In the vast Eastern Sea, waves were rumbling.
Wind and waves swept towards a nameless island, it was not dusk yet, but the sky was already dark.
Tong Hua flew as she raised her head, seeing the dark clouds looming over her in the sky, she sensed that a storm was brewing.
She was feeling vexed, but her expression was calm, she quickly flew above the nameless island as she saw one person standing at the highest part of the island, looking at the sea and sky.
"I have kept you waiting." Tong Hua landed towards the Gu Immortal as she bowed.
The mysterious Gu Immortal turned around and revealed his appearance.
He was an elderly man with a tall nose and thin eyes, he was smiling now as he said calmly: "No worries. Fairy Tong Hua, I need to congratulate you, I heard that you sold all of your light shine fungi in treasure yellow heaven."
This elderly Gu Immortal was an Eastern Sea rank seven enslavement path Gu Immortal, Ren Xiu Ping.
Fairy Tong Hua nodded as she handed Ren Xiu Ping a large amount of immortal essence stones.
Ren Xiu Ping inspected it before hesitating purposely: "Fairy, if I counted correctly, the sum is a little lacking."
Fairy Tong Hua had a grim expression, she nodded: "I will return you most of it first, I will repay the rest at a later time."
Ren Xiu Ping nodded: "Very wise. According to our agreement, the lower your remaining debt is, the less interest you pay. It seems that you will be able to repay it soon."
Fairy Tong Hua snorted: "Of course."
She had gone through a tribulation earlier, the rebuilding of her immortal aperture took a lot of funds, she had to borrow. Ren Xiu Ping was one of the lenders, he lent her the most amount of immortal essence stones.
But her agreement with Ren Xiu Ping was also the strictest one with the highest interest rate.
Originally, Fairy Tong Hua was in a terrible condition, but to think that Fang Yuan actually bought all of her light shine fungi, she regained some funds.
Returning most of the debt at once, her crisis was greatly alleviated.
Fairy Tong Hua had little pressure in returning the rest of the debt including the interest.
After the transaction, Fairy Tong Hua did not want to stay anymore, she was about to leave when Ren Xiu Ping said: "Fairy, wait."
"What matter do you have? If you want to lend more immortal essence stones, forgive me, but I will not borrow any." Fairy Tong Hua frowned lightly as she said coldly.
Ren Xiu Ping smiled: "Don't worry fairy, that is not it. I have an incomplete true inheritance in my hands, it is from a wood path great expert long ago. Don't you want to modify the light shine fungi? I believe this true inheritance will be of great help to you."
Fairy Tong Hua became suspicious: "How did you know that I was modifying the light shine fungi?"
Ren Xiu Ping chuckled: "You did not conceal this matter, I easily found out about it with some investigation."
Fairy Tong Hua had a grim expression, matching the terrible weather.
Splash splash splash.
Great winds blew, waves crashed on the shore of the nameless island, creating huge ripples.
Ren Xiu Ping was right, Tong Hua had invested too much into modifying the light shine fungi, causing her finances to crumble, she was forced to borrow funds to maintain her financial situation.
If not for that, with her foundation, she could sustain the cost of rebuilding the immortal aperture.
After a while of silence, Fairy Tong Hua asked: "Which wood path great expert are you referring to?"
Ren Xiu Ping smiled: "Wood path Gu Immortal Kui Wu Zi, have you heard of him?"
Fairy Tong Hua was slightly surprised: "He is a wood path great expert indeed with rank eight cultivation level. But in history, he was famous for battle strength, his immortal aperture management was not good."
Ren Xiu Ping shook his head, saying in a confident tone: "Fairy, that is not true. You have that impression because Kui Wu Zi's battle strength was too stunning, it overshadowed his ability to manage the immortal aperture. The truth is, he was quite impressive. Without immortal aperture foundation, battle strength is pointless to some degree. Furthermore, even if his management was not good, he was still a rank eight Gu Immortal, and was from wood path, he is definitely very useful to you, that is undeniable."
Tong Hua was moved, she thought: "I had been facing problems with modifying light shine fungi earlier, the reason was not my light path attainment level but wood path instead. If I can get this incomplete true inheritance, it would likely help me in this problem and the modification of the light shine fungi would succeed!"
Thinking of this, Tong Hua hesitated before asking Ren Xiu Ping: "What is the price of Kui Wu Zi's true inheritance?"
Ren Xiu Ping thought 'the fish has taken the bait' but he said: "Not high, not high at all."
Both sides negotiated but eventually, Fairy Tong Hua bought the true inheritance of Kui Wu Zi from Ren Xiu Ping and left the nameless island.
The moment she left, a storm started.
Both the sky and sea were of the same dark murky color.
Crack.
A loud thunder and a snake-like lightning flashed across heaven and earth.
At this instant, the lightning reflected on Ren Xiu Ping's face.
He was smiling like his scheme had succeeded.
"I succeeded."
"Tong Hua was deceived by the reputation of Kui Wu Zi, his true inheritance is actually not very helpful to her. Especially after I took out some crucial information from it."
"Light shine fungus is a desolate plant, how can it be easy to modify a desolate plant? Especially when Tong Hua cultivates light path instead of wood path, how can she succeed without years of research?"
Northern Plains, Lang Ya blessed land.
Fang Yuan's divine sense entered his sovereign immortal aperture.
Immortal killer move — Light Fungus Radiance.
Fang Yuan activated his immortal killer move, creating a burst of orange-yellow light.
The orange light shone on the green light shine fungi as it started to transform. The light shine fungi was dyed at a rapid rate, it gradually changed colors from green to pure white.
A moment later, the immortal killer move was successfully activated, Fang Yuan only saw pure white light shine fungi in front of him.
The light shine fungi was different from before, instead of wilting, they radiated with strong light.
Fang Yuan used his investigative methods to check it before nodding in satisfaction.
"Excellent, the light shine fungus modification was quite successful, I can start a wide scale plantation now."
Fang Yuan's wood path attainment was even lower than Fairy Tong Hua. But he had the light of wisdom to assist his thinking. He also had Shadow Sect's and Lang Ya Sect's inheritances, he had a vast amount of foundational knowledge. He also had access to a huge number of Immortal Gu, and could even borrow more.
Due to many reasons, he managed to create the immortal killer move light fungus radiance.
This move used perseverance Immortal Gu, self love Immortal Gu and wood sprout Immortal Gu as the cores, with snack Immortal Gu supplementing them, to allow green light shine fungi to transform into pure white light shine fungi, suited for the environment of the sky.
Among them, wood sprout Immortal Gu was borrowed from Lang Ya Sect. Perseverance and Self Love were Fang Yuan's to begin with. As for snack Immortal Gu, he had just refined it, it was quite a surprise that it was useful so quickly.
Afterwards, Fang Yuan placed the light shine fungi into Mini Orange Heaven and Mini White Heaven.
There was a field of aurora lights in Mini Orange Heaven, within the aurora lights were fruits known as flowing light fruits.
As for Mini White Heaven, there was a field of multicolored overlord flowers.
After placing the light shine fungi there, the two places started to shine intensely.
Due to this influence, Mini Orange Heaven's aurora lights started to expand. Even though the extent was mild, as time passes, this would be a substantial change.
As for Mini White Heaven, the multicolored overlord flowers also became energized.
Be it the aurora lights or multicolored overlord flowers, they needed intense lights. The modified pure white light shine fungi could float in the sky, they were very helpful to the areas.
Fang Yuan was satisfied after inspecting them.
"As long as these two areas are developed, at this rate, I will be able to satisfy the food requirements of attitude Gu and wisdom sword Gu."
Fang Yuan had three rank eight Immortal Gu, Years Flow Like Water consumed the water of the River of Time, there were no issues with its food. Attitude Gu and wisdom sword Immortal Gu were harder to deal with.
All along, Fang Yuan had been worried about this, and now, he saw hope of finally resolving this.
"Furthermore, the light shine fungus can reproduce by itself, when the scale of my light shine fungi increases in the future, it will become another business that I can engage in."
This was highly possible.
The pure white light shine fungus that Fang Yuan modified was marketable, it was much better than the original light shine fungus. If he sold it, it would receive much attention and interest.
Fang Yuan had already planned, he was going to nurture both versions of the light shine fungus. He would place a portion of the green light shine fungi into Mini Eastern Sea, while putting most of his attention on the pure white light shine fungi. After satisfying his own needs, he would sell the rest.
"Let me count."
"To get the light shine fungi into a scale that satisfies my needs, I will need to invest two million immortal essence stones."
"To make it into a business and sell it to others, I will need to invest another 1.8 million immortal essence stones."
The feeding of rank eight Immortal Gu was too high of a burden.
In total, he would need four million immortal essence stones. But if he succeeds, he would have a monopoly over this market, it was extremely profitable.
For the next two to three years, the year Gu market would be oversupplied. Even for the next four to five years, treasure yellow heaven's market would be very lacking in demand. Because Gu Immortals already had a lot of year Gu stocked up in their inventories.
Just earlier, Fang Yuan created a huge commotion, the sale of year Gu also affected the market of month Gu and day Gu.
Fang Yuan wanted to create a new business, light shine fungi was a good choice.
Of course, the prospects could not match guts Gu. After he sells the modified light shine fungi for some time, people will learn about the details and modify it themselves. Meanwhile, only Dang Hun Mountain could produce guts Gu.
"Next, I will release the restraints and restore the sovereign immortal aperture's rate of time back to normal!"
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Northern Plains, northern icy plain.
A blizzard was blowing, snow was falling above the glacier. Under this glacier, a negotiation filled with heavy atmosphere was underway.
The two groups of variant humans who lived here in seclusion — the rockmen and snowmen, were engaging in negotiation due to a territorial dispute earlier.
Right now, this negotiation had been going on for six days and six nights.
"Moli Region belongs to my rockman tribe, it had been part of our territory since four hundred years ago. This is the bottom line of our rockman tribe, I hope the snowmen can understand us!" Shi Zong spoke loudly, his voice echoed in the room.
The rockman Gu Immortals who were engaged in the negotiation were extremely stubborn.
Meanwhile, the snowman Gu Immortals had dark and unsightly expressions.
The rockman tribe was very firm on this topic, it was an immense pressure on the snowmen.
Snowman Gu Immortal Bing Yuan said: "That was the case four hundred years ago. But afterwards, a senior Gu Immortal in our tribe won a bet against you, first supreme elder Shi Zong, and this Moli Region was the wager."
Shi Zong waved his hand rapidly: "That was just a joke, it should not be taken for real."
Bing Yuan smiled coldly: "An agreement was set back then."
Shi Zong had a solemn expression, countering: "Where is the agreement now?"
Bing Yuan was so angry she could not speak.
This Shi Zong, not only did he use information path methods to get rid of the agreement, he even denied the bet, as the first supreme elder of the rockman tribe, he was simply too shameless.
But the snowman Gu Immortals understood why, even though they were furious.
Because there was just too little territory in this icy plain, after living here for so long, the rockmen and snowmen had propagated beyond the sustainable number for this place.
Shi Zong was being so shameless to get back Moli Region, it was for the sake of the rockmen, and for their overall benefit.
But in this case, the snowman tribe's benefits were infringed.
Eventually, this difficult negotiation had a result.
The snowmen lost while the rockmen won, they gained control of Moli Region.
Immediately, the rockmen ordered the snowmen to leave Moli Region, to hand over the space to the rockman in charge.
After returning to their territory, rank seven Gu Immortal Bing Zhuo said angrily: "These rockmen are too much, how can they distort facts just because they have the rank eight battle strength immemorial rock dragon?!"
Bing Yuan consoled him: "Stay calm Bing Zhuo, haven't we known about the rockman tribe's attitude for the last thousand years?"
The snowmen and rockmen were living together in the northern icy plain, but the rockmen had the advantage over them.
There was only one reason, the rank eight battle strength immemorial rock dragon.
With such powerful strength, the rockmen gained the advantage in many conflicts between the two tribes and defended their own benefits.
Upon hearing the immemorial rock dragon, Bing Zhuo's rage faded, he sighed helplessly: "Sigh! Rank eight battle strength, immemorial rock dragon... if we had rank eight battle strength too, we would contest them evenly, that would be great."
Bing Yuan was silent for a moment before saying: "It is not impossible to gain rank eight battle strength. I have a plan, if we succeed, the immemorial rock dragon will be nothing compared to it."
Bing Zhuo heard this and his eyes shone: "What plan, tell me."
"Actually, I have been planning this for some time, at this current moment, we have an opportunity, I will tell you." Bing Yuan said.
Bing Zhuo heard this and called out: "You mean Liu Guan Yi, wait no, Fang Yuan?"
Liu Guan Yi's true identity, which was Fang Yuan, had been exposed by Heavenly Court long ago to the world. Even though the snowman tribe were isolated, they still learned of such important details.
"Fang Yuan undoubtedly has rank eight battle strength. He even has the upper extreme heavenly eagle, and we've had a relationship for some time, if we let Xue Er be married to him, we would have a marriage connection with him, he will be tied to our tribe. With this, our tribe will no longer be bullied by the rockmen. Furthermore, having a rank eight to defend us will be extremely helpful for our development." Bing Yuan said.
Bing Zhuo thought while nodding: "Indeed, Fang Yuan is a human but he has countless enemies, he has also joined Lang Ya Sect, there is no problem with his allegiance. But wait..."
Bing Zhuo looked at Bing Yuan: "We have a relationship with him? Why do I recall that we only fought him and ambushed him. Even though we made up later, we are far from having an actual relationship."
Bing Yuan smiled: "Bing Zhuo, you were in seclusion to modify your killer move earlier, therefore you are unaware. During this period of time, Fang Yuan used all of Lang Ya Sect's strength to refine Immortal Gu, he met with difficulty in the process and needed the immortal material snow lotus essence. I made the decision to sell a lot of our snow lotus essence to Lang Ya Sect's Sixth Hair to help him out."
"So that's it." Bing Zhuo realized, but he soon frowned: "Since it is a transaction, we gained from it too, why did we not just gift him the snow lotus essence?"
Bing Yuan smiled bitterly: "This matter had many implications, I had no choice but to do that. Firstly, I did not have a strong desire towards the marriage connection, secondly, if we gifted it to him without cost, Fang Yuan is not a stupid person, he might not accept it. Thirdly, if everyone knows about it, the rockman tribe would become suspicious of our intentions."
Bing Zhuo nodded and did not speak.
He understood that rather than a relationship, they had only barely started to build one with him. It was very difficult to have a marriage connection with him.
Because earlier, when Fang Yuan had the upper extreme heavenly eagle, the snowmen had expressed goodwill to Fang Yuan, but he was extremely cold to them.
And right now, Fang Yuan had rank eight battle strength with the upper extreme heavenly eagle as well, his status had elevated even further. If the snowmen wanted to ally with him through marriage, they were not the ones helping him, they were trying to raise their own status.
The snowmen did not know that Fang Yuan had lost the upper extreme heavenly eagle.
But Bing Yuan had more confidence than Bing Zhuo, she said: "Don't worry, my granddaughter has incredible looks and is a Gu Immortal, she is the perfect person to marry. How can the rockmen surpass us in this? We have the advantage."
"Even though our marriage connection ends in us relying on him, Fang Yuan can also receive our help, it is beneficial to him. Let alone anything else, we at least have snow lotus essence."
"Or rather, even if this plan fails, there are no problems, our relationship with Fang Yuan will not worsen. We can try."
This 'try' reasoning finally moved Bing Zhuo.
The latter nodded: "Let's try it."
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Swoosh swoosh!
The water of the River of Time splashed with a grand commotion, reverberating in Fang Yuan's ears.
Fang Yuan's divine sense swept around, after some observation, there were no issues, he retracted his divine sense.
Using the time path methods from Hei Fan true inheritance, Fang Yuan restored the rate of time in his sovereign immortal aperture back to its original speed.
The rate of time in the sovereign immortal aperture was very fast, it far surpassed super grade blessed lands.
In terms of space path, there was more than 335000km2 of space in it.
In terms of time path, the speed was one-to-sixty compared to the outside world. The ten extreme physique blessed land only had about a one-to-forty rate of time. As for high grade blessed lands, the time was about one-to-thirty, half of the sovereign immortal aperture.
At the same time, the immortal aperture origin core had a deep foundation, ninety-six immortal essence beads were produced in the immortal aperture each year. In terms of outside time, it was sixteen immortal essence beads per day. Fang Yuan was a rank seven Gu Immortal now, so he obtained sixteen red date immortal essence beads daily.
Sixteen red date immortal essence beads, in terms of immortal essence stones, that was sixteen hundred immortal essence stones!
That was to say, even if Fang Yuan did nothing everyday, his immortal aperture would still produce the equivalent of sixteen hundred immortal essence stones for him daily!
That was terrifying.
And in fact, that was not all. When Fang Yuan's time path dao marks increase, his immortal aperture's rate of time would accelerate. When his immortal aperture origin core's foundation becomes deeper, the number of beads of immortal essence produced would increase too.
At rank eight cultivation level, it would be even more terrifying!
At the most basic level, sixteen immortal essence beads per day of rank eight white litchi immortal essence would be the equivalent of a hundred and sixty thousand immortal essence stones!
Fang Yuan managed to earn millions of immortal essence stones from selling year Gu. But when he reaches rank eight cultivation level, he could obtain sixteen million immortal essence stones worth of immortal essence beads every hundred days without doing anything.
The higher the cultivation level, the deeper the growth in resources. This was not a linear growth, the increment was far greater.
Of course, that was for Fang Yuan's case.
The sovereign immortal aperture was a unique situation in the world. Shadow Sect spent a hundred thousand years to accumulate resources and used it all to refine this Gu, it was understandable why this was so terrifying.
Earlier, Fang Yuan was forced by heaven's will and tribulations to reduce his immortal aperture's rate of time.
But now, with his surge in battle strength, Fang Yuan was confident in getting past calamities and tribulations, with the immortal killer move exposing heavenly secret created by Old Man Yan Shi, he could obtain the details of calamities and tribulations in advance.
And together with his own development needs, he had to restore the rate of time.
In fact, Fang Yuan even planned to use time path methods to further increase the speed.
"But I need to wait now. The time path methods in Hei Fan's true inheritance have a cooldown period before I can use them again to influence the tributary of the River of Time."
"With my accelerated rate of time, the light shine fungi can reproduce rapidly now, I should place wisdom sword Immortal Gu and attitude Gu outside the immortal aperture."
Fang Yuan calculated, at this rate, he would be able to satisfy the feeding of attitude Gu and wisdom sword Gu.
It was about time to feed them.
But rank eight Immortal Gu were too hard to feed, this problem had been in Fang Yuan's mind for a long time, and as time passed, his pressure intensified.
Now that he could settle this problem, Fang Yuan finally let out a sigh of relief.
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Heavenly Court, Soul Suppression Hall.
Fairy Zi Wei looked at the lump of Spectral Soul's main body in front of her as she frowned: "Spectral Soul, at this point, can't you see reality?"
Spectral Soul did not answer, he was silent like a rock.
Fairy Zi Wei sneered, she activated her rank eight Immortal Gu House.
Immediately, purple lightning emerged from the chains, as Spectral Soul who was restrained tightly started shaking.
His memories were forcefully extracted, appearing before Fairy Zi Wei as a multicolored image.
It was a scene of the past.
Spectral Soul had yet to become a Demon Venerable, he only had rank seven Gu Immortal cultivation level.
Luo Po valley.
Spectral Soul stumbled into Luo Po Valley and fell on the ground.
Guh.
He opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood.
His expression was pale as paper, the situation was terrible, he was near death.
A figure descended from the sky, he landed and said: "Oh Spectral Soul, you cannot escape, today, you will die."
The person had rank eight aura, he had a cold expression, his strength was far higher than Spectral Soul.
Spectral Soul barely managed to sit up as he looked at the sky: "I do not understand, this is the first time we are meeting, we have no grudges, why are you paying such a huge price to kill me?"
The person called out: "Because you will create bloodshed in the world, you will massacre the people of the world and bring disaster to all."
Spectral Soul sneered: "You have killed far more people than me, isn't it laughable for you to say that?"
The rank eight enemy shook his head: "It is different. You are inherently worse than me."
Spectral Soul was silent for a while before saying: "Because I want to create soul path?"
The rank eight Gu Immortal had a flash of surprise in his eyes, but he recovered quickly and said solemnly: "That's right, soul path should not be created. In the current world, fate Immortal Gu has been damaged, if soul path is created, the world will change drastically, the dead will not rest in peace, ghosts will roam the world freely."
"Hehehe... hahaha." Spectral Soul laughed: "That's wonderful, I will definitely create soul path. In the future, countless people will cultivate soul path, let's change this entire world!"
He laughed as he stood up, he had recovered to an extent already.
"With me around, that is wishful thinking!" The person sneered and charged down.
Spectral Soul raised his hands and a huge formation appeared, trapping the rank eight Gu Immortal inside.
But the enemy reacted rapidly, he quickly broke the Gu formation.
"Did you think I did not notice the hidden Gu formation? I purposely came here to talk to you, because I had already unraveled this Gu formation!" The rank eight Gu Immortal charged towards Spectral Soul relentlessly.
But Spectral Soul was extremely confident, he stood on the spot as the rank eight Gu Immortal came at him.
He laughed: "You merely unraveled that Gu formation at the surface level, don't you find this valley unusual?"
He had just said that when the Gu formation unleashed its full power, the rank eight Gu Immortal was immediately affected as his momentum came to a halt.
"This is... Luo Po Valley?!" The rank eight Gu Immortal said in shock.
"That's right, this secluded domain of heaven and earth is the ultimate sacred land for cultivating soul path. Hehe, it is also your final resting place!" Spectral Soul declared with the tone of a victor.
"Ah!" The rank eight Gu Immortal screamed, Spectral Soul's immortal formation used the power of Luo Po Valley, it was akin to a rank nine Gu formation.
The rank eight Gu Immortal resisted for a while, before he could not take it anymore and died.
Spectral Soul looked at his feet, towards the corpse of the rank eight Gu Immortal, his hair was messy and his seven orifices were bleeding, but he was still filled with killing intent, he sneered: "Hmph, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals, interesting. I, Spectral Soul, swear that I will create soul path in the future, I will let more people cultivate it. Even if I fail and die, there will be an endless number of soul path Gu Immortal experts emerging in the future. Hahahaha!"
The image vanished.
Fairy Zi Wei had a dark expression.
She looked at Spectral Soul's main body, which was immobilized, she left after staring at him for a short while.
Even though she extracted Spectral Soul's memories, they were useless. In fact, it was as if he was replying to her earlier words.
If it was the latter, it meant that Spectral Soul could still resist Heavenly Court's soul searching method.
Even though he could not block the power of Soul Suppression Hall, he could selectively hand certain memories over.
"That way, it will be a long time before we can get any useful information from him." Fairy Zi Wei sighed deeply in her mind.
Lang Ya blessed land, Luo Po Valley.
Fang Yuan was sitting deep in the valley.
He willed and activated Luo Po formation.
This formation came from Spectral Soul's true inheritance, it was created by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable personally, the foundational Gu worms used for it were a vast number of white lotus giant silkworm Gu.
White lotus giant silkworm Gu was the food of cleanse soul Immortal Gu, it was also created by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
After Fang Yuan obtained the Gu recipe, he made Lang Ya Sect refine a huge number of white lotus giant silkworm Gu for him.
And now, he had cleanse soul Immortal Gu again, not only could he feed it with sufficient white lotus giant silkworm Gu, he could even use them as the foundation of many soul path Gu formations in Spectral Soul's true inheritance.
Right now, Luo Po formation was activated, the originally unorganized Luo Po winds and bewilderment fog started to gather with the Gu formation's activation.
Fang Yuan's soul left his body as he endured the trial of wind and fog.
Before this, he had already expended a huge amount of guts Gu, his soul was quite bloated now.
A moment later, Luo Po formation stopped activating as Fang Yuan's soul became thinned out from the tempering, he returned to sovereign immortal body with deep fatigue.
"With Luo Po formation, my cultivation efficiency in Luo Po Valley has increased by thirty percent." Fang Yuan assessed.
This was not the first time he was using this formation.
Luo Po formation was specially used to cultivate soul path, but he could add other Gu formations in to modify it. It was a very inclusive Gu formation, that was its most useful trait.
For example, Qin Bai Sheng and the rest resisted the group from Central Continent's ten great ancient sects, the Gu formation they used during the battle was Luo Po formation.
However, their Luo Po formation was not for cultivation, it was for defense.
According to Spectral Soul's true inheritance, when he was alive, he had killed a rank eight Gu Immortal from Heavenly Court with only rank seven cultivation level, back then, he also used Luo Po formation, but he added in many Gu formations that were offensive in nature.
The Luo Po formation that Fang Yuan was using now focused on refining his soul. It used rank six Immortal Gu Cleanse Soul, and a vast number of white lotus giant silkworm Gu, along with many supplementary Gu to assemble it.
"Alright, after this cultivation session, my soul has already reached million man soul level."
In Spectral Soul's true inheritance, soul foundation was classified into many levels.
From low to high, there was single man soul, ten man soul, hundred man soul... million man soul, ten million man soul, hundred million man soul...
Ten man soul meant that the soul foundation was the total of ten grown men's souls.
A normal Gu Master with twenty years of soul path cultivation could reach thousand man soul if they worked hard. But using guts Gu, Fang Yuan could reach that instantly.
Before this cultivation session, Fang Yuan's soul foundation was at three million man soul.
But after the tempering of Luo Po wind and bewilderment fog, his soul foundation stabilized at million man soul level.
First using guts Gu to strengthen the soul, before cultivating in Luo Po Valley to temper the soul like iron and removing impurities. Finally, he would sleep and rest the soul, getting rid of any agitation.
These three steps repeated would raise Fang Yuan's soul foundation like a rocket.
Only a short time had passed, but he had already reached million man soul, the speed was too shocking!
When he reaches hundred million man soul, his soul would turn from phantom to solid. Back then in the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, Spectral Soul's main body was huge and majestic, Fang Yuan was very enticed to reach such a level.
With a stronger soul foundation, there was a greater benefit, it was the immortal killer move ghost official garment.
This move could conceal him from heaven's will and other Gu Immortals' deductions, the deeper his soul foundation, the stronger it became.
At this moment, Fang Yuan could feel vividly: the ghost official garment on his soul had thickened, he felt an increased sense of security.
"As my soul foundation grows, I would be able to control more year beasts, I can even control a second immemorial year beast!"
"However, although I can invest effort into increasing my soul foundation, those soul path killer moves are not worth investing into."
There was only one reason, Spectral Soul had been captured by Heavenly Court already.
He would definitely get soul searched.
That meant that in the future, Heavenly Court would also gain Spectral Soul's true inheritance. By then, it would be easy for them to deduce his killer moves.
After this cultivation session, Fang Yuan left Luo Po Valley.
Dang Hun Mountain and Luo Po Valley, these were the two sacred lands of soul cultivation, they were placed in Lang Ya blessed land. Firstly, it was easy to use there, secondly, secluded domains of heaven and earth required a lot of heaven and earth qi, Fang Yuan's immortal aperture already had Reverse Flow River, the burden of adding these two was too huge.
Once he left Luo Po Valley, Fang Yuan saw a snowman girl.
"Snowman Xue Er greets Lord Fang Yuan."
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The sovereign immortal aperture was filled with serenity and peace.
Because without changes in weather or day and night, this place was completely still.
Fang Yuan had rank seven cultivation level, the sovereign immortal aperture was only a blessed land, there were no weather phenomena in blessed lands. Only at the brink of becoming a grotto-heaven would such phenomena emerge.
Even without atmospheric changes, the sovereign immortal aperture was not a dead land, it was filled with life.
Mini Northern Plains was colder, especially towards the extreme north, there was nothing there. After annexing Han Dong's blessed land, there was a spirit snake resource point managed by the pink spirit snake land spirit. Other than that, he had the bone burial field with lots of bone immortal materials. And to the south, Fang Yuan was trying to create a blood red grassland with blood sickle grass and red axe flowers as the foundation, to let those pink flower rabbits, wolves, and foxes live in.
In Mini Central Continent, there was a blood zhi forest and mirror willow forest, they were grown here casually by Fang Yuan, he did not nurture them purposely, their scale was not big. There was also a jade light pit that had light path mortal Gu.
In Mini Western Desert, his focus was on the eerie fire dragon python pit, the sand gull beach, rotten black swamp, rotting swamp, black hound mound (belonged to Liu Yong blessed land, managed by the black hound land spirit). There was also a new mortal Gu House, Corpse City, which Fang Yuan had obtained from Western Desert's translocation desert. Most of the immortal materials inside were traded to Thousand Transformation's will, little was left.
In Mini Eastern Sea, it was no longer a shallow body of water, it had a trace of an ocean's capacity. Especially the two sea areas, dragon scale sea area and Wu Yi Hai's sea area, for the former, Fang Yuan had invested a lot of finances and energy into creating this large scale resource point, and for the latter, after annexing Wu Yi Hai's blessed land, the sea turtle was managing it for Fang Yuan, there were three ancient desolate beast horned divine tortoises, a field of ancient desolate plant silent corals, and six desolate beast white letter blue feather seagulls.
Other than the two sea areas, there was a blood lake, it was not too big, Fang Yuan had used it to repair blood asset Immortal Gu earlier, he had kept it for now, the water of the lake has collected a lot of desolate beast and Gu Immortal blood.
Below the blood lake, there were many shallow seas, arranged by Fang Yuan specially to raise the air bubble fish, literature carps, jade carps, blood jade carps and others, there was even an ancient desolate beast hidden room oyster, Fang Yuan had obtained it in Eastern Sea.
The secluded domain of heaven and earth, Reverse Flow River, was also placed here.
Mini Southern Border was the region with the most development among all of them.
There was Five Light Mountain, Immortal Succession Mountain, Become Dragon Mound, Heaven Sealing Mountain, and a dozen other nameless mountains, as well as coiling thread caves and the stalactite cave. In the forest and underground, a small number of rockmen were living here, the vegetation included musical trees, tea streams, qi death birds and others, creating an ecosystem with great vitality.
As for the miniature nine heavens, Mini Red Heaven had a large number of year beasts and that immemorial year monkey.
Fang Yuan had been paying attention to Mini Orange Heaven recently, there was the light shine fungi that made the scale of aurora lights expand rapidly, and more flowing light fruits were being nurtured within.
Mini Yellow Heaven was very empty, there was only a tiny gold fragment current.
Mini Green Heaven was completely empty, but Fang Yuan had placed dream realms in it previously.
Mini Azure Heaven had the pill azure incense, this was the food of change soul Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan had stored a batch in here last time. There was also a heavenly crystal storage pool, it was at the center of Mini Azure Heaven, but it was useless.
Mini Blue Heaven had the most development among the miniature nine heavens. There was a lot of cloud soil here, with lots of star path resources planted here, like arrow bamboo forest and the star fragment grass field, meteorite pit, and a huge floating star fragment island, it was Ye Lui Qun Xing's blessed land, Fang Yuan had annexed it with the star core land spirit managing the place.
There was also a falling star hound infant living here. It was very lonely but it would clash with other desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts elsewhere, after keeping it here, Fang Yuan rarely took care of it.
In Mini Purple Heaven, there were groups of eagles. These eagles were desolate beasts and also ancient desolate beasts, Fang Yuan had sold Immortal Gu during the dream realm incident to purchase them. They had helped him to enslave the upper extreme heavenly eagle to survive the danger, they were extremely useful. Fang Yuan had wanted to sell them, but he could definitely not get Immortal Gu with them, it would be a huge loss. And since he took more than eighty eagle nests from Hei tribe's headquarters, he could raise these eagles in them, even though it was not as amazing as the heavenly crystal eagle nest.
In the remaining two heavens, Mini White Heaven had an eagle hound group, three ancient remnant heavenly dogs, and the plantation field of multicolored overlord flowers. Mini Black Heaven had no light at all, it was a special environment, there were only a few ancient desolate plant walking meat trees there.
After collating all these assets, Fang Yuan was already on par with some rank eight Gu Immortals.
But for the size of the entire immortal aperture, these resources were too little.
The reason?
The sovereign immortal aperture was simply too large. In the 335000km2 of space, these resources only occupied a small amount of space.
And in terms of the entire sovereign immortal aperture's development, assuming a hundred percent of the space could be used, Fang Yuan was merely slightly above three percent now.
Three percent development.
This was naturally not bad, it was a good thing.
The sovereign immortal aperture had unparalleled prospects, but from another perspective, Fang Yuan had no confidence in when he would reach a hundred percent development. This would be a huge task, he would need an extremely huge amount of time.
Throughout history, Gu Immortals had created an evaluation of immortal aperture development.
There were seven levels.
The first level was establishing mortal resources, to produce mortal Gu, mortal Gu materials, and ordinary beasts and plants.
These resources were in huge scales. Mortals could only raise five to six mortal Gu at a time. But Gu Immortals raised millions of mortal Gu at once. Fang Yuan even sold more than a hundred million year Gu earlier.
The second level was to create immortal level resources and produce immortal materials. When this level is accomplished, the Gu Immortal will be able to produce food for their Immortal Gu self-sufficiently.
The third level was to create an ecology to raise immortal beasts and plants.
The fourth level was to use excess immortal materials, beasts, and plants to trade and earn profits.
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Looking at this, Fang Yuan was at the fourth level because he had a lot of business that were doing well to earn him lots of profits. Earlier in the year Gu business, Fang Yuan used his great strength to dominate the market in treasure yellow heaven, the three sellers were completely helpless against him.
"But from another perspective, I am still at the second level, because I have not reached self-sufficiency in feeding my Immortal Gu."
Fang Yuan knew why.
He had simply too many Immortal Gu.
Rank eight: Attitude, Wisdom Sword, Years Flow Like Water.
Rank seven: Sword Eyebrows, Wave Sword, Flying Sword, Sword Escape, Year, After, Divination Tortoise Shell, Dragon Breath, Dragon Scale, Precaution, Big, Fight, Affection, Self Love, Perseverance, Reputation Restriction, Change Soul, Bloodline, Dragon Strength, Formation Flag, and others.
Rank six: Self Strength, Pulling Mountain, Pulling Water, Strength Qi, Spring Autumn Cicada, Landscape as Before, Man as Before, Day, Unravel Mystery, Vajra Thought, Dog Shit Luck, Qi Luck, Woman's Heart, Blood Asset, Change Form, Star Eyes, Perceivable Dao, Yellow Sand, Cleanse Soul, Luck Inspection, Connect Luck, Time Luck, Star Thought, and others.
For the last four including Luck Inspection, Fang Yuan had owned them before, but after the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, due to Change Soul, Ying Wu Xie took them away. Fang Yuan used his special will to destroy a few, but Ying Wu Xie managed to preserve some of them in the end.
Furthermore, there were some wisdom path Immortal Gu that Purple Mountain True Monarch left him, and the time path Immortal Gu that made up a portion of Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage, they would not be specified.
Just counting these, there were more than fifty!
A shocking number!!
Most Gu Immortals were still desperately trying to find an Immortal Gu.
In the Gu Immortal world, there were the most number of rank six Gu Immortals, and most of them had no Immortal Gu at all!
Among the rank seven and rank eight Gu Immortals, some had two or three Immortal Gu, while others had five to six.
But there was a rule — rank six Gu Immortals desire rank six Immortal Gu, rank seven Gu Immortals desire rank seven Immortal Gu, and rank eight Gu Immortals desire rank eight Immortal Gu, while rank nine venerables wanted rank nine Immortal Gu.
But Fang Yuan?
He had more than fifty Immortal Gu!!!
They encompassed rank six, rank seven, and rank eight.
And this was excluding Calamity Beckoning lent to Chu Du, wisdom Gu in Lang Ya blessed land, and dark limit Immortal Gu taken by Heavenly Court. There was also the formation spirit, it was created by an Immortal Gu.
Fang Yuan's situation was too special.
An otherworldly demon who had reborn, the hope of Red Lotus Demon Venerable, a former pawn of heaven's will, and the current leader of Shadow Sect having countless true inheritances.
Even though the journey was dangerous and filled with despair, one had to say, immense risk brought about immense benefits.
Fang Yuan was weirdly prosperous now.
Because of countless fortuitous encounters, he had the economic foundation of level four development, but he had not fulfilled the requirement of level two.
Feeding Immortal Gu had always been a huge burden and problem to him.
"But now, after so much hard work, I have finally gotten some hope of resolving this problem."
"Rank nine wisdom Gu is fed by the profligate Lang Ya land spirit, and I have already solved the problem of food for the three rank eight Immortal Gu."
"Next, I will complete my basic development and solve the feeding problem of the rank six and seven Immortal Gu, to reach self-sufficiency."
Looking at it, Fang Yuan still did not have enough immortal essence stones!
"Marriage connection with the snowmen?"
Fang Yuan pondered.
When Xue Er brought him the snow lotus essence, she also expressed the intention of a marriage connection.
These variant humans spoke outrightly and directly.
"If I work by myself to solve the food issue, it will take a long time. But if I use the snowmen, my progress will be rapid."
"What I lack most now is time."
"I am not against a marriage connection with the snowmen."
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On Dang Hun mountain, there were guts Gu everywhere.
Fang Yuan picked them along the way as he strengthened his soul.
His soul foundation started to increase, after a while, from one million man soul, it rose to five million man soul level.
Fang Yuan felt an extremely bloated feeling, like he was going to burst.
Fang Yuan knew he was at his limit, he left Dang Hun Mountain and came to Luo Po Valley.
After some cultivation, his soul was refined like tempered steel, it became purer and more condensed.
After this, his soul foundation stabilized at one million five hundred thousand man soul.
"After million man soul, each cultivation session raises it by five hundred thousand man soul?"
"Including the time needed to rest my soul, and the production of guts Gu, I need half a year to reach ten million man soul."
Fang Yuan estimated and frowned.
This was too slow for him.
Ten years, after ten years, Heavenly Court would completely repair fate Immortal Gu. By then, Heavenly Court would have the absolute advantage, Fang Yuan and Shadow Sect would have no hope.
He needed half a year out of ten years to reach ten million man soul, there was also hundred million man soul and higher levels after that.
Fang Yuan was not satisfied with the speed.
"If I can increase the production of guts Gu, I could increase my cultivation speed even further."
The production of guts Gu was limiting his soul foundation growth.
Dang Hun Mountain was undoubtedly his money tree, but it needed good quality souls to produce more guts Gu endlessly.
According to the agreement back then, a portion of these guts Gu belonged to Lang Ya Sect, Lang Ya land spirit had to sell them for profits, with a portion of the revenue going to Fang Yuan.
Right now, Fang Yuan was using a portion of the guts Gu to cultivate his soul path. It caused his revenue to fall sharply in this business.
But thankfully, the year Gu business earlier earned him a lot, Fang Yuan had a lot of funds left now.
Fang Yuan assessed it, it was not wise to negotiate with Lang Ya land spirit now to increase his portion of the guts Gu production. Because he needed Lang Ya Sect now, be it staying inside Lang Ya blessed land to develop or using them to refine Gu.
In the batch of Immortal Gu refinement earlier, the three Immortal Gu were extremely useful to Fang Yuan, they were now at the second batch of Gu refinement, focusing on mortal Gu like the white lotus giant silkworm Gu, and two Immortal Gu. One was Heavenly Secret, it was created by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, and was obtained by Old Man Yan Shi, he created an immortal killer move with it, known as exposing heavenly secret.
This move had a mystical effect, it could predict the contents of the following calamity or tribulation!
If Lang Ya Sect could refine heavenly secret Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan would be able to use exposing heavenly secret, it would help him in undergoing tribulations tremendously.
"However... placing a mission for Lang Ya Sect to refine Immortal Gu has been depleting my sect contribution points, I need to check this!"
Thus, after the soul cultivation ended, Fang Yuan used his information path mortal Gu to check Lang Ya Sect's missions.
Undoubtedly, the current Lang Ya land spirit was far more suited for managing Lang Ya Sect than the previous land spirit.
Under his management, the entire sect was excavating its potential fully, they were bursting with life.
At this moment, Lang Ya Sect had many missions, most of them were the Gu refinement missions that Fang Yuan handed out. Below that, the one of great importance was the exploration of Tai Qiu.
Ever since Lang Ya Sect created the teleportation formation, it had been exploring Tai Qiu and excavating the natural resources within.
This was the main development route that Lang Ya Sect was taking.
But Tai Qiu was a dangerous place, ordinary Gu Immortals did not want to enter it, even though there were abundant resources, fierce beasts and dangerous plants grew inside. And the problem was, Lang Ya Sect's Gu Immortals were skilled at refinement but weak at fighting.
Even though they had been raising their strength recently, there were few who could fight.
Thus, when they encountered overly strong beasts or plants, these hairy man Gu Immortals would be in trouble. The exploration of Tai Qiu was unsuccessful.
Seeing these missions, countless thoughts moved about in Fang Yuan's mind rapidly.
In a few breaths of time, he chose over a dozen missions with the highest returns.
At the next moment, he accepted all of these missions.
"First supreme elder." Fang Yuan communicated with Lang Ya land spirit using the information path mortal Gu.
Lang Ya land spirit learned of Fang Yuan's actions as he said in joy: "Fang Yuan, with your strength, these missions will be extremely easy!"
But Fang Yuan shook his head: "This is what I wanted to discuss with you. I want to send my subordinates to deal with these missions for me. This does not go against Lang Ya Sect's rules, right?"
Lang Ya land spirit was slightly dazed, he did not think of this when he created the sect rules.
Speaking of which, this was not a loophole. Why couldn't the Gu Immortal who accepted the mission be allowed to get help?
Lang Ya land spirit replied to Fang Yuan: "Then you need to ensure that these subordinates will not harm Lang Ya Sect!"
Fang Yuan smiled: "Of course."
After communicating with Lang Ya land spirit, Fang Yuan started to dispatch the members of Shadow Sect.
Hei Lou Lan, Ying Wu Xie, Fairy Miao Yin, and Lady White Rabbit, it was a waste to let them idle around. Now, they could be fully utilized.
Eventually, even Bai Ning Bing joined in.
Because from her perspective, she allied with Fang Yuan to regain her male body, she needed to refine immortal level yin yang rotation Gu.
But when she realized that Fang Yuan was relying on Lang Ya Sect to refine Gu, she turned her attention to Lang Ya Sect.
Regretfully, Lang Ya Sect did not trust the outsider Bai Ning Bing. Fang Yuan also secretly disrupted their communication, causing Bai Ning Bing to be forced to rely on him.
She was Fang Yuan's ally, he had no rights to order her, but why would Fang Yuan waste her battle strength?
Under Fang Yuan's special negotiation, Bai Ning Bing believed Fang Yuan: As long as she killed more beasts and plants, she would obtain the sect contribution points that Fang Yuan was getting for them, he would use them to place a sect mission to refine yin yang rotation Immortal Gu.
Several days later.
Sovereign immortal aperture, Mini Northern Plains.
Large pieces of round snowflakes were descending from the sky.
This special snowflake was pure white with the size of an adult's palm.
This was rank six immortal material dancing snow, it was formed naturally, and would not melt as long as the temperature was kept at a certain level. It would always stay afloat, even if it landed to the ground, it would fly upwards instead.
Fang Yuan inspected and saw no problems, he thought: "These days, I finally finished arranging the snowmen's betrothal gift, this project has been completed."
The snowmen wanted to have a marriage connection with Fang Yuan, Xue Er would not come empty-handed of course.
She brought a gift.
The main portion was the snow lotus essence. This was a specialty immortal material of the snowmen, it was rare in treasure yellow heaven, Fang Yuan obtained quite a bit of it as he stored it in Mini Northern Plains.
The second highest quantity was the dancing snow. It was coincidentally a rank six wisdom path Immortal Gu's food, Fang Yuan could feed it four to five times with this batch.
The difficulty of feeding rank six Immortal Gu was very different from feeding rank eight Immortal Gu.
This was a small surprise, Fang Yuan did not need to waste his effort going to treasure yellow heaven to purchase dancing snow.
Other than that, there were some resources that were not so useful. Fang Yuan sold some and kept some, he perfectly utilized them.
"This is too little, if I can get more resources, my immortal aperture's development will be even faster."
"Since the snowmen want a marriage connection with me, just these gifts are insufficient."
Fang Yuan sneered inside.
He accepted all of the gifts but did not respond directly to the snowmen's request for a marriage connection.
When the guts Gu accumulated to a certain scale, Fang Yuan started his soul path cultivation again.
Day after day, he immersed himself in cultivation. His soul foundation was growing at a rapid rate, other than soul path, he even used the light of wisdom to modify killer moves.
He had a great number of killer moves, they involved almost all paths. He needed to modify the useful killer moves from within them so that he could use them with his available Immortal Gu. This would greatly increase his methods and battle strength!
Fang Yuan was deep in cultivation, while Shadow Sect's members were exploring Tai Qiu and fighting. Sixth Hair and Lang Ya land spirit were refining Immortal Gu for Fang Yuan, almost everyone was busy with their goals, but Xue Er became the most anxious one now.
This beauty of the snowman tribe had an important mission from the snowmen, but Fang Yuan took the gifts without even seeing her. She was left hanging here without any attention given.
Xue Er had asked to meet Fang Yuan several times, but she was only a rank six Gu Immortal while Fang Yuan had rank eight battle strength, the two of them were too different in strength, and because he was in Lang Ya blessed land, Fang Yuan rejected her each time.
This way, Xue Er could not meet him, she felt extremely dispirited, the worry and anger on her face became deeper each day.
On this day, the snowmen sent her a letter to rush her again, but Xue Er had hope now.
Because the snowman tribe saw that Xue Er was making no progress, they discussed among themselves.
They came to a consensus: Since Fang Yuan accepted the gifts, he wanted the marriage connection. But why did he not meet Xue Er, it was because the gifts were not enough for his high status.
Thus, the snowmen gathered some more gifts and sent it along with the letter to Xue Er.
"What is this?"
"I am the pride of the snowmen, my beauty is renowned. This time, I requested for a marriage connection and even brought sufficient gifts. But it was not enough to meet him even once!"
With heavy emotions, Xue Er requested to meet Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan finally met her.
But what he said to her was something out of her expectations.
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Fang Yuan looked down towards Xue Er.
She was young and beautiful, she was tall and vibrant, she had blue eyes and hair, she had the icy trait of her variant human race.
Her tender skin and plump chest would make countless men pay attention towards her.
She was undoubtedly the number one beauty of the snowman tribe.
But Fang Yuan was unmoved by her beauty. Not just that, he even found trouble with her: "This is the sincerity of the snowmen?"
Xue Er could not understand what Fang Yuan meant, she quickly said: "Lord Fang Yuan, please do not misunderstand."
"Such a small gift and you want to have a marriage connection with me? Your tribe is dreaming if they think it is so easy to gain help equivalent to that of a rank eight." Fang Yuan sneered.
Xue Er was dazed.
Fang Yuan spoke so plainly she could not accept it.
She also felt some shame and anger in her heart.
She was the cream of her generation, the publicly recognized number one beauty, she was bringing gifts to request for a marriage connection, she was lowering her head and status.
To think that Fang Yuan was so prideful and looked down on her, he was also extremely greedy, thinking that the snowmen gift was insincere.
How could it be little?
The gift was very precious, the snowman tribe had picked all of it from their inventory specially for Fang Yuan.
Originally, Xue Er had a good impression of Fang Yuan. After all, he had incredible talent and had rank eight battle strength, it was an achievement that not many could attain. But now, her impression of him became rock bottom.
With her temper, she would have left long ago. But now, it was not about her alone, she was tasked by her tribe for this important mission.
Xue Er breathed in deeply, asking: "Lord Fang Yuan, you have already taken two sets of gifts, I am sure you agree to our marriage connection. If you are unhappy with the gifts, you can give us your requests. I will bring them back for our elders to discuss."
Fang Yuan had prepared the list long ago, an information path mortal Gu flew out of him and went to Xue Er.
"This?!" Xue Er took a look and her eyes popped out.
Fang Yuan's greed was too shocking.
But even when she was shocked, she was very beautiful, her eyes were wide open, even though she lost a portion of her coolness, she became quite cute.
"Not just this list." Fang Yuan added.
"You have other requests?" Xue Er had an unsightly expression as she held down her anger.
But Fang Yuan was confident and unabashed. He spoke matter of factly: "If your tribe can meet my requirements, that would be enough. But you yourself have not expressed enough sincerity."
"My sincerity?"
Fang Yuan raised his head as he smiled: "Not just anyone can become my wife, Fang Yuan's wife. Even though the snowmen recommended you, your qualifications will depend on my test."
"Test?" Xue Er gritted her teeth: "Please explain to me, Lord Fang Yuan."
Fang Yuan said: "Go to Tai Qiu and collect souls for me. When you leave, someone will arrange it for you."
Xue Er felt anguished, how could a genius like her be treated in such a cold manner?
But due to the mission from her sect, she had to nod and agree.
Seeing Xue Er leave, Fang Yuan pondered deeply.
With this arrangement, he could make use of Xue Er's battle strength, there would be another person helping him cultivate faster.
But that was not important.
He was actually trying to probe them.
Accepting the second gift while expressing his displeasure and wanting to test Xue Er, he showed his pride fully, this was to test the bottom line of the snowmen.
Since they wanted a marriage connection, how much determination did they have?
Or rather, the higher their determination, the more benefits Fang Yuan could squeeze out from them.
Fang Yuan was not anxious.
A marriage connection could not be decided in such a short time. Both sides were not familiar with each other yet, even though Fang Yuan was probing them, the snowmen were also probing Fang Yuan.
But Fang Yuan was sure that there were benefits to be gained here!
The marriage connection was not the main thing.
Fang Yuan quickly set it aside and placed his attention on his cultivation.
Soul cultivation was one aspect, managing his immortal aperture was another, other than that, Fang Yuan also used the light of wisdom to modify his killer moves.
Fang Yuan's strongest method was undoubtedly immortal killer move reverse flow protection seal, but he was not modifying that now.
Even though this move was not safe against Heavenly Court now, Fang Yuan was in no immediate danger. Not only was he in Northern Plains, he was also inside Lang Ya blessed land, he had the concealment of ghost soldier garment, Heavenly Court could not find him in the meantime.
And there was another reason, modifying reverse flow protection seal would take too much time, it was too slow.
Fang Yuan thought about it and decided to modify Purple Mountain True Monarch's wisdom path killer moves.
Why did he choose those?
Firstly, these killer moves were very powerful and exceptional. Secondly, Fang Yuan had grandmaster wisdom path attainment level, he was qualified to modify them. Finally, Fang Yuan had a batch of wisdom path Immortal Gu with him, they were left behind by Purple Mountain True Monarch.
Purple blood river formation, purple thought light shield, ignited thought flying rock, single thought flower blossom, purple thought perception starlight, directional confusion fog, thought body defense, single thought myriad flow elimination, and others, when Purple Mountain True Monarch was not in his peak condition, he used these methods to face Duke Long.
Who was Duke Long?
He was the master of Red Lotus, he had a huge background and unparalleled battle strength, he was at the peak of rank eight!
When Fang Yuan was modifying his killer moves, Ying Wu Xie approached Xue Er.
"You are Xue Er?" Ying Wu Xie asked.
Xue Er saw that Ying Wu Xie was smaller in stature than her, resembling a young girl. He had pale snow-like skin,he was wearing a flowery green dress, there were two pearl earrings hanging on his ears, as if water was inside the pearls, there were green ripples inside when they shook.
Ying Wu Xie was in Fairy Cui Bo's body, he was very enchanting. If not so, Thousand Transformations Ancestor would not have made her his third concubine and adored her deeply.
"Who is this beautiful immortal? What relationship does she have with Fang Yuan? This is not in our tribe's information, and she is a rank seven Gu Immortal." Xue Er had lots of suspicions, but she smiled: "I am Xue Er, beautiful sister, may I know what your name is?"
Ying Wu Xie frowned.
He was initially very excited about using Fairy Cui Bo's body. But after a while, he felt like it was getting very uncomfortable.
Not long ago, he requested to Fang Yuan to change this body, even if he changed to a rank six body, it was fine as long as he could cultivate soul path.
"Don't call me sister, you can call me brother Wu Xie." Ying Wu Xie waved his hand: "Let's go, I will bring you to Tai Qiu and meet up with them. This is sect leader's test to you, we will see who obtains higher quality souls in the same period of time."
"Yes." Xue Er quickly answered, but she had many questions in her.
She walked at the back as she stared at Ying Wu Xie, thinking: "This female immortal is so weird, she wants me to call her brother?"
The two left Lang Ya blessed land and reached Tai Qiu using the teleportation Gu formation.
Once they entered Tai Qiu, Xue Er felt nervous, after all, this was a famous place in Northern Plains for its danger level.
At the same time, she felt uneasy towards the test, she only had rank six cultivation level and her investigative methods were her forte.
"Come with me, quick quick quick!"
"Time is very precious, we need to treasure every moment and use it to cultivate."
"We need to continue working hard, that is the true meaning of life."
Ying Wu Xie continued to nag at Xue Er, he was very determined. This was the effect of immortal killer move soaring fighting spirit.
Xue Er felt that Ying Wu Xie was really weird, she was so beautiful, but she acted like a rash lad, it was unimaginable.
"But are we too careless by flying like this?" Xue Er was worried, this was Tai Qiu, fierce beasts roamed everywhere, danger was everywhere. Flying around openly like this made them open targets.
While flying, Xue Er felt very nervous, she was afraid of a fierce beast assaulting her out of nowhere.
But after flying for a while, her worry did not become real.
In fact, her worry was fading, she felt deeply shocked internally.
"The area around the teleportation formation has been cleared by Lang Ya Sect and is in their control. They have actually explored Tai Qiu to this extent!"
"It seems that Lang Ya Sect's strength surpasses my tribe's estimations." Xue Er immediately sent this information back to the snowmen.
"Oh? There are a group of dragon-elephants." Suddenly, Xue Er said.
Ying Wu Xie who was traveling with her looked with surprise, he thought that this woman had some of her own worth.
Ying Wu Xie's methods only found those dragon-elephants a few breaths of time after Xue Er.
Shadow Sect's investigative methods were naturally superior to Xue Er's, but in Ying Wu Xie's current body, those methods were restricted.
"These dragon-elephants are needed by sect leader, let's capture them." Ying Wu Xie changed his flying direction.
Xue Er was not surprised, because she had looked at Fang Yuan's list, there were dragon-elephants listed on it.
This group of dragon-elephants was quite ordinary, there were only two or three desolate level dragon-elephants.
Ying Wu Xie quickly landed as he used his soul path immortal killer move.
His soul howl reverberated among the dragon-elephant group as they all fainted and fell unconscious.
"An impressive technique." Xue Er was slightly shocked, but a new question arose within: "She has water path aura, why is she using a soul path method?"
Ying Wu Xie was most skilled in lead soul into dream, but the Gu worms to construct this move were kept by Fang Yuan.
Only a few soul path Immortal Gu were left for Ying Wu Xie. Thus, his main methods were soul path.
Ying Wu Xie kept these dragon-elephants in his immortal aperture as he continued on the journey with Xue Er.
A moment later, they met with Hei Lou Lan.
"Another great beauty!" Xue Er first frowned before her brows relaxed.
She observed secretly: "Compared to Wu Xie, this person only has rank six cultivation level, she is the same as me."
Xue Er let out a sigh of relief inside.
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Xue Er was a talented descendant of the snowman tribe, she was a genius, but the snowman tribe undoubtedly had little resources.
Xue Er was able to become rank six at such an age, it was quite incredible. But after meeting with Ying Wu Xie, she could not match this rank seven, although she showed nothing on the surface, she felt great pressure in her heart.
Now that she saw a rank six immortal, her heavy heart became slightly lighter.
"Hi, you can call me Xue Er." Xue Er first introduced herself, she felt that she should be friendly to the people under Fang Yuan, to create a good relationship with them.
"Hello, you can call me Lou Lan." Hei Lou Lan smiled, her gaze flickered as she assessed Xue Er subtly.
She thought: "Snowman Gu Immortal? Why did she approach us? Fang Yuan... what is he thinking?"
The snowmen wanted a marriage connection with Fang Yuan, he did not inform anyone other than Ying Wu Xie. Thus, Hei Lou Lan only knew that Fang Yuan wanted the Shadow Sect immortals to take Xue Er along and work together in the meantime to explore Tai Qiu.
"Alright, now that you've done the introductions, let's leave first." Ying Wu Xie said.
He took out an information path Gu worm and used his method to learn about Fairy Miao Yin's and Lady White Rabbit's location.
"Hei Lou Lan, go ahead with your work, I will bring Xue Er to the others."
Seeing the two of them leave, Hei Lou Lan had a thought.
Her instincts told her that Xue Er joined them very suddenly and mysteriously, her goal was not simple.
Hei Lou Lan was an ambitious person, even though she was under the alliance agreement and lost her freedom, she had been wanting to break free of Fang Yuan's control all along.
Who would not want freedom?
"Wait, I'll go with you. I am in charge of finding the sharp tusk boars, but I can't find any. I will ask Miao Yin to help me find them." Hei Lou Lan said as she flew towards them.
Xue Er was very happy, she wanted to get closer to Hei Lou Lan.
Hei Lou Lan also wanted to probe information from her, she acted very warmly and kindly.
Thus, with Ying Wu Xie at the lead, Xue Er and Hei Lou Lan traveled together behind him.
"Elder sister Lou Lan, I am very happy to meet you." Not long later, Xue Er addressed Hei Lou Lan as elder sister, placing herself at a lower status.
"This dumb woman..." Hei Lou Lan snorted in her heart.
She was once the victor of the imperial court contest, she had a deep hatred and lived with difficulty under her father's shadow, she was skilled at scheming. Compared to her, Xue Er lived peacefully in the snowman tribe, due to her past, she was quite innocent in nature.
Hei Lou Lan soon found that Xue Er wanted to know about the Shadow Sect immortals desperately.
She made use of Xue Er's intention, she exposed some useful information while probing her.
Xue Er was guarded of course, but she could not match Hei Lou Lan's scheming, just as she was about to expose herself, Ying Wu Xie interjected: "Isn't that a sharp tusk boar? Hei Lou Lan, you are very lucky, you will not need to owe Miao Yin a favor now."
Following Ying Wu Xie's direction, Xue Er indeed saw an ancient desolate beast.
It was huge and had bulky muscles, it was lying on the ground as it slept, it had a powerful aura.
Xue Er's heart jumped, with her battle strength, she was not the sharp tusk boar's match.
Hei Lou Lan was interrupted, she felt angry but she could not retort to Ying Wu Xie, she snorted and flew towards the sharp tusk boar.
"Sister Lou Lan, be careful." Xue Er said in concern, she praised in her heart, this sister Lou Lan that she had just met was really courageous. But with her rank six cultivation level, how could she deal with the sharp tusk boar? She had to rely on this Fairy Cui Bo after all.
But the following scene made Xue Er completely stunned.
Hei Lou Lan was even fiercer than the sharp tusk boar, when she fought, her aura changed instantly, she was blazing in flames, her heaven blazing flames were terrifyingly powerful.
"Rank six Immortal Gu, rank seven Immortal Gu... so many Immortal Gu!" Xue Er watched the battle and her eyelids twitched, she saw how rich Hei Lou Lan was.
Hei Lou Lan had obtained Blazing Heaven Demoness' inheritance and Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan did not take them since he had enough Immortal Gu, leaving them for Hei Lou Lan would allow her to fight effectively and obtain more souls.
Under Hei Lou Lan's terrifying attacks, the sharp tusk boar was first furious before going into a frenzy and escaping after losing.
Xue Er was very shocked.
Hei Lou Lan exploded with battle strength that was on par with rank seven experts, it was out of Xue Er's expectations.
"Sister Lou Lan is so strong! Her immortal killer moves are so powerful and overwhelming."
"But she clearly has strength path aura, why is she using fire path methods?"
Mixed in with her shock was suspicion.
Xue Er did not understand!
Fairy Cui Bo had water path aura, but she used soul path methods. And now this Hei Lou Lan was a strength path Gu Immortal but used fire path instead!
"Alright, let's continue." A moment later, Hei Lou Lan collected the sharp tusk boar corpse, including its ancient desolate soul as well.
"Sister Lou Lan, you are amazing!" Xue Er looked at Hei Lou Lan with an incredulous gaze.
Hei Lou Lan shook her head: "This is nothing."
"No, no, you are really amazing. You have rank six Gu Immortal cultivation level but rank seven battle strength. This is not achievable by normal Gu Immortals." Xue Er waved her hands.
Hei Lou Lan smiled bitterly: "This is really nothing, in Shadow Sect, I am very ordinary."
Xue Er heard Hei Lou Lan's reply and her heart jumped.
Hei Lou Lan: "When you see them, you will understand. Let's go."
Hei Lou Lan had completed her mission, but she did not return directly, she decided to find the other Shadow Sect Gu Immortals with Xue Er.
A while later, they successfully met up with Fairy Miao Yin and Lady White Rabbit.
Lady White Rabbit had rank six cultivation level normally, she did not have Hei Lou Lan's battle strength, it was dangerous for her to explore Tai Qiu alone.
Thus, Fang Yuan let her and Fairy Miao Yin work together.
Of course, when she became Black Tigress, her cultivation level and battle strength would rise to rank seven. However, her Black Tigress state was unstable and could not last long, it had its drawbacks.
"Hello Xue Er." Fairy Miao Yin smiled kindly.
"You are a snowman Gu Immortal? This is the first time I am... seeing one." Lady White Rabbit said faintly.
"What situation is this?" Xue Er was suspicious and depressed.
Fairy Miao Yin was a publicly recognized fairy in Southern Border's Gu Immortal world. She had a beautiful body and alluring face, she wore a pinkish-red dress and looked extremely enchanting.
As for Lady White Rabbit, she had pale white skin and huge innocent eyes, she was completely pure. Her aura was different from Fairy Miao Yin, even at first glance, Xue Er felt that she was very cute, she had a feeling of adoration and trust towards her.
Xue Er analyzed closely.
She found that Fairy Miao Yin had rank seven cultivation level while Lady White Rabbit had rank six, similar to her.
But after the matter of Hei Lou Lan, Xue Er no longer dared to look at Lady White Rabbit as an ordinary rank six Gu Immortal.
The Gu Immortals conversed for a while, everyone was very kind and warm to Xue Er, but they were naturally curious about her.
Xue Er was very tight-lipped.
It was not that she became scheming, but because there were many people who were all beauties, Xue Er felt incredibly pressured.
Why was she here?
To have a marriage connection with Fang Yuan.
Now, she had to proclaim herself as Fang Yuan's future wife in front of so many people, wasn't that just provoking them? Wasn't she too shameless?
At the same time, a question pressed down on Xue Er like a mountain.
"What relationship do these female immortals have with Fang Yuan?"
Actually, Fang Yuan had a clear and simple relationship with them.
But Xue Er was an outsider, she could not help but assume wrong things the first time she met them.
This was not strange.
It was normal mentality.
"Alright, you have already met us Shadow Sect Gu Immortals. Other than us, there is one final person, a special one." Ying Wu Xie said.
"Special?" Xue Er's heart tensed.
She wanted to ask: "Special as in the relationship they have with Fang Yuan? Are they a male or a female?"
But Xue Er did not ask directly, as Ying Wu Xie continued to speak.
"This person is Bai Ning Bing, she is not a member of Shadow Sect, but she is our ally, we have fought together, even though she only has rank six cultivation level... among us, she has the highest battle strength."
Ying Wu Xie hesitated a little at the final sentence.
But the other Gu Immortals said nothing about it.
Hei Lou Lan's battle strength was weaker than Bai Ning Bing. After all, Great Strength True Martial Physique was incompatible with a fire path inheritance.
Fairy Miao Yin's battle strength was about the same as Hei Lou Lan.
Lady White Rabbit could be disregarded, as for after becoming Black Tigress, she would be vicious but lacking in methods.
Originally, Ying Wu Xie had the highest battle strength, but his reliance was on lead soul into dream, whose Immortal Gu have been taken by Fang Yuan.
Thus, Bai Ning Bing, who inherited Bai Xiang's true inheritance and had the Northern Dark Ice Soul Physique, was the strongest among them.
"Even stronger than sister Lou Lan?" Xue Er could not believe it.
Hei Lou Lan said: "I merely have mid tier battle strength among us."
Xue Er opened her eyes in shock, thinking: "My heavens, why are there a bunch of monsters here? Rank six cultivation level but having the highest battle strength, who exactly is this person? How high is their battle talent?"
"Now, let us bring you there. I told you these things in advance so you can take note, she has a different relationship with us." Ying Wu Xie continued to lead the way.
Soon, they arrived at Bai Ning Bing's location.
Boom boom boom!
Intense explosions resounded in the immortals' ears like thunder.
Roar—!
Next, the immortals heard a loud and pitiful sound that resembled the cry of a dying beast.
"This, this is!" When the immortals arrived, Xue Er was shocked to see that Bai Ning Bing was alone in the battlefield, around her was a ring of ancient desolate beasts.
"All of you came at a right time, I found a good place." Bai Ning Bing stopped the killer move Bai Xiang as she went towards the immortals.
Xue Er was greatly shocked.
"So beautiful!"
Bai Ning Bing's beauty and aura was simply breathtaking.
Even the genius Xue Er was shaken, she thought: "There is such a beautiful person that exists?"
If she knew that Bai Ning Bing was a male turned into a female, who knew how she would feel.
Xue Er thought: "Why is Fang Yuan surrounded by so many beauties? And they are such talented people! Now wonder he thinks little of me."