuan's mind wandered as he thought about this.
Fang Yuan was also very curious about Dragon Commander Ye Cha's cultivation secret.
Since an immortal zombie's immortal aperture was dead and filled with death energy, it could not be used to support living beings.
How did Dragon Commander Ye Cha do it?
Perhaps it was possible to learn the secrets of Dragon Commander Ye Cha by researching this environment, but now was not the time, Fang Yuan discarded these thoughts and moved on.
Several minutes later.
Howl——!
This was the final growl before the fierce beast died.
But this growl was only heard in a small area before it vanished.
The killer was Fang Yuan.
He used his Gu worms to prevent the sound from spreading.
This was deep into the yaksha octopus' cave, not only was the black oil seven to eight inches thick, some fierce beasts were even living here in the crevices.
These wild beasts mostly consisted of black stomach hounds.
Black stomach hounds ate rotting meat and bones. The yaksha octopus only consumed the fresh blood and meat of their prey, they did not eat the bones and rotting meat.
These black stomach hounds would eat the leftovers from the yaksha octopuses, the yaksha octopuses were happy with this, they had a free cleaner to tidy up the cave.
This was one of the wonders of nature, living beings could coexist in harmony.
When Fang Yuan found out the relationship between the black stomach hounds and the yaksha octopuses, he turned into a black stomach hound and ventured in.
It was a pity that these black stomach hounds divided their own territories and had a stronger territorial awareness than the yaksha octopuses.
Fang Yuan was fiercely attacked by the black stomach hounds, it would have been easier to just fight in his human form.
If this cave was divided into two, the upper half and the lower half, then Fang Yuan's current position was already in the lower half, past the upper half.
Even so, the clues to the inheritance had not appeared yet.
At every interval, there would be a fork in the path. All of the yaksha octopuses went to their homes through these paths, they were interconnected. In the ground, these countless holes formed widely connected and accessible paths.
Fang Yuan continued moving forward.
He found some yaksha octopuses that were guarding the cave.
These octopuses were only desolate beasts, Fang Yuan could take them down if he used his real battle strength.
But Fang Yuan got past them, he did not want to waste time in fighting with them.
He could use mortal Gu to conceal the traces when killing the black stomach hounds. But when dealing with desolate beasts, he needed a battlefield killer move to conceal the traces and commotion.
He lured most of the yaksha octopuses out.
But there was still an ancient yaksha octopus king, and numerous desolate beast yaksha octopuses.
If the yaksha octopus king was alerted, it would be terrible.
Time continued to pass, but he still found no clues, Fang Yuan was getting more anxious.
If he missed this chance, he would have to plan a lot for the next visit.
Even though he had Fixed Immortal Travel, he could not use it in Dark Flow Giant City blatantly. The activation of Fixed Immortal Travel caused quite a disturbance after all.
Within the investigative range of Gu Immortals, it was not just some light effects, the aura of Immortal Gu was like a fire burning in the night sky.
And at this time, Fang Yuan had to refine Gu in Dark Flow Giant City, Blazing Heaven Demoness would not let him leave her sights.
Fixed Immortal Travel could not be exposed.
Once it was exposed, many secrets would be exposed, the whole world would know that Fang Yuan was the person who toppled Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Fang Yuan did not know that the Central Continent Gu Immortals had already left by now.
"If there is no other way, I can only give up. Time is limited, once the battle ends and the mouth earthworm is dissected, if Dragon Commander Ye Cha and the others do not find me inside, I will not be able to explain it."
Fang Yuan evaluated.
Time was limited. He had about fifteen minutes.
Now, most of the time was already wasted, but he had no gains.
Fang Yuan had to use his time well, he raised his speed.
Eventually, he came to the deepest part of the cave.
Here, there was a yaksha octopus king resting.
Its snores were loud as thunder — evidently, it was sleeping.
"Immortal Gu aura!" Fang Yuan's heart jumped.
He felt the aura of a wild Immortal Gu in this yaksha octopus king.
As it turned out, this cave had existed for a long time, and this yaksha octopus king was the oldest. As a long time passed, among the Gu worms living in its body, one had emerged as a wild Immortal Gu.
The joy in his heart vanished as Fang Yuan felt glad.
Thankfully, he had not lured out this yaksha octopus king earlier.
If this yaksha octopus king appeared, the immortal zombies would definitely go crazy and try to capture the wild Immortal Gu, they would enter a frenzy.
But after finding this Immortal Gu, whether they succeeded or not, they would come to the cave and investigate.
"Perhaps this is how the Northern Plains Zombie Alliance found this inheritance in my previous life?" Fang Yuan had a flash of inspiration.
After hesitating, Fang Yuan decided to take a gamble.
He turned into a black stomach hound and carefully got close to the yaksha octopus king.
If this yaksha octopus king's wild Immortal Gu could expose Fang Yuan's identity, that would be trouble.
But this possibility was not big.
Fang Yuan decided to risk it.
"The cave is huge with many tunnels, but this is the deepest part of the cave, it is most likely to be here."
At this time, the yaksha octopus king's tentacles which were wrapped up loosened, it opened its eyes as its topaz-like pupils looked at Fang Yuan who has transformed into the black stomach hound.
Fang Yuan did not sense anything, he got past the yaksha octopus king and went behind it as if it was normal.
Behind the yaksha octopus king, there was a pile of white bones, there were some rotting meat left in them.
The octopus king shut its eyes, continuing to sleep.
Fang Yuan's mind was energized: "It is here! There are dao marks exposed here, these are traces of a Gu formation..."
Countless Gu worms in his immortal aperture were activated, immortal essence was expended rapidly as this Gu formation was unraveled.
Soon, Fang Yuan found that this space path giant Gu formation only showed a trace of a flaw because it had not been repaired for a long time.
"Very possibly, the treasure that I have been looking for is in this giant Gu formation. But to unravel this Gu formation, I have to activate Gu worms, the disturbance is huge. I can only take a risk..."
Fang Yuan made up his mind, he picked up a piece of bone and left the yaksha octopus king.
He quickly returned and when he reached a certain place, he used his Immortal Gu and directly attacked a close by desolate beast yaksha octopus.
The intense battle erupted as the yaksha octopuses that were defending their homes charged over.
Fang Yuan fought as he retreated, when he reached the exit, he activated Fixed Immortal Travel.
In three breaths of time, he teleported to the deepest area of the cave.
At this time, the yaksha octopus king was still at the exit of the cave, Fang Yuan fought against time as he unraveled this space path Gu formation.
After the yaksha octopuses fought for some time, they did not see any enemies and gradually calmed down, returning to the cave.
They moved quickly in the cave, Fang Yuan's time was limited.
The worse thing was, when he started unraveling it, Fang Yuan could feel the profoundness and complexity of this huge Gu formation.
To completely deduce it, he would need months to do so!
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Such an enormous Gu formation required at least several months to be unraveled.
It would require about a month just to pry an opening.
Fang Yuan's hands moved very fast, countless Gu worms fluttered all around, unraveling the Gu formation. At the same time, his ears quivered frequently as he activated his investigative methods to the limit, the yaksha octopus king was already on its way.
Time waits for no man.
Strive for every second!
"This is it." Fang Yuan's eyes suddenly brightened as the air in front of him started emitting a hazy glow.
Beyond the hazy glow, he saw a trace of the enormous Gu formation.
Although his sight was blurry, he could vaguely see the scenery inside the formation.
The yaksha octopus king had already returned.
Time was up, he had to retreat.
In this short amount of time, being able to peep into the scenery inside the Gu formation was already the limits of Fang Yuan's ability.
If Fang Yuan did not reach grandmaster level in wisdom path, he would not have been able to do this.
This was enough.
Fang Yuan relaxed, and immediately retreated.
The ancient desolate beast yaksha octopus king was moving like an underground subway train in the cave. The surrounding slippery black oil from Earth Trench allowed it to move like a fish in water.
Fang Yuan had almost bumped into it.
This yaksha octopus king returned to its place, and gazed around first of all.
It felt there was something off.
When Fang Yuan analyzed the Gu formation, many different kinds of auras were left behind, the wild beast's intuition made the yaksha octopus king feel something wrong.
It frowned deeply, and more than ten of its enormous and tough tentacles carried it nimbly as it patrolled around the nest.
However, it could not discover anything missing even after a while, while the previous unknown auras already had begun dissipating. The yaksha octopus king only then slowly calmed down, lying down on its nest again.
It was just that it did not sleep, its eyes were slightly closed but a small crack was opened.
From time to time, its ears would quiver from the slightest breeze in the cave as it tried to listen to any unknown sounds.
Fang Yuan's worries finally dissipated, he cautiously retreated, even retreating to the upper half of the octopus nest.
This yaksha octopus king seemed to have the highest status as it had stayed behind to guard the nest. If it felt any strong danger, who is to say it might not call back the other yaksha octopuses fighting outside.
At that time, not to mention whether the Northern Plains immortal zombies would feel suspicious and be attracted to the disturbance, Fang Yuan's movements in the octopus nest would be extremely restricted.
"This place should be okay." After a while, Fang Yuan carefully selected an inconspicuous corner among the several underground burrows.
He hesitated for a moment, but still decided to activate Fixed Immortal Travel.
Although that enormous Gu formation was arranged by some predecessor, when Fang Yuan deciphered it earlier, he found out that it had become an unmanned formation and had been unmanaged for many years. The risk of rashly going in was not high.
To find a method of reviving from the immortal zombie state, this was a risk he needed to take.
After all, as time passed, Fang Yuan's predicament would become more dangerous.
Who could say if the matter of him wrecking Eighty-Eight True Yang Building would be exposed at the next moment? At that time, the whole world would hunt him down. He would definitely not be able to protect Hu Immortal blessed land, and Star Form blessed land would be his only base.
In such a situation, the earlier he got rid of his immortal zombie body, the more beneficial it would be. After all, a living immortal aperture world could be brought with him, more safe and convenient than Hu Immortal blessed land or Star Form blessed land.
Moreover, living Gu Immortal immortal apertures could produce immortal essence in set intervals of time, which was extremely helpful to Fang Yuan's financial situation and battle strength!
The Immortal Gu was activated, green light blossomed.
The next moment, Fang Yuan disappeared from his place, appearing inside the giant Gu formation.
Just outside the Gu formation was the yaksha octopus king. But because of the isolation effect of the Gu formation, it was unaware of anything.
"I am finally in here." Fang Yuan was extremely vigilant, he quickly looked around him, this was indeed the place which he had inspected earlier.
Rashly charging into a Gu formation was very dangerous, and it was normal to be attacked by the Gu formation.
However, Fang Yuan did not suffer any attacks, this further proved that the Gu formation was not managed by anyone.
He exhaled a breath of relief, but was still extremely vigilant.
Unmanned Gu formations could still function. Perhaps the core of the Gu formation had the will left behind by the Gu Immortal.
It could be like Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, where Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had left behind his will.
This was an giant formation using mainly space path methods, thus creating a special space.
This huge space had a yellow sky and a ground paved with purple sand.
The purple sand seemed to be extremely fertile, as dense amounts of vegetation covered Fang Yuan's sight, like a tropical rainforest.
"Scribe grass, nutrient peaches, immortal beans, blood tide flowers..." With just a brief glance, Fang Yuan could make out dozens of immortal materials.
Even a person as stoic as him was shocked.
Although most of these immortal materials were rank six level, along with a few of rank seven, their quantity was truly shocking.
"These immortal materials come from five regions, and are not limited to Earth Trench and Northern Plains. What background did the great expert immortal zombie that created this place have?"
To gather such an enormous scale of immortal materials, how much manpower and material resources would it require?
Moreover, immortal materials were not grass growing along the sides of a road, the gathering of immortal materials often resulted in bloodshed and was tied together with fighting. If the gatherer's strength was not up to par, they simply would not be able to get the materials.
There was also the five regions' regional walls.
The stronger one was, the higher the cultivation of the Gu Immortal, the more difficult it would be for them to pass through a regional wall.
"Could it be..." Fang Yuan's thoughts churned as he made a guess.
He had thought this was a great expert immortal zombie inheritance, but now it seemed such huge handiwork could not be possibly achieved by one person, it would at least require an organization.
And this organization must be huge.
Because a small sized organization with two or three Gu Immortals simply could not have such large assets and energy to spare!
Looking over it again, there were countless immortal materials everywhere he looked, such a sight caused Fang Yuan's heart to thump in excitement.
"Such enormous wealth is simply unimaginable! It is enough for me to attempt refining Immortal Gu dozens of times, even hundreds of times! Maybe in my previous life, Northern Plains Zombie Alliance was able to rise up because of these enormous cultivation resources, even suppressing Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance."
This was almost like a warehouse, with so much immortal materials piled up.
The total value was hard to estimate, Fang Yuan only knew this value was enormous, very enormous.
If he had to accumulate this much with his current two thousand immortal essence stones per month earnings, he might not be able to succeed even in a thousand years.
After all, he also had to calculate cultivation expenditures.
As Gu Immortal's cultivation became higher, the calamities and tribulations would become more terrifying.
"But compared to these countless immortal materials, this enormous Gu formation has even higher value!" Fang Yuan's eyes twinkled.
He had a huge ambition and was very experienced, as he came back to awareness, he realized the preciousness of this enormous Gu formation!
In this Gu formation, the countless immortal materials from the five regions were able to exist mutually without interfering with each other.
"Fortunately, I did not rashly take down this Gu formation, otherwise it would be too late for regret. With this Gu formation, I could plant countless types of immortal materials, it is easier to use than an immortal aperture!"
Fang Yuan could not help but praise the great expert immortal zombie that arranged this.
An Immortal zombie's immortal aperture was already dead, this predecessor was able to arrange such a Gu formation which replaced the use of immortal apertures to a certain extent.
"However, this Gu formation has low defense and also can't be moved, it is far from being convenient and safe like immortal apertures. Hmm... this purple sand seems to be rather strange."
Fang Yuan bent down and grabbed a large amount of purple sand.
The sand was extremely fine. Some flowed down the gaps in Fang Yuan's fingers and sprinkled down like fine grains of crystal. While falling down, they drifted haphazardly while emitting fluorescent light.
"But what I want to find is the method of reviving, where is it?" Fang Yuan threw away the purple sand as he thought of his main objective.
He was not in a hurry to gather the immortal materials, and started to gently fly around, searching the area.
Time gradually passed, the joyous look on Fang Yuan's face slowly disappeared as his feeling of unease intensified.
"Something is not right!" He suddenly stopped and looked down at the endless immortal materials.
After inspecting once more, he found what was wrong.
"It is too peaceful. There is not a trace of wind or sound, it is more quiet than even my dead aperture."
"There are also many other areas that feels fishy. Like the immortal beans, they grow in spring water, but are actually growing on the purple sand here. There are also the nutrient peaches, which are usually accompanied by snake-tail monkey groups. Every type of immortal material has a harsh living environment. But here, there are only these immortal material plants, and there is not even an insect."
Fang Yuan's eyes flashed with cold light.
He landed on the ground and tried to pick up a strand of scribe grass.
The next moment, Fang Yuan's body shook.
When the scribe grass was on the purple sand, it was safe and sound, but the moment Fang Yuan picked it up, it withered and turned into fine purple sand.
And the sand was the same as the purple sand below Fang Yuan's feet!
"What is going on?" Fang Yuan narrowed his eyes, and tried to pick other immortal materials.
The result was the same, the moment the immortal materials left the sand, they turned into purple sand.
All of these immortal materials had a problem, they were unusable!
"Strange! Strange!! The reason immortal materials are called immortal materials is because they contain plenty of dao marks on them. When these immortal materials wither and turn into purple sand, their dao marks should have been destroyed, but there is not even a slight disturbance from this..."
A chill emerged from the depths of Fang Yuan's heart.
The immortal materials were in such a state, as for an immortal zombie body which contained dao marks, could it be regarded as a type of immortal material, would it also be absorbed into this enormous field of purple sand?
Looking at this vast amount of immortal materials, flowers and trees, Fang Yuan felt like he was looking at the remains of corpses!
From another perspective, this was a sea of immortal material remains!
The unease inside him kept on intensifying.
Fang Yuan immediately flew to the sky, maintaining some distance with the purple sand.
He gazed at the sky.
"There is definitely something strange about this Gu formation, it is probably not enough to just maintain distance from the purple sand. This change in immortal materials should definitely be related to the whole Gu formation. Before I know of what's going on, it is better to quickly find the method to revive from the immortal zombie state and leave as soon as possible!
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Swoosh—!
Fang Yuan was like an arrow as he flew in the air, creating huge air currents.
Below him, there were countless immortal materials, but he did not even look at them. These 'dead' immortal materials were worthless.
Suddenly, Fang Yuan's gaze focused.
On the flat ground below, he saw a desolate beast.
This desolate beast was large like a small hill, it was sprawled on the ground and did not move, it was a hidden essence turtle.
Fang Yuan was not unfamiliar with this desolate beast, not long ago, he had captured one inside a fragment world of Central Continent's Starry Sky grotto-heaven.
Lowering his flying speed, Fang Yuan's body turned as he flew towards the hidden essence turtle.
When he got close, he realized this this was a hidden essence turtle that had died long ago.
It was sprawled on the ground, its head lowered, half of it was buried into the soft purple sand.
The hidden essence turtle's state was as if the spine below its neck was broken, its four limbs were extremely relaxed and loose.
But before it died, it had a calm expression, or rather, a peaceful expression, Fang Yuan felt some suspicion.
"Among the countless 'dead' immortal materials, there is a desolate beast corpse huh..."
Fang Yuan tried to collect the hidden essence turtle's body.
A moment later, his heart sank, he saw that a fragment of the hard turtle shell had turned into purple sand in his hands, scattering with the wind.
Fang Yuan's gaze flickered, after a few breaths' time, he left this place, exploring in the sky again.
Soon, he saw a second desolate beast.
This was an earth chief.
It had a humanoid body and a snake tail, its face resembled a bat, and its nose was pointed up. It had large ears and a black body covered in fleshy armor.
Around its chest were fifty to sixty fleshy whips, each over twenty meters in length. There were suction organs on the surface of the fleshy whips, covering them entirely.
At the front of each fleshy whip was a chrysanthemum-like orifice which could shoot out a white milky fluid at the crucial moment, the fluid had very high corrosiveness and contained extremely large numbers of parasitic worms, which could drill into the pores of victims and wreak havoc from inside the body.
The earth chief corpse was well preserved.
But when Fang Yuan tried to collect the corpse, the same thing happened again.
Fang Yuan no longer felt surprised, he muttered: "Hidden essence turtles are a desolate beast from Central Continent, and earth chiefs mostly appear in Northern Plains..."
Leaving this place, he continued exploring.
Fang Yuan quickly made a new discovery.
"Sandalwood sacred elephants, and three of them!" Fang Yuan gasped.
Sandalwood sacred elephants were much more valuable than hidden essence turtles and desolate beast earth chiefs.
Because it was an ancient desolate beast, a mature sandalwood sacred elephant had rank seven Gu Immortal battle strength.
Long ago, during the auction held by Qin Bai Sheng that involved the whole of Northern Plains, someone bid a sandalwood sacred elephant egg and attracted a huge commotion.
in the current five regions, sandalwood sacred elephants were very rare, they were barely seen.
But now, in front of Fang Yuan, were three sandalwood sacred elephant corpses.
Next, Fang Yuan found even more desolate beast and ancient desolate beast corpses. They were all lying on the ground, surrounded by red, purple, or green plant immortal materials.
Moon howling heavenly wolf, star desolate hound, golden sand dark stallion, ice spike divine ape, white hoof ink horse, nine palace crane, iron crown eagle, dragonfish, sharp tusk boar... Those that flew, those that ran, those that swam, all of them were present, it was like a creepy display of specimens.
The more he flew towards the center, the more corpses he found, the numbers were stunning!
Northern Plains' coiling mountain goat king, Southern Border's phoenix feather lava crocodile, Central Continent's diamond bear, Eastern Sea's grand smoke sea turtle, desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts from all five regions were all over the place.
"Eh? This is a ruin bat." Fang Yuan slowed his speed unknowingly.
This ruin bat was a rare space path desolate beast, it was inferior to the immemorial desolate beast ruin bat that Fang Yuan had seen back in Tai Qiu.
"Half moon qilin!" Fang Yuan's body froze.
Right now in Northern Plains Zombie Alliance, there was a living half moon qilin, it was raised like a treasure by the entire alliance.
"This ancient desolate beast, it seems to be... remnant heavenly dog?" Fang Yuan checked it over and over and obtained an answer.
He had never seen a remnant heavenly dog personally, he had only read about its descriptions in records. This ancient desolate beast only existed in white heaven.
The more he saw, the more Fang Yuan became desensitized.
His knowledge was very vast, but he did not recognize many of the ancient desolate plants and desolate beasts here.
"The space here is so vast, I've already flown for so long, yet even with my speed, I have not seen the edge of the Gu formation."
This was out of Fang Yuan's expectations.
He had tried to deduce this huge Gu formation earlier, and realized that it was a giant space path Gu formation.
Fang Yuan had estimated the size of this place, but now it seems, his initial estimation far underestimated the power of the Gu formation.
"It seems that my deductions and estimations did not reach the core of this Gu formation."
"Who is the person who made this? This is unheard of! So many immortal materials, this is truly an uncountable sum! Is it the work of an Immortal Venerable or Demon Venerable?"
Fang Yuan guessed internally.
Even rank eight Gu Immortals did not have such power to create this singlehandedly.
Because the five regions' regional walls prevented most rank eight Gu Immortals from traveling to other regions.
This was also why, even with the collapse of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Central Continent's ten great ancient sects only sent rank six and seven Gu Immortals over.
Of course, once a person is rank nine and invincible in the world, the five region's regional walls can no longer obstruct them.
"If it is not a rank nine venerable, then this must be the work of a super organization. This organization spans across all five regions, that is the only way they can collect the immortal materials."
Even though there was treasure yellow heaven and Gu Immortals could use it to trade, at this scale, treasure yellow heaven could not possibly be the site of transaction.
Because such transactions would have unprecedented scale, it would definitely be recorded down in history.
But Fang Yuan knew that there were no such records.
Even though he was deep into the Gu formation and had explored it for a long time, the longer he stayed, the more the mysteriousness around him thickened.
Fang Yuan did not know much about this place.
In his previous life, he had invaded Hu Immortal blessed land, but he did not step into this place.
This was only something he had heard of in his previous life.
Northern Plains Zombie Alliance suddenly became strong, even surpassing the headquarters in Eastern Sea. The explanation that they gave was that there was an inheritance here in Earth Trench.
They said that an immortal zombie great expert had left behind a revival method for immortal zombies. Because of this, many of Northern Plains Zombie Alliance's members turned back into humans, and countless lone cultivator immortal zombies came to join them, allowing Northern Plains Zombie Alliance to develop in size.
But soon after, the good prospects did not last, Northern Plains Zombie Alliance was destroyed by Ma Hong Yun forcefully.
Fang Yuan was unfamiliar with this place, but everything he saw made him extremely curious.
"The direction that I am going should be correct, because the immortal materials that I am seeing are getting rarer. Who is the person who arranged this? It is simply terrifying, perhaps even Heavenly Court would not be able to achieve this?"
Heavenly Court was an organization in Central Continent, it held control over Central Continent and had less power and forces in the other four regions.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, all sorts of monsters showed up, Fang Yuan was aware of this.
Or rather, every super force had its own way to develop. Heavenly Court's method was to grasp Central Continent and openly be the supreme force.
"If the one who arranged this is an organization, then this organization has to span across all five regions, while being hidden and mysterious. Eh? That place is..."
Fang Yuan saw a shade of purple in front of him.
This was a desolate land.
Soft purple sand was all around him, the sea of immortal materials was nowhere to be seen.
This desolate landscape of sand was a giant circle, it was at least two square kilometers in area!
There was no wind or sound, it was deathly silent.
Fang Yuan was shocked internally: "This is the central part of the Gu formation, it seems that a terrifying explosion had occurred here!"
It was this explosion that created the two square kilometers of desolate land. There should have been a sea of immortal materials here originally, but now there was nothing left.
As he gradually got close to the edge of the desolate land, a bright light in the sand attracted Fang Yuan's attention.
Fang Yuan landed and saw that there were thin wings piercing into the sand.
These were not the wings of birds, there were no feathers, they were half transparent, they should be the wings of cicadas or dragonflies.
And these cicada-like wings emitted an aura that made Fang Yuan gulp.
An immemorial desolate beast aura!
Even though it was just the remains, it was the real deal, this was shocking!
These cicada wings were extremely tattered, but they shone like a gem under light. From time to time, under sufficient lighting, they gave off a dark golden glow.
"This light is that of dao marks of metal path, these cicada wings should have belonged to something that had a terrifying foundation in dao marks! Only with a dao mark foundation that was at quasi-rank nine would there be visible dao marks that could be seen with the naked eyes. That is the light of dao marks!"
"Wait, maybe this is... the wings of the tiger-striped honey bee!"
Fang Yuan had a flash of inspiration, he made a guess.
This guess made his heart shudder.
Tiger-striped honey bees were a living being recorded in <
Each of these honey bees was the size of a leopard with patterns on their body resembling tiger stripes, golden with black stripes on top. They were extremely powerful, Verdant Great Sun could not even beat one of them. The honey wine that they create is sweet and delectable, it is extremely delicious and among the highest quality in the world."
"If the bees are at the size of leopards, the wings are at just the right size." Fang Yuan thought about this and smiled bitterly.
He was uncertain.
His past experiences and knowledge were very shallow when compared to what appeared in this place, he knew little.
He tried to take out these bee wings.
But something shocking happened!
The bee wings left the purple sand and were undamaged, they did not turn into purple sand like the other immortal materials.
At once, Fang Yuan was overjoyed and surprised!
This was from the body of an immemorial desolate beast, a rank eight Gu refinement immortal material!
It could even give out dao mark light.
Thus, more accurately speaking, this was quasi-rank nine immortal material!
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Fang Yuan held in his excitement.
The immortal material in his hands was of very high quality, even in his previous life, he had never owned such a specimen.
Quasi-rank nine immortal material, it had so many dao marks that it shined with bright light, observable with the naked eye.
Fang Yuan was not a grandmaster in refinement path, but he knew something, the reason why immortal materials could be used to refine Immortal Gu was because the immortal materials themselves contain a lot of dao marks.
Man is the spirit of all beings, Gu are the essence of heaven and earth.
Gu worms were the vessels of the Great Dao, why did they contain power? That was because the tiny Gu worm contained dao marks.
Dao marks were the traces of the Great Dao of heaven and earth, precisely because of this, activating Gu worms would result in many magical effects.
The more dao marks in a Gu worm, the higher their rank would be, and the more powerful and profound their abilities would be.
Refining an Immortal Gu was to gather the dao marks in countless mortal Gu and immortal materials, using the ones needed for the refinement.
Now, Fang Yuan's immortal material had many dao marks, in theory, it could be used to refine a rank eight Immortal Gu!
In fact, he only needed to use a tiny fragment of it to refine a rank six Immortal Gu.
The dao marks in a rank eight Immortal Gu were tens of thousands of times that of a rank six Immortal Gu.
"Of course, this bee wing that resembles a tiger-striped honey bee mainly contains metal path dao marks. If I am trying to refine a metal path Immortal Gu, this would be very useful. Unfortunately, this has no use if I want to refine star thought Immortal Gu."
Fang Yuan collected this precious immortal material properly.
He could not use it now, but he might need it in the future.
Even if he did not, this was such a precious immortal material, it would create a huge commotion in treasure yellow heaven, there was no need to worry that it would not be sold.
"I've finally had some gains after entering this Gu formation."
Fang Yuan's mind started to think deeply.
He was not rushing towards the center, he was starting to explore this desolate land of purple sand.
As expected, a moment later, he had another discovery while flying!
In the purple sand, there was a white veil that resembled a handkerchief that attracted his gaze.
He quickly descended, feeling joy after inspecting it.
The aura could not be fake, this was another rank eight immortal material!
But the quality was slightly lower than the bee wing earlier, there was no light from dao marks.
Fang Yuan held it in his hands, the immortal material did not disintegrate after leaving the purple sand.
"It seems that immortal materials of this level are no longer affected by the power of the purple sand."
Fang Yuan squeezed it, this immortal material was very soft, it could be molded into different forms.
"So this is not a veil, but a piece of... cloud?"
Fang Yuan observed carefully, feeling surprised.
This was like a fragment of a cloud, but it contained a huge amount of cloud path dao marks.
"Is this..." Fang Yuan's felt excitement, he activated his Gu worms and spat out a mouthful of water vapor.
When this immortal material was covered in water vapor, it became lighter and floated out of Fang Yuan's hands, it rose into the sky and turned into a tiny cloud in the form of a phoenix. The phoenix's wings moved slowly, as the cloud danced in the air.
Fang Yuan's body shook, he was overjoyed: "As expected! This is a fragment of the immemorial desolate beast cloud phoenix's body!!"
Fang Yuan's heart was pounding.
This cloud phoenix was not a lifeform from the five regions, it was a mystical creature that only existed in white heaven of the immemorial nine heavens.
It was not born with a phoenix bloodline, instead it was an ancient cloud that would not face destruction even after ten thousand years in white heaven. After having a phoenix's aura or blood transmitted and spread through it, the cloud would slowly turn into a living being.
Thus, its body was very special, it was neither made of flesh and blood nor clouds.
The cloud phoenix fragment that Fang Yuan obtained was less than a fraction of a fraction of the cloud phoenix's true body, but the cloud path dao marks inside could be used to refine a rank six Immortal Gu at least ten times as the main material!
The discovery of the cloud phoenix affirmed Fang Yuan's earlier guess.
He continued exploring, not long after, he circulated entirely around the purple desert, he had huge gains.
Counting his gains, he had a total of eighteen of such immortal materials, the dao mark varieties covered the majority of Gu paths. Among which, three materials had a lot of star path or wisdom path dao marks, they were very helpful in refining star thought Immortal Gu.
One could say that with these three immortal materials, Fang Yuan could forget about Blazing Heaven Demoness and refine the Gu himself.
Of course, because of the change in immortal materials, the recipe of star thought Immortal Gu would have to change as well. But Fang Yuan was not afraid of this, he could use the light of wisdom to easily do it, he was also a wisdom path grandmaster now, it was not difficult to deduce!
"Even though the immortal materials that I collected are incredibly precious, they are only a small part of the corpses' bodies. The Gu Immortal who created this place, they actually used so many precious immortal materials, are they trying to refine a rank nine Immortal Gu?"
Fang Yuan could not help but guess.
In the process of collecting immortal materials, he started to realize something.
This desolate land of purple sand once had an incredibly profound refinement path Gu formation.
Combined with these fragmented immortal materials, it was likely that the Gu Immortal had a grand ambition, they were trying to refine an immensely powerful Immortal Gu.
But it was a pity, the Gu refinement failed and a huge explosion occurred.
Not only was the refinement path Gu formation destroyed, with only debris left, most of the Gu refinement immortal materials were destroyed, only these fragments remained.
"Regardless of who it is, or what organization it is, they are most likely dead from the explosion. If not for that, this Gu formation would not be left unmaintained for such a long time. The immortal material fragments here would not be scattered everywhere without anyone taking them."
Even though the immortal materials were just remnants after the explosion, they were very valuable.
With rank eight and quasi-rank nine immortal materials involved, even rank eight Gu Immortals would be moved.
If Old Ancestor Xue Hu knew that Fang Yuan had such a large number of precious immortal materials, he would forget about his face and come to find trouble with Fang Yuan in a hurry.
In order to refine the rank eight fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu, Old Ancestor Xue Hu was already going bankrupt trying to find the supplementary immortal materials, even though he had Ma Hong Yun as the main material.
If not for that, he would not thrown away his face as a rank eight great expert and have gone to Zombie Alliance's graveyard to steal immortal zombie corpses in place of the materials.
Thinking of this, Fang Yuan's worry eased slightly.
Since this mysterious and powerful Gu Immortal, or Gu Immortal organization, was gone, this trip was much less dangerous now.
Fang Yuan looked around, he saw that there was something new in the desolate land of purple sand.
"Sigh... in the endless depths of history, who knows how many truths of the past has been buried, how many incredible people died inconspicuously without anyone knowing."
The commotion stirred up by them fades eventually, legends disappear.
Getting rid of these thoughts, Fang Yuan came to the center of the desolate land of purple sand.
This was the only area he had not explored yet in this entire desolate land.
Even though he obtained many immortal materials, Fang Yuan was still slightly disappointed — in his previous life, rumors said that there was a way to get rid of his immortal zombie body and revive, but why has he not found it yet?
Fang Yuan's intuition was: At the central area of this desolate land, it should be the center of the Gu formation as well, if it was not here, then Fang Yuan would never find it elsewhere.
Looking around, at the center of the desolate land, there was only small fragmented purple sand.
This was the center of the explosion, the purple sand was much finer than outside.
There were no immortal materials.
He looked around, there were nothing.
But under Fang Yuan's investigative methods, he made a discovery of some remnants of the Gu formation deep under the purple sand.
"This is indeed the central control area of the entire place!"
"What an amazing person, this is actually a multi-layered Gu formation, having such an incredible design, this must be the work of a formation path great grandmaster!"
Fang Yuan inspected as he felt shock internally.
It turned out that the entire space was mainly focused on using the refinement path Gu formation, but what originally built this space, including the space path formation, was only a supplementary formation outside the refinement path Gu formation.
Other than the space path Gu formation, Fang Yuan also found many defensive Gu formations, some food path Gu formations, and some phantom path Gu formations.
Food path throughout history had never been widely spread, it was even rarer today.
Fang Yuan did not understand much about it, but he had heard that food path was specialized in feeding Gu worms.
"The food path supplementary Gu formation here should be used to feed these Gu worms. After all, a Gu formation needs countless Gu worms to work together in combination."
"There are still two or three food path Gu formations in use here. It is hard to imagine that after the great explosion, the Gu formation here is still working."
"Maybe that is the reason why the outermost space path Gu formation is still functioning."
This discovered unraveled one mystery for Fang Yuan.
"Eh? This is... a phantom path Gu formation?" As he continued to observe, Fang Yuan made a new discovery.
This phantom path Gu formation was already destroyed, but there were two or three mortal Gu left, buried deep in the purple sand, they are not moving and were barely alive, using the food path Gu formation to maintain their lives.
Fang Yuan had even less knowledge regarding phantom path.
But during the battle of Tai Qiu, Dong Fang Chang Fan had once used a ruin bat corpse to set up a huge phantom formation.
If not for that, Fang Yuan would not have recognized this Gu formation immediately.
"The phantom formation turns the entire Gu formation into a phantom and prevents outside attacks from destroying the Gu formation. Maybe this is the reason why the Gu formation survived the great explosion."
"Refinement path Gu Immortals with such attainment levels have their own refinement path Gu formations, and also many supplementary Gu formations on top of the refinement path Gu formation. Using these Gu formations, the refinement path Gu worms will be twice as effective for half the effort, they would save a lot of time and energy. For example, Snowy Mountain blessed land has an exquisite refinement path Gu formation, it is known as the best formation for refinement path in Northern Plains' demonic path. It is said that this Gu formation is also a multi-layered Gu formation, using a total of twelve different Gu formations." Fang Yuan's thoughts churned.
He could set up some refinement path Gu formations as well.
But these Gu formations were very superficial, after all, they had to do with his formation path attainment.
Fang Yuan's formation path attainment level was very low.
A person has limited energy, and even more limited time, Fang Yuan had some accomplishments in certain aspects, he naturally had areas where he was inferior to other people.
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The Gu formation in Snowy Mountain blessed land was not set up by Old Ancestor Xue Hu.
He was a rank eight great expert, but he could not set up such a Gu formation.
To set up this Gu formation, Old Ancestor Xue Hu personally went to ask the number one formation path Gu Immortal in Northern Plains, Sun Ming Lu, for help. Sun Ming Lu was a righteous path Gu Immortal, he had a firm personality and refused to cooperate, Old Ancestor Xue Hu knew that he could not be forceful, he put down his status and asked him for help numerous times.
After seven invitations, in which Old Ancestor Xue Hu talked about Lady Wan Shou at the final time, Sun Ming Lu finally was convinced.
Even though Sun Ming Lu was someone with extremely firm will, he treasured love and loyalty. Old Ancestor Xue Hu was setting up the refinement path Gu formation for his beloved wife, their love touched him, therefore he helped.
This matter caused a huge commotion in the Northern Plains Gu Immortal world back then.
In Fang Yuan's previous life, Sun Ming Lu fought intensely with the Central Continent Gu Immortals, he set up a Gu formation that prevented the Central Continent Gu Immortals from advancing. Eventually, the Gu formation was broken, and Sun Ming Lu died.
After he died, someone made a biography of him. Inside <
"According to my deduction using this Gu formation's remains, it has at least thirty layers! The twelve layered Gu formation that Sun Ming Lu made caused him to become the publicly recognized number one formation path Gu Immortal in Northern Plains. Then the Gu Immortal who made this arrangement here must be a great grandmaster. Or rather, they could even be a supreme grandmaster!"
Supreme grandmaster!
The attainment level above great grandmaster, a transcendent realm.
For example, the three supreme grandmasters in refinement path: Long Hair Ancestor, Old Eccentric Tian Nan, and Old Immortal Kong Jue. All three of them were unprecedented and unique, they had achievements that could not be surpassed.
"Food path Gu formation, phantom path Gu formation, metal path Gu formation, strength path Gu formation..." Fang Yuan's eyes shined brightly, his gaze pierced past the purple sand and looked into all the traces of the Gu formations.
His heart gradually sank.
He had not forgotten his original goal.
Looking at the situation, there was little hope of obtaining a revival method.
These Gu formations were all near the brink of destruction, mortal Gu inside were barely alive, there were zero Immortal Gu left. Maybe because the strong received the greatest burden, the explosion destroyed all of the Immortal Gu. Or maybe it was because the two or three food path Gu formations could not feed the Immortal Gu, and as time passed, they all starved to death.
Eventually, Fang Yuan found a wisdom path Gu formation that was extremely tattered at the deepest level.
This was the seventh wisdom path Gu formation that he had discovered.
The Gu formation was so fragmented that Fang Yuan bore no hope.
But he took a glance and realized that there was an unexpected gain in this Gu formation!
There were some thoughts left behind in this tattered Gu formation.
These thoughts were in a state of complete rest, it was probably the effect of this wisdom path Gu formation.
Since there were thoughts, they could interact.
Fang Yuan breathed in deeply, he mustered his strength and started to deduce this wisdom path Gu formation.
He was very careful, this wisdom path Gu formation was like a building that was going to collapse, Fang Yuan needed to act very meticulously.
Thankfully, he was a wisdom path grandmaster already, he had a high attainment level.
A moment later, he deciphered this relatively simple wisdom path Gu formation, and successfully invaded it, controlling this delicate Gu formation.
Next, he sent out thoughts into the Gu formation and started to interact with the thoughts that were at rest.
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"After using up more than eighty years, this Gu formation is finally complete! In the next few hundred years, or even thousands of years, I will be refining Gu here. Heh, I became an immortal zombie, even though I am not restricted by lifespan, my mind is no longer as agile. Thus, I asked 'Yellow' to add in this small Gu formation and store my thoughts so that they can help me think."
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"This Gu formation is too useful, not only can it help me refine Gu, it can also conceal us from the perception of heaven's will. Using only two hundred years, I successfully refined eight soul path Immortal Gu, among which six are rank seven, and two are rank eight."
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"Every year, they send me lots of immortal materials. I would never have imagined this day where I would not be able to use up my immortal materials! I have countless immortal materials, this is so blissful. I should start to attempt those incomplete Immortal Gu recipes."
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"An unexpected surprise occurred today when refining Gu! I tried to complete the Immortal Gu recipe of devour soul Immortal Gu, but in the end I refined an Immortal Gu with an unknown effect. Even though it is also a soul path Immortal Gu, I will let the others do the work of testing its effect."
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"My Gu refinement failed! Three of my defensive Gu formations were destroyed, even my main refinement path Gu formation was damaged. That liar in treasure yellow heaven, that unscrupulous merchant! He dared to use a tampered immortal material to deceive me!! I will tear out his tendons and pull out his skin to vent my hatred!"
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"That unscrupulous merchant was already punished, 'Azure' is really amazing. These days, 'Yellow' arrived and repaired all of the Gu formations. I can refine Gu again."
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"'Purple' came to inform me to be careful. 'Azure' has met with trouble. It turns out that the unscrupulous merchant Gu Immortal who deceived me was a pawn of Heavenly Court. Fate! It still exists, Red Lotus Demon Venerable did not manage to destroy it thoroughly. It is the assistant of accursed heaven! It will be destroyed one day!"
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"'Azure's' problem is getting more and more serious. Sacrificing any one of us seven is a huge loss to all of us. Sigh, I harmed him, but he has already made up his mind. Maybe I can try that now... before leaving, he took that soul path Immortal Gu, so that Immortal Gu's effect is like this... I hope it can help him out."
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"'Azure' failed, his state is so pitiful, he is only one step from complete annihilation. 'Yellow' barely managed to preserve his life, but his injuries cannot be healed, it can only be fixed through time. This would take at least hundreds or thousands of years. Our greatest battle strength has been lost!"
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"'Azure's' failure made me realize something fully, our previous methods will not work. We are all born with flaws, heaven and earth will not tolerate our existence. As 'Green', I must comprehend the profound meaning of life and death, nobody is more suited for this mission than me. We can only restart if I can find a way to truly revive and obtain an immortal aperture that is full of vitality."
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At this point, Fang Yuan's heart shook, he showed some excitement on his face.
"Currently, it seems that this is a strong and mysterious organization. The members refer to each other with codenames, among which are Yellow, Green, Purple, Azure... if they have a total of seven members, they probably use the colors of the rainbow — red, orange, yellow, green, azure, blue, purple? Hmm... I will call this organization 'Seven Rainbows' for now."
Fang Yuan paused in his speculations, he continued to send his thoughts into the Gu formation, interacting with the motionless thoughts inside the Gu formation.
The following thoughts were missing a huge chunk, they were no longer as closely connected as the previous ones, it seems that each thought was made after a long period of time.
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"My attempt succeeded, today, I found another revival method, but to me, what significance does such an ordinary revival method have? I do not need it."
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"'Blue' obtained a Gu Immortal inheritance, it was left behind by Old Immortal Kong Jue in Central Continent. He had researched deeply into the ten extreme physiques, I have great gains from this, no, I have immense gains!"
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"'Yellow' and 'Purple' worked together and obtained an inheritance of Limitless Demon Venerable. Hahaha, truly worthy of Limitless Demon Venerable, his achievements in rule path are unprecedented and might never be surpassed, even I am vastly inferior!"
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"Limitless Demon Venerable is correct, there is life in death, and death in life, life and death can be interchanged! Except that under normal circumstances, turning from life to death is a natural process, it flows smoothly. But to turn from death to life, it would be extremely difficult, like traveling upstream. Meanwhile, immortal zombies are stuck between life and death, they are the manifestation of the profound mysteries of life and death."
"Life has its advantages, death has its uses. An immortal zombie's immortal aperture might be a dead aperture, but it is safe from calamities and tribulations. This is a huge advantage of death!"
"Limitless Demon Venerable's direction is correct, I should move forward in this aspect. I am sure to make shocking achievements!"
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"I succeeded! This is an unimaginable result!!"
"Limitless Demon Venerable was incredibly talented, actually, he was only some steps away from success. An immortal zombie's dead aperture is extremely precious, it has many uses. Hehehe, if this result is exposed, the entire Gu Immortal world would be shaken! Even I myself was shocked immensely..."
Next, Fang Yuan got more and more stunned as his eyes burst with shining light, his expression visibly changed.
According to these thoughts, when a Gu Immortal cultivates, they should first turn into an immortal zombie and obtain a dead immortal aperture! Next, they would revive, obtaining a life-and-death immortal aperture.
This immortal aperture has two layers, one layer is of life, and the other layer is of death, life and death are able to coexist with each other and are interchangeable. It would be an immense help to the Gu Immortal in terms of cultivating or undergoing tribulations!
Ordinary Gu Immortal who are alive were filled with vitality and cannot control death.
Ordinary immortal zombies have death energy emanating in their dead apertures, they have death without life, they could only contain the mysteries of death.
The former had too much vitality, with such immense fortune, heaven would seek balance. Thus, every once in a while, there would be heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities, to create losses to the Gu Immortal.
The latter was full of death energy and had no calamities or tribulations, but would slowly disintegrate and could not contain cultivation resources.
The immortal aperture that Fang Yuan obtained when ascending had already disintegrated by more than half.
In time, it would completely disappear, the entire immortal aperture would vanish. By then, Fang Yuan would only have his mortal dead aperture left.
"But according to this cultivation method contained in the thoughts, I can use the dead aperture as the core and fuse life and death during the process of revival, condensing them into one aperture, and form the life-and-death immortal aperture, to control life and death to a certain degree!"
"With this life-and-death immortal aperture, the power of the heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities I face from now on would be halved! Most importantly, the dao marks I obtain would not be reduced at all."
Fang Yuan was greatly moved.
Any Gu Immortal would be moved.
"If this method really works, then it would truly shock the entire Gu Immortal world, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the entire world would go into chaos!"
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With a whooshing sound.
At a nook of the yaksha octopuses' cave, a green light shined brightly as the surrounding darkness was repelled.
As the jade green light faded, a figure appeared at the place which was previously empty.
It was Fang Yuan, having just come out of the space created by the Gu formation.
He had used fixed immortal travel Immortal Gu.
And this place had been specially arranged earlier, when he explored the yaksha octopuses' underground cave.
He had set up many mortal Gu here, forming a simple and crude Gu formation.
There was nothing that could be done about it, Fang Yuan's formation path attainment was very low, he could only use Gu formations of this level.
The Gu formation could only conceal most of the disturbance, but Fixed Immortal Travel was, after all, an Immortal Gu, when Fang Yuan appeared, this mortal Gu formation immediately broke apart, some aura leaked out.
Fang Yuan quickly used his methods to get rid of these traces.
But soon, he heard the growling of desolate beasts as well as the movement of the yaksha octopuses in the cave.
"The surrounding yaksha octopuses are back already?"
Fang Yuan's eyes shined with bright light.
He took action rapidly, eliminating the Immortal Gu aura before the yaksha octopuses returned, and quickly left.
The yaksha octopuses felt the aura of the Immortal Gu and were stirred up, but when they arrived, there were no traces remaining. The octopuses searched around and saw nothing, their uncertainty gradually vanished, they turned around and left.
If they were Gu Immortals, they would not be so easy to fool.
Desolate beasts lacked intelligence, thus Fang Yuan could easily deal with them.
Before long, he returned to the battlefield with the mouth earthworm, it was a messy scene.
Most of the yaksha octopuses had retreated, while the Northern Plains immortal zombies were nowhere to be found.
A huge gorge, like a long scar along the Earth Trench, was displayed in front of Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's lips curled up, he smiled silently.
He knew that this gorge was dug by the mouth earthworm.
Mouth earthworms were creatures that primarily lived under the surface.
They stayed there most of the time, only coming to the surface when hunting for food. After devouring the prey rapidly, they would dig back under the soil and stop moving.
At the same time, their bodies would shrink at a shocking rate, turning from gigantic fat masses to being like bamboo poles.
At this time, the thick meat in their bodies would squeeze together tightly. The unique apparatus in their flesh — countless sharp bony teeth, would rotate and grind the prey into flesh and blood.
"This mouth earthworm swallowed me, but I used Fixed Immortal Travel inside its body to escape. It failed to hunt its prey, it would definitely rage and fight with the Northern Plains immortal zombies. The mouth earthworm is not their match, it does not have wisdom, it is bound to lose. But this wild beast has the instincts to escape, and it is very good at it. Once it is injured to an extent, it would dig into the soil and escape from the battle."
Fang Yuan's eyes shined with eerie light.
If not for this, he would not have chosen to use the mouth earthworm to escape from the immortal zombies' sights.
Previously in Dark Flow Giant City, he had obtained information about Dragon Commander Ye Cha and the others, he knew that they did not have an effective way to deal with the underground mouth earthworm.
Their investigative methods could not bypass the abundant earth path dao marks on the mouth earthworm, thus Fang Yuan dared to use fixed immortal travel Immortal Gu inside its body.
Thus, even though there were many individuals among the Northern Plains immortal zombies, and they had great battle strength, they could not do anything to this mouth earthworm for a period of time.
Especially when the mouth earthworm did not want to fight, and was using all its efforts to escape.
Battle strength did not mean everything.
For example, Old Ancestor Xue Hu with rank eight cultivation level could fight against both Yao Huang and Heavenly Lord Bai Zu and force them to retreat, he had incredible battle strength. But to create the Gu formation, he still needed to ask Sun Ming Lu seven times.
Even rank nine venerables were like this.
In the history of Gu Immortals, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable had asked Long Hair Ancestor to refine Gu for them.
There were all sorts of paths in Gu cultivation, that meant that specialists tackled their own fields, even if a person cultivates a path to rank nine, they would still be lacking proficiency in other areas.
After all, there was a limit to their energy.
Unless they had a lot of time, or a certain degree of fortuitous encounters.
The mouth earthworm escaped, while the Northern Plains immortal zombies chased, the traces of battle extended along the way.
During this journey, many things could be seen: pits created from explosions, blood inside the gorges, most likely the mouth earthworm's blood. Other than that, there were also many pieces of the corpses of Earth Trench's creatures that were drawn into the chaos.
In order to live, the mouth earthworm was going all out, this helped Fang Yuan conceal his traces to a large extent.
One side chased, while the other escaped, this extended battlefield had been formed.
Seeing the intense fighting along the way, Fang Yuan smiled lightly.
"In order to escape, the mouth earthworm must have panicked and led the Northern Plains immortal zombies to the territories of other fierce beasts. Good, the more chaotic this scene is, the more advantageous for me. This is just like what I had calculated earlier."
Next, Fang Yuan followed along the traces of battle and flew rapidly, his body submerging into the darkness.
The Northern Plains immortal zombies were flying dejectedly.
Their injuries were not light, they were in pathetic states, with ashen expressions.
"What can we do? Xing Xiang Zi died, how can we explain this to Lady Blazing Heaven Demoness?"
"Sigh, we did our best. Assaulting the mouth earthworm along the way, we went through the territories of five fierce beasts, among which three are ancient desolate beasts! Keep in mind, this is the Earth Trench! I have never acted so crazy before."
"Unfortunately, our efforts were in vain, this mouth earthworm fell into the acid bog, it had completely dissolved. Xing Xiang Zi was not spared, there's no way we can sacrifice our lives for him, right."
"In my opinion, Xing Xiang Zi was too careless. Acting so careless in Earth Trench, he was simply courting death!"
The immortal zombies spoke quietly, only the leader, Dragon Commander Ye Cha, was silent.
He had the highest status among these people, he was the leader, he held the biggest responsibility towards Xing Xiang Zi's demise.
Thinking about Blazing Heaven Demoness, Dragon Commander Ye Cha's heart felt extremely heavy.
"Everyone, we finally meet again." Fang Yuan turned into Xing Xiang Zi, appearing in front of the immortal zombies.
"Eh?" At once, the Northern Plains immortal zombies were stunned.
"Xing Xiang Zi?!" Doctor Yin Xuan called out, his gaze was full of joy.
The other immortal zombies were the same, even Landlord Lei Yu looked at Fang Yuan feeling that it was very pleasing to see this old man!
"How did you escape?" An immortal zombie asked.
This question was in everyone's minds.
Several gazes were all focused on Fang Yuan's face.
Fang Yuan was prepared for this, he gave his explanation: "Alas! When I was trapped inside the mouth earthworm's stomach, the surrounding flesh squeezed me, and numerous teeth started rotating. In that dangerous state, I used my Immortal Gu for an immortal killer move, sealing myself into star ice. This is my strongest defensive move, it was able to block the teeth. But there was a drawback, I could not move at all, not just my body, but my thoughts as well, therefore I could not think. The star ice would only exist for a short period of time, but I believed that everyone would save me. All I had to do was to wait until the star ice melted, and when I regained my freedom, I found that I was buried under some rubble!"
"So that's it!" Doctor Yin Xuan realized.
"Xing Xiang Zi must have fell out when we were chasing the mouth earthworm and fighting in the chaotic battle, creating wounds that tore its flesh open."
"So close, so close!"
"Xing Xiang Zi, you were really lucky."
The immortal zombies did not have any suspicions.
Dragon Commander Ye Cha heaved a sigh of relief: "That is good, do you still need to collect star night mucus?"
Fang Yuan's face changed, he showed a hesitant expression, saying: "Forget it! I was unlucky now, let's go back and rest first, we will talk about it later."
The immortal zombies glanced at each other, secretly laughing inside about Xing Xiang Zi's timidness.
But after such an intense battle, their bodies were in bad shape as well, thus everyone agreed to return to Dark Flow Giant City and rest.
As for the remaining star night mucus, that was a problem for later.
A few days later.
Dark Flow Giant City.
In the secret room, the refinement path Gu formation was shining with a dazzling light.
The light shined on Fang Yuan's face, but now, his mind was elsewhere.
"Possible, this is totally possible!" Fang Yuan said internally.
He was using the Gu formation to process the Gu refinement materials on the surface, but he was actually inside his dead aperture, controlling Gu worms to do an experiment.
He was very vigilant, even though he obtained a revival method in Earth Trench, it had a dubious origin, Fang Yuan had to experiment on it and test if it was usable.
The results all proved that this revival method was usable!
Fang Yuan was excited and deeply moved.
Looking back over the past, Fang Yuan had been collecting revival methods ever since Imperial Court blessed land was destroyed, facing many difficulties.
The first revival method he collected, of time path — that was to use man as before Immortal Gu with time anchor Immortal Gu to revive himself.
But though this method might have great potential, it was only a conjecture, to complete it, he needed to cooperate with Shark Demon and invest an immense amount of time and resources into it.
Next, Fang Yuan found the possession method from Dong Fang Chang Fan's soul, using this, he could achieve the target of getting rid of his immortal zombie state.
But if he used this method, not only would there be questions on whether the body would suit his soul, and the aptitude of the body, but the second aperture that Fang Yuan had put in so much effort to obtain would be gone for good.
Following that, Fang Yuan obtained a method of using a ten extreme physique immortal ascension to get rid of the immortal zombie state from Feng Jin Huang at the Refinement Path Convention.
This method was even less plausible, it was suited for mortal Gu Masters. Fang Yuan was already an immortal zombie, he would need to use his first mortal aperture to undergo immortal ascension, he did not have one of the ten extreme physiques either, he had insufficient aptitude. Even though he had blood skull Gu, he already had dao marks in his body, he could not use mortal Gu to raise his aptitude.
Finally, in the Starry Sky grotto-heaven fragment world, Feng Jin Huang told Fang Yuan another revival method.
Using theory involving transformation path, in combination with everlasting Gu, he could achieve a permanent transformation, that was the same as revival.
But what was the way to refine everlasting Gu? Fang Yuan did not know.
If someone else had everlasting Immortal Gu, the situation would be even worse.
Fang Yuan did not excel greatly in transformation path either.
These methods, even though they could succeed, they all had drawbacks and could not be achieved easily.
But as the saying goes, one determined to work hard would not be disappointed, after so much turmoil and difficulties, Fang Yuan finally found the best and most suitable method for himself inside Northern Plains Zombie Alliance's Earth Trench!
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