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Central Continent.
Boom—!
Suddenly, an intense explosion broke the tranquility of the mountain valley.
The aftermath of the explosion created a huge inferno that rapidly spread in all directions.
In just a breath of time, the lush trees in the surroundings were destroyed, and the area became a barren desert.
The eight rank eight Gu Immortals that came from Heavenly Court gradually revealed their figures.
They had formed a circle, each of them heavily injured, their gazes looking heavily at the proud and aloof figure in the center.
Immortal zombie Bo Qing was standing upright and proud like a spear.
He slowly moved his eyes, a sword light suddenly flickered from them.
The eight Gu Immortals were terrified, three even subconsciously retreated a step. In the intense battle earlier, they had suffered a lot under these sword lights coming from his eyes.
However, the sword light in Bo Qing's eyes died out in an instant.
Afterwards, the lively light in his eyes completely dissipated. His whole body became motionless like a stone statue.
"Success!"
"We finally killed the remnant soul within Bo Qing..."
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals let out breaths of relief, they had obtained victory in this battle.
Bo Qing was known as a pseudo-Immortal Venerable, but he had only left behind his corpse, and the remnant soul in it was Mo Yao's.
Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals targeted this weak point, using their battle tactics to completely annihilate Mo Yao's remnant soul. Without the control of the remnant soul, Bo Qing's immortal zombie body moved no longer.
"It has been so long since I had such a thrilling battle!" A Gu Immortal sighed, deeply moved.
"Fortunately, this immortal zombie Bo Qing had such a huge weakness, otherwise someone among us would definitely be annihilated."
"It is a pity we couldn't take it alive...."
"After taking this immortal zombie body to Heavenly Court and storing it properly, I will continue my sleep."
Previously, Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord, Bi Chen Tian and Lian Jiu Sheng used an Immortal Gu House, Illusion Garden, to trap immortal zombie Bo Qing and Yu Mu Chun.
Bo Qing battled the three immortals with incredible sword path might. Heavenly Court's three immortals were no match for him and could only request for reinforcements. Five Gu Immortals from Heavenly Court had no choice but to come out of their rest and enter the mortal world as reinforcements.
The eight Gu Immortals formed an ancient battle formation, and after over a month, they finally killed Yu Mu Chun and extinguished Mo Yao's remnant soul.
The battle ended, the five Heavenly Court Gu Immortals that were awoken immediately returned to their headquarters and continued to rest.
They had almost no lifespan remaining, they had to treasure every second they had.
Bi Chen Tian and Lian Jiu Sheng also wanted to leave, but their situation was better than the five immortals. They still had time to care for their descendants and sects.
But, Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord gave the task of cleaning up the battlefield to Bi Chen Tian, and persuaded Lian Jiu Sheng to go to the riverbed of Falling Heavenly River and search again.
He now was flying towards Heavenly Court.
"Although we have won this battle, my unease has instead increased, and I am feeling very restless, as if an apocalypse is approaching." Standing in front of Heaven Overseeing Tower, this old rank eight Gu Immortal frowned.
He stepped inside the tower and continued the previous deductions.
"What's going on?" Soon, Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord's forehead was dripping with sweat.
His gaze was extremely puzzled.
There was an enormous pressure which made it difficult for him to move forward.
In the past, he only needed to spend a bead of rank eight immortal essence for each step. But this time, he did not know why, but the consumption of immortal essence had doubled!
"Ever since I have been in control of Heaven Overseeing Tower, there has never been such a situation! What's happening?"
Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord's intuition was urgently telling him: Sword Immortal Bo Qing's matter was only a prelude, and behind the scenes, there was an even stronger mastermind!
"I understand, it seems someone is secretly hindering me from deducing... haha, if that is the case, then I want to succeed even more, I will walk to the top of the tower. I want to see who it is that has escaped the judgment of fate!"
Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord continued to climb, his expression was firm with no more puzzlement.
But after he climbed a hundred steps, the wall turned dark.
It was like the darkest, blackest ink had spilled over the whole wall.
There were no more images.
Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord's heart sank: "Who is it? Who is interfering with my deduction! They could actually interfere with a rank nine Immortal Gu House, Heaven Overseeing Tower, to this degree!!"
Time continued to pass.
A month later, Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord finally stepped onto the top floor of the tower.
He was extremely exhausted, most of the immortal essence accumulated in his lifetime had been consumed.
He looked at the wall with anticipation.
After the first pitch black wall, he no longer saw other images.
However, Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord knew fate Immortal Gu's might extended over the whole world and could not be blocked, the wall at the end would definitely reveal the true perpetrator behind the scenes.
When he stepped on the top floor, he widened his eyes, gazing impatiently!
At the next moment, his pupils shrunk down to pin-size.
His aged body shook intensely.
The final wall was still pitch black.
Darkness, incomparably deep darkness.
But unlike before, in this darkness, a pair of eyes were shining.
This was a pair of human eyes!
But it was filled with bone-chilling coldness and terrifying killing intent.
They gazed at Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord like a beast hiding in the darkness, waiting patiently for an opportunity, upon which it would charge of the darkness, causing terror over the world.
"You, you are..." Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord was soaked with cold sweat, he trembled and even his teeth chattered.
After a long while, he barely managed to calm down.
But fear and panic still remained on his face.
"Crisis! A huge crisis! If this is left unchecked, even Heavenly Court will be destroyed. Immortal zombie Bo Qing was no more than a distraction for us. I must awaken many more of Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals, this is a battle that decides our survival!!"
Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord did not hesitate, he ran out of the Heaven Overseeing Tower, directly to Floating Maple Cliff.
On Floating Maple Cliff, there was a giant Gu formation.
Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord decisively activated the Gu formation; a sound of a bell, vast and unparalleled, immediately resounded throughout the sky.
Heavenly Court shook!
At the same time, in Southern Border.
"Finally, the deduction has succeeded." Fang Yuan had already taken another appearance and stepped onto Yi Tian Mountain, his immortal aperture sealed.
After obtaining a portion of Old Immortal Kong Jue's inheritance from Blazing Heaven Demoness, Fang Yuan did not encounter any obstacles in his deduction. Using the method of sealing the immortal aperture, Fang Yuan sealed his own immortal aperture and turned into a rank three Gu Master, officially stepping into this huge stage.
At this time, the situation on Yi Tian Mountain had already undergone a huge change.
Large numbers of Gu Masters had entered both the righteous and demonic sides.
The righteous path had initiated the third and fourth waves of offense, both sides suffered heavy losses.
On the demonic path's side, Second Zombie King had summoned many of his disciples, their zombie army giving a huge headache to the righteous path.
On the righteous path's side, Wei Yang and Hong Fei Yu had allied, getting an advantage over Lan Mei He and Fei You Wang in the aerial battles.
However, Divine Doctor Sheng Shou was supporting the righteous path.
This person was one of the four great doctors of Southern Border, extremely proficient in healing and treating wounds and illnesses. With him there, righteous path Gu Masters had fewer losses, and most injuries were quickly healed, so they did not fear fighting fiercely.
Xiao Shan knew if this were to continue, the righteous path would continue becoming stronger, thus he decided to make use of a diversion while taking the initiative to attack, beginning the fifth wave of battle between righteous and demonic.
On the surface, he, Sun Pang Hu and Zhou Xing Xing attacked, while Lu Zuan Feng was commanded to sneak towards the rear of the righteous path and try to kill Divine Doctor Sheng Shou.
But the result was, Divine Doctor Sheng Shou was not killed, instead, Shang Fu Xi of the righteous path had planned for their scheme, laying an ambush and killing Second Zombie King.
With Second Zombie King dead, the demonic path's disadvantage was quickly enlarging.
Around this time, Killer Ghost Doctor Chou Jiu stepped onto Yi Tian Mountain, suppressing Divine Doctor Sheng Shou, salvaging the situation.
Chou Jiu saved many demonic Gu Masters' lives, and soon took the third highest rank. Lu Zuan Feng was ranked at second while Xiao Shan still was at first.
As for Sun Pang Hu and Zhou Xing Xing, they had already been squeezed out to the fourth and fifth.
Because of Chou Jiu, the demonic path could recuperate and build up strength day by day, and because one of the rising stars of the demonic path, Mo Wu Tian, had joined and challenged many to one-on-one battles, the righteous path had lost many strong warriors.
Shang clan sent Doctor Su Shou, who together with Divine Doctor Sheng Shou, managed to close the gap created by Chou Jiu.
A phantom path inheritor, Yan clan's young clan leader, Yan Jun, entered the spotlight, he sneaked into Yi Tian Mountain and killed Chou Jiu before swaggering off.
The righteous path's morale was boosted, making another attack, beginning the sixth wave of battle between righteous and demonic.
However, they fell into the demonic path's trap.
Chou Jiu had remnant life Gu, as long as his body was mostly intact, he could resurrect. After Yan Jun killed him, he had secretly resurrected while pretending to be dead, causing the righteous path to take the bait.
In the sixth battle, Mo Wu Tian showed his demonic might, killing three rank four Gu Masters in the chaotic battle, his fierce might surged and even Yan Jun was defeated by him and suffered heavy injuries.
The righteous path retreated in defeat, but the demonic path had also incurred huge losses, both sides temporarily rested, trying to recover their strength.
During such a situation, Fang Yuan stepped onto Yi Tian Mountain, joining Yi Tian Village.
He had disguised himself as a rank three Gu Master, and after joining, his status in Yi Tian Village was outside the top one hundred. The higher ups arranged him a position of guarding an archery tower.
Fang Yuan was extremely low profile, working without making any disturbances.
He patiently waited for the first three days, and after seeing no Gu Immortals had appeared to stop him, began to stealthily refine the battle will in the Immortal Gu House.
The number of demonic path Gu Masters who had joined Yi Tian Village had already reached six hundred.
Among these people, some were pawns of Gu Immortals, while some were not. Fang Yuan was hidden among them and was not in the least bit conspicuous.
He was secretly earning a fortune, rapidly refining the battle will in the Immortal Gu House with his wisdom path grandmaster attainment.
Other Gu Immortals could only make their pawns fight and indirectly refine the battle will from this. But Fang Yuan did not need to fight, he could continue to unceasingly refine the battle will. After all, a Gu Immortal was personally making a move, it naturally would be extraordinary.
Day after day passed, the righteous and demonic sides were like two giant beasts, after taking a few breaths, their energy was restored and they began to battle again.
It was the seventh wave of battle, and this was a draw again.
The demonic path made a crafty scheme, cutting off the righteous path's supply lines. But on the righteous path's side, Shang clan leader Shang Yan Fei personally arrived with his forces, and used gourmet food box Gu, providing a feast for the army, foiling the demonic path's scheme.
Next, the clan leaders of Southern Border's super forces like Yi clan, Luo clan, Yao clan and Xia clan also showed themselves, joining the battlefield.
The battles were getting increasingly heated, affecting the minds of countless Gu Masters and forces.
But from Fang Yuan's viewpoint, it was simply another ordinary scene.
Righteous and demonic battled, it looked to be extremely brilliant, but in fact the true manipulators were Southern Border's Gu Immortals.
During these last days, the Gu Immortals had also clashed. Although they did not officially fight, they secretly schemed and strategized, each trying to cheat or outwit one other, making everyone on guard.
Fang Yuan was able to obtain huge amounts of information from this and his understanding of the world of Southern Border's Gu Immortals increased at a rapid speed.
He had refined large amounts of battle will, but Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage seemed like a bottomless pit.
Time continued to pass, a month had gone by.
On this day, Old Man Yan Shi secretly came to the surroundings of Yi Tian Mountain with over ten Gu Immortals.
He took a deep breath, and said in a slightly shaky tone: "Heavenly Court has already detected this and is preparing for an expedition to Southern Border. Time does not wait for anyone, we can only begin early!"
Whoosh.
The Gu Immortals behind him turned into shadows as they flew in all directions.
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"Eh, what's going on?" At this moment, the Gu Immortals of Southern Border, who were situated ten thousand li away from Yi Tian Mountain, looked at the sky one after another.
Even the mortal Gu Masters on Yi Tian Mountain also felt an indescribable chill.
Rumble...
A vague rumbling sound could be heard coming from the sky.
Several breaths later, the rumbling got louder and louder, as if hundreds of people were beating war-drums far away.
Ever since Fang Yuan stepped on Yi Tian Mountain, he had been making use of every second in refining the battle will, but the commotion in the sky right now was getting louder and louder, he had no choice but to temporarily stop his work and look above.
From high up in the air, he saw the sky suddenly brightening with a series of white light specks.
These light specks were extremely vast in scale and densely packed together. They started to fall rapidly and powerfully down towards Yi Tian Mountain.
"This is the thousand pearl-light tribulation." A Gu Immortal exclaimed in shock.
"Wrong, the thousand pearl-light tribulation only has a thousand light pearls, but this tribulation has at least a hundred thousand light pearls!"
"How could there be a tribulation?" Many Gu Immortals were baffled.
"Could someone be undergoing a tribulation?" Most of the Gu Immortals immediately looked towards Yi Tian Mountain.
Fang Yuan's heart jumped, and he became extremely vigilant.
Soon, he was dripping in cold sweat as he felt waves of immaterial investigative senses scanning his whole body.
Although he had vaguely familiar face, the core Immortal Gu of this immortal killer move was only at rank six. It could deceive rank six Gu Immortals, but facing the inspection of rank seven and rank eight, there was a huge chance of being exposed.
Fang Yuan was filled with anxiety before he finally let out a sigh of relief.
He was not discovered.
"There was no discovery?" The Gu Immortals were surprised.
They searched Yi Tian Mountain and its nearby surroundings, but did not discover any rank five Gu Master that was facing a tribulation.
Just when they were about to continue searching with even more powerful investigative methods, the thousand pearl-light tribulation was already just above the immortals.
"Just in case, we can't let this tribulation affect Yi Tian Mountain!"
"Right, let's block this tribulation."
Some Gu Immortals started guessing, perhaps this tribulation was caused by Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage?
The Southern Border Gu Immortals soon came to an agreement.
According to the gambling agreement, if a menace appeared, the Gu Immortals participating in the gambling contest would band together to obstruct it and protect their interests.
Although the thousand pearl-light tribulation was high in quantity, the Gu Immortals that occupied this place had power in numbers, they included four rank eight, nine rank seven and over ten rank six Gu Immortals.
The immortals made their moves, and soon the thousand pearl-light tribulation was destroyed, with not even one light pearl touching the ground.
It was to the extent that even some Gu Immortals used their methods to draw in layers of clouds, blocking the sky of Yi Tian Mountain, and preventing the mortal Gu Masters from sensing this anomaly.
"Hehehe." A lone cultivator rank eight Gu Immortal, Peng Shi Long, stroked his beard, laughing, "No matter who it is that is ascending to immortal at this moment, they are quite creative."
"We need to find this person! The people here are all elite Gu Immortals of Southern Border, we can't even find a mortal who is facing tribulation?" The rank seven Gu Immortal Ye Qing Tang smiled coldly, being taken as a meat shield by someone else and used as a tool to face the tribulation made this proud Gu Immortal extremely displeased.
"Whose descendant is this mortal? Speak up, avoid losing your face when we find them." Gu Immortal Wang Kai chuckled.
The immortals looked at each other, but no one stood out.
Rank eight Gu Immortal Ren Hai Yang's expression turned dark as he shouted: "You don't know what is good for you! You still want to hide, do you take us as fools?"
"Look, another tribulation is falling." Suddenly, a Gu Immortal gave a reminder.
The sky was dark, like a giant had coated it with a dense black dye.
At once, the temperature fell and cold air emanated.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
Endless ice and snow circled around like sharp blades before pouring down like a storm.
Ye Qing Tang's expression turned heavy, calling out: "Dark flying frost."
"Who is facing the tribulation, they could actually attract one of the ten great catastrophes!"
"No that's wrong, the scale of this tribulation is even greater than the ten great catastrophes."
"Its here!"
"Hold it back!"
Rumble, lightning flashed and inferno roared as the dark flying frost was destroyed.
Dark flying frost was indeed one of the ten great catastrophes.
After this tribulation, many Gu Immortals suffered injuries. Gu Immortal Gua Lao was heavily injured, and he could not help but think of retreating.
"Strange! Could this be because Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage is about to appear? So the heavens sent down the tribulations? No, this won't do, I don't have any Immortal Gu, I can't stay here, foolishly facing the tribulation, I need to leave this dangerous place before thinking of anything else!"
The moment he thought of this, Gua Lao turned into a ray of light, as he flew away.
"This guy ran quite quickly!" Ye Qing Tang sneered, proudly floating in the air with his hands behind his back. Dark flying frost was strong, but he could still deal with it.
However, many rank six Gu Immortals started imitating Gua Lao.
Most of these people were bottom tier Gu Immortals, with no Immortal Gu, and injuries all over their bodies.
However, at the next moment, Gua Lao's figure suddenly appeared in the center of the Gu Immortals.
He was stunned, how could he appear here?
Shortly afterwards, many more rank six Gu Immortals were also sent back, appearing beside Gua Lao.
"Ambush! Someone has set a huge space path Gu formation in the surroundings!" Soon, a Gu Immortal reacted and shouted in shock.
Rank eight auras burst out, Peng Shi Long's eyes let out a ferocious light as they gazed all around: "Who is it, come out!"
"Hehehe...." With a sinister laugh, Old Man Yan Shi appeared with over ten black robed Gu Immortals, encircling the Southern Border Gu Immortals.
Old Man Yan Shi was at the back, his hand pointing towards the sky: "Everyone, a word of advice, the third tribulation is already here."
Everyone looked up, the sky was packed with lion groups.
Desolate beast, qi grand lion!
These lions had qi path dao marks and could innately fly.
There were over six thousand qi grand lions, the rank six Gu Immortals turned deathly pale.
Rank eight Gu Immortal Jia Yi shouted in fury: "Such little things! Get lost!!"
He waved his sleeve, and a wild wind started blowing.
Giant wind sickles, numbering in tens of thousands, shot in every direction.
The lion group howled in pain, severely injured by the wind sickles, many even died on the spot. The corpses were cut in thousands of pieces, blood started to rain down majestically from the sky, mixed in it were countless bone fragments and crushed flesh.
"Berserk Wind Jia Yi, you are truly mighty!" Old Man Yan Shi lightly smiled, freely giving praise.
Jia Yi, however, frowned. He had sent most of the wind sickles towards Old Man Yan Shi, but the wind sickles were blocked by a Gu formation and were completely destroyed, while the Gu formation only rippled and had suffered no damage, its defensive prowess was beyond imagination.
"Who are these people, what are they aiming for?"
"Scheming against us, they really are audacious, they are seeking death."
"You dare to oppose Gu Immortals of the whole of Southern Border!"
The Gu Immortals shouted and cursed, while having doubts in their mind.
Time did not permit for them to wait for the response of Shadow Sect, a tribulation was descending again!
Roar——!
A majestic dragon's cry resounded throughout the surroundings.
Cloud of fire spanned ten thousand li of distance, and started pressing downwards.
"Four inferno clouds tribulation!" Someone shouted.
"Careful, I have faced this four inferno clouds tribulation, it has four layers in total. Each layer above is much more ferocious than the one below." A fire path Gu Immortal warned.
"Block it!"
"There is also the dragon roar tribulation, this is two tribulations at once!"
"Protect surrounding Gu Immortals, maintain our strength!"
The Gu Immortals shouted one after another, as they worked together to face these tribulations.
"A typical four inferno clouds tribulation covers at most a hundred li, why is this so large?" At Yi Tian Mountain, Fang Yuan also watched with shock.
The clouds drawn in earlier could block the vision of mortal Gu Masters, but could not obstruct Fang Yuan's gaze.
He felt extremely uneasy.
"I seem to have entered a huge trap. These black robed Gu Immortals are extremely similar to the Shadow Sect Gu Immortals that Hei Lou Lan had described. They actually dared to scheme against so many Southern Border Gu Immortals, what are they trying to do?! It seems these tribulations are not because someone is undergoing tribulation, but their own handiwork."
With Old Man Yan Shi at the lead, Shadow Sect's immortals had constructed a giant Gu formation that completely trapped the Southern Border Gu Immortals.
The Southern Border Gu Immortals wanted to escape and tried to break the Gu formation, but their efforts showed no results, thus they could only face the bombardment of the tribulations.
As time passed, the strength of the tribulations became more terrifying, soon even rank seven Gu Immortals felt difficulty.
After another three waves, rank eight Gu Immortals also struggled to cope, their expressions looked unsightly.
It was not that they had not tried breaking the formation, but their attempts had failed.
"Hold back this tribulation, let me do it!" Peng Shi Long decided, activating his trump card.
Waves of light scattered with imposing momentum, but Shadow Sect's Gu formation only shook three times before stabilizing again.
"What Gu formation is this?!" The Southern Border Gu Immortals' hearts sank to rock bottom, they were unable to hide their worries.
The tribulations came in succession, and the time interval between each wave became shorter and shorter. Different kinds of tribulations poured down like an endless rainstorm.
The Gu Immortals gradually defended more and attacked less, losing the initiative.
"Persevere!" Jia Yi shouted, "We still have a chance! The tribulations are coming against us continuously, but it is also affecting the surrounding Gu formation."
The immortals felt a surge of morale.
Despite the fact that some rank six Gu Immortals were already dead, the remaining immortals did not give up.
They held on bitterly, retaining hope.
Once the Gu formation was destroyed by the tribulation, they could escape with their lives.
The situation of the battlefield was observed by Old Man Yan Shi, he saw all the changes clearly.
"Wu Xie." He softly called.
Behind him, a young man stood up.
He had wavy black hair that draped down to his shoulders. His eyes shined with countless lights of all kind of colors, forming a vortex that was slowly but constantly spiralling.
He had a tall nose bridge, the contours of his lips were like knife carvings, and when they were closed, they gave off a cruel and demonic charm. However, right now, he was concentrating on the sky, his lips opened wide as a smile filled his face, revealing white teeth, unexpectedly appearing somewhat... silly.
"Wu Xie." Hearing no response behind him, Old Man Yan Shi called again.
"Ah, you called for me, I was looking at the fireworks." The young Gu Immortal responded with a smile.
Old Man Yan Shi gave a bitter smile: "This is not a simple display of fireworks, these are tribulations, although they look beautiful, they contain fatal danger. These are all the work of heaven's will, it is attempting to destroy us, it is our greatest enemy."
The young Gu Immortal immediately revealed an earnest and serious look: "Ah, so it is like that. Then tell heaven's will to come out, I will take it down!"
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Old Man Yan Shi sighed: "Heaven's will is not a physical enemy, it is everywhere, vast and boundless. As long as the five regions and nine heavens exist, heaven's will is eternal. Even if you destroy a portion of heaven's will, at the same time, another portion of heaven's will would be created."
The young Gu Immortal was stupefied: "Then, then what do we do?"
"What we are doing is defying heaven, so heaven's will is our greatest enemy. After a hundred thousand years of preparation, we are going to unleash an explosive strike. There is a common saying: man proposes, heaven disposes. But right now, we will be taking action all of a sudden, catching heaven's will unprepared, this can be considered to be man winning against heaven!"
While Old Man Yan Shi spoke to Wu Xie, he pointed with his finger: "The ten extreme immortal zombie lifeless formation we set up has already entrapped all the Southern Border Gu Immortals nearby. But only a small portion of this formation has been set, it cannot even display one-tenth of its might. The tribulations are constantly affecting the Gu formation, the formation won't last long at this rate."
"Next, I and some other Gu Immortals will sacrifice our souls in setting up this formation. With this, the formation can display ninety percent of its might, only lacking a step for completion. The Southern Border Gu Immortals will have no more chance to escape."
"So powerful!" The young Gu Immortal stared with wide opened eyes, looking blankly.
Old Man Yan Shi continued in a serious tone: "After I die, you will be the strongest of us. You need to remember, you were born from a dream realm, and only have eighteen hours of lifespan in total. Every two hours, your cultivation will rise by one rank. Right now, you have just advanced to rank seven, your lifespan only has four hours remaining. The stronger you become, the closer your death approaches. When you advance to rank nine, no one can defend from even one attack of yours!"
"Rank nine is so powerful?" The young Gu Immortal had a look of ignorance.
Old Man Yan Shi chuckled: "Of course. Rank nine is the limit in the whole world, it is the highest summit, this world cannot have rank ten, so rank nine is the strongest!"
"I can only live for four hours, isn't the time too short? After four hours, will I die? Death, what is it?" The young Gu Immortal asked questions one after another.
Old Man Yan Shi patiently explained: "Everything has been planned properly, four hours is more than enough. Should the plan fail, even if you live longer it won't change the outcome."
"As for death..."
Old Man Yan Shi paused, before speaking slowly with a quiet and deep voice: "Death is the end of life, and is also the beginning of life."
The young Gu Immortal scratched his head, not fully understanding this.
Old Man Yan Shi took a deep breath, his emaciated, aged body trembled in the wind, as if he would be blown away the next moment.
He gazed far away.
His eyes did not have whites, they were pitch black, but right now countless inverted images emerged in them.
In the inverted images were Fang Yuan, Bai Ning Bing, the ten extreme immortal zombie lifeless formation, Heavenly Court's Gu Immortals, Southern Border Gu Immortals, Yi Tian Mountain, Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage...
"It's time." Old Man Yan Shi spoke, "But before I die, I will use my remaining lifespan to deduce for you. Remember my words, they will provide huge help to you."
After he finished speaking, Old Man Yan Shi's life force started to quickly weaken.
The next moment, he suddenly opened his eyes, for the first time his face showed bewilderment, seemingly being puzzled and terrified of the result of the deduction.
He turned his head with difficulty, and looked at the childlike Gu Immortal with an extremely complicated gaze.
His lips squirmed a few times, before he finally let out several words: "One of... us... be careful... failure..."
He revealed the heavenly secret with extreme difficulty, his body started turning into powder while he spoke, dissipating in the wind.
When he said 'failure', he had no more time remaining, he completely dissipated and unraveled.
His soul was absorbed by the formation, completely merging in an instant.
Not only Old Man Yan Shi, a number of Shadow Sect's Gu Immortals also sacrificed themselves, their souls merging with the formation.
Ninety percent — Ten Extreme Immortal Zombie Lifeless Formation!
A vast radiance suddenly soared to the sky.
At this moment, even the mighty heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities seemed to dim and lose their luster.
The radiance was so dazzling, all the Southern Border Gu Immortals had to tightly close their eyes.
The radiance passed in an instant and the Southern Border Gu Immortals quickly opened their eyes.
The entire area was covered by a gigantic Gu formation.
Ten Gu Immortals stood in the air, separated from each other, standing at the outermost periphery, seemingly encircling the group of Southern Border Gu Immortals.
Among them, nine Gu Immortals wore black robes, their appearances covered under their hoods, veiled in mystery.
The last one was the young Gu Immortal, Ying Wu Xie. He looked all around him with curiosity. After all, he had begun life just fourteen hours ago, it was understandable he had a mindset of exploring the novelty of this world.
"What is going on?"
"What happened? This Gu formation has suddenly become much more powerful!"
Previously, under the bombardment of the tribulations, the formation had already been swaying unstably, but now it appeared like a giant reef at the seaside, unbreakable by the storm, standing firm and stable like a mountain.
Sensing this situation, the hearts of the Southern Border Gu Immortals sank.
Rank eight Gu Immortal Ren Hai Yang stopped protecting the rank six Gu Immortals, and chose a direction to attack the ten extreme immortal zombie lifeless formation.
"Merely putting up a facade, die!" He shouted as he clapped his hands, a giant tsunami rose from thin air, the water was incomparably vast, with a roaring sound, it fiercely charged towards a black robed Gu Immortal.
"Protect him!" The other three rank eight Gu Immortals exerted themselves to block the tribulations overhead, protecting Ren Hai Yang.
With their help, Ren Hai Yang had less pressure on him, he laughed heartily as he stopped holding back and activated his immortal essence again.
Waves after waves erupted, giving a feeling of covering the sky and the sun, as if an ancient beast had opened its mouth to devour heaven and earth!
Wu Xie wanted to go help, but was stopped by a black robed Gu Immortal beside him: "Stay at the formation core where you're located, don't move recklessly. He can deal with it."
Sure enough, the mysterious Gu Immortal who faced the tsunami, suddenly sent out a burst of flames that soared to the sky.
In an instant, with the black robed Gu Immortal at the center, the surroundings turned into a seething world of lava.
Waves over thirty meters in height smashed into the formation, and evaporated into white vapor.
Whoosh...!
Immediately afterwards, the fire roared as it spread quickly, the intense temperature clearing up the vapor in an instant.
"Such power... I almost cannot control it!" The black robed Gu Immortal was pleasantly surprised.
He stood proudly in the center of the lava, the black robe on him was already mostly destroyed, revealing his true appearance.
Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk, he recognized this person.
The Southern Border Gu Immortals also exclaimed in surprise: "You actually are a ten extreme immortal zombie — Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance!"
This person was precisely the Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance zombie that had participated in the hundred days battle and had successfully escaped. After he was captured by Old Ancestor Xue Hu, he was then saved by Blazing Heaven Demoness and others sent by Zombie Alliance.
Who could have thought he would actually appear here!
"Could it be that the party scheming against the Southern Border Gu Immortals is Zombie Alliance? That can't be! If it were Zombie Alliance, it would be impossible for Blazing Heaven Demoness to not know of it. Perhaps..."
Shadow Sect!
These two words suddenly jumped into Fang Yuan's mind.
Fang Yuan's whole body shuddered, the situation was becoming worse. His own circumstances were actually similar to the Southern Border Gu Immortals, he was also trapped here.
Ren Hai Yang's attack failed and he could only discontentedly retreat.
The tribulations from the sky rained down like a storm, not only did they not halt for even a moment, their power also continued to grow greater.
The air was mixed with constant sounds of shouting and screaming.
The rank eight Gu Immortals could hardly look after themselves, many bottom tier rank six had already lost their lives.
These Gu Immortals, who stood high and mighty above the masses under normal circumstances, were as weak as chicks and pups in front of the tribulations.
Many of the rank seven Gu Immortals could only be carried along by the tide, like a small raft in a stormy sea, they had no control over their circumstances and with any slight carelessness, they could be swallowed by the waves.
The tribulations were very difficult to face, but the ten extreme immortal zombie lifeless formation firmly withstood them all and was unshakeable, while the Southern Border Gu Immortals were in a predicament.
At this juncture of life and death, they let go of any previous enmity and collaborated.
They soon realized their only remaining path to survival.
That was the Immortal Gu House Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage!
This Immortal Gu House had extraordinary defensive strength, it could block the vast and boundless tribulations, and protect the Gu Immortals.
At the same time, the Immortal Gu House's offensive prowess was also the most suitable weapon to break through the ten extreme immortal zombie lifeless formation.
The Immortal Gu House Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage that lay deep under the earth was the hope of the Southern Border Gu Immortals!
Although the forbidden zone made it extremely difficult for the Southern Border Gu Immortals to approach in person, it did not damage Immortal Gu. Though the powers of Immortal Gu were weakened greatly in there, they still surpassed the vast majority of mortal methods.
"Combine our strength to bombard Yi Tian Mountain and get hold of Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage!" Gu Immortal Jia Yi shouted.
However, the only remaining ones who still had such ample strength left were the four rank eight Gu Immortals.
The rank seven Gu Immortals, dodging and defending desperately from the tribulations, had no energy to spare.
The four rank eights attacked furiously, but it did not affect Yi Tian Mountain.
The thick layer of clouds above Yi Tian Mountain had been infused with the power of the ten extreme immortal zombie lifeless formation, and could defend from the powerful attacks.
It absorbed all the attacks, clouds and fog surged intensely for a while before it was calm again.
The four rank eight Gu Immortals' efforts showed no results.
Their eyes shone with a ferocious light, they clenched their teeth as they attacked without stop, their expressions gradually turned frantic.
On Yi Tian Mountain, it was still a scene of serenity.
Mortals were all kept in the dark, knowing nothing about the blood-curdling scene above them.
So long as a fraction of the tribulations leaked out, they could destroy Yi Tian Mountain completely, and all the mortal Gu Masters would turn into dust.
Fang Yuan gazed at the sky heavily.
"Was there such a situation in my previous life as well? None of us knew death was right above us. Calm down, calm down!"
Fang Yuan took a few deep breaths, and forcibly dispelled his nervousness and unease, before starting to think.
The shocking and enormous action taken by Shadow Sect schemed against the Southern Border Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan was also trapped within and could not extricate himself.
"Although Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan have joined this gamble, they are currently in Xiao Hun blessed land, using Luo Po valley to cultivate their souls. This Gu formation cuts off links between the inside and outside, it even restricts all my communication methods!"
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"Even if I still had self strength Immortal Gu, rank seven battle strength is simply not enough in this situation. The top priority now is still Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage. The Southern Border Gu Immortals outside the forbidden zone already have no hope of taking this Immortal Gu House. But I still have a chance!"
"Only with the help of Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage will I have hope of escaping! Otherwise, I can only use Spring Autumn Cicada."
Fang Yuan thought rapidly, the only chance in front of him was to become the new owner of Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage!
He had Fixed Immortal Travel.
But this Immortal Gu was in his immortal aperture.
The aura of Immortal Gu could be easily detected, and they could only be kept safe when stored within an aperture.
However, Fang Yuan had already sealed his immortal aperture.
If Fang Yuan were to break the restriction of the forbidden zone, he would be destroyed at the first moment. He simply would not be able to last three breaths of time to activate Fixed Immortal Travel.
However, Spring Autumn Cicada was not under this seal.
Spring Autumn Cicada was Fang Yuan's first vital Gu, it had long ago been placed under a different seal in his first aperture.
After all this time, Spring Autumn Cicada had already recovered for the most part, and even though it was heavily sealed, it was already giving huge pressure to Fang Yuan's first aperture.
Prior to this trip, it was not that Fang Yuan had not considered sealing Fixed Immortal Travel and other Immortal Gu in his first aperture just in case something happened.
But it simply got nowhere.
The aperture could store some mortal Gu, but containing a second Immortal Gu was impossible.
"Even with Fixed Immortal Travel, I am afraid..." Fang Yuan's gaze pierced through the cloud layer, falling upon the ten extreme immortal zombie lifeless formation, his breathing turned somewhat rough.
Among the Southern Border Gu Immortals, there were space path Gu Immortals as well as space path immortal killer moves. But none of them were able to do anything.
Clearly, this formation restricted space path as well, its defense was extremely tight, with no loopholes that could be exploited!
Gu Immortals continued to die miserably under the tribulations.
The four rank eight Gu Immortals were also injured, they knew that the longer this continued, the lower their chances, they had no choice but to work together and break through simultaneously.
"You are all flies trapped in a web, where can you escape?" A black robed Gu Immortal Gu blocking their way sneered, his aura was surging as his hood swayed.
"Northern Dark Ice Soul!" Peng Shi Long shouted in shock.
Frost energy spread rapidly, a crystalline ice wall that was dozens of meters tall spanned in front of them all.
While the four immortals were obstructed, a lightning strike smashed down on them!
"Snow war tribulation lightning!"
Typical snow war tribulation lightning was already one of the ten great catastrophes. But this tribulation lightning in front of them had multiple bolts branching out, its might over dozens of times stronger!
When it rains, it pours, the four immortals did not dare to face such lightning head on. Among them, one activated a time path killer move to slow down the lightning, which gave the four immortals time to move away.
The snow war tribulation lightning continued on its path, as it struck the Northern Dark Ice Soul immortal zombie's crystalline ice wall.
A huge hole was pierced through the icy wall, the Northern Dark Ice Soul immortal zombie snorted as he suffered minor injuries.
"Heaven's will!" The Northern Dark Ice Soul immortal zombie stared fiercely at the sky.
The four Southern Border rank eight Gu Immortals changed their direction, towards another area of the Gu formation.
"You shall not pass." The black robed Gu Immortal located here, chuckled.
Boom!
Both sides attacked each other, they fought for a long time, but they were evenly matched.
The four immortals were obstructed and their momentum was halted, but the black robed Gu Immortal also did not have it easy.
"Carefree Wisdom Heart Physique!"
This was another immortal zombie of the ten extreme physiques.
"You... you are Shang clan's Shang Gui Cai!"
Peng Shi Long frowned, recognizing the black robed Gu Immortal's identity.
"Shang clan's first supreme elder and I have a close friendship. As a member of Shang clan, you actually joined a demonic organization, bringing disaster to the world! A prodigal son who returns is immeasurably precious, you still have time to repent! Otherwise, if this leads to catastrophe, you will implicate your clan as well."
The black robed Gu Immortal sneered with disdain: "What do you understand? Shang Gui Cai is just an identity I used after soul replacement, what is mere Shang clan? How can it compare to my great plan?!"
Boom!
A lightning bolt of the tribulation struck the four immortals, causing them to be on the verge of collapsing.
"Don't bother with him, let's change to another direction!"
"Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance, Northern Dark Ice Soul, Carefree Wisdom Heart... the ten extreme physiques that one seldom sees in a hundred years are actually appearing one after the other, I am afraid this is not a coincidence."
"This Gu formation should be using the ten extreme physiques to garner such huge power!"
"That means he is the only flaw!!"
After they were thwarted by the Carefree Wisdom Heart immortal zombie, the four immortals quickly communicated and fixed their gazes at the young Gu Immortal Ying Wu Xie.
Among all the Gu Immortals present, he was the most peculiar.
He was alive, and at the same time, his aura revealed he did not have one of the ten extreme physiques.
The four immortals bore heavy injuries as they charged towards Ying Wu Xie.
Ying Wu Xie's heart was thumping, he thought frantically: "What to do? What to do? They are coming over!"
"Don't be nervous, use your most proficient method." The black robed Gu Immortal beside him immediately reminded.
"I am not nervous, I am not nervous!" Ying Wu Xie took a deep breath, his breathing, however, was rushed.
But as the four immortals neared him, Ying Wu Xie thought of the scene when he was born.
He had been born from a dream realm.
When he opened his eyes, the first person he saw was Old Man Yan Shi.
Old Man Yan Shi had chuckled when sizing him up with his black eyes, his tone hardly concealing his happiness: "Good, good, good. Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique, you are the greatest accomplishment of my dream path research! Since Bo Qing is dead, you will replace him, becoming our greatest strength in suppressing the situation."
"Who are you, who am I?" Ying Wu Xie curiously asked.
"I am you, and you are me. I am Old Man Yan Shi, and you... shall be called Ying Wu Xie." Old Man Yan Shi chuckled.
He then lightly waved his arm, countless thoughts were transferred into Ying Wu Xie's mind.
Ying Wu Xie felt information flowing into the depths of his mind — time is limited, I can only impart an immortal killer move to you. Although it doesn't have any killing power, it is the pinnacle of dream path achievement currently in the five regions, at the forefront of this era. Even those Heavenly Court Gu Immortals are far behind. As the saying goes: 'When you have the skill, you can eat your fill'! Learn it properly, when you become a Gu Immortal, I will give you a complete set of Gu worms for you to speed up your practice at that time!
...
The recollection stopped, the four immortals had already neared him. Among them, Berserk Wind Jia Yi was at the lead!
Ying Wu Xie's eyes suddenly let out a sharp light.
He slowly spoke, like he was reciting: "Immortal killer move — Lead! Soul! Into! Dream!"
The four immortals slowed down sharply, and were extremely vigilant, as if they were facing a powerful foe.
However, there was no movement even after several breaths of time.
"Kid, you actually dared to trick us!" Peng Shi Long was about to attack in fury.
Right at this time, the rank eight Gu Immortal Jia Yi, however, began to fall down.
"What's going on?" Just when Peng Shi Long and the rest were bewildered, the ten extreme immortal zombie lifeless formation sent out an incomparably swift attack at Jia Yi.
Jia Yi made no movement, the layers of heavy defense over his whole body began to slowly dissipate.
The remaining three immortals quickly moved to block the Gu formation's attack.
Jia Yi was still falling.
Zzz... Zzz...
He had actually fallen asleep!
"That kid's behind this!!" Ren Hai Yang was grim and frantic.
The enemy was only a rank seven Gu Immortal, but Jia Yi was struck by his immortal killer move, putting up no resistance!
What's more, the layers of defense over his whole body showed no effects!
What killer move was this?!
"Careful!" Peng Shi Long exclaimed.
Another form of tribulation lightning descended, this time, countless bolts of falling star lightning struck at the speed of light, reaching the Southern Border Gu Immortals in an instant.
In this wave of tribulation, most of the Southern Border Gu Immortals lost their lives.
Even the rank eight Gu Immortal Jia Yi, renowned as Berserk Wind for hundreds of years, was turned into countless pieces by the falling star lightning.
Peng Shi Long and the others were not even able to take care of themselves, they simply had no time to save him.
"We are finished!" The three rank eight Gu Immortals started to despair.
Ying Wu Xie was indeed the flaw in the formation, but his battle strength far surpassed the imaginations of the three immortals.
This unprecedented dream path killer move directly sent Jia Yi into deep sleep, unable to wake up.
Jia Yi died, the remaining three immortals' momentum immediately slowed, and their hopes of breaking through became miniscule.
"Hold on!" On Yi Tian Mountain, Fang Yuan, who had been observing the battlefield, also started to feel anxious.
Even if he became the owner of Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage, with just his strength, it would be hard to activate the enormous Immortal Gu House. It would be like a lone person controlling a battleship, it would be extremely difficult for him to make use of it.
So, he had to ally with the Southern Border Gu Immortals.
The more Gu Immortals in the Immortal Gu House, the more immortal essence would be consumed, the more power the Immortal Gu House could unleash. Just with Fang Yuan alone, it would be impossible to increase the Immortal Gu House's strength to the level where it could break through the formation.
Time passed, the three rank eight Gu Immortals were extremely exhausted, let alone the few remaining rank seven Gu Immortals who were fleeing desperately from the tribulations.
When Ren Hai Yang perished under the tribulations, the remaining two rank eights had lost all hope.
"It's over now!" Fang Yuan exhaled painfully, "Sigh, now I can only continue with my disguise and hope I won't be discovered..."
But right when the rank seven and rank six Gu Immortals had all died, with only the two rank eight Gu Immortals remaining, Yi Tian Mountain suddenly began to shake.
Soon, the tremor increased rapidly.
The earth was shaking!
"What's going on?" The tremor attracted the gazes of the two rank eight Gu Immortals.
"Could it be that Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage has been obtained by you?" The two rank eight Gu Immortals said to each other with strange tones.
Both were stupefied, realizing it was not due to them.
Fang Yuan's body shook, he had yet to refine the Immortal Gu House, so who was it?
Boom!
Boulders cracked, the ground opened up, and from the huge rift jumped out a figure.
The Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie!
He had actually gotten free of the Immortal Gu House's suppression, and flew to the sky!
However, before Fang Yuan and the others could react, a cold snort resounded throughout the scene: "You want to escape fate in front of us? Die!"
A beam of light shot down from the sky.
Rank nine Immortal Gu House — Heaven Overseeing Tower!
Heavenly Court immortals had arrived.
The pure white beam of light was extremely terrifying, breaking apart the ten extreme formation like snapping a rotten branch. The two Southern Border rank eights were immediately exterminated.
"Damn it!" The rank eight Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie was not able to dodge, and could only roar in extreme unwillingness as he was turned into fine powder by the beam of light.
The beam of light continued its path as it shot down onto Yi Tian Mountain.
"Am I going to die...." Fang Yuan raised his head and clenched his teeth, all the muscles in his body tensed.
A rank nine Immortal Gu House's full power attack, he had no way to defend from it.
He only had one remaining trump card — Spring Autumn Cicada!
At the next moment, Fang Yuan self-detonated.
It failed!
Spring Autumn Cicada was carrying Fang Yuan's will and had just entered the river of time when it suddenly crumbled, exploding into countless tiny fragments.
Fang Yuan was dead!
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Legend says there was a river in this world.
It connected the beginning and the end, it had hidden causes and effects, flowing to every part in the world, it was everywhere.
With its irrigation, the world could operate normally and all things were able to change.
This river was called the river of time.
This was a secluded domain of heaven and earth, a place where time path flourished, and countless time path Gu worms lived and propagated.
The endless river flowed wantonly without pause.
The river was vast and boundless, its tides rose and fell along with the surging waves.
Each drop of the water of time was pale and colorless, but innumerable droplets of water crashed, intertwined, collided, and spun all the time, giving off a brilliant show of lights.
These brilliant lights were in all kinds of shapes and colors, and were hard to put into words. Fang Yuan felt this was one of the most beautiful sights in the world.
When the rank nine Immortal Gu House, Heaven Overseeing Tower, sent out the attack which it had prepared for a long time, Fang Yuan was like a bystander that had been implicated, unable to avoid it.
His only remaining option was to activate Spring Autumn Cicada.
However, the rank six Spring Autumn Cicada had a huge flaw. There was a chance of failure every time it was used!
At Qing Mao Mountain, Fang Yuan successfully activated it once.
At San Cha mountain, Fang Yuan successfully activated it again.
If his previous life of five hundred years was counted, then Fang Yuan had already successfully activated Spring Autumn Cicada three times.
Now, he had finally failed.
Spring Autumn Cicada's activation failed.
Although his will entered the river of time, at the moment of activation, Spring Autumn Cicada self-detonated, turning into countless fragments.
Fang Yuan's will was like a baby that had lost the small boat it was in and was drowning.
The surging river of time would engulf and destroy Fang Yuan's will in an instant, not even a trace would remain.
"In the end, I still failed..."
At the moment of death, Fang Yuan's remaining will was strangely tranquil.
There was no worry, no discontent, and no regret.
When he had first chosen this path, he had already expected the situations that could occur, the situation right now had already been within Fang Yuan's consideration.
He could do nothing now.
He had already done everything he could.
"If a chance was given to me again, I would still choose to live this way. Hehehe, so be it, my story as a Gu Immortal shall end here. Although I did not leave behind any biography or inheritance, but... it doesn't matter."
Fang Yuan's will was quickly dissipating.
He was tranquil, even feeling happy in a way.
If he still had a face, the corners of his lips would probably be curled up into a smile right now.
Dying while pursuing one's goal, what regrets could he have?
"Hehehe... hmm?"
Fang Yuan's laughter abruptly stopped, a strange change was occurring at this moment.
From the remote and grand river of time, a ghost face suddenly came out.
The ghost face first looked at Fang Yuan's remaining will and made faces, seemingly in silent mockery.
Then, the pitch-black ghost face's cheeks swelled up, its expression seemed like one of extreme suffering, like it was going to vomit.
A giant flower bud, dripping wet, came out from the ghost face's mouth.
The ghost face's mouth almost ripped apart, its lips had stretched to an exaggerated degree, even reaching its ears.
After vomiting out the flower bud, the ghost face relaxed before starting to make faces at Fang Yuan again, it was amusingly comical, but at the same time was a ghastly and terrifying smiling expression.
And that flower bud started to slowly blossom in the river.
Time seemed to have stopped at that moment.
In the blink of an eye, the flower bud opened, turning into an enchanting red lotus!
From the center of the lotus shot out a slightly red light ray that landed at the area where Spring Autumn Cicada had shattered, the time in the red light began to turn back.
At the same time, the ghost face that had carried the red lotus slowly sank down into the river.
Like a movie being played backwards, everything began to go backwards.
As if water spilled from a basin was returning.
Fang Yuan's will had almost completely dissipated, the scant few bits remaining were negligible. But under the illumination of the red light, his will began to rapidly restore and countless Gu worm fragments also began to appear.
And when these Gu worm fragments joined together, they turned into an intact Spring Autumn Cicada!
Spring Autumn Cicada carried Fang Yuan's restored will, and began to set on its path again.
The red light dissipated, the red lotus immediately scattered, and that ghost face also had been completely washed down into the endlessly surging river of time.
It was as if everything had been an illusion.
However, Spring Autumn Cicada was already forcibly restored.
It carried Fang Yuan's will, carrying Fang Yuan's remaining hopes as it flowed in the river.
Flowing backwards....
Returning to the past!
...
Star Form blessed land.
Poisonous fog was spreading, poisonous blood was boiling, three layers of Gu formations were already destroyed by corrosion, the surrounding land turned into a thin layer of poisonous swampland.
Fang Yuan's face was stern.
"Next is the most troublesome and difficult to process immortal material, earthly limit astral qi."
He took out an immortal material and held it in his hands.
This Gu refinement material was very peculiar, it was made up of soil and qi. They gathered into a lump.
At the top was light azure colored astral qi, below was black soil.
Astral qi was the heaven qi found up in the nine heavens. Outside the immemorial nine heavens was a thick wall of astral qi. If a Gu Immortal wanted to explore the nine heavens, they would need to break through the astral qi wall.
Meanwhile, the black soil was made up of the essence of earth qi condensed from the ten depths.
Heaven and earth qi could not coexist, but at this moment, this earthly limit astral qi was joined together in harmony. Not only were they existing peacefully, they were converting into one another constantly. Black soil turned into astral qi while astral qi turned into black soil.
Fang Yuan shook it by moving his hands rapidly, as this lump of earthly limit astral qi melted, fusing with the black soil and becoming a lump of fog.
But after shaking, after a dozen breaths, the black soil sank while the astral qi stayed on top. Black and white was separated again, the two were rotating, it was a mystical sight.
"Processing such an immortal material is most troublesome. Ordinary refinement path killer moves cannot deal with it perfectly. Only the four publicly recognized strongest immortal killer moves to deal with immortal materials — slumbering lightning python, reflect snow, muffled thunder stone drum, and wind grind, can complete this step instantly. Unfortunately, I do not have any of these four immortal killer moves, to process the earthly limit astral qi, I can only put in much time and effort."
Fang Yuan's thoughts flashed as he moved his feet, his huge body shot into the air, he leaped and jumped into the turtle shell, into the poisonous blood.
Boom!
Fang Yuan flashed his sharp nails, causing injuries on his six monstrous arms, he next slashed at his chest, back, and other areas, creating openings on his skin.
Blood refinement killer move — Blood Trace Travel.
From these injuries, traces of blood appeared.
The blood traces quickly fused into the dark purple poisonous blood, the poisonous blood in the turtle shell was drawn away, it moved into Fang Yuan's wounds.
Intense pain assaulted him, Fang Yuan snorted.
Immortal zombies did not have a sense of pain, Fang Yuan could feel pain because he used Gu worm methods. He needed to feel pain so that he could know what step the immortal materials were at.
Fang Yuan's blood and the poisonous blood in the turtle shell acting as a pot continued to fuse and circulate, they were entering and exiting Fang Yuan's body.
After this process stabilized, Fang Yuan took out the earthly limit astral qi and swallowed it.
Gulp, the earthly limit astral qi entered his stomach.
This was his own original method, created in his previous life, an abnormal technique using blood path to refine Gu. He called this the flesh body blood refinement technique.
The earthly limit astral qi entered his body, it was engulfed by the blood and slowly melted into the blood.
Blood flowed out of Fang Yuan's body through the wounds, into the turtle shell pot, and sank to the bottom.
At the same time, the other poisonous blood in the pot flowed into Fang Yuan's body through the wounds, engulfing the earthly limit astral qi again.
Time slowly passed, three days and two nights later.
Fang Yuan was covered in wounds, the pain made his face distorted, his eight monstrous arms were inserted into the poisonous blood, his fangs were exposed and his eyes were red, he was breathing heavily like an ox.
"Still... still a night remaining, I need to completely process all the earthly limit astral qi in my body... as long as I can get past this step, the most difficult part of refining change form Immortal Gu would be over... uh!"
Suddenly, Fang Yuan's pained expression stiffened.
Under his deep frowning expression, his bright eyes suddenly showed confusion, almost losing all their luster.
When refining Immortal Gu, one had to maintain high degrees of concentration, how could he be allowed to be distracted?
Pff—!
He immediately spat out a large mouthful of poisonous blood.
Shortly afterwards, he fell down heavily in the poisonous blood in the giant turtle shell, raising a huge wave of blood.
The bloody wave splashed out of the turtle shell, into the grassland; soon, a large patch of healthy green grass turned into dark red smoke due to the corrosion.
"Master!" Star Form land spirit shouted worriedly, jumping into the turtle shell.
Suddenly, Fang Yuan's head emerged from the pool of blood.
He splashed around twice, before standing up.
The confusion on his face quickly disappeared, his gaze brimming with energy as he mumbled: "This is... this place?"
Hearing Fang Yuan's mumbling, Star Form land spirit became even more worried: "Did master lose his mind because of the refinement failure?"
Fang Yuan gazed at his hands first, then swept through the turtle shell and the blood pool, before finally stopping on Star Form land spirit.
"What time is it now?" Fang Yuan asked.
Star Form land spirit jolted inwardly, but still replied: "Many days have already passed since master began refining the Immortal Gu."
"Hahahaha..." Fang Yuan raised his head and laughed heartily.
Star Form land spirit felt bleak: "Oh no, master has lost his mind! After failing the Immortal Gu refinement, his body suffered heavy injuries, he has even forgotten the time, and is still laughing so happily!"
There was no need for Fang Yuan to tell others about the reason for his happiness.
"I have returned once again!"
"Despite the activation of Spring Autumn Cicada failing, because of a strange change, I returned to life from death, from defeat to victory, my will has once again returned to the past."
"I am still refining change form Immortal Gu... the time is over a year ago? This is actually so short!"
"According to my foundation and with so many Immortal Gu on me, I should have at least traveled several hundred years back. Is it because Spring Autumn Cicada failed to activate that I only returned to a point over a year ago?"
"Also, that ghost face and the red lotus, what was going on... what had happened?"
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The strange phenomenon in the river of time only occurred for a very short moment, but it was deeply etched into Fang Yuan's mind and left a lasting memory.
It was at the crucial moment between life and death, it was impossible to not have a clear memory of it!
Now, as he recalled that moment, Fang Yuan was filled with doubts.
"The ghost face and the red lotus, what do they mean? Why did I not come across this situation when I used Spring Autumn Cicada before? Does it occur only when Spring Autumn Cicada's activation fails? Or..."
Shaking his head, Fang Yuan stopped thinking about this mysterious subject.
He jumped out of the poisonous blood and flew out of the turtle shell.
"The injuries on me are heavy, and the sole success dao mark is now destroyed because of the Gu refinement failure, it is truly a pity."
Fang Yuan examined himself and soon noticed the aftereffects of this Gu refinement failure.
His body was filled with cracks, almost on the verge of falling apart. Such injuries would require months of recuperation before they could be mended.
Gu refinement in itself was a dangerous task, not unlike a heated battle.
Let alone when refining Immortal Gu!
This time, Fang Yuan had failed in Gu refinement because of his rebirth, suffering serious injuries was to be expected.
What made Fang Yuan feel even more regret was that the success dao mark, which he had obtained after painstaking efforts in the Refinement Path Convention and a difficult journey to reach the top ranks, was destroyed.
This gave Fang Yuan some insight.
"Previously, the reason I failed in refining star thought Immortal Gu was not because there was a problem in my method, but the subtle aspect of mutual fusion of the dao marks of each immortal material, which is not something one can control. This is one of the crucial reasons for the low success rate in refining Immortal Gu."
"The greatest use of success dao marks is to influence this aspect, to let the dao marks of the immortal materials fuse together and reach the standard for the Gu refinement. Thus, when I began refining Immortal Gu, the success dao mark was consumed, turning into a special type of immortal material that assisted in refinement."
"Last time, there was no mishap and I was able to refine change form Immortal Gu, the aid of the success dao mark was immeasurable. But this time, because of my rebirth, this highly likely refinement was messed up."
Thinking of this, Fang Yuan felt some irony.
It was not that with the success dao mark, the Gu refinement would succeed no matter how it was done.
If the Gu Master was purposely trying to fail, intentionally using wrong refinement methods, then it would be certain failure.
Success dao marks were not all-powerful.
Earlier, why did Fang Yuan intentionally choose Star Form blessed land to refine the Immortal Gu? It was because he was afraid of being disturbed by outside forces, which could cause the Gu refinement to fail.
Once the refinement failed, the immortal materials would be lost, injuries were a small matter, the main thing was that the success dao mark would also be destroyed.
Fang Yuan was reborn, and it just so happened to be during the process of refining change form Immortal Gu, this doomed him to failure.
Nothing could be done about it now. Last time, change form Immortal Gu had been refined successfully, but now it had failed.
"I have been reborn, and although I have the advantage of future knowledge, accurately speaking, it doesn't mean a path to success."
"But this rebirth gave me huge advantages. Losing a success dao mark is inconsequential!"
Fang Yuan soon sorted out his mood, and stabilized his mindset.
Fixed Immortal Travel!
Fang Yuan activated the Immortal Gu and returned to Hu Immortal blessed land.
In the past, he was anxious, but now he knew that there would still be a while before Central Continent made a breakthrough with the matter of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. He could be more at ease.
Although he had his previous life's experience, Fang Yuan had always been the one to consider everything before taking action. An impetuous person would absolutely be unable to reach his current stage.
How would he use the countless disorderly clues and his current resources to obtain the maximum benefits?
This was the main question Fang Yuan needed to consider.
An immortal zombie had slower thought processes, Fang Yuan stepped in the light of wisdom to ponder.
Compared to his previous life, his wisdom path attainment had already reached grandmaster level! He had even thought of a small Gu formation that could let him use the light of wisdom more efficiently and save a large amount of time.
In just half a day, Fang Yuan finished pondering over the question.
An immortal zombie did not need to eat or drink, although he was injured, Fang Yuan had to make use of every minute and second.
Fixed Immortal Travel!
He immediately activated this Immortal Gu to secretly return to Southern Border.
Using his methods, he removed most of the aura of the Immortal Gu, then he quietly approached Yi Tian Mountain.
Fang Yuan was familiar with the surrounding ten thousand li of Yi Tian Mountain.
In his previous life, an unprecedented gambling contest had been held on Yi Tian Mountain, Fang Yuan had also participated in it. As time passed, the range of the forbidden zone for immortals had continued to expand, and Fang Yuan had to constantly move farther away, along with the Southern Border Gu Immortals. Thus, he was very familiar with the scenery near Yi Tian Mountain.
Yi Tian Mountain!
At this moment, it was still only a nameless mountain peak.
Before Fang Yuan's arrival, there had just been rain over this mountain, the future Yi Tian Mountain was tall and beautiful, with lush trees and deep valleys. A rainbow appeared above and life seemed to brimming with vitality.
Fang Yuan gazed from afar, moving in carefully and full of expectations.
If Fang Yuan was asked what was it that enticed him the most after rebirth?
It was no doubt Yi Tian Mountain, under which was buried the Immortal Gu House Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage, and the suppressed rank eight Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie.
The significance of the latter to Fang Yuan did not need to be said.
"Although last time, this rank eight Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie had actually leaped out, getting rid of Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage's suppression, as long as I can successfully refine the Immortal Gu House and become its new owner, I can continue to suppress him!"
"If I can obtain Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage..." Fang Yuan licked his lips as he thought of this.
An Immortal Gu House was no small matter!
Immortal Gu Houses and ancient battle formations, they were the highest achievements of formation path.
Among them, ancient battle formations were gradually eliminated over the course of time, and Immortal Gu Houses had become mainstream.
Whether it be Southern Border, Northern Plains, Eastern Sea, Western Desert or Central Continent, all powerful super forces had at least one Immortal Gu House as their trump card. Like Hei tribe, Dark Prison was their symbol as well as a powerful trump card!
In Fang Yuan's previous life, after Dark Prison had been lost, to seize it back, even the four supreme elders of Hei tribe had risked going out and chasing Hei Cheng.
Dark Prison was only a rank six Immortal Gu House and Hei tribe had been so anxious to take it back.
The significance of Immortal Gu Houses could be seen from this.
And Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage, which was buried deep under Yi Tian Mountain, was not only of higher rank than Dark Prison, a mysterious Gu Immortal had used its power to forcibly challenge someone of a higher rank and succeeded in suppressing a rank eight expert, one who furthermore possessed the Great Strength True Martial Physique!
The value of Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage was clearly many times higher than Dark Prison!
"Thinking back to my previous life, the Profound Ice House used by Shark Demon and Su Bai Man was only an incomplete Immortal Gu House, but it could repeatedly break through the hindrance of the battlefield killer moves and escape. If I can obtain this Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage, even if I can't reach the level of moving unhindered in the world, in the future, when the truth is exposed and I am hunted down by Central Continent, Northern Plains and others, I can protect myself and intimidate other immortals!"
An Immortal Gu House was a fortress for battle, it did not have any shortcomings and covered all aspects of attack, defense, movement, healing and even assistance in cultivation.
It was structurally stable, and was easy to control.
A rank seven Immortal Gu House could be controlled by a rank six Gu Immortal as well.
However, Immortal Gu Houses had two major flaws, one was feeding and the second was immortal essence.
An Immortal Gu House was constructed from many Immortal Gu and vast numbers of mortal Gu, feeding these Gu worms was naturally extremely troublesome and a huge burden.
But Fang Yuan knew that Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage seemed to involve food path in its construction, and the feeding problem could be disregarded.
Next was the immortal essence.
To activate an Immortal Gu House, the amount of immortal essence consumed would be a gigantic number. Just with Fang Yuan's capability, he would not be able to bear it.
In his previous life, when Shark Demon had no choice but to activate Profound Ice House, all the immortal zombies had to share the burden of immortal essence consumption, and the amount of consumption had greatly distressed everyone.
The price to activate an Immortal Gu House was huge.
Because the amount of immortal essence consumed was extremely high.
Fang Yuan was now in a poor state, he had staked it all and used up all his assets to barely be able to gather one set of immortal materials for refining change form Immortal Gu.
And now, he had failed the refinement, losing most of the immortal materials, he had little money in possession.
Even though he had many rich income sources like the guts Gu trade, earning a thousand immortal essence stones every month, half of a year of accumulating this income would not be enough to activate the Immortal Gu House for even thirty seconds.
But none of these mattered!
Fang Yuan had very little green grape immortal essence, but he had large amounts of Giant Sun's immortal essence!
This could be traced back to Imperial Court blessed land.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was rank nine, the immortal essence he had left behind was the yellow apricot immortal essence that only rank nine venerables could form. The quality of this immortal essence was countless times greater than green grape immortal essence, the difference between the two was like the gap between heaven and earth.
Giant Sun's immortal essence could not be used by Fang Yuan himself, but the Immortal Gu House could absorb it.
Immortal Gu Houses could absorb immortal essence of others, otherwise Shark Demon and the other immortal zombies would not be able to combine their powers to activate Profound Ice House.
This was the fundamental characteristic of Immortal Gu House — integrating the power of a group of immortals into one!
Fang Yuan had thought of this in his previous life.
As far as he was concerned, Giant Sun's immortal essence was like water with a source or a tree without roots, the more it was used, the more it would be consumed, and it could not be replenished.
Thus, the even more economical method was to gather many Gu Immortals to serve as a source of labor in activating the Immortal Gu House.
Unfortunately, the Southern Border Gu Immortals had died too quickly.
Or one could say Fang Yuan was not able to make it in time.
Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage had yet to be refined by anyone when the Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie had broken out.
This was a huge pity.
"If I have Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage, I could resist even that beam of life that was about to kill me!" Fang Yuan had confidence.
Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage naturally was not Heaven Overseeing Tower's match, but Heaven Overseeing Tower's condition was not optimum, that light pillar's might had been reduced after being whittled down by the ten extreme immortal zombie lifeless formation.
With Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage, although he could not say 'with a house in hand, the world is mine', it was enough to say 'with a house in hand, advancing or retreating is up to me.'
'With a house in hand, the world is mine', the rank eight Eighty-Eight True Yang Building could be said to be one such example, it was specialized in plundering Gu worms, even Immortal Gu. The rank eight Refinement Cauldron was another one.
Compared to the Immortal Gu House Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage, self strength Immortal Gu, all-out effort Immortal Gu, star thought Immortal Gu, all of them seemed unimportant.
As long as he had the Immortal Gu House, with Giant Sun's immortal essence, Fang Yuan could use his rank six bottom tier cultivation level and immortal zombie body to forcibly fight rank eights, directly becoming one of the strongest experts!
"Just thinking about it gives me a bit of excitement." Fang Yuan carefully inspected his surroundings, and after confirming there was no one around, he immediately drilled into the ground, entering deep into the earth.
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"What's going on? Where is Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage?" Fang Yuan was filled with doubts and disappointment.
After he was reborn, he had almost immediately hurried to Yi Tian Mountain, thinking of getting this Immortal Gu House.
But when he searched under the ground, he discovered that Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage was simply not present, even that rank eight Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie could not be found.
"Could it be that there were other reasons behind the appearance of Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage? I came early, so the opportunity was not available?" Fang Yuan frowned as he pondered.
He had guessed correctly.
Previously, the reason Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage appeared was due to Bai Ning Bing.
He had activated a mysterious Immortal Gu, and this Immortal Gu had been given to him by Old Man Yan Shi.
Fang Yuan naturally did not know this detail, he also did not have this Immortal Gu, so he could not find any trace of Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage.
If Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage was simply buried under the ground, then it would probably have already been discovered by others. How would it remain up until now?
Without any other choice, Fang Yuan could only leave quietly.
He was unable to obtain Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage, as such, Fang Yuan had to modify his plans and put it aside for the moment, carrying out his other ideas first.
After moving a long distance from Yi Tian Mountain, Fang Yuan carefully activated Immortal Gu Fixed Immortal Travel.
The Immortal Gu's aura leaked, jade green radiance flashed.
The next moment, Fang Yuan disappeared from Southern Border, and appeared in that giant formation in Northern Plains' Earth Trench.
This giant formation was a space path formation, the space inside it was extremely large. In his previous life, Fang Yuan had used Fixed Immortal Travel to enter here.
In this life, he had once again used Fixed Immortal Travel to enter here, there were no mishaps or setbacks.
Moreover, this time, he directly entered the central area of the Gu formation.
This was a large, desolate land of purple sand.
In this desolate land, some rarely seen and extremely valuable immortal materials were spread.
His memories were still very clear, Fang Yuan did not even need to put in the effort to search, he directly ran to each key area and collected the immortal materials.
These immortal materials were of extremely high rank, they were basically all at rank eight and there were even some top quality rank eight materials with such dense dao marks that their light could be seen with naked eyes!
Like the tiger-striped honey bee's wings, the fragment of the immemorial desolate beast cloud phoenix's body...
Altogether, eighteen immortal materials ended up in Fang Yuan's hands once again.
He then moved to the middle of the desolate land of purple sand, where he discovered those multi-layered Gu formations once again.
He carefully inspected the contents and saw it was just like his previous life. He left the Gu formations as they were, but destroyed all the crucial thoughts.
Fang Yuan naturally did not intend to leave the life-and-death immortal aperture method for others.
Before leaving, Fang Yuan gave the place a final glance, sighing inwardly.
He knew that outside the desolate land of purple sand, there were large numbers of desolate plants and desolate beast corpses, but these immortal materials only looked impressive, once they were picked up, they would all turn into purple sand.
Thus, Fang Yuan did not even look at them.
In his previous life, he had to painstakingly scheme, joining Zombie Alliance's headquarters first, then after being schemed by Blazing Heaven Demoness, he was thrown into Northern Plains' Dark Flow Giant City. He had to deceive several immortal zombies before he was able to enter Earth Trench. He kept on scheming the whole way, not hesitating to be swallowed by the mouth earthworm, then arriving at the nest of yaksha octopuses, searching painstakingly, taking the risk to unravel a small portion of the Gu formation, before he was finally able to enter this hidden space.
But this life, because of rebirth, he went straight to his destination, getting the maximum benefits while spending the least amount of time and energy. The whole process was very simple, it was like a dream.
Using Fixed Immortal Travel again, Fang Yuan left the place and returned to Hu Immortal blessed land.
Change form Immortal Gu's refinement failed, not only was the success dao mark lost, most of the immortal materials were also destroyed.
To prepare for this single refinement of change form Immortal Gu, he had taken out all his assets.
After rebirth, he could be said to be dirt-poor.
But now, he had these precious immortal materials as very timely assistance.
These immortal materials were extremely valuable, if their value was to be maximized, it would undoubtedly be by keeping them until a time when Fang Yuan refined rank eight Immortal Gu.
However, the time needed for this was too long, Fang Yuan's cultivation was still at the bottom tier of rank six, advancing to rank eight was a distant prospect and not within the foreseeable future.
Fang Yuan had already considered how to make full use of these immortal materials.
Like in his previous life, Fang Yuan put several of the immortal materials in treasure yellow heaven, causing a huge commotion among the Gu Immortals.
Even in treasure yellow heaven, these immortal materials were extremely rare and were very sought after.
Fang Yuan easily traded them for the things he wanted, and fed all the Immortal Gu he had, except for self strength Immortal Gu and wisdom Gu.
Taking a look over the Immortal Gu Fang Yuan had:
Strength path: Self Strength, Pulling Mountain, Pulling Water, Iron Crown Eagle Strength, Eat Strength.
Star path: Star Shoot, Star Mark, Starlight.
Luck path: Connect Luck, Time Luck, Calamity Beckoning.
Besides these, there was also his first vital Gu, Spring Autumn Cicada, the extremely practical space path Immortal Gu, Fixed Immortal Travel, the less frequently used poison path Immortal Gu, Woman's Heart, a soul path Immortal Gu, Cleanse Soul and a wisdom path Immortal Gu, Unravel Mystery.
In his previous life, Fang Yuan had change form Immortal Gu at this time. But after rebirth, the refinement had failed, and change form Immortal Gu did not exist.
As for the rank nine wisdom Gu, Fang Yuan could not refine it so it was temporarily placed in Hu Immortal blessed land. Thus, whether it could be considered Fang Yuan's Immortal Gu was debatable.
Normally, most rank six Gu Immortals only had mortal Gu and not even one Immortal Gu.
The number of Immortal Gu Fang Yuan had already numbered sixteen, without counting wisdom Gu.
As such, the burden of feeding the Immortal Gu was extremely heavy and had always been on Fang Yuan's mind.
The feeding issue of the Immortal Gu was resolved for now, Fang Yuan could relax for the moment.
"Land spirit?" Fang Yuan softly spoke in the secret room.
"Master, I am here!" The land spirit Little Hu Immortal swiftly appeared, beaming with a smile, and hugged Fang Yuan's leg.
"Master, I didn't disturb you because you were busy, but I really missed you." Little Hu Immortal said while shaking her furry tail, before saying some childlike words, "Although master has turned ugly."
Fang Yuan laughed, stroking Little Hu Immortal's head as he instructed her: "Go command all the hairy men in the stone nests to start refining only airsac Gu."
"Yes, master." Little Hu Immortal immediately replied.
"You can leave now."
"Okay..." Little Hu Immortal gazed at Fang Yuan with a reluctant look, before disappearing.
Fang Yuan's thoughts shifted, as he activated Fixed Immortal Travel, leaving Hu Immortal blessed land.
When he appeared again, he was already at Lang Ya blessed land.
At this time, Lang Ya land spirit had not changed his nature, and was still that long robed, white hair, and seemingly sagelike land spirit.
"Why are you here? That immortal material I wanted, did you get it? If you didn't, then there is no need for discussion!" Lang Ya land spirit waved his large sleeves and spoke with a cold and detached expression when he saw Fang Yuan.
Because of his excessive demands, Fang Yuan's relationship with Lang Ya land spirit had already turned cold.
Fang Yuan wanted to request for Lang Ya land spirit's help, but Lang Ya land spirit's condition was extremely harsh — asking Fang Yuan to get a type of immortal material.
And this immortal material's origin was from the immemorial nine heavens, and was extremely rare even in treasure yellow heaven.
If not for this, Lang Ya land spirit would not have asked Fang Yuan to do this.
"Of course I have it, take a look." Fang Yuan laughed, not minding Lang Ya land spirit's cold attitude.
"You really got it?" Lang Ya land spirit looked at the immortal material in Fang Yuan's hand, his expression immediately relaxed and his tone revealed his incredulous feelings.
Clearly, he had not been optimistic about Fang Yuan's chances.
Rightfully so.
The task of getting this immortal material had already surpassed Fang Yuan's capabilities. At least, that was the case in his previous life.
But in this life, after Fang Yuan was reborn, he made use of the rank eight immortal materials in his hands, why would he fear not being able to purchase goods of this level?
Fang Yuan handed the poisonous flower petals to Lang Ya land spirit: "I need a certain amount of exert strength Gu and disappointment Gu, along with large numbers of star thought Gu."
Fang Yuan already knew: Lang Ya blessed land was extremely special, the space inside was so large that it had already surpassed most grotto-heavens.
This was because Lang Ya land spirit had merged the rank eight Immortal Gu House, Refinement Cauldron, into the whole blessed land.
Countless hairy men lived here, the number beyond imagination.
The land of cloud soil in front of him was only a layer of clouds in Lang Ya blessed land. Under this layer were three continents, where large numbers of hairy men lived. Specializing in Gu refinement, they selected talents, living and working in peace and happiness.
With the help of these hairy men, it was extremely simple for Lang Ya land spirit to refine exert strength Gu, disappointment Gu and star thought Gu.
"On the basis of this immortal material, I will do you this favor." Lang Ya land spirit replied, before adding, "But next time, I hope to get scales of the half moon qilin, at least thirty of them. Otherwise, I won't agree to any of your requests."
His tone was still rather frigid, but his expression was no longer cold.
Fang Yuan nodded, and without speaking further, he activated Fixed Immortal Travel and left.
He possessed the life-and-death immortal aperture revival method, as well as a strength path version of nirvana fire, so he could get rid of the immortal zombie body and become a living person.
But for the moment, Fang Yuan had no plans to do so.
Becoming alive would only mean having the potential to advance, his cultivation would still be at the bottom tier of rank six. He would also lose his immortal zombie body, and his battle strength would instead decrease.
More importantly, Fang Yuan did not have much lifespan left, and thus would not be able to use the light of wisdom.
Fang Yuan asked Lang Ya land spirit to refine exert strength Gu and disappointment Gu as early preparations for the future.
What he had paid for this was an immortal material, while Lang Ya land spirit was only refining mortal Gu, although the numbers were somewhat huge, Fang Yuan had still incurred a loss.
But Fang Yuan did not seriously concern himself with it.
He had his own plans regarding Lang Ya land spirit, but it was not the time for them yet.
Fang Yuan left Lang Ya blessed land, directly arriving at a certain village in Central Continent.
There was an extraordinary tree here.
It was a spring dream fruit tree.
"It indeed still exists." Fang Yuan hid his figure and inspected it, feeling some joy.
In his previous life, he had obtained information about this tree from Mo Yao's will, but before he could collect the spring dream fruits, this tree was cut down by someone.
But after rebirth, Fang Yuan had no need to join Zombie Alliance and search for the revival method, he was able to come here half a year early, making up for a regret in his previous life.