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Legend has it ——
Ren Zu's fourth child, Boundless Forest Samsara, fell from the tree, she did not follow after Ren Zu, instead, she was trapped inside Ordinary Abyss.
One day, when she was sleeping, she met a miniman.
The miniman was crying, Boundless Forest Samsara asked him why.
The miniman spoke while crying: "I am the tallest in my tribe, and I was brave, arrogant and proud because of this. Today, I intended to climb a mountain, but to think that this mountain was really a person. There are actually such giant people like you in the world, this is the first time I've seen someone like you, so I burst into tears!"
Since then, Boundless Forest Samsara and the miniman became good friends, they were inseparable.
"Miniman, oh miniman, where is your father? Do you not have siblings? Why have I never seen your family?" One day, Boundless Forest Samsara asked the miniman.
The miniman directed Boundless Forest Samsara to a well, saying: "Look at this well, my former home is inside."
Boundless Forest Samsara sprawled in front of the well, extending her head to look inside.
Next, she shouted: "Ah, there are so many minimen."
She saw that there were countless minimen inside the well, they were living together.
They built many houses, they lived among each other, there were markets, flowers, it was a harmonious scene, they were very happy.
The minimen in the well also shouted.
"Why did the sky become so dark? It's night time already?"
"There was thunder but no rain, I don't see lightning either!"
The minimen were in panic, they discussed as the entire city went into commotion.
"Your family is here? Why did you go outside the well, you don't want to live with them?" Boundless Forest Samsara asked.
The miniman shook his head: "They were the ones who exiled me, they think I am a monster."
"Oh? Why is that?" Boundless Forest Samsara was curious.
The miniman answered with sadness: "I told them that the world we were living in was just a well. The outside world is very big. But they did not believe me, they told me to stop spouting nonsense."
"I also told them that the mountain at the fringe of our city is a very small mound. But they refuse to believe me, they think that it is the tallest mountain in the world, they told me to stop spreading lies."
"Which mountain is it?" Boundless Forest Samsara asked.
"That's Miniscule Mountain." The miniman pointed.
Boundless Forest Samsara started to giggle: "You call that a mountain? It can fit in my palm!"
Suddenly, Boundless Forest Samsara clapped: "Then let me tell them the truth."
The miniman shook his head: "It is useless."
Boundless Forest Samsara did not believe him, she faced the well as she shouted, the minimen inside started to panic even more.
They felt that today was too strange.
Not only did the sky turn dark, there was thunder rumbling, and it was getting louder and more frequent.
"Heaven is raging, I want to repent, I want to confess!"
"No, it is a monster, a monster ate heaven, it is burping now."
"Save me, this world is getting destroyed!"
Some minimen knelt on the ground and begged, some had despair on their faces, while others were running around crazily.
Boundless Forest Samsara's breathing became a tornado inside the well.
Boundless Forest Samsara's saliva became a huge rainstorm when it went into the well.
Boundless Forest Samsara's words were like rumbling thunder in the minimen's ears, their eardrums almost burst from it.
Boundless Forest Samsara eventually gave up, she sprawled outside the well, exhausted, she said weakly: "Why are these minimen so stupid? Can't they be like you, to get out of the well and see the world?"
The miniman shook his head as he sighed: "They think that they are big enough, they think the sky is round, they think the mountain is only that tall, they think life is just like this."
"Then why did you climb out?" Boundless Forest Samsara opened her eyes wide as she asked with curiosity.
The miniman smiled bitterly: "Because I realized how small and insignificant I was, therefore, I got out to see how big the world is."
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Fang Yuan walked in a circle around City Well, his eyes were flickering brightly.
This was the third secluded domain of heaven and earth he had encountered.
The first two were Dang Hun Mountain and Luo Po Valley.
In order to harm Fang Yuan, Ying Wu Xie had set up a trap, it was by using City Well. But Fang Yuan took him by surprise, he obtained precious information from Liu Qing Yu, and in turn, made use of City Well to kill a bunch of Eastern Sea Gu Immortals instead.
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But Fang Yuan had to pay a price.
His immortal essence expenditure was also tens or hundreds of times as high.
Even though Fang Yuan only used three giant hands, the expenditure was around the same as a hundred uses of it.
If an uninformed person entered the bottom of City Well, they would be trapped. But once they realize their situation and know this is City Well, they would be able to escape.
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One could say, leaving City Well was both difficult and easy.
Precisely so, Ying Wu Xie did not use City Well to target Fang Yuan to a great extent.
Firstly, he could not control his strength, what if he killed Fang Yuan, how could he find the immortal material to refine sovereign immortal fetus Gu again?
Secondly, Fang Yuan might immediately recognize the truth and escape with the upper extreme heavenly eagle, by then, Ying Wu Xie would not stand a chance.
The bigger reason was the second one.
Because he was uncertain, Ying Wu Xie made this City Well a trap to stall Fang Yuan, instead of using it to kill him.
Fang Yuan wanted to take this City Well for himself.
Because this secluded domain of heaven and earth would be a huge help to him when he develops his immortal aperture.
Pulling mountain Immortal Gu!
Fang Yuan began to try.
But City Well only shook slightly.
Pulling Mountain could pull out mountains, but City Well was not a mountain, although it was on the ground and needed earth qi.
Strength path giant hand!
Fang Yuan tried to dig out City Well.
However, once the giant hand got close to City Well, it rapidly shrank, like a burst bubble, in a few breaths' time, it was completely depleted.
"It seems that even though Shadow Sect has control of this secluded domain of heaven and earth, they cannot relocate it."
Fang Yuan tried a few more times without success. His best attempt was the first time, the result was evident, he used pulling mountain Immortal Gu and managed to make City Well shake slightly.
"In this case, pulling mountain Immortal Gu is actually effective, but just Pulling Mountain alone is not enough, I need to think of an immortal killer move that can relocate this City Well."
Realizing this, Fang Yuan could only give up for now.
He entered the well, when he got to the bottom, his body became very small.
Looting the battlefield.
Only Zhou Li and Tang Song had complete corpses, Fang Yuan put them into the sovereign immortal aperture.
As for the other Gu Immortals, they were all meat paste.
The blood path demonic immortal Ding Qi had self-detonated, but his blood path immortal aperture was left behind.
Other than him, the other Gu Immortals also left behind their immortal apertures.
Soon, the world inside the well started to stir, heaven and earth qi burst out as blessed lands formed one by one.
Fang Yuan spent a lot of time entering these blessed lands and exploring them.
Forget about Immortal Gu.
But there were quite a number of resources that were normally owned by Eastern Sea cultivators.
These Gu Immortals were not as poor as Liu Qing Yu, most of their assets were still around.
Except the blood path demonic immortal Ding Qi, even all of the resources inside his immortal aperture were destroyed. Even so, Fang Yuan was a blood path grandmaster, he had enough attainment level to annex Ding Qi's blessed land and expand the sovereign immortal aperture.
Inside these blessed lands, some had land spirits, some did not.
In the blessed lands without land spirits, Fang Yuan took away all of their resources. Those with land spirits were more troublesome, they needed to acknowledge him as their master, otherwise, Fang Yuan could not take away all of the resources inside.
Of course, it was not impossible to just plunder it, but that was a short term benefit disregarding the long term gains.
Fang Yuan thought about it, he did not use brute force.
After spending some time in the well, he left and started to modify this bubble.
The bubble had a sea and an island, City Well was in the middle of the island. Because of Ying Wu Xie's arrangement, outsiders would directly end up at the bottom of the well when they went in.
But Fang Yuan had Liu Qing Yu's information, he did not fall for it. Instead, he used this trap to kill all the pursuers, he got rid of a lot of trouble.
If Ying Wu Xie knew that his arrangements not only failed to give Fang Yuan problems, they even provided huge help to him, would he spit out blood from anger?
Fang Yuan preserved some of Ying Wu Xie's arrangements, at the same time, he added in some of his own methods, to conceal the bubble even more.
Next, he left the bubble and directed the bubble to a new location.
Not long ago, Ying Wu Xie did the same thing.
This bubble with City Well was not originally here. Ying Wu Xie wanted to harm Fang Yuan, he spent a lot of time and effort to move this bubble here.
Inside the current, Fang Yuan could not control where he went, he was washed away by it.
Thankfully, he had the hidden room oyster, he could rest inside.
Fang Yuan moved back and forth dozens of times before moving this bubble into another current.
He spent more than ten times the amount of immortal essence and time as Ying Wu Xie.
After completing this, Fang Yuan took a detour and went to Ying Wu Xie's former camp.
There, it was another island in a bubble.
Fang Yuan entered deep underground, but Regret Pool was already taken apart by Ying Wu Xie, even the surrounding Gu formations were gone.
The tributary of the River of Time that Shadow Sect had kept here was also missing.
This was the special characteristic of the turbulent flow sea area, every current was constantly changing and moving.
"But with this, it is enough to befriend Miao Ming Shen." Fang Yuan used his information path mortal Gu, sending it through treasure yellow heaven.
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Several days later, Fang Yuan waited for Immortal Hua Die to arrive.
"There is a trace of the River of Time indeed, it is very recent!" Immortal Hua Die inspected and felt overjoyed. With this clue, she could definitely locate the tributary of the river of time.
"Chu Ying, we have truly troubled you. To think that you really found this tributary of the River of Time, we searched for decades without finding any useful clues!" Immortal Hua Die was very excited, she could finally give Miao Ming Shen good news.
"Go ahead and track it. I do not need any compensation, I might need Lord Miao Ming Shen's help in the future. I will take my leave."
Fang Yuan was understanding and kind, Immortal Hua Die had a good impression of him.
Before leaving, she advised again: "Be careful, blood path demonic immortal Ding Qi has appeared, engaging in battle with Zhou Li and Tang Song. If you meet them, you should avoid them, there is no need to get involved in this."
"Fairy, I will remember your words, thank you." Fang Yuan showed a moved expression.
Immortal Hua Die had no idea: It was this person who had killed Ding Qi, Zhou Li, Tang Song, and everyone else. But the turbulent flow sea area was very complex, it was normal that they all went missing, nobody felt anything strange.
There were often Gu Immortals who went missing for months or years before appearing suddenly again.
Half a month later.
Fang Yuan returned to Lang Ya blessed land.
In this journey to Eastern Sea, even though his goal was not achieved, he had great gains.
In the cloud city's secret room, Fang Yuan quietly sat as his divine sense activated, inspecting his entire sovereign immortal aperture.
The sovereign immortal aperture had changed greatly. In the past, it was barren and empty. But now, it had a lot of resources. At a glance, it was no longer so empty and boring.
Actually, all of these resources that Fang Yuan gathered could not fit inside ordinary blessed lands.
But the sovereign immortal aperture was simply too huge, after placing these resources, there was still a lot of space left.
In Mini Northern Plains, half the area was covered in snow and frost. The other half had green grass, on this grassland, Fang Yuan placed a few desolate beasts, like the giant horned sheep and shark fin wolf that he had since long ago.
In Mini Western Desert, there were already eleven eerie fire dragon python dens. Because of his aperture's rate of time being at sixty times, along with Dong Fang tribe's superb method of rearing, the eerie fire dragon pythons were reproducing at a rapid rate.
In Mini Eastern Sea, Fang Yuan had created several artificial lakes, putting dragonfish groups, air bubble fish groups, literature carp groups and others. Now, with more of the common resources obtained from killing the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals, he had great gains. Even though they were not particularly precious, the quantity was high, he could develop using this foundation.
In Mini Central Continent, there was a huge area of mirror willows, it had formed a giant forest spanning a hundred li. Speaking of which, Fang Yuan had originally planted mirror willows inside Hu Immortal blessed land, after relocating them, these mirror willows were moved into Mini Central Continent. And because of the sovereign immortal aperture's time flow, although Fang Yuan had never put effort in them, with just their own growth rate, the forest reached this scale.
Other than mirror willows, Mini Central Continent also had a huge underground blood zhi forest, its scale was only slighter smaller than the mirror willows.
Mini Central Continent was too huge, mirror willows and the blood zhi forest had no competitors, they could grow freely.
The most flourishing region was Mini Southern Border, which was overflowing with life.
The resources obtained from Hei Fan grotto-heaven were mostly relocated here.
However, Mini Southern Border was not filled up.
Large numbers of musical trees and tea streams were seen, there were also the qi death bird groups bringing immense vitality to Mini Southern Border.
More than ten mountains had appeared in Mini Southern Border already.
The tallest mountain was Five Light Mountain, it was bright and grand, followed by Immortal Succession Mountain, it had many stone pavilions on it, the scenery was good.
Mini Southern Border's most important resource was the regretful spider group, it had already grown in scale multiple times already.
Above the five regions were the nine heavens.
In Mini Orange Heaven, there were profound lights, they were emitting from the flowing light fruits, this was the result of Fang Yuan's previous effort in farming them.
In Mini Yellow Heaven, there was a gold fragment river, it was not big, but better than nothing.
In Mini Azure Heaven, there was azure fog, it was the pill azure incense that Fang Yuan bought. There was also the storage pool of the heavenly crystals, it was temporarily placed here without any use.
In Mini Blue Heaven, large clouds were floating with star fragment grass and arrow bamboo forests on them, producing star path mortal Gu for Fang Yuan. There was also a young ancient desolate beast falling star hound, it was saved by Fang Yuan and was playing around in Mini Blue Heaven.
In Mini Purple Heaven, the heavenly crystal eagle nest was eaten by the upper extreme heavenly eagle, only an upper extreme heavenly eagle egg was left. There were also some heavenly crystal fragments. These were all exchanged from Lang Ya land spirit.
In Mini Black Heaven, there was a walking meat tree.
In Mini White Heaven, there were three remnant heavenly dogs, and a group of eagle hounds, as well as some multicolored overlord flowers, the light was making the environment quite conducive already. Earlier, because Fang Yuan killed some light path Gu Immortals, the light path dao marks in the immortal aperture had increased.
"Unfortunately, I did not bring back City Well into the sovereign immortal aperture."
Fang Yuan was still thinking about City Well, inside the turbulent flow sea area.
Even though City Well was damaged greatly, Fang Yuan could use Landscape as Before to restore it.
The destroyed buildings could not be repaired, but Miniscule Mountain could definitely be reformed.
It turned out that this legendary mountain had been destroyed during the battle of Yi Tian Mountain when Fairy Li Shan died. However, Fang Yuan thought of a way to restore it.
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"If I had City Well, I could raise large numbers of variant human groups inside the well. It is a pity..."
There were three stages in managing an immortal aperture.
The initial stage was when the Gu Immortal grows enough resources to fulfill the needs of their Immortal Gu's food.
The middle stage would be to develop more resources in addition to the Immortal Gu's food, to help the Gu Immortal in cultivation while also selling them for immortal essence stones.
The upper stage would be raising variant humans inside the immortal aperture, or even humans. This had huge significance to the Gu Immortal and has many benefits as well.
For example, earlier, Fang Yuan bought hairy man slaves in Hu Immortal blessed land to refine Gu for himself. This saved him a lot of time and effort.
Among the other variant humans, minimen could grow flowers and grass, rockmen could develop underground space, snowmen could produce ice tears and survive in the icy plains...
Pure bred humans had the greatest intelligence, they could reproduce rapidly and create things with their wisdom, large numbers of Gu recipes and killer moves could be created without the Gu Immortal making deductions themselves.
If one developed well, the immortal aperture might even have Gu Immortals or human Gu Immortals. They would be extremely loyal because they grew up in there. This would be a great help for the immortal aperture's owner.
Currently, Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture was at the initial stage.
Because he had gained a few more Immortal Gu, and had not fulfilled their feeding needs. Attitude Gu, wisdom sword Immortal Gu, and the other rank eight Immortal Gu were hard to feed. Fang Yuan could only devise a plan, he had solved a portion of them, but these problems were not resolved yet.
However, in terms of the middle stage, he had incredible achievements.
Because he had obtained countless resources from Star Form blessed land, Dong Fang tribe, and Hei Fan grotto-heaven. Most normal resources, like star path mortal Gu, regretful spiders, musical trees and others, they were all sold outside and provided profits.
Not to mention Dang Hun Mountain, guts Gu has always been Fang Yuan's greatest source of profit, it earned him revenue daily.
Horses need extra grass to grow healthy, humans need windfalls to get rich.
What made Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture so wealthy were the countless windfalls that he had obtained.
And these resources were Fang Yuan's great assurance in cultivating.
Without these resources, no matter how high Fang Yuan's battle strength was, he would not feel assured.
Currently, Fang Yuan could not raise variant humans in large numbers.
Of course, he could do the same thing as in Hu Immortal blessed land, buying large numbers of variant humans to work inside the immortal aperture for him. But that was not the proper way.
The true way was to allow these variant humans to grow and reproduce naturally, they would be real members of the immortal aperture, living inside peacefully.
Only like this, they could grow healthily and produce great profits in the future.
If he bought variant human slaves and made them work, Fang Yuan would only incur losses. He had already learned this lesson in Hu Immortal blessed land. Fang Yuan's stone nests had hairy man slaves dying from Gu refinement almost every day. The hairy man slaves had no time to reproduce or rest, their numbers dwindled, Fang Yuan could only make a loss as he continued to buy slaves to replenish them.
However!
If he had City Well, it would be different.
City Well was a special environment isolated from the outside world, it was very suited for raising humans or variant humans. The reproduction and deaths of variant humans inside City Well would also have an effect of nourishing and elevating City Well itself.
Forget about this mystical property for now.
All in all, with City Well, Fang Yuan could instantly start his upper stage developments while still in the initial stage, he would obtain great gains.
This would undoubtedly allow his cultivation journey to be smoother, and his cultivation level would grow many times faster.
Fang Yuan ended his inspection of the sovereign immortal aperture.
There were areas where he was pleased, and areas where he was not satisfied.
What made Fang Yuan satisfied was, the sovereign immortal aperture's dao marks had grown favorably. For example, earth path dao marks, even though they were still lacking, they had improved greatly compared to earlier.
He was not satisfied with the fact that other than Mini Southern Border, the rest of the regions were still quite empty and had little resources. The sovereign immortal aperture was just too big.
Having huge space was a good problem.
The current situation would cause conflict between his resources in the future.
For example, the mirror willows, they were growing rapidly in Mini Central Continent. If another type of plant also grew quickly, and the two types met, an intense conflict would occur.
Conflict between plants was quite mild. But what about beast groups? If two fierce beast groups met, wouldn't they fight to the death?
If the blessed land was small, the Gu Immortal could adjust it quickly. But Fang Yuan's blessed land was too big, by the time he noticed their conflict, his losses would be severe.
To prevent this situation, Fang Yuan could only start planning early with great foresight.
The sovereign immortal aperture was not easy to manage.
Fang Yuan not only had to consider his current gains, he also had to think about the future.
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In conclusion, Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture had already grown much, but it still needed a lot of development work.
The sovereign immortal aperture had too much potential. It had five regions and nine heavens, even Mini Southern Border, which had taken in all of Hei Fan grotto-heaven's resources, could not be filled up. Nobody would believe this story.
And every layer of the nine heavens had the size of all five regions combined.
Fang Yuan had already noticed that the development of the sovereign immortal aperture would be a vast and unparalleled project.
Up until now, out of a hundred percent, his current developments could barely be considered to make up two percent completion.
"Were it not for me being the person involved and witnessing this myself, how could I possibly believe that such an immortal aperture exists in this world?"
"Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, Shadow Sect, and Zombie Alliance planned for a hundred thousand years to obtain this, I took this from them, this conflict is truly irreconcilable."
"Sigh! It is a pity... even though in this trip, I managed to deal a blow to Ying Wu Xie's group, it could not truly shake their foundation."
Fang Yuan sighed when he thought of this.
In the dark secret room, he sat quietly, his hair hung down to his waist, his skin was pure like jade, his eyes were unfathomably dark like an abyss, as cold light flashed in them occasionally.
After adjusting his breathing, Fang Yuan mobilized his immortal essence, using an immortal killer move.
Qi luck sensation!
At once, a feeling spread out from Fang Yuan's body.
If he had luck inspection Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan would be able to see his huge luck shaking above his head.
Fang Yuan started to feel vague spots of sensation appearing one by one.
Western Desert.
The sun was blazing hot, causing steam to rise up from the sandy ground.
A pursuit of life and death was engaging here.
"Rascal, you actually dare to snatch the Gu worm that us bandits want!"
"Don't let me catch you, I will tear you to pieces, and use your skin as a lantern cover!!"
"Surrender, obediently hand over polished gold Gu, and you might have a chance to live."
A large group of Gu Masters with an imposing aura were chasing Han Li, who was running in front of them.
Han Li had extremely great luck, when he was alone, his luck could be low at times, but after it was connected, it had been very stable.
He cultivated for a period of time, he had rank three cultivation level now.
Elder level!
In the Gu Master world, he could already hold his own. He was neither a beginner rank one nor a cannon fodder rank two.
Rank three cultivation level was 'elite' in the Gu Master world.
However, in his current situation, three of the pursuers had rank three cultivation level, the rest were rank two and one.
Han Li could only run.
His primeval essence fell rapidly, his injuries were becoming a burden, blood was oozing out.
With every breath he took, Han Li endured pain that felt like a fire was burning his chest!
But such pain could not make him let go.
Right now, he was holding onto that polished gold Gu.
"My aptitude is not high enough, even though I have fortuitous encounters, in the long term, they are unreliable."
"This polished gold Gu can increase my aptitude, it can grant me a brighter future."
"I need to push on! Only by betting my life on it, can I have a chance to get stronger in the future!"
Han Li breathed roughly, he was extremely tired, but his legs moved like the wind, his running speed did not slow down at all.
His eyes were burning with fire!
Southern Border.
Water flowed down the lush green mountain.
Ye Fan shouted loudly, as his body suddenly grew to twice of his original size, he was tall and extraordinary.
Multi-colored lights were shining out of his muscles and pores, his eyes were radiating with bright light, he was truly grand and elegant.
Under the shocked gaze of his opponent, he punched with both fists like an unstoppable warrior, his aura was incredibly powerful.
Rumble!
Ye Fan took huge steps forward, everywhere he went, light shone as rocks shattered and streams dried, his enemies were forced back by him without any chance of retaliating.
"Cough, cough, Shang clan's Ye Fan, you live up to your reputation. This time, we, the Eighteen Sons of Wine Village admit defeat!" The leader of the enemies spat out blood, even though he wanted to get up, he could not.
The other seventeen Gu Masters were also lying on the ground, some had fainted while others were grunting, even though they could not fight anymore, they stared at Ye Fan with intense hatred.
Ye Fan slowly adjusted his stance, he let out a breath, his huge body shrunk back to its original size.
He looked at his opponents on the ground, saying calmly: "According to the rules, you Eighteen Sons of Wine Village are not to take a step onto this mountain again. This is now Shang clan's territory."
"Hmph, don't worry, we might be lone cultivators, but we lost this contest fair and square, we will keep our word." The leader replied firmly.
Ye Fan nodded, he rubbed his hands together, as jade green light shone on the Eighteen Sons of Wine Village.
They first shook in anxiety, but soon, they found that their injuries were rapidly recovering.
Soon, the Eighteen Sons of Wine Village stood up, they were able to move again.
The Eighteen Sons of Wine Village looked at Ye Fan with more relaxed expressions now.
Ever since Ye Fan accepted Gu Immortal Shang Qing Qing's Gu Master inheritance, his cultivation level might not have risen much, but his overall strength had grown drastically, he had methods in all aspects, and did not have a visible flaw.
When Shang Xin Ci first became clan leader, Shang clan's mortal sector had lots of internal and external problems. It was Ye Fan who stood up and helped Shang Xin Ci resolve her problems. Right now, Ye Fan chased away the Eighteen Sons of Wine Village, he helped Shang clan open up a new trade route and eased her political pressure.
The leader sighed, cupping his fists: "Ye Fan, you are very strong, but you let us off in the end. We brothers will accept this favor, as long as you are in Shang clan, we will not target it. However, if you want to open up the trade route, we are only the third hurdle, you have two more obstacles ahead."
"I understand, any Gu Master in these two rounds would be stronger than all of you combined." Ye Fan nodded expressionlessly.
He had a lot of information, Shang clan was a huge force, Shang Xin Ci would not restrict Ye Fan in this aspect.
But the leader's following words made Ye Fan's expression change: "Hehe! Ye Fan, be careful. These two obstacles have changed, not long ago, White Demon appeared and defeated those lone cultivators. Right now, she has already gathered all the Gu Masters in these two rounds, becoming the mastermind. If you arrived a day later, we would have surrendered to White Demon as well."
"White Demon? You mean, the Black and White Demons?" Ye Fan's eyes shined brightly.
The leader of the Eighteen Sons of Wine Village nodded: "If it were not a famous demonic cultivator like White Demon, why would those lone cultivators submit? She has unfathomable strength, I would advise you to consider it thoroughly."
Shang Xin Ci's image appeared in Ye Fan's mind, before Hei Tu appeared in his mind.
"No!" His body shook with determination, he spoke plainly, with an indisputable tone: "I will go."
Central Continent.
In a nameless cave.
"Don't come here, don't come here!" Hong Yi's clothes were torn, his muscular chest was exposed.
A morbidly obese female Gu Master chuckled as she approached him: "Little sweetheart, can you escape? You have ended up in my hands, accept your fate. Just submit to me, hahaha."
Whoosh.
With a soft sound, Hong Yi's clothes were all stripped away.
The female Gu Master jumped, about to press on him.
"No!" Hong Yi screamed in fear, at the moment of crisis, he unleashed two hundred percent of his potential, he broke the seal on his body and pushed the female Gu Master away.
"Impossible! How could you break the seal I created?" The female Gu Master was startled and angered.
"That is because I am here." A miniman Gu Master appeared on Hong Yi's shoulder.
"You finally came!" Hong Yi was about to cry.
"We got the thing, let's go!" The miniman whispered.
The female Gu Master's expression changed, she sensed something amiss, the muscles on her fat face distorted: "So that's it! You two came here to steal my ecstasy water!"
Hong Yi, Ye Fan, Han Li...
Even though Fang Yuan could not see their experiences, he could sense their locations, and differentiate them.
Because of their relationship from Connect Luck, qi luck sensation could detect them across all five regions.
However, Hei Lou Lan and Ying Wu Xie were nowhere to be found.
From this, Fang Yuan concluded that Ying Wu Xie indeed had a way to conceal his own luck connection.
"Actually, so be it if he does. But Ying Wu Xie as a person is maturing, he will be much more problematic to deal with in the future."
This was why, there was no strongest Immortal Gu, only strongest Gu Immortal.
The Gu Immortal was the core.
Ying Wu Xie's matured mind, in Fang Yuan's opinion, was far scarier than whatever strong Immortal Gu he had.
"The other party can deal with qi luck sensation, then in the future, I can only reduce the number of times I use this immortal killer move."
After all, this was an immortal killer move, it required green grape immortal essence to activate.
Once it was used frequently, even Fang Yuan could not bear the cost.
This trip to Eastern Sea was rather successful, but his green grape immortal essence stockpile had already reduced sharply, he needed to replenish it.
From Fang Yuan's perspective, the best situation was that he could find Ying Wu Xie's location and exert pressure on him, or even kill him to get rid of the threat entirely.
But currently, the situation was not as he wished.
Fang Yuan thought about it, he could only choose the best alternative and focus on raising his strength.
But he knew deeply: "There was only one true inheritance of Hei Fan, but Shadow Sect has remnant forces in all five regions. In this trip to Eastern Sea, I did not get rid of Ying Wu Xie, the next time we meet, they might already greatly surpass me in strength."
Shadow Sect did not lack resources, and they had at least four Gu Immortals on their side.
Right now, Fang Yuan could only do his best and develop, when they met again, hopefully, he would not be left in the dust by Ying Wu Xie and the rest.
Fang Yuan took out perceivable dao Immortal Gu.
This rank six information path Gu worm was now healthy and strong, it gave off an alluring light, it had been saved by Fang Yuan.
Breathing in deeply, Fang Yuan started to activate this Immortal Gu.
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Perceivable dao Immortal Gu!
This Immortal Gu had a round head and a black body, it had many segments in its body, once activated, it started to shine in starlight.
Blue starlight reflected on Fang Yuan's entire body.
Fang Yuan breathed in deeply and concentrated, he observed meticulously, preventing any accidents from occurring.
When Gu Masters use Gu, it was not safe. Many Gu worms had backlashes or weaknesses.
The same went for Immortal Gu, and because they were powerful, the drawbacks and weaknesses were also larger.
This was the first time Fang Yuan was using perceivable dao Immortal Gu, even though he used wisdom path methods to deduce it already, he still had to be careful.
Initially, starlight only shone on Fang Yuan's body. But after a few breaths of time, starlight accumulated, it covered Fang Yuan's entire body like a thin layer of water.
Starlight gathered into shining water, it got thicker and thicker, accumulating on Fang Yuan's face, limbs, and body.
Afterwards, as time passed, the shining water faded, after more than ten breaths, it vanished.
The starlight around perceivable dao Immortal Gu also vanished, it returned to its black state.
But in Fang Yuan's mind, there was some information, he could see how many dao marks he had in his body.
The greatest number were in snow path and ice path dao marks, reaching a total of sixteen thousand!
Fang Yuan learned this and his heart jumped.
A hundred dao marks meant that an Immortal Gu's effect would increase by ten percent. A thousand dao marks would double its effect. Then sixteen thousand dao marks would result in sixteen times the amplification of effects!
This meant that when Fang Yuan uses an Immortal Gu from ice or snow path, the effect would be very strong. For example, compared to a Gu Immortal without any dao marks using an ice or snow path Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan's might would be seventeen times of this Gu Immortal!
And the most important point was, even though the power was seventeen times as much, Fang Yuan's green grape immortal essence expenditure was the same as the other Gu Immortal.
This was different from City Well, even though the immortal killer move was a hundred times stronger, Fang Yuan's green grape immortal essence expenditure rose by a similar proportion, he also spent a hundred times as much!
This was very fearsome.
Why did the battle strength of Gu Immortals as their cultivation level got higher, this was the reason.
Below ice and snow path, the second highest quantity of dao marks belonged to luck path, it had fifteen thousand!
"My luck path dao marks were basically all absorbed from Feng Jun's accumulation, this person had a deep foundation, he personally ascended Immortal Succession Mountain and succeeded, inheriting a large number of luck path dao marks from it."
"Oh, right. There was an earthly calamity with the giant disaster blazing tree, after passing it, I gained luck path dao marks as well."
Below luck path dao marks were qi path and sound path dao marks.
Both had around thirteen thousand.
"Qi path dao marks mainly come from Qi Zai, he was a rank seven Gu Immortal who cultivated qi path, almost all of his qi path dao marks are absorbed into my body now."
"Sound path dao marks came from Tang Song, this person is also rank seven, he is a supreme elder from a super force of Eastern Sea, Tang clan."
Below that was blood path dao marks, about twelve thousand of them, they were obtained from Hei Fan grotto-heaven's blood path Gu Immortal, Zheng Tuo.
Fang Yuan thought about it, he realized that among his dao marks, the rest of those that reached ten thousand were all from rank seven Gu Immortal corpses.
Among them, rule path dao marks had twelve thousand, they were from Hei Fan grotto-heaven's rule path Gu Immortal, Chen Chi.
Water path dao marks were around eleven thousand, obtained from lone immortal Zhou Li after Fang Yuan absorbed his foundation.
Below that was transformation path and strength path, they summed up to nine thousand in total, close to ten thousand.
Other than that, there was an assortment of other paths, haphazardly mixed in.
For example, there was wind path, wood path, and food path.
"I went through a few earthly calamities, the wind flowers, spring dawn jade orioles, they gave me wood path and wind path dao marks. Food path actually exceeds these two paths, I guess the profound white flying salt calamity gave me food path dao marks."
And fewer than these were earth path, time path, and information path.
"Earlier, I joined the alliance of variant humans, they used an earth path method to attain information path effects. Thus, I gained quite a number of earth path dao marks."
"As for time path, they are probably from the hundred years harmony that I set with Chu Du, similar to the variant human alliance."
"As for information path dao marks, they must be from the alliance agreement of Lang Ya Sect."
The least in quantity, like phantom path, still had a hundred or so. This was the initial number of dao marks that sovereign immortal fetus brought with it.
Fang Yuan considered these numbers, from these, he had a glimpse of the nature of some calamities and tribulations.
He concluded.
Ice and snow path were highest, followed by luck path, qi path, sound path, rule path, water path, and blood path, they all had over ten thousand.
Below these were transformation path and strength path.
And below those were food path, wind path, wood path, earth path, time path, and others.
"I mainly fight with strength path, sword path, and time path methods. Familiar face and blood asset Immortal Gu are supplementary methods."
"My five grandmaster attainments are in wisdom path, strength path, star path, blood path, and transformation path."
Fang Yuan looked at his situation, it was quite awkward.
His paths with more than ten thousand dao marks were almost completely different from his main methods and five highest attainment levels.
According to Fang Yuan's original cultivation plan, his focus was on transformation path.
But now, because he joined the four races alliance, this plan had a lot of barriers. He could not undergo tribulation in the icy plain, Fang Yuan could not draw out Reckless Savage's true meaning. If he could not influence the earthly calamity, he would not gain transformation path dao marks, or even any rise in his attainment level.
Fang Yuan pondered.
"From this, it seems that most rank seven Gu Immortals have about ten thousand or more dao marks of their main path."
"But I have only gone through four earth calamities, and already have sixteen thousand ice and snow path dao marks, while my transformation path and strength path dao marks are close to ten thousand. Looking at my wood path, wind path, and food path dao marks, my total gain from these calamities add up to thirty thousand."
Evidently, this number was abnormal.
Gu Immortals with rank seven cultivation level had undergone up to around forty to fifty earthly calamities, four or five heavenly tribulations, and one or more grand tribulations.
After all these, their main paths only had about ten thousand dao marks.
Fang Yuan had only gone through four earthly calamities, but he had already gained three times the number of dao marks as them!
The stronger the calamities and tribulations, after passing them, the greater number of dao marks the Gu Immortal would obtain.
Ordinary Gu Immortals would have simpler tribulations. When they get to rank seven, they would have about ten thousand dao marks in their main path.
Those with higher aptitude and having high grade blessed lands, or even immortal apertures originating from the ten extreme physiques, would have more resources in their blessed lands, with greater fortune comes greater disaster, they would have stronger calamities and tribulations, and would gain more dao marks after passing them.
Fang Yuan's situation was unique in the entire world!
Even if the sovereign immortal aperture had no resources, it was an immense amount of fortune in itself, the earthly calamity that befalls also reaches the limit of its strength.
And because he was a complete otherworldly demon, heaven's will would try every possible way to kill Fang Yuan, causing his earthly calamity to be elevated to the maximum force allowed.
In his first four earthly calamities, each one was extremely difficult, Fang Yuan passed them with great danger, it was like he was walking on a tightrope. But now it seemed, the risks were great, but his gains were huge as well!
"Even though my current development and my methods don't match, my dao mark growth is real. At this rate, after each earthly calamity and heavenly tribulation, my foundation would rise to a terrifying degree!"
Thinking of this, Fang Yuan felt that all the difficulty and hard work he had gone through were worth it.
Even his attitude towards the earthly calamities had vaguely changed.
Each earthly calamity could be seen as a great chance to gain more dao marks!
"After a few more earthly calamities, how much would I grow? How much would my foundation grow?" Even Fang Yuan could not estimate this.
The sovereign immortal aperture surpassed the norm by too much.
His growth potential and speed could not be assessed by normal means!
The amount of dao marks Fang Yuan gained from four earthly calamities was multiple times that of an ordinary rank seven Gu Immortal's dao marks in their main path!
After clarifying the number of dao marks in his body, Fang Yuan took out his Immortal Gu, using Perceivable Dao to investigative them.
But unfortunately, even though the starry water covered the surface of the Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan did not get any results.
He realized: "Man is the spirit of all living beings, Gu are the essence of heaven and earth. Mortal Gu have dao marks, while Immortal Gu have fragments of the Great Dao. Perceivable Dao can only investigate dao marks, it is ineffective against Great Dao fragments."
Indeed, when he used perceivable dao Immortal Gu on mortal Gu and checked them, it worked like a charm.
But his tests were far from over.
Next, Fang Yuan took out immortal materials and used perceivable dao Immortal Gu to inspect them.
He realized that even though the dao marks in the immortal materials could be sensed by him, the expenditure of immortal essence rose when the quality and rank of the immortal material was higher.
"Perceivable dao Immortal Gu is an information path Immortal Gu, when looking at purely information path immortal materials, the immortal essence expenditure is lower. Other than that, any other type of immortal materials would have an element of conflicting dao marks. Thus, the immortal essence expenditure is greater."
"As for why using it on me does not cause more immortal essence expenditure, that is because my dao marks are non-conflicting."
Thinking of this, Fang Yuan had a stern expression on his face.
The property of non-conflicting dao marks of the sovereign immortal body was both a good thing and bad thing for him.
For ordinary Gu Immortals, when killer moves of other paths land on them, their dao marks would first reduce the might of the attacks, but Fang Yuan would have to face its full force. In fact, when his dao marks are of the same path as the attacking killer move, it might even get amplified!
With just this point, Fang Yuan could not fight at close range.
He was suited for long range battles, after creating some distance, he could amply think and evade attacks.
"Perceivable dao Immortal Gu cannot be used on Immortal Gu, and when using it on immortal materials, there is a conflict of dao marks. All in all, it is not very useful." After Fang Yuan tried using it, he came to a conclusion.
He could only think of three ways to use perceivable dao Immortal Gu currently.
The first was to decipher immortal materials, preventing others from scamming him.
The second was to investigative a Gu Immortal's dao marks, to probe their foundation and strength. But it was quite impractical, the time needed to use it was quite long, and the effect of the starry water was also very obvious, it was easy to take action to counter it.
The third was in refining Immortal Gu.
Investigation using Perceivable Dao could allow him to see the dao marks clearly during the process of refining Immortal Gu, as well as to make a comparison.
However, perceivable dao Immortal Gu was unable to find out the exact location of dao marks or influence them, thus, it had limited use.
At most, it could allow the Gu Immortal to turn from a 'blind man' to a 'man with his eyes shut'.
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After testing out perceivable dao Immortal Gu, it was time for Fang Yuan to cultivate his soul again.
He flew out of his cloud city, and went to Luo Po Valley.
However, the usage of perceivable dao Immortal Gu was not over.
Fang Yuan multitasked.
Sovereign immortal aperture, Mini Southern Border.
There were ample forests, it was no longer barren. Ordinary mountains were evenly distributed across Mini Southern Border in different places.
A strength path immortal zombie was controlled by Fang Yuan, carrying some immortal essence and perceivable dao Immortal Gu as it flew in the air.
A moment later, it slowly descended, landing on a small mountain.
Fang Yuan named this mountain Heaven Sealing Mountain.
The name was very grand, but the mountain was short and uninspiring. The mountain peak was being modified by Fang Yuan, there was a huge Gu formation on it, as the interior of the mountain was empty, it was sealing an immortal zombie body.
It was Fang Yuan's original body.
The strength path immortal zombie entered the interior of the mountain and came to the center of the sealing Gu formation.
Fang Yuan's original immortal zombie body was six meters tall, it had a miniature pair of bat wings on its back, it had a green face and sharp fangs, its eyes were shut. Its eight arms were all different, other than his two original arms, there was the asura arm, heavenly demon arm, blood wight arm, nightmare arm, plague arm, and the earth chief arm.
At this moment, the eight arms were spread out like a peacock's tail, their fingers were tightly stabbed into the ground.
Because it was sealed, the immortal zombie's heartbeat was very slow, there was only one beat every few minutes.
Light was emitting from the Gu formation, blowing on the immortal zombie body like a clear breeze, this showed that the sealing Gu formation was working fine.
Fang Yuan manipulated the strength path immortal zombie as he activated perceivable dao Immortal Gu, starlight gathered into flowing water as it covered the body of the immortal zombie.
A moment later, Fang Yuan got his results, he mentally snorted: "Something was done to it after all!"
His caution was truly wise.
Ying Wu Xie had left about ten thousand soul path dao marks in the immortal zombie body, it was more than Fang Yuan's original strength path dao marks inside the body.
After storing away perceivable dao Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan manipulated the strength path immortal zombie, opening a slit in the sealing Gu formation as the strength path immortal zombie pulled something out of its body.
A Gu Immortal's soul shrieked as it was dragged out by the strength path immortal zombie.
"Spare me, spare me!"
"I will acknowledge you as my master, please spare my life!!"
The Gu Immortal's soul struggled intensely, it seemed to have sensed its doomsday.
Fang Yuan manipulated the strength path immortal zombie expressionlessly as his demonic claws controlled the Gu Immortal's soul, preventing it from moving.
In the dark space in the mountain, the sealing Gu formation shone with light, not only did it not bring the warmth of light, it gave the environment a cold eerie feeling.
The Gu Immortal's soul cried out, it made the atmosphere even more creepy.
The strength path immortal zombie moved slowly, pressing the Gu Immortal soul into Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body.
The Gu Immortal soul was unwilling, but Fang Yuan was amply prepared, he forcefully stuffed it into the immortal zombie body.
Soon after, Fang Yuan used the Gu formation, activating the sealing Gu formation.
Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body did not move, it lay on the ground like a statue. But after the Gu Immortal soul entered it, the body started to shake.
Soon, the shaking intensified.
Suddenly, the shaking stopped entirely, Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body stopped moving, he opened his eyes, they were red like blood!
Roar!
He opened his mouth and growled, the loud noise was echoing in the mountain's interior, like the rumbling of thunder.
Fang Yuan sneered, the strength path immortal zombie that he controlled did not move, it looked down at the immortal zombie body.
Indeed, due to the Gu formation's restrictions, and the arrangements done to the Gu Immortal soul earlier, Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body struggled to get up but could not, feeling weakness all over.
"What are you doing, what are you trying to do?" The Gu Immortal soul screamed.
He did not understand Fang Yuan's intentions, he felt an utter wave of fear and horror.
Soon, the Gu Immortal soul screamed in a high pitch tone: "You, what did you do to me? My soul is melting, you have a vicious heart, I only have my soul left, and you still refused to let me off!!"
Fang Yuan controlled the strength path immortal zombie, he watched with concentration, he ignored the Gu Immortal soul's screaming and crying.
"The soul would melt if they enter huh..." Fang Yuan investigated with all sorts of methods.
"Oh, this is an amazing soul path method. This Gu Immortal soul could not even last a short period of time!" Fang Yuan gasped, at his will, the strength path immortal zombie stretched out its right arm, trying to pull out the Gu Immortal soul from the immortal zombie body again.
But at the next moment, a ghost face appeared on the chest of Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body, cackling at Fang Yuan loudly!
An immense strength burst out as the strength path immortal zombie took three steps back.
Looking at it again, the ghost face had vanished.
Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body stopped moving, returning to the state of a statue.
Fang Yuan controlled the strength path immortal zombie, carefully getting closer, Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body did not move at all.
Fang Yuan continued to probe.
The Gu Immortal soul that he stuffed into the immortal zombie body earlier had completely melted, not even a bit of it was left.
"The melting speed is really fast, once the soul goes in, it is like a deep trap. Even if I pull it out, it cannot escape from the trap!"
Fang Yuan analyzed mentally.
Ying Wu Xie's trap was incredibly vicious, the method was extraordinary.
Fang Yuan was glad that he was vigilant, he did not take a risk to enter the body, otherwise, the consequences would be severe.
After several inspections, Fang Yuan used perceivable dao Immortal Gu again, inspecting his immortal zombie body.
"What is going on? The soul path dao marks did not decrease, they even rose by two thousand!" Fang Yuan was shocked.
At this moment, Fang Yuan was completely stunned by Shadow Sect's incredible soul path methods.
Melting the Gu Immortal soul was a huge problem, but Fang Yuan could deal with it.
The simplest and crudest method was to use Gu Immortal souls and constantly stuff them into the immortal zombie body so that the trap would weaken after several activations, before breaking down eventually.
But Ying Wu Xie's trap was not normal!
It not only prevented the soul that entered Fang Yuan's immortal body body from leaving, it even melted the soul and after that, strengthened itself, to replenish its expenditure and become stronger!
"Truly impressive! In this case, my action of sending Gu Immortal souls to probe it is restricted. Unless I have a method that can truly target the soul path dao marks in this body. Otherwise, I would only be making this trap more powerful!"
Fang Yuan gritted his teeth.
Actually, the Eastern Sea information path inheritance would have had many methods that targeted dao marks.
This could be seen from the information path dao mark insignia in flying sword Immortal Gu. Flying sword Immortal Gu was a dao mark fragment of sword path, but information path dao marks were added to it, the conflict between different paths was resolved. It was very difficult to achieve this, even rank eight Gu Immortals might have problems with it.
Furthermore, the quasi rank eight skeleton that Fang Yuan obtained was also clear evidence.
After a Gu Immortal dies, their path's dao marks would go into the immortal aperture as it forms a blessed land outside. If a blessed land did not form, these dao marks would scatter into nothingness and return to the five regions.
But this information path Gu Immortal could actually directly carve this bone path Gu Immortal's dao marks into his skeleton. The method was very special, it was rather unthinkable.
In the end, perceivable dao Immortal Gu even proved that this information path Gu Immortal had special methods that targeted dao marks.
"The complete information path true inheritance might have really had methods against dao marks. It is a pity I obtained this true inheritance too late, most of the Gu worms are dead, and the information path methods are lost."
How could everything be perfect in this world?
Fang Yuan could obtain Hei Fan's complete true inheritance, it was already very lucky.
The Eastern Sea information path inheritance had been there for too long, and the information path Gu Immortal had just killed his enemy, he created the inheritance on the verge of death. The contents of the true inheritance could not be preserved for long.
Even though he obtained perceivable dao Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan still needed to get more information path methods that could prevent him from being restricted by his alliance agreements.
"Searching for an information path Immortal Gu that can break alliance agreements is one way. But I need to keep it a secret, I cannot find Lang Ya Sect for help on this. Let alone getting Lang Ya land spirit to help me refine such an information path Immortal Gu."
Information path inheritances would not be easy to obtain, and Fang Yuan's information path attainment level was at ordinary level, he could not design his own Immortal Gu recipe and innovate.
In this trip to Eastern Sea, even though his gains were not few, Fang Yuan's original goal was not achieved.
He still sought out and lacked information path methods.
As his focus turned away from the sovereign immortal aperture, Fang Yuan began to focus on his soul path cultivation.
An hour later, he left Luo Po Valley.
He rigidly stuck to daily soul path cultivation. Because his soul path foundation grew rapidly, Fang Yuan could stay inside Luo Po Valley for a fifty percent longer time now.
However, now that Fang Yuan saw the trap inside his immortal zombie body, he was wavering on his plan of cultivating his soul.
Ying Wu Xie knew that Fang Yuan had Luo Po Valley and Dang Hun Mountain, how could he not consider this? Cultivating his soul was not a wrong decision, but by the time Fang Yuan gained enough soul foundation to resist the trap, a long time would have passed, he would have to put in a huge amount of effort!
And Fang Yuan's time and energy were not unlimited. He needed to spend a lot of time and effort in planning, devising ways to advance his cultivation and development.
"But I have to leave the matter of information path for later. The fifth earthly calamity is coming."
This earthly calamity was different from the previous four.
The last four times, Fang Yuan used immortal tribulation tempering aperture to undergo tribulation in the northern icy plain. But now, Fang Yuan could not stay in the northern icy plain, he had to find a new tribulation location.
What location should he choose?
A few days later, Chu Du sent him a letter, saying that he would help Fang Yuan undergo tribulation, in exchange for Reckless Savage's true meaning.
At once, Fang Yuan was in a situation with his hands tied!
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Northern Plains, Hei Fan grotto-heaven.
Chu Du stood in the air, the Immortal Gu aura on him was emanating, his immortal essence was being consumed rapidly.
"Open!"
Suddenly, he shouted, his eyes burst with bright light, his body shook intensely.
The ground several meters away from him started to crack open under the power of his immortal killer move.
Suddenly, this opening became larger, it extended out, a hundred feet, a thousand feet, ten thousand feet!
After tens of breaths, Hei Fan grotto-heaven stopped shaking, a huge trench of tens of thousands of feet opened up along the ground.
Chu Du had created an artificial Earth Trench with his strength alone, he was indeed an expert that stood tall and proud in Northern Plains!
He breathed roughly, looking at the trench below him, he frowned.
"It is not perfect yet, even if it is long enough, it is not deep enough. After all, earth path Gu Immortals are most skilled in doing this."
All paths had their own specialties.
Earth path Gu Immortals were particularly skilled at changing the terrain of the ground.
But Chu Du was a famous strength path Gu Immortal.
"There is another way, I can buy many rockman slaves and modify this place. However... forget it, this trench is enough for now."
Thinking of this, Chu Du took out a huge object from his immortal aperture.
This object was huge like a small mountain, it was a red and black meatball, it was hot and round, vibrating weakly.
Chu Du used his strength path hand, carrying this huge thing and slowly placing it into this newly created earth trench.
This huge thing landed in the trench, once it came into contact with the soil, it spread out, becoming flat, spreading across several li.
Next, its color started to change.
Initially, it was black and red, but after spreading out, it took in earth qi, as its color changed. A portion became blue, another became green, part of it resembled jade, while another side was red like fire.
Chu Du watched from above, seeing this color changing scene in the earth trench, it was quite a dazzling sight.
These were multicolored guts!
A rank seven immortal material that came from deep within Earth Trench.
Chu Du acted quickly, taking out dozens of multicolored guts from his immortal aperture, tossing them in.
The earth trench that was empty earlier was completely filled, no more multicolored guts could be put in.
After carefully inspecting it, Chu Du let out a breath, his body slowly ascended into the air.
He looked far away, taking in the view of Hei Fan grotto-heaven.
When he took it over from Fang Yuan, it was barren and completely ransacked by Fang Yuan, it was a terrible sight. But now, it had mountains and rivers, the resources were prudently distributed.
Undoubtedly, these resources were all relocated from Chu Du's own immortal aperture.
Even though he was just a lone immortal, his foundation in terms of resources was very deep.
"The initial developments are complete. In the future, Hei Fan grotto-heaven's production will far surpass my own immortal aperture."
"Looking at the time, Liu Guan Yi is about to undergo tribulation. Hmm?!"
Suddenly, Chu Du's expression froze, his sharp gaze pierced through the sky, he saw a twisted figure squeezing into Hei Fan grotto-heaven with much difficulty.
"Who is it? You dare to invade my grotto-heaven!" Chu Du shouted, his body flew over like a gust of wind.
After the figure got into the grotto-heaven, he smiled at Chu Du: "Domination Immortal, as a junior, your talent is quite good. In such a short time, you have already taken ownership of this place."
The invader spoke big words, against the great Northern Plains expert Domination Immortal Chu Du, he regarded himself as a senior.
But Chu Du did not rebuke him, he had a heavy expression: "It is you, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu."
It turned out, the invader of Hei Fan grotto-heaven was none other than one of the rank eight Gu Immortals in Northern Plains, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu!
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu was originally a lone cultivator, but in recent years, because Fang Yuan destroyed Imperial Court blessed land and Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, he saw hope in creating a super force.
He had planned this long ago, inside his Bai Zu grotto-heaven, he had countless blood related descendants and even multiple Gu Immortals.
Initially, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu and Yao Huang worked together to deal with Old Ancestor Xue Hu, even though they lost, he had obtained Yao Huang's support.
After that, when Hei tribe was exterminated, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu used the chance to take over Hei tribe's Iron Eagle blessed land, and also taking in all of Hei tribe's remnant forces.
Right now, Bai Zu tribe had officially taken over Hei tribe, becoming one of the righteous path super forces publicly recognized in Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world.
However, Northern Plains was different from the other four regions, most of the super forces were of the Huang Jin bloodline. As an outsider, Bai Zu tribe was quite unique. Even though Heavenly Lord Bai Zu knew this and tried to be amicable with the other super forces, giving up most of Hei tribe's resources to satisfy their appetite.
But after he officially created Bai Zu tribe, he realized that the surrounding forces were still targeting him. Because he had rank eight cultivation level, these super forces did not give him problems openly, but they created many small issues indirectly.
In order to defend his hard work, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu could only stay to guard there personally. As a result, he wasted a lot of time.
Until not long ago, when the surrounding righteous path Huang Jin tribes realized they could not gain anything anymore, they gave up and Bai Zu tribe's situation became better, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu finally rushed to Hei Fan grotto-heaven.
The four supreme elders of Hei tribe did not know the exact location of Hei Fan grotto-heaven, but they knew which area it was in.
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu acted secretly, coming here and spending a lot of effort to find out where Hei Fan grotto-heaven was.
After getting enough information, he took action and started to invade Hei Fan grotto-heaven!
"Chu Du, you are an astute person. If you back off, I will not make it hard for you, I was a lone cultivator myself." Heavenly Lord Bai Zu said calmly, urging Chu Du to give up.
Chu Du's lips curled up, he directly attacked!
Rumble!
With an intense clash, dust and clouds rose.
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu was destroyed by Chu Du in one move, there was a huge pit in the area he was standing at.
"Sending just an illusion, and you want to take Hei Fan grotto-heaven?" Chu Du snorted, turning his head.
The space behind him suddenly distorted, as a small centipede entered Hei Fan grotto-heaven from the outside.
Soon, the distortion vanished, and the centipede turned into Heavenly Lord Bai Zu's appearance, it was exactly the same as before.
"Nice method." The second Heavenly Lord Bai Zu looked at Chu Du, praising as he commented: "You attacked earlier without any warning, and not a bit of Immortal Gu aura leaked out, is this your immortal killer move formless strength?"
Chu Du did not answer, he asked: "Heavenly Lord Bai Zu, even if you have rank eight cultivation level, to snatch Hei Fan grotto-heaven away from me, it will not be easy. Because I have already developed this place for a while, I have made many arrangements."
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu smiled: "No matter how long you have been here, or how many arrangements you have made, I can break all of them with my own strength."
He spoke calmly, but he had an aura of confidence and power.
There was only one reason. He was a rank eight Gu Immortal, while Chu Du was rank seven.
Chu Du did not rebuke him, he nodded and admitted: "You are right, I cannot resist the might of a rank eight. But Hei Fan grotto-heaven is my territory, how can I give it up so easily?"
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu shook his head: "Hei Fan grotto-heaven is good, but it is not essential. If the great Domination Immortal dies in my hands because of it, isn't it a waste?"
Chu Du's eyes shined with a cold light: "Hmph! Too much bullshit, if you want to take Hei Fan grotto-heaven, just these small methods will not work. Show your true abilities, I want to see the might of a rank eight."
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu was silent for a while, before saying: "Fine."
As he said that, around Chu Du, in an enormous surrounding range, countless distorted figures appeared, huge quantities of centipede Gu went into Hei Fan grotto-heaven, turning into Heavenly Lord Bai Zu's appearance.
In an instant, Chu Du was surrounded by over ten thousand figures of Heavenly Lord Bai Zu.
Event though he was encircled, he was not nervous, he even showed a look of disdain.
"Just illusions, no matter how many, they are useless!" Chu Du raised his right hand, his fingers were spread out, before clenching together, forming a tight fist.
Boom!
A huge strength shot out from all directions, in the blink of an eye, all of the figures of Heavenly Lord Bai Zu were exterminated.
"You made many preparations indeed." Another figure of Heavenly Lord Bai Zu came from afar.
Chu Du's pupils shrunk, the Heavenly Lord Bai Zu in front of him was not the main body either, but it was different from the illusions that Chu Du had destroyed earlier.
Chu Du could sense the aura of Immortal Gu on this Heavenly Lord Bai Zu.
"Let's fight in the sky." Heavenly Lord Bai Zu was the first to fly up.
Chu Du followed him willingly.
There were lots of resources on the ground, he had placed them with much effort, Chu Du did not want these resources to be destroyed.
This was also Heavenly Lord Bai Zu's concern.
He had taken in Hei tribe, and built Bai Zu tribe, he made great losses. He had already paid a huge price to negotiate with the other four rank eight experts. Even though he took in Hei tribe, most of Hei tribe's resources were distributed to the other forces to satisfy them.
Thus, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu had a huge desire towards Hei Fan grotto-heaven.
But when he got here, he saw that the grotto-heaven had far less resources than he had estimated.
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu quickly realized that most of the resources were newly added. He naturally thought: Did Chu Du store those resources away already?
Thus, Chu Du became his greatest target.
An intense battle unfolded in the sky of Hei Fan grotto-heaven.
One side was the clone of a rank eight great expert, while the other was a famous rank seven expert, the two sides fought like rumbling thunder, the entire world was shaking.
After more than ten rounds of fighting, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu's clone could not take it anymore, it lost.
But soon, a second Heavenly Lord clone appeared and joined the fight, it also brought immortal essence and Immortal Gu with it, it was stronger than the first clone.
Chu Du fought against two enemies, but he got stronger as they fought, after another ten rounds, he had the advantage, he was about to execute the killing blow when a third Heavenly Lord clone appeared.
Chu Du's expression changed, he realized something was amiss!
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"Heavenly Lord Bai Zu has a method to invade grotto-heavens, but his main body cannot come in, he can only send clones."
"Hei Fan grotto-heaven has a huge space, and the brass bell heavenly spirit was destroyed by Liu Guan Yi, I cannot see the entire place, I do not know how many Heavenly Lord Bai Zu clones there are at this moment!"
"Every time I am about to kill a clone, new ones come in. This shows that he definitely has more than three, they have already formed and are ready to enter battle. Once I understand their methods and gain the advantage, when I am about to deal the killing blow, they would show up to save the other clones, this is definitely him trying to stall for time!"
Thoughts flashed in Chu Du's mind, he felt a bad sensation.
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu was stalling for time, he definitely had his motives!
Even though Chu Du could not decipher his true motive, there was one unquestionable point — he could not fight according to the enemy's tempo.
Thinking of this, Chu Du erupted, his body expanded rapidly, turning into a ten meter giant.
Immortal killer move — Battle Strength Transpiration!
His entire body turned red, all of the pores on his body opened up, as his sweat turned into steam, surrounding his body.
Next, he raised his right hand to face the sky palm up, his left hand was facing the ground, he chanted softly: "Try this move — Heaven and Earth Combined Strength."
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu's three clones could not move, they felt like the entire world was sending an unparalleled strength that restricted them, crushing towards them from all directions.
Chu Du did not feel well either.
The muscles in his entire body were tense, he had used all of his strength. Within the steam, his face was bright red, his eyes were bloodshot, especially his two arms, they were bulging with beings resembling moving earthworms, it was quite terrifying.
His right arm moved down, his left arm moved up, as if two hills were converging towards the center with great difficulty.
In his immortal aperture, red date immortal essence expended rapidly.
As Chu Du did this, the three Heavenly Lord Bai Zu clones felt horrible. They felt that the force around them was increasing, they were almost getting crushed.
Seeing that these three clones were about to explode, at the crucial moment, the fourth, fifth, and sixth clones came to save them.
Boom boom!
With two loud sounds, the first clone and second clone were completely smashed by Chu Du, they were reduced to dust, but their Immortal Gu and immortal essence were missing, they were not destroyed.
"What an amazing killer move, it can attack, defend, and even immobilize multiple targets, it is almost like an incomplete battlefield killer move!" The third clone was saved, but it still felt lingering fear.
"No matter how many clones come, it is useless! I prepared this next move for rank eight existences. Heavenly Lord Bai Zu, if you refuse to show up, you will not be able to save these clones." Chu Du shouted, preparing his attack.
He had spread out his arms and legs in a '大' shape, his hands were facing heaven, palms upward, aura of Immortal Gu and mortal Gu were emanating from his body, changing constantly, just the aura alone was far superior than the heaven and earth combined strength earlier, it was truly shocking.
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu's clones all moved back, they used their defensive killer moves, preparing themselves.
Boom boom boom.
At the next moment, the Heavenly Lord clones self-detonated without any warning.
"What move is this?" Outside Hei Fan grotto-heaven, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu's main body frowned deeply.
Even though his clones were all destroyed, he still had memories of the battle, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu could learn about Chu Du's mystical attack.
"This killer move is formless and covers a range. Once one is within range, from within, an internal strength would be produced and detonate the body. Hmm? The area that it covers is actually so huge!"
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu frowned deeply.
Inside Hei Fan grotto-heaven, Chu Du covered his mysterious strength path killer move over the entirety of Hei Fan grotto-heaven.
It caused all of Heavenly Lord Bai Zu's clones to self-detonate.
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu smiled: "Interesting, it seems that I cannot deal with Chu Du unless I enter personally."
Once he said that, he used an immortal killer move.
A profound white centipede figure flew out of his body, it drilled into space, causing a huge distorted shadow to appear in Hei Fan grotto-heaven instantly.
Next, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu took large strides, stepping into the shadow.
"Want to come in?" Chu Du laughed, stomping his feet.
A strength path leg flew out and kicked the distorted shadow, sending Heavenly Lord Bai Zu out.
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu was stunned, before showing a furious and helpless expression: "This Hei Fan grotto-heaven is easy to defend and hard to attack, I will need twenty breaths of time to enter it. In this process, there is enough time for Chu Du to stop me. If I send clones in, they will instantly self-detonate, they are useless..."
Chu Du was completely defending, hiding inside Hei Fan grotto-heaven, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu felt difficulty against this well defended fortress.
"Heavenly Lord Bai Zu is attacking Hei Fan grotto-heaven?" Fang Yuan held Chu Du's letter of emergency support as he let out a breath of air.
His worry was lifted.
Even though Chu Du was his ally, in order to defend Hei Fan grotto-heaven, using the properties of the grotto-heaven to contest with Heavenly Lord Bai Zu, there were great advantages for Fang Yuan in this.
Lang Ya land spirit wanted to recruit Chu Du, it was very difficult. But if it succeeded, and Chu Du joined Lang Ya Sect, it would greatly affect Fang Yuan's current status. If he failed, Fang Yuan's relationship with the variant humans would be exposed, the situation would be unthinkable.
Fang Yuan could only stall it, one day at a time.
Because of the alliance agreement, Fang Yuan could not lie to Chu Du, especially in terms of the tribulation. Fang Yuan could not continue to undergo tribulation in the northern icy plain, this way, Chu Du would make guesses, it would expose the snowmen and rockmen under the northern icy plain. If this was settled poorly, and Chu Du attacked the tribe, Fang Yuan would be trapped in the middle, the situation would be very awkward and dangerous.
Thus, he could not make alliances casually, in fact, most Gu Immortals were very wary when making alliances.
Fang Yuan had originally intended to use his time path killer move to slow the time in his immortal aperture, and inform Chu Du about it.
This was not lying, it was the truth.
Next, Fang Yuan would hasten his immortal aperture's time, before starting his tribulation, he would inform Chu Du that the situation had changed. This way, Chu Du would not make it in time, even though it would ruin his relationship and trust, it was the best way.
Chu Du was very astute, there were no loopholes in his alliance agreement, Fang Yuan could only think of this roundabout way.
This method was very troublesome however, not only would it waste Fang Yuan's immortal essence, it would also cause a rift between Fang Yuan and Chu Du.
All in all, it was troublesome.
But now, Chu Du was forced to defend Hei Fan grotto-heaven, he was engaging Heavenly Lord Bai Zu in battle, he could not leave.
Fang Yuan mentally praised: "Heavenly Lord Bai Zu really came in the nick of time, he solved a huge problem for me!"
"For that to have happened, my luck was pretty good."
Fang Yuan started to reply using the information path mortal Gu.
In the letter, he expressed concern and sympathy for Chu Du's encounter, he showed his intense fury and hatred towards Heavenly Lord Bai Zu's invasion. He said that he would definitely help Chu Du and would not break the alliance agreement. But!
His tribulation was coming, he had to get through this first before helping Chu Du, and getting rid of the huge threat, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu.
He hoped that Chu Du would understand.
Chu Du quickly replied. He showed his understanding and told Fang Yuan: It was not hard to deal with Heavenly Lord Bai Zu's invasion, he had already rallied allies to support him, he hoped that Fang Yuan could settle his problem and quickly help.
Fang Yuan quickly replied: He would do his best, and all that he could, he hoped that Chu Du could hold on!
A few days later.
Fang Yuan left Lang Ya blessed land, using the super Gu formation to teleport out.
Next, he rushed to Earth Trench without stopping, choosing an appropriate location to place his immortal aperture.
The main part of Northern Plains' Earth Trench had seventeen sections, they were managed by Zombie Alliance. But after the battle of Yi Tian Mountain, Zombie Alliance was used by Shadow Sect and sacrificed, used to refine sovereign immortal fetus Gu, it caused the Zombie Alliances in all five regions to vanish overnight.
However, Shadow Sect also had their arrangements.
For Northern Plain Zombie Alliance, the headquarters, Dark Flow City, had sunken into Earth Trench, other than the remaining members of Shadow Sect, nobody could find it.
Fang Yuan came to an Earth Trench, it was not the one in Zombie Alliance. There were large numbers of lone immortals and demonic immortals there, they were all trying to look for Dark Flow City. Ying Wu Xie and the rest might have even gone to the secret base there, unless Fang Yuan was a fool, he would not undergo tribulation there.
Most parts of Earth Trench were split up by super forces, or were occupied by Gu Immortal experts.
The part Fang Yuan chose had been completely excavated, nobody wanted it anymore, after countless battles, it was barren and empty, nobody came here anymore.
Fang Yuan chose this place purely because this place had rich earth path dao marks, as well as many dark path dao marks too.
Immortal tribulation tempering aperture!
Fang Yuan successfully activated this immortal killer move.
Next, he opened his immortal aperture's entrance, as heaven and earth qi rushed in.
Soon, the fifth earthly calamity formed.
The sky turned dark, a huge skeletal shadow covered up half of the sky.
The skeleton cackled, opening its mouth and spitting out a dark current that resembled a black python.
The dark current flew rapidly, everywhere it went, the soil became corroded, in an instant, they melted completely and turned into puddles of black rotten water, emitting a foul smell.
Earthly calamity — Corrosive Dark Current!
Fang Yuan recognized the earthly calamity, he quickly dealt with it.
The corrosive dark current was hard to deal with, Fang Yuan did not have any methods that resisted it, he could only fight it using his strong offensive methods.
The skeleton continued to spit, as waves of corrosive dark current rushed towards Fang Yuan like seas of snakes.
Heaven's will had purposely raised the calamity's power to its limit, Fang Yuan was in a difficult state.
This earthly calamity did not have Reckless Savage's true meaning. It was completely controlled by heaven's will, thus, it was multiple times as powerful than before.
However, Fang Yuan had grown drastically in strength, forget about the Eastern Sea information path inheritance, he had also obtained Hei Fan's true inheritance, he had many time path immortal killer moves to use. Even though he looked distressed, rushing around frantically, he had been preserving his strength to deal with unexpected situations.
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