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Fang Yuan's pure dream clone had already shattered his aperture to start the immortal ascension.

Once this process started, it could not be stopped. Either he became an immortal or he would face failure in death!

Heaven qi poured down like a calm yet swift breeze, earth qi rose up with a heavy and stable feeling.

The pure dream clone emitted a dense human qi as well.

The complete Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique was the eleventh extreme physique, it contained an immense amount of human qi to begin with.

As the three qi converged, qi currents surged and intertwined, creating a huge cocoon that enveloped the pure dream clone's entire body tightly, leaving no gaps outside.

At this juncture, Gu Masters had to be mindful to regulate the three qi and fuse them together. The three qi had to be balanced, if human qi was slightly in excess, it would lead to self-detonation. If heaven qi was slightly more, the Gu Master would dissolve into the sky. If earth qi was slightly denser, the Gu Master would turn into a fossil and suffocate to death.

This step was precarious.

But Fang Yuan had absolute confidence in the pure dream clone.

He had already given the pure dream clone an abundance of memories regarding immortal ascension. This not only included Fang Yuan himself but also those he soul searched. For example, the Northern Plains Gu Immortals like Hei Cheng, or Southern Border Gu Immortals like Xia Cha, there were also many Eastern Sea, Central Continent, and Western Desert Gu Immortals that Fang Yuan harmed.

In the long history of Gu cultivation, in terms of immortal ascension experience, the pure dream clone's accumulation was definitely rare.

The difficulty of the pure dream clone's immortal ascension was not the three qi, but the tribulation!

In the sky, heaven and earth qi rumbled like a turbulent sea. A vast amount of pink fog covered the sky of a few thousand li, it was grand and majestic, emitting a dense aura of dream path.

Fang Yuan's main body was solemnly awaiting it, this immortal ascension definitely enraged heaven's will greatly, the difficulty was far beyond ordinary.

Bam bam bam...

At the next moment, rumbling thunder could be heard unceasingly.

Within the sea of pink clouds, more than ten balls of light shot down.

These balls were all pink in color, they were large as mountains, the surfaces were smooth without any impurities.

The balls of light did not move quickly, they gave people a feeling of being weightless.

As the ten pink balls descended, they were aimed at the pure dream clone who was floating in the air.

Fang Yuan immediately acted to obstruct them.

There were countless thoughts accumulated in his mind, at once, his thoughts collided, killer moves were unleashed in rapid succession, creating a huge sky of fireworks that blocked the ten pink balls.

The following scene was a slight shock to Fang Yuan.

One pink ball shattered into countless bubbles that spread in the sky.

One pink ball engulfed everything in its path as it expanded by several times.

One pink ball shattered and turned into desolate beast nightmare demonic colts, rapidly approaching the pure dream clone.

One pink ball turned into a lump of dream realms that flew over.

One pink ball turned into a dream path Immortal Gu, rapidly vanishing into thin air.

...

The ten pink balls had varying effects, it was a chaotic scene!

Any ordinary Gu Immortal would have flustered by now, but with Fang Yuan's deep wisdom path attainment, he made the most appropriate reaction right away.

He first released the desolate level year beasts in his immortal aperture to resist the nightmare demonic colts.

Next, he waved his sleeves, dense smoke flew out and captured all of the dream butterflies that got close to the pure dream clone.

After that, he used pure dream reality seeker transformation on the dream realm!

But this dream realm still approached the top of the pure dream clone's head as its form changed violently, resisting Fang Yuan's pure dream reality seeker transformation.

"It seems that this dream realm contains heaven's will." Fang Yuan did not worry.

Even though he had not undergone a dream path immortal ascension before, he had already made many deductions regarding this.

This was one of the scenarios that he deduced.

A large amount of wisdom path and dream path Gu worms were rapidly activated in the sovereign immortal aperture, they formed a killer move, heaven's will dissipation.

This killer move was modified by Fang Yuan, it was originally able to dispel the heaven's will in dream realms but the efficiency was too low. After modification, by adding in dream path Immortal Gu, the speed became faster.

However, the brand new heaven's will dissipation could not work on this dream realm.

"What is going on?" Fang Yuan frowned.

At the next moment, thoughts collided in his mind, inspiration flashed.

"This dream realm is fake!"

"This is why pure dream reality seeker transformation did not work earlier. Even if I use heaven's will dissipation, the result is the same."

"But in that case..." A dark light flashed in Fang Yuan's eyes as he hesitated for once: "Looking at the scene in front of me, what is real and what is fake?"

The seemingly chaotic tribulation had real and fake elements to it.

But even with Fang Yuan's strength, he could not tell.

One skill to dominate the world, this was the power of dream path, even Fang Yuan's main body succumbed to it unknowingly.

"Indeed, the pure dream clone is only undergoing immortal ascension, the tribulation cannot be this powerful. There were desolate beasts and dream path Immortal Gu... Why did I not realize this earlier?"

Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk uncontrollably.

The dream path tribulation was truly peculiar, not only could it blur reality and truth, it could even silently affect Fang Yuan's thoughts and mental state.

Dream armor Immortal Gu had been given to the pure dream clone long ago, Fang Yuan quickly used his compound killer move.

Using dreaming Immortal Gu as the core, his body started to shine in a layer of profound light, it was able to defend against some dream path abilities.

Fang Yuan instantly felt his mind clearing up, he was no longer disrupted when thinking.

But that did not help the tribulation that the clone was facing.

At this time, Fang Yuan could only stop his actions!

Just a mere rank six tribulation was able to force the pseudo venerable Fang Yuan to no longer take action.

Because soon, Fang Yuan realized that he could not decipher the reality and illusion of this scene, was that the case for the pure dream clone too?

Even though Fang Yuan felt that the pure dream clone's cocoon had never changed location, it was likely that its traces had already been concealed.

If Fang Yuan did anything now, he might be killing the pure dream clone in reality!

At this time, dream path defensive methods became extremely precious.

Fang Yuan did not move, he let the dream path tribulation hit him, only using the compound killer move to defend himself.

As for the pure dream clone, he was defended by dream armor Immortal Gu.

The pure dream clone did not have the sovereign immortal body, he could not use Fang Yuan's compound killer moves.

The pure dream clone also had to stabilize the three qi, he could not divert his precious thoughts into activating any dream path killer moves.

The truth was, Fang Yuan was only a dream path master, he could not create dream path killer moves compatible with the pure dream clone in this short period of time.

Thus, the pure dream clone directly activated dream armor Immortal Gu instead.

Even though dream armor Immortal Gu was rank seven, the pure dream clone had the immortal essence that the main body gave him.

Fang Yuan was very patient, he watched the dream realm descend upon his clone, he watched as the nightmare demonic colts got free from the year beasts and attacked the pure dream clone.

The dream path tribulation lasted for over forty-five minutes before the clouds in the sky dissipated.

Heaven and earth was clear again.

As heaven and earth qi faded away, the sea became calm again.

The nightmare demonic colts on the ground returned to their original form, they were actually the desolate level year beasts that Fang Yuan released earlier.

As expected, the cocoon was not far away, it was to the left of Fang Yuan!

This discovery made Fang Yuan's heart turn cold. The cocoon was at a dangerous spot, if Fang Yuan used any killer move, he could likely implicate it.

By then, Fang Yuan's main body would be the culprit that killed the pure dream clone!

The dream path immortal ascension was truly dangerous.

If Fang Yuan took risks, it was likely that his main body would be the biggest obstacle for his clone's tribulation. Thankfully, Fang Yuan was vigilant and only did the tribulation after getting dream armor Immortal Gu.

Even so, this immortal ascension was very dangerous, he almost failed to pass it.

"This dream path tribulation even managed to affect my main body, let's call it bewildering illusion dream tribulation." Even though Fang Yuan also had a compound killer move that contained dreaming Immortal Gu and could be used for investigation, this killer move was clearly not enough to decipher the truth.

The key was that he had too few dream path Immortal Gu.

Dream Armor was with the clone, the main body only had rank seven Dreaming and rank eight Dream Token.

If Dream Token was used alone, the user would die from using it, because this Immortal Gu uses all of the Gu Immortal's foundation (immortal essence, emotions, true meaning) to create a dream realm.

The size and power of the dream realm would depend on the situation.

Back then, Wu Shuai was a peak rank eight Gu Immortal, he was a quasi-supreme grandmaster in enslavement path, after sacrificing his life, Dragon Palace gained the power to enslave the Four Dragon Generals.

Dream Token was very hard to use alone, killer moves that used it as the core were very difficult to activate. In Fang Yuan's case, it was not even as useful as rank seven dreaming Immortal Gu.

The three qi fused into one lump.

The pure dream clone tossed a rank five dream butterfly mortal Gu into it.

At the next moment, there was a loud sound as the three qi exploded, creating an immortal aperture.

With the creation of the immortal aperture, it started to absorb the surrounding heaven and earth qi of the pure dream clone in a frenzy and grew rapidly.

The pure dream clone put in dream armor Immortal Gu and the rest, quickly soothing the three qi and stabilizing the newly created blessed land.

The blessed land was completed, even though it was not comparable to the sovereign immortal aperture, it was a super grade blessed land, far beyond high grade.

The complete pure dream clone had a ten extreme physique, thus, it was not strange to have a super grade blessed land that only ten extreme physiques could obtain.

With the blessed land, a portion of heaven and earth qi still remained.

The pure dream clone used the chance to refine his vital Gu.

The dream butterfly mortal Gu that he tossed in earlier was his vital Gu.

During the resonance with heaven and earth earlier, he learned of three dream path Immortal Gu recipes from natural inspiration, dream butterfly Immortal Gu was one of them.

Dream butterfly Immortal Gu successfully became rank six, Fang Yuan finally had a total of four dream path Immortal Gu now!

After the Immortal Gu was refined, new dream path tribulations appeared in the blessed land, but the might was far lower than the immortal ascension tribulation.

This time, Fang Yuan's main body did not need to do anything.

Fang Yuan gave dreaming Immortal Gu to the pure dream clone, the latter used the three Immortal Gu to pass the tribulation.

"Dreamy light smoke of the otherworldly guest,"

"Calling out the inner soul of my nightly dream."

"Even if this is not fated for a hundred years,"

"I leave behind this mortal shell to seek reality in my dream."

After the tribulation, the pure dream clone sang his poem, he placed his palm by his chest, bowing at the main body: "From today onwards, my name is Meng Qiu Zhen[1]."

Fang Yuan laughed: "Good name. Meng Qiu Zhen, show me your dream path blessed land."

He was very interested in the dream path blessed land.

This dream path super grade blessed land had a total of 8000 km2 of land, the rate of time was forty-six times, the immortal aperture origin core would produce fifty-five green grape immortal essence each year.

This was the standard of a super grade blessed land, there was nothing out of the norm.

The truly satisfactory thing for Fang Yuan was the special environment of the blessed land.

"This is the best location to nurture dream path immortal material, the potential for development is huge, it did not disappoint me after all." After some observation, Fang Yuan was quite satisfied.

The severe lack of dream path immortal materials had always troubled him.

With this dream path immortal aperture, he had a foundation to develop more immortal materials.

Throughout history, the signature development of a new path was the emergence of Gu Immortals that cultivate the path! Because of the unique and enclosed environment, the Gu Immortal's immortal aperture could rapidly grow a large amount of immortal materials of that path, these immortal materials would flow into the market and push the path to prosper and progress.

[1] Literally Dream Reality Seeker, he uses a part of the physique as his name, this is also what the last part of the poem refers to.

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"Kill, kill him!"

"Don't let him bring the Immortal Gu away!"

"That Immortal belongs to me, Gu Diao Gui Men, don't think of leaving."

The pursuing group was closing in, Feng Jin Huang had two paths ahead of her to choose from.

Only one could allow her to escape, the other path would lead to Diao Gui Men's blessed land headquarters.

Feng Jin Huang did not hesitate, she chose the left path and rushed out.

With a loud sound, the view before her shined brightly.

Feng Jin Huang was slightly dazed, she soon found that her soul had returned to the outside world. The dream realm from earlier had already vanished.

"I passed the dream realm, as expected, that wild soul path Immortal Gu is the key!" After her soul returned to her body, Feng Jin Huang showed an excited expression: "This time, my soul path attainment level rose. Dream path master attainment level is really helpful when exploring dream realms."

Ever since that dangerous situation in the Gu refinement secret room, Feng Jin Huang benefited from the ordeal instead and advanced to dream path master.

The last scene of the dream realm earlier was also Feng Jin Huang's first attempt, she did not know which way was the right one. But at the crucial moment, her dream path master instincts told her which was the correct route to take.

"It is a pity that I cannot control the instinct gained by becoming a dream path master, it works at times but does not have effect at other times."

"If I can become a dream path grandmaster, this instinct will be many times stronger, I can even use dream path Gu worms to form killer moves that mimic other paths as well."

Feng Jin Huang sighed internally.

This advancement to dream path master was already an incredible experience to her, she had been fortunate to succeed after facing immense danger and the threat of death.

Feng Jin Huang could clearly feel that her understanding and accumulated knowledge of dream path had been used up, she barely became a dream path master. To raise her attainment level again, she would need to accumulate more foundation next, this would take a long time.

After packing up, Feng Jin Huang stood up and pushed the door of the cultivation secret room open.

Passing the long walkway, she arrived in the living room.

Fairy Bai Qing had already cooked food, the table was full of delicacies.

Seeing Feng Jin Huang, Fairy Bai Qing smiled: "Huang Er, has your cultivation for today ended? Looking at your expression, you must have succeeded."

"Indeed, mother. Dream path master attainment level is truly phenomenal, it is so helpful for my dream realm explorations!" Feng Jin Huang sat down and described the final scene of the dream realm: "If not for my instincts, my soul would have gotten heavily injured now."

Fairy Bai Qing's smile faded away: "I've already looked into it, that situation is quite clear now. The ones plotting against you are Li Jun Ying and Xu Hao. Li Jun Ying secretly became a shadow path great grandmaster but kept a low profile, allowing her to tamper with the Gu materials. But eventually, Zhao Lian Yun did not harm you but saved you instead. I am truly seeing this otherworldly demon in another light. No wonder she could become the current generation fairy, it was not just because she was the lucky person who received love Gu's recognition."

Feng Jin Huang had a complex expression on her face.

She recalled the scene in the secret room, fear still lingering in her heart.

Back then, she was completely defenseless, she was fish on the chopping block, Zhao Lian Yun could decide her life and death.

Even though Feng Jin Huang survived without any danger in the end, this situation still stirred her inner heart greatly!

Fairy Bai Qing continued to speak: "Huang Er, I have already inspected your body, there are no problems. Did Zhao Lian Yun really just save you, she did not list any requests?"

Feng Jin Huang shook her head: "Even though she did not say it, I have already guessed her plan. After all, her eventual goal is very obvious. Mother, forget about this, let's eat! After eating, I need to continue exploring dream realms."

Fairy Bai Qing nodded: "As long as you know what you are doing. But cultivating day and night all the time is no good, cultivation has its own pace to follow."

"Mother!" Feng Jin Huang interrupted Fairy Bai Qing: "I know about the concept of pacing myself, but I also know that I need to be stronger. I can only protect you when I am stronger, I do not want to be the one who is constantly protected. Only by getting stronger can I fulfill master's dying wish and become a dream path Gu Immortal. Only by getting stronger can I make people like Zhao Lian Yun and Fang Yuan unable to bully and plot against me. Only by getting stronger can I face my father directly and engage with him in a fight to show him my true goals!"

Fairy Bai Qing was dazed for a moment.

Feng Jin Huang's eyes were seemingly emitting bright light, two rays of light shot into Fairy Bai Qing's heart.

Fairy Bai Qing held down her worries as she smiled: "Huang Er, since you have made your decision, go ahead and do it. I will support you all the way! If you have any needs, I will do my best to help you."

Feng Jin Huang left her seat and came to Fairy Bai Qing, she held her mother's hands: "Mother, I know you love me. Do you have any method to get guts Gu? I need guts Gu the most now."

Fairy Bai Qing smiled bitterly: "Oh Huang Er, this request is too much for me. You know that guts Gu is only produced on Dang Hun Mountain, and this mountain is in the hands of that demon Gu Yue Fang Yuan, he has already stopped selling guts Gu publicly for a long time now. All of the guts Gu in the market are just the remaining stock that he sold in the past, with the quantity dwindling, the price is also getting higher."

Feng Jin Huang sighed: "Mother, you know that many methods can heal my soul but they will have certain side effects, nothing can match guts Gu. I must become a dream path Gu Immortal, if my soul has too many varying dao marks at that time, it will limit my future potential."

Fairy Bai Qing patted Feng Jin Huang's hands: "I will do my best, sigh, if only your father was here..."

Feng Jin Huang's expression changed as she said in displeasure: "Mother, don't mention him in front of me!"

"Alright, alright, I won't talk about him."

At the same time, Affection Peak.

"To think that the sect sent you to convince me." The owner of Affection Peak, Zhao Lian Yun, looked at the person with a smile.

Bu Zhen Zi smiled bitterly: "Fairy, please don't take offense. This was a task given to me, I had no choice but to come here and talk to you."

Zhao Lian Yun's smile widened: "You are too polite. Back then, when we went to Northern Plains and fought on Snowy Mountain, if not for your protection, I would have died already, please come in, I have prepared some tea for you."

Bu Zhen Zi was a rank seven Gu Immortal who cultivated phantom path, back then, he was ordered by the sect to protect Zhao Lian Yun, he showed a good performance in Reverse Flow River and was heavily nurtured after returning to the sect.

Spirit Affinity House's higher-ups also considered this point, they sent Bu Zhen Zi here to convince Zhao Lian Yun to stop her actions.

Bu Zhen Zi arrived in the evening, when the tea ceremony ended, the moon had already appeared into the sky.

"Fairy, there is no need to send me off, I will take my leave now." Bu Zhen Zi cupped his fists, his expression was joyful, this discussion was quite successful, Zhao Lian Yun was far more magnanimous and easy-going than he had expected.

Zhao Lian Yun nodded: "Goodbye."

Bu Zhen Zi said sincerely: "Fairy, I have already understood your circumstances and problem, I will go and inform first supreme elder, please do not worry."

Zhao Lian Yun smiled: "I will have to trouble you then."

Zhao Lian Yun watched as Bu Zhen Zi left, even after his figure vanished into the clouds, she still remained standing at the top of Affection Peak.

Night winds howled, the surrounding mountains were covered in dense fog, nearly concealing even the bright moon in the sky.

This was Spirit Affinity House's main headquarters, the moon in the sky was just an immortal formation in essence.

Zhao Lian Yun was dressed in white, her clothes moved along with the wind, she had long black silky hair and clear skin, her eyes were furrowed as she looked at the night sky.

She was Spirit Affinity House's current generation fairy, her status was very high, even a rank seven expert like Bu Zhen Zi had to speak to her politely.

She had the Thieving Heaven true inheritance of divine concealment, she controlled love Gu, she could command people at will, it was really not easy for an otherworldly demon like her to reach this stage.

However, none of these made Zhao Lian Yun happy.

"Right now, I have become an immortal but you are not by my side. Sigh, being an immortal is no better than a mortal..."

The huge five regions and two heavens were still not her homeland, she could not truly feel at ease.

She was once favored by fortune, she encountered Ma Hong Yun, whom she entrusted her heart to.

But destiny was also cruel, she got separated from Ma Hong Yun, getting sold publicly as Feng Jiu Ge bought her, she participated in the Reverse Flow River battle but watched as Fang Yuan killed Ma Hong Yun in front of her.

She was used by Xu Hao and Li Jun Ying as a pawn, she had once knelt on the ground and begged, she tried all ways possible to become the current generation fairy.

She was given trouble at the secret inheritance peak, at that time, Spirit Affinity House's Gu Immortals were very cold to her.

After hearing of Fang Zheng's successful immortal ascension, she went to visit him and even brought gifts.

She helped Fang Zheng train his blood turns cold killer move.

With the help of Xu Hao and Li Jun Ying, she became the Affection Peak Lord. She knew about this couple's scheme, but she had to agree to deal with Feng Jin Huang for them.

But not only did Feng Jin Huang not die, Zhao Lian Yun saved her instead.

This was Zhao Lian Yun's scheme.

"Xu Hao and Li Jun Ying made use of me, but I can also make use of their hatred towards Feng Jiu Ge to manipulate them! If they want to deal with Feng Jiu Ge, they will need to rely on me. I can also use them to cultivate and grow faster. Thankfully, I have divine concealment, it allows me to face wisdom path Gu Immortals with ease."

"Bu Zhen Zi and I have some history of fighting together, we can become allies for benefits."

"Fang Zheng has already become the Demon Judgment Board Lord, my investment was truly worth it."

"And Feng Jin Huang also owes me this favor, maybe we can join hands to deal with Fang Yuan. After all, he snatched her Hu Immortal blessed land."

Zhao Lian Yun schemed with all her strength, a vague web that connected several forces was already forming around her.

She only had one goal, that was to retrieve Ma Hong Yun's soul from Fang Yuan and revive her lover!

"Fang Yuan..." Zhao Lian Yun muttered, the worry on her face deepened immediately.

Fang Yuan was like the fog that covered this sky, he was grand and vast, compared to him, Zhao Lian Yun was insignificant and weak.

Her goal was like the moon in the sky, clouds covered it and hid everything from her, almost completely obscured.

She could not see the path ahead, she could not find a destination.

Zhao Lian Yun gritted her teeth, her body was like a weak white flower that would be blown away by the wind at any time.

But her eyes were still shining brightly.

"I need to persevere!"

"I cannot give up."

"If even I fail, then who can still save Hong Yun?"

"In this world, he can only rely on me. And I can only rely on myself!"

"Tomorrow, I will head to Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range. The traces of their fight can still be found there, I can gain first-hand information and deduce Fang Yuan's current strength."

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Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range.

In an ordinary and common cave, the four great obscenities of Central Continent chose to rest in this place.

Eastern Obscenity Chen Yin Dao, Western Thief Yu Ba Guang, Southern Disturbance Shi Bao and Northern Squandering Fan Chun Yao, they all had rank four cultivation level, they were infamous in Central Continent's Gu Master world, they had taken the chastity and lives of many innocent girls.

At this time, these four men were standing in a circle, they stared at a young man who was unconscious, observing him.

"Why hasn't he woken up yet?"

"He has been sleeping these last days, he has not even eaten anything but he is still full of vitality."

"Do you guys think he is an immortal?"

The four Gu Masters were talking about Wang Xiao Er.

Wang Xiao Er was an ordinary shepherd, but life was extremely cruel to him. During the battle to pursue Fang Yuan, the aftermath caused the mountain he lived on to be destroyed, all of his family members were dead.

But for some reason, Wang Xiao Er did not die, he even fell into this peculiar state.

"Think about it, when we first met him, the grass and flowers around him were blooming and dying constantly. He might be a Gu Immortal who joined that battle, he got injured and his enemies thought he was dead, but he used some method to preserve his life, except he fell into a coma afterwards." Yu Ba Guang tried to connect the events.

They were just Gu Masters after all, they did not have the information that Heavenly Court was spreading around in treasure yellow heaven.

"But if he is an immortal, why would an immortal dress like this?" Shi Bao pointed at Wang Xiao Er's clothes as he showed a strange expression.

Wang Xiao Er's clothes were tattered and patched up, he obviously had the lowest status in society, he was not even qualified to become a Gu Master.

Fan Chun Yao rubbed his chin: "If only we can soul search him, we would know the truth. But these days, even though we used all our soul searching methods, there was no effect. This is definitely something a Gu Master cannot do."

Soul searching methods had been widely spread ever since Spectral Soul created them, it was simply too convenient after all.

Any demonic path Gu Master who did not know a single soul searching method would be too ashamed to call themselves demonic.

The four Gu Masters gritted their teeth, they had never seen such a peculiar situation, they did not know what to do now.

Eight eyes stared at Wang Xiao Er fixedly.

Chen Yin Dao spoke: "Sigh, look at his motionless state, if only this were a female immortal."

The other three looked at each other.

"Hehehe." At the next moment, they chuckled knowingly.

After some silence, Shi Bao suddenly shouted: "Screw it, waiting like this will have no progress! I am going to take action."

"What are you thinking of doing?" Fan Chun Yao asked.

Shi Bao snickered: "This!"

Before finishing his words, he attacked abruptly, he activated an offensive Gu worm and shot out a red light at Wang Xiao Er.

"You are crazy!" The others were shocked.

But soon, all of their attention was drawn by the phenomenon around Wang Xiao Er.

They saw that traces of silver threads glowing around Wang Xiao Er, these threads easily blocked the red light, it weakened and dissipated instantly.

Shi Bao was dumbfounded, the others showed the same expression. They all knew that this was Shi Bao's strongest method, but it was easily dispelled by this Wang Xiao Er.

"Looking at his aura alone, this is clearly just a mortal."

"But he managed to block Shi Bao's attack in his sleep, this is something that even a rank five Gu Master has to block carefully."

"If he is not an immortal, what can he be? This is not something a Gu Master can do."

"Wait, his eyelids are moving!!!"

The four were shocked, the cave fell into dead silence.

Wang Xiao Er slowly opened his eyes, his vision was still blurred, his mind was in a mess.

He sat up.

Plop, plop... the four Gu Masters knelt down on the ground, shouting: "Immortal, spare us!"

Wang Xiao Er was shocked: "Who are you guys? Where am I? Wait, who am I?"

Wang Xiao Er hugged his head as pain could be seen on his face.

The four demonic path Gu Master looked at each other, a similar thought appeared in all their minds.

"Don't tell me, the immortal... lost his memories?!"

Several days later.

In a valley at night, a raging bonfire was burning.

"Come, drink wine!" Chen Yin Dao placed his arm around Wang Xiao Er's shoulder as he took out the precious wine that was kept for years, offering it to him.

Wang Xiao Er's face was already red, he was covered in the odor of alcohol.

Once he took the bowl, Shi Bao smiled as he handed the fragrant barbecued meat to Wang Xiao Er.

"Come, eat, little brother." Shi Bao's tone was so mushy he even felt like vomiting, this evil individual had never been so nice to anyone.

Wang Xiao Er was not only looking rosy, even his clothes had changed, the quality was much better than before.

He drank wine and ate meat as he said: "Brothers, you are really nice people, not only did you save me, you are treating me so well."

"Don't mention it!" Chen Yin Dao patted Wang Xiao Er's shoulder: "It was fate that we met."

At the same time, his heart was bleeding internally: "My wine that has been kept for more than ten years, I couldn't even bear to drink it myself!"

"We are all people in the same situation, this is nothing." Yu Ba Guang returned, he had just arranged some investigative Gu worms in the surroundings, he showed an honest and dependable smile.

"Rely on family when at home, rely on friends when outside. As long as everyone helps each other, I believe this world will become a better place!" Seeing the other three's performances, Fan Chun Yao did not want to fall behind as well.

They were all shocked by the scene in the cave earlier. After confirming that Wang Xiao Er was a Gu Immortal who had lost his memories, they decided to treat him like their own ancestor.

After all, if Wang Xiao Er regains his memories in the future, seeing how well the four of them treated him, he would not do anything bad to them.

Wang Xiao Er drank wine and ate meat, after filling his stomach, he went to sleep on the comfortable and large bed that the four of them prepared.

He had truly gotten amnesiac.

Even though he did not lose his ability to function as a person, he could not remember any of the details of his past.

During this period, the four Gu Masters had brought him back to the ruins but his memories did not return.

All that happened was that Wang Xiao Er remembered his own name, he told the four great obscenities.

Wang Xiao Er felt that life was very blissful.

But the other four Gu Masters felt like life was currently torture.

Since when did these four demonic path Gu Masters act so subserviently before? They were ruthless and cruel, they did things without worry, why would they put up this groveling attitude?

Thus, a few days later, these four Gu Masters could not take it anymore.

"Guys, even though I want to know the immortal ascension method from this immortal, this life is really too hard to live."

"I know, we have to be careful all the time, it is really stifling."

"My worry is, if this Gu Immortal recovers his memories, will he really reward us?"

"If he is a righteous path Gu Immortal, he will easily learn of our past deeds. What will he do to demonic path members like us?"

"If he is a demonic path Gu Immortal, if he recalls the scene of us attacking him, will he rip out our tendons and skin?"

The four of them had deep chemistry after years of living together, their thoughts were quite similar.

The four of them discussed for a while, they decided to get away from Wang Xiao Er.

Life was too painful while reward was nowhere in sight, in fact, they might be awaiting death instead.

"How can we get free from Wang Xiao Er?"

"We can't leave too directly, if he regains his memories, wouldn't he come after us for trouble?"

"I have a good idea."

"Tell us, tell us."

"We are currently here, there is slaughter soul crater nearby, we will enter this place and get free from this problematic person!"

The next day.

The four Gu Masters brought Wang Xiao Er deep into slaughter soul crater.

Slaughter soul crater had a plain terrain, but the actual environment was very complicated.

This place was part of Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range, it was originally an ordinary mountain that had nothing special in it. But after the huge battle involving Fang Yuan, this place was implicated.

At that time, Black Heaven Temple's Gu Immortals witnessed themselves how this slaughter soul sunken land formed.

Spectral Soul shot out a black soul ball but Dragon Palace dodged it.

This soul ball shot into the mountain valley.

There was no sound, at the instance, with the valley as the core, the surrounding thousand li of mountains and valleys turned into black dust that flew away with the wind. The originally bountiful mountains vanished soundlessly, only a huge crater was left.

The crater was formed by Spectral Soul's killer move, it was filled with soul path dao marks.

The living beings who had once lived here were wiped out, but their souls remained.

Soul path dao marks, wind path dao marks, earth path dao marks, and others converged to form a dense fog, all sorts of soul beasts started to live in the fog.

The surrounding living beings either entered by mistake or were attacked by the soul beasts, either way, the more living beings that died here, the more souls that remained, this slaughter soul crater's fog became increasingly denser.

The five of them carefully avoided many strong soul beasts, they went to the center of slaughter soul crater.

Yu Ba Guang made an excuse of scouting the area as he left, the other four did not move away.

Wang Xiao Er did not understand the situation, he asked: "Brothers, why are we here?"

"Clearly, we want to leave you here. Of course, we won't do it directly, we will lure some soul beasts here and pretend to be outmatched, in order to protect you, we will lure these soul beasts away while risking our lives." Chen Yin Dao smiled to himself as he thought.

Other than putting up a show, the four great obscenities also had another thought.

In the event that this immortal died at the hands of the soul beasts, would he leave any inheritance behind?

Those who were in the demonic path were normally people with extraordinary guts.

The four great obscenities were outstanding members in this aspect.

Chen Yin Dao did not speak the truth of course, he patted Wang Xiao Er's shoulder: "Brother, we came to Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range to collect some Gu materials. This slaughter soul crater was created by the fight between immortals, before it calms down completely, we have a lot of opportunities to get rich here."

-x-X-x-

Slaughter soul crater was still forming now, during the process of conflicting with the surroundings, many gaps would naturally appear. After it stabilizes and reaches balance with the surroundings, the living beings would return inside, beast groups and beast kings would guard their own territories and expand the crater. By then, outsiders would not be able to enter easily.

Right at this time, the howling of soul beasts could suddenly be heard.

Chen Yin Dao was slightly surprised: "Yu Ba Guang's ability to lure beasts has increased."

But soon, they found something amiss.

What lured the soul beasts here was not Yu Ba Guang, but a group of Central Continent righteous path Gu Masters.

These people passed the soul fog and arrived in front of Chen Yin Dao, they were at first happy to see reinforcements but soon, their expressions changed.

Someone shouted: "Oh no, the four great obscenities!"

After observing the situation, Chen Yin Dao relaxed and smiled coldly as a sharp gaze flashed in his eyes: "This is my lucky day."

An intense battle ensued.

The Central Continent four great obscenities obtained great victory.

Not only did they kill some soul beasts, they even captured some righteous path Gu Masters alive.

"What a coincidence, these five remaining ones are all girls."

"Look at this one, she looks really cute."

"This one is not bad too."

"My favorite is this one, look at her tiny mouth and big eyes!"

The four demonic path Gu Masters assessed the girls with increasing fondness.

As their captives, the female Gu Masters were extremely fearful.

"What are you trying to do!"

"I'm warning you, don't have any evil thoughts, otherwise, even if I die, I won't let you succeed!"

"Hmph, I am a Gu Master of Spirit Affinity House, consider the consequences before you act."

Facing the threats of the girls, the four great obscenities laughed wildly instead.

"Yes, this is what I like, I love this expression."

"Go on and scream, shout louder, nobody is going to save you!"

"So what if you are from Spirit Affinity House? Back then, we even targeted Heavenly Lotus Sect's Fairy Bi Xia. It was a pity that guy called Fang Zheng ruined it. Hmph, we will find him and settle the score eventually."

The four great obscenities slowly approached the female captives as they chuckled lewdly to themselves.

"Brothers, what are you guys doing?" Wang Xiao Er spoke from behind them, he was completely muddled.

The other nine people were all stunned.

Chen Yin Dao frowned.

The atmosphere from earlier was completely ruined by Wang Xiao Er's words.

Shi Bao directly walked towards Wang Xiao Er and wrapped his arm around his neck, bringing him to the female Gu Masters as he chuckled: "Brother Wang Xiao Er, we will give you an eye opener today. You will learn what the true joy of the mortal world is!"

The other three obscenities looked at each other, they communicated with each other subtly and nodded.

All of them were daring people who had been on the righteous path's arrest warrants for years, they lived lives of worry and danger, they were used to maximizing their happiness regardless of consequences.

Wang Xiao Er was going to be dealt with later anyway, in fact, dragging an immortal through the mud was also quite fun!

Let's do that!

Thus, the four great obscenities surrounded Wang Xiao Er.

"Oh, so little brother does not know this. Don't worry, us elder brothers will teach you!"

"Come on, this is a really fun thing to do."

"After one attempt, you will be hooked."

"Half the fulfillment of life lies here."

Wang Xiao Er nodded repeatedly as he asked with interest: "What should I do?"

Shi Bao had a muscular body and impatient nature, he immediately dropped his pants: "Do this!"

The female Gu Masters shouted in unison, some had their eyes shut.

"Hehe." Yu Ba Guang had a slim body, he also removed his pants.

There was another wave of screaming.

Fan Chun Yao was slightly chubbier, he pouted as he removed his pants, pointing downwards: "Look!"

The female captives screamed even louder now.

Shi Bao and Yu Ba Guang stared with wide eyes, they showed an indignant expression but the fact was right here, it made them feel helpless.

Chen Yin Dao quietly pulled down his pants.

The female Gu Masters' screams reached an unprecedented peak.

The other three obscenities raised their thumbs in unison, saying: "As expected of our boss!"

"Let me do it too." Wang Xiao Er was excited, he quickly removed his pants.

"Eh?" The female captives gasped at the same time.

The four great obscenities cast their gaze at the same time.

The surroundings fell into a state of awkwardness.

Shi Bao was the most straightforward person, he walked towards Wang Xiao Er and patted his shoulders in sympathy.

"This is not your fault, you should blame your parents instead!" Fan Chun Yao consoled.

"Don't worry, even though you have a poor foundation, this also proves that you have a lot of room for improvement. I have many Gu worms, I can help you." Yu Ba Guang encouraged.

Chen Yin Dao did not speak, he only thought to himself: "This Wang Xiao Er really lives up to his name[1]!"

"Let's go, I can't wait anymore!" Shi Bao walked towards the female Gu Masters.

"No, don't come here!" The female Gu Masters quickly shuffled backwards, some had pale expressions, some had bright red faces.

"Let's go together, together." Fan Chun Yao clapped.

"But they don't seem too willing, this isn't appropriate?" Wang Xiao Er asked softly.

"Don't worry, don't worry, just follow what we do." Chen Yin Dao encouraged Wang Xiao Er.

Just as the five were about to take action, they heard a cold snort.

Instantly, the four great obscenities and Wang Xiao Er turned into motionless statues.

The female captives were extremely shocked.

Next, Zhao Lian Yun walked out of the dense fog.

She came here to try and deduce Fang Yuan's strength through the traces he left behind, but now, her mood was very heavy.

While she was about to return, she found that a female Gu Master of Spirit Affinity House had gotten into danger, she immediately took action.

Thus, the Central Continent four great obscenities were taken down easily.

After expressing her identity, Zhao Lian Yun saved these female Gu Masters.

The female Gu Masters thanked her profusely, the Spirit Affinity House Gu Master was even filled with admiration and excitement: "Fairy Lian Yun, these four great obscenities have committed many atrocious acts, this is their retribution! These people have sinned greatly, even killing them is too cheap of a punishment."

Zhao Lian Yun smiled: "Taking their life is really too good for them. How can we uphold justice for those women they harmed? I have a good method, just watch."

Zhao Lian Yun waved her sleeves as the five guys started to move again.

Despite being so close in proximity, they could not see Zhao Lian Yun and the rest, they were stuck in some illusion.

"Beauty, here I come!" Shi Bao pounced at Fan Chun Yao.

After Fan Chun Yao was pushed to the ground, he continued smiling: "Ah, you are really rough."

The five men were stuck in a physical brawl, engaging in a chaotic 'battle'.

The female Gu Masters watched with dumbfounded expressions, they quickly turned red.

"Oh heaven." A girl covered her eyes but continued to peek through the gap between her fingers.

"This hurts my eyes!" Someone gasped.

"This position is possible?" A mature female Gu Master recorded this knowledge in her mind.

"Alright." Zhao Lian Yun waved her sleeve: "Leave with me, these people will continue with this until the soul beasts eat them or when they die of exhaustion."

The female Gu Masters were shocked by Zhao Lian Yun's method, they obediently followed her and left the place.

But even Zhao Lian Yun could not have anticipated this, after a few minutes, silver threads started to shine around Wang Xiao Er's body.

These silver threads radiated the surroundings, causing the five who were locked in intense physical engagement to awaken, they remembered everything that happened.

There was dead silence!

"We were so unlucky, a female immortal actually came!!" Fan Chun Yao was internally shocked.

"This female immortal is too vicious, that was more cruel than just killing us." There were tears in Yu Ba Guang's eyes as he grabbed his hair and screamed internally.

"I actually, I actually..." Chen Yin Dao no longer had the disposition of a leader, his eyes were hollow, he muttered as he thought of suicide.

"Urgh!" Shi Bao started to vomit profusely.

"What happened guys?" Amidst the silence, Wang Xiao Er spoke with a confused expression: "Why did we stop?"

The four of them were shocked!

They turned around to look at the naked Wang Xiao Er, they were frozen like statues.

Wang Xiao Er scratched his head: "Brothers, why are you looking at me? Oh right, those female Gu Masters were all brought away. I thought they were going to play a game with us?"

Shi Bao stopped vomiting, the four of them looked at each other with complete silence.

"Erm..." After some time, Chen Yin Dao spoke with a trembling voice: "Brother Wang Xiao Er, you are really smart. Those women that we invited were... audiences. Didn't you see their expressions? Think about it, they were all excited, very excited and focused, they were watching in amazement. We were helping these people feel joy and pleasure, isn't this how us men should act?"

"As expected of our boss!" The other three obscenities raised their thumbs in approval.

Wang Xiao Er clapped with his fist and palm as he realized: "So that's it, brothers, you are all good people."

Chen Yin Dao laughed loudly: "Of course we are."

Saying so, he wiped his tears away.

Next, he said to the other three: "So be it that this happened, don't tell anyone about it. We are doing a good deed but we will not publicize it, this is how true gentlemen act."

The other three nodded rapidly.

Of course!

If they spoke about this, it would be too humiliating, what would everyone think of them?

Wang Xiao Er asked again: "Brothers, are we still going to play?"

The atmosphere froze once again!

Shi Bao cursed: "Play my ass! Play what?"

"They, they have all left, nobody is here to see it." Yu Ba Guang added in with a meek voice.

After getting scolded, Wang Xiao Er felt quite happy as he smiled innocently: "Oh, it is great that we're stopping. Brother Shi Bao is right, my butt still hurts a lot now."

The scene fell into silence again!

Shi Bao slammed his fists on the ground repeatedly.

Yu Ba Guang lowered his head, biting his lips as blood started to appear.

Fan Chun Yao slammed his own head with his fists, trying to send himself into a coma.

Chen Yin Dao stared at Wang Xiao Er with wide eyes, his lips were shaking.

Wang Xiao Er looked at Chen Yin Dao as he asked in confusion: "Brother Chen, do you have anything to say to me?"

At the next moment, Wang Xiao Er realized: "Oh, I get it, does your butt hurt too?"

Cough!

Chen Yin Dao spat out a mouthful of blood as he fell down on the ground.

"Boss!"

"Boss!"

"Boss!"

The others who were still naked quickly ran over to him, trying to help Chen Yin Dao.

Chen Yin Dao was very feeble now, he barely managed to open his eyes as he said weakly, in an almost sobbing voice: "Go away... don't touch me."

[1] In certain slangs his name sounds like 'small little brother'.

-x-X-x-

Days later.

Sunlight pierced through the darkness, radiating on the world.

In a certain valley near the periphery of Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range, Eastern Obscenity Chen Yin Dao, Western Thief Yu Ba Guang, Southern Disturbance Shi Bao and Northern Squandering Fan Chun Yao had already woken up, they were sitting on an icy rock, looking at the sky as they laid spread eagled, their eyes were hollow, there was no life in them.

Ever since that terrible ordeal in slaughter soul crater, every night, the four great obscenities and Wang Xiao Er would lose control of their bodies, they would engage in the indescribable activity together.

The four great obscenities would lose their senses each time, by the time they wake up, they would realize that they had done some horrifying act once again.

Even though Wang Xiao Er got rid of a portion of Zhao Lian Yun's method, some of it still lingered.

"This is a curse! The most vicious curse in this world!"

"That fairy from Spirit Affinity House looks so kind and delicate but she is truly too vicious, she is evil to the core!"

"I don't believe it, I don't believe it, maybe I am just dreaming now. I will wake up from my nightmare one day, right?"

"I am a great man, how can I do something so shameful, I have let down heaven and earth, I have let down my parents, I have let down myself!"

The four great obscenities were silent on the outside but they were all crying out in their hearts, feeling sadness and anger, regret and pain.

Wang Xiao Er walked out of the Gu House at this moment.

He had just woken up, he rubbed his eyes and looked at them, asking in concern: "Brothers, why are you up so early, you are all naked outside, you might catch a cold."

The four great obscenities' bodies shook intensely.

They turned around and looked at Wang Xiao Er, showing a complex emotion on their faces.

On one hand, they revered Wang Xiao Er, because of Zhao Lian Yun's method, if not for him, they would have died of exhaustion already. They believed in Wang Xiao Er's identity now, only an immortal could dispel another immortal's method!

But on the other hand, they hated Wang Xiao Er. Ever since they saved him, nothing good had happened. Not only did they return from Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range empty handed, they even received the greatest humiliation of their lives!

After a long silence, their boss Chen Yin Dao spoke bitterly: "Brother, you woke up."

"Yes, our exercise last night was too intense, I slept very soundly." Wang Xiao Er smiled innocently: "Recently, I've started to feel pleasure from this, brothers, what you told me earlier makes sense after all."

The four great obscenities' bodies shook again.

The four of them looked at each other, sensing the fear and horror in each others' eyes.

"Don't tell me this immortal was like this to begin with?!"

"What sort of person did we actually save!"

"Maybe he has the ability to lift our curse but he purposely chose not to, this is something we should think about."

"Is he really amnesiac, or is he pretending? If I like men too, as an immortal, I might want to play around in the mortal world as well…"

The four felt more terror as they thought about it.

They wanted to get away from Wang Xiao Er but they could not do that anymore.

Each time the curse activated, they needed Wang Xiao Er to dispel it. If they left, they might die the following night.

Thus, the four of them had to keep Wang Xiao Er happy, so that he would get rid of this fatal danger for them.

"Seriously, what is this situation!" Chen Yin Dao wanted to cry but he had to smile forcefully: "Xiao Er, this is nothing much, we enjoy blessings and endure misfortune together, we are brothers after all!"

After finishing his words, Chen Yin Dao stared at the other three.

They had to resist the disgusting feeling as they spoke in agreement as well.

"Indeed, this is our brotherhood!"

"Otherwise, why would there be a saying about brotherly relationships?"

"We were destined to meet, as your elder brothers, we need to take care of you."

Wang Xiao Er smiled and nodded: "It was really my fortune to have met you brothers."

"No, this is the greatest misfortune of my life!" The four of them screamed internally.

Wang Xiao Er added: "Let's continue to play tonight!"

"Don't remind me, you scumbag!!" The four of them cried out in anguish in their minds.

While Wang Xiao Er was away, the four of them gathered during the day.

"We cannot let this go on!"

"We cannot live life like this."

"Guys, do you think Wang Xiao Er really lost his memories or is he pretending?"

"We need to test it. Go capture a few mortal women tonight, no matter what, we need to let Wang Xiao Er know we are normal people. If he really lost his memories, we will turn him back to normal, if he is pretending, we will make sure he cannot put up with the act anymore!"

The four great obscenities shouted in unison, they were going crazy these last days.

This method was risky, but even if they angered the immortal Wang Xiao Er, death was still a good reward at this point!

At night time, the four great obscenities captured over a dozen mortal women.

The women were all brought into the Gu House.

Wang Xiao Er was a little excited: "Brothers, you have worked hard to invite such a large audience tonight."

"Brother, let us teach you something tonight." Chen Yin Dao patted Wang Xiao Er's shoulder as he said solemnly.

"Alright, I will do my best to learn it, I will listen with my heart!" Wang Xiao Er clenched his fists, showing an excited expression.

But reality was still cruel to them.

When their activity reached the climax stage, the four great obscenities were shocked to find out — they could not do it!

"Quick, turn hard now."

"Oh, why, why did this happen?"

"I actually, I actually don't feel anything towards women. Waaaaaaaaa…"

"Why do I feel more excited and pleasured when I look at men now?"

The four men wanted to struggle but the curse activated at the next moment.

The female captives were shocked to see the battle of five men, it was a climactic fight, some of them were very excited while the others felt disappointment.

Some even wanted to join in but were sent flying with one slap.

This incident was a huge blow to the four great obscenities.

"Let's suicide, this is not a life that we can lead."

"Living is worse than death, I'd rather die now."

"Can anyone kill me, please come out now!"

The four of them were sick of life, they were listless and dejected all the time.

Seemingly granting their wishes, not long after, righteous path Gu Masters came to pursue them.

"We finally found you! You dared to target our Spirit Affinity House's disciple, did you really think we would let you off?" Qin Juan said with anger, attacking the four great obscenities.

The four great obscenities were in despair and felt life was not worth living, after leaving Sorrowful Wind Mountain Range, they did not bother to conceal their traces, they were no longer as vigilant as usual.

After hearing that they were alive, Zhao Lian Yun felt a little interested, she passed down a sect mission to kill these people and investigate the truth.

Qin Juan was close to Feng Jin Huang, but she did not know that this mission which carried a huge reward was listed by Zhao Lian Yun. The Spirit Affinity House Gu Master who got captured in slaughter soul crater earlier was close to her, thus, she took on this mission.

The four great obscenities screamed about not wanting to live every day, but at the moment of crisis, they erupted with an intense will to survive.

For half a month, they fought nearly ten times.

Qin Juan had rank five cultivation level, she suppressed the five of them.

Even though the four great obscenities were famous demonic path Gu Masters in Central Continent, they were just demonic cultivators that the ten great ancient sects allowed to live. These demonic cultivators were useful in training their sect disciples, thus, they made use of these people to act as a trial for their members.

The ten great ancient sects did not mind minor characters like the four great obscenities, thus they were allowed to cause chaos in Central Continent and hide successfully from arrests.

But the situation was different now, the Gu Immortal Zhao Lian Yun had sent a mission, the force pursuing them was different from usual.

The four great obscenities escaped with Wang Xiao Er as they tried to come up with a plan.

"We can't live in Central Continent anymore!"

"What do we do?"

"We can only go elsewhere, boss, you can decide for us."

Chen Yin Dao pondered: "Northern Plains is dangerous and lacks resources, we can't go there. Even though Eastern Sea is rich, the righteous path is fighting against those variant humans, it is too dangerous. Western Desert is full of deserts, and the environment is bad. Let's go to Southern Border instead."

"Alright, we will go to Southern Border!"

Southern Border.

Underground.

"According to Lu Wei Yin, it should be here. Mm, found it." Fang Yuan went deep underground, suddenly, his eyes shined as he found his target.

He saw that at the walls of this small Earth Trench, there was a field of pink grassland.

Each 'grass' was pink, moving without any wind.

Looking at the 'grass', each was thin and long, resembling fur.

"This is the earth dream fetus hair, Meng Qiu Zhen, come out." Fang Yuan opened his immortal aperture door as the pure dream clone came out.

Meng Qiu Zhen took a glance and praised it as he took action, using dream path methods to carefully store the earth dream fetus hair away.

After Fang Yuan obtained Southern Border's Paradise Earth true inheritance, he gained many earth path Immortal Gu, he also had methods to search for immortal materials underground and the ability to control Flying Earth.

The Mushroomman Paradise had existed in Southern Border for a long time, after tens of generations of accumulation, they found a lot of treasures deep under Southern Border.

Among the treasures, Fang Yuan found some locations with dream path immortal materials.

The earth dream fetus hair was just one of them.

Dream path Gu materials and Gu worms had appeared in the world long ago, for example, Fang Yuan's Dream Token and the spring dream fruit tree that Bo Qing and Mo Yao found.

This was like how water path Gu worms and materials existed during Ren Zu's era, but water path was only created by Central Continent's Shui Ni, the founder of Spirit Affinity House, during the Medieval Antiquity Era.

Dream path was similar.

Even though dream path had not been formally created, the dream path Gu worms and materials that existed in history had already appeared.

But dream path was different from water path, it would have an explosive growth in the future.

By then, the five regions and two heavens would be full of dream realms.

Because dream path Gu materials would be too easily obtainable, and because a vast number of Gu cultivators could use them, dream path would quickly progress as a path.

Countless dream path Gu Masters would cultivate more dream path Gu materials to refine more dream path Gu worms, pushing the progress of dream path to an unprecedented level!

If Great Dream Immortal Venerable truly appears, then dream path would reach its peak popularity in history.

Thus, Fang Yuan was not surprised that some dream path immortal materials were hidden away.

Meng Qiu Zhen successfully took the earth dream fetus hair, he went back inside Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture.

Next, Fang Yuan went to another location, there were many nine tune dream flowers there.

Meng Qiu Zhen had a lot of things to do.

On one hand, he had to organize dream path killer moves, on the other hand, he had to plant resources and develop his immortal aperture.

According to Fang Yuan's plan, after these dream path immortal materials were successfully retrieved, Meng Qiu Zhen would have a complete set of dream path methods.

At that time, he would take the place of Fang Yuan's main body and invest himself into exploring dream realms.

To play safe, Meng Qiu Zhen would first use up Spectral Soul's dream realms before moving onto Paradise Earth's dream realms, just in case there was a trap.

Even though this was highly unlikely, Fang Yuan was still a vigilant person.

-x-X-x-

Meng Qiu Zhen was controlled by a Gu worm, his eyes were shut, he was brought into a secret location by someone.

"Alright, number three, you can open your eyes now." A shrill voice could be heard beside him.

The Gu worm suppressing Meng Qiu Zhen had been kept away, Meng Qiu Zhen opened his eyes and found that he was in a dark cave.

Meng Qiu Zhen was kneeling on the ground, in front of him was an old man.

The old man had a sharp voice, his face was covered in paint, he gave off a peculiar and cold feeling.

"This is the leader of Painted Faces — Sly Heart Old Man." Meng Qiu Zhen thought: "To think that I would meet this legendary person from a hundred thousand years ago."

Indeed, Meng Qiu Zhen was exploring a dream realm now.

This dream realm naturally originated from Spectral Soul.

This Sly Heart Old Man in his dream was a wisdom path and transformation path cultivator, he was a legendary person who existed between the eras of Spectral Soul and Paradise Earth a hundred thousand years ago. He was also the creator of a demonic path organization, it was called Painted Faces.

This organization was like Zombie Alliance and Shadow Sect, it was a huge organization that spanned across all five regions, something rarely seen in history.

All of the members in the organization had painted faces of various colors to differentiate their varying statuses.

Painted Faces was an assassination organization, killing Gu Masters was just an ordinary thing, when they were at their peak, they even had Gu Immortal experts, as long as the price was paid, they could kill Gu Immortals for their customers!

Meng Qiu Zhen had already entered this dream realm for a long time, he went from the initial one hundred and eighth position to third position.

"According to my instincts, if I can become the number one position in the organization, I will pass this dream realm." Meng Qiu Zhen was very certain, his dream path master instincts told him the answer already.

Sly Heart Old Man took out three Gu worms: "Number three, you want to become number two, but it will not be easy. There are three Gu worms here, choose one. Each one contains the details of a mission."

Meng Qiu Zhen secretly activated dream butterfly Immortal Gu.

Almost all the other paths' Gu worms could not be used freely in dream realms, but dream path Gu worms were not restricted.

After dream butterfly Immortal Gu was instilled with immortal essence, it vanished from within Meng Qiu Zhen's immortal aperture.

Meng Qiu Zhen first placed his gaze on the Gu worm to the left.

At the next moment, he saw that after he chose the Gu worm, he went into a seizure, saliva appeared from his mouth, he died on the spot.

Sly Heart Old Man looked at his corpse as he said coldly: "What a pity, number three, even though you are skilled in transformation path, your wisdom path attainment is too low, it was your bad luck to have chosen this."

Meng Qiu Zhen retracted his gaze as the scene vanished, he looked at the middle Gu worm.

At the next moment, he saw another scene.

After he took the second Gu worm, Sly Heart Old Man suddenly attacked.

With a loud sound, his palm slammed onto Meng Qiu Zhen's chest.

Meng Qiu Zhen was caught unguarded, his ribs broke, his heart burst, his eyes stared widely as he died on the spot.

Sly Heart Old Man sneered: "So you are the spy after all, you went after this Gu worm, not knowing the trap that I set, I had already gave out some false information to trick those spies of the righteous path!"

Meng Qiu Zhen retracted his gaze.

Evidently, the first two Gu worms could not be chosen, but the third one might not be correct either.

Meng Qiu Zhen wanted to continue checking but Sly Heart Old Man rushed him: "Quickly choose, what are you waiting for?"

Meng Qiu Zhen knew that this Painted Face organization was dark and cruel, they had no regard for human lives, if he waited anymore, Sly Heart Old Man would activate the Gu worm in his body and he would be punished, he might suffer heavy injuries or even die on the spot.

Thus, Meng Qiu Zhen did not use dream butterfly Immortal Gu again, he quickly spoke and chose the third Gu worm.

For just a moment, a complex expression flashed on Sly Heart Old Man's face.

After being silent for some time, Sly Heart Old Man nodded: "You chose the most appropriate Gu for you, it seems your luck is not bad. Maybe you can gain some benefits there, you might even be able to return alive."

Saying so, Sly Heart Old Man took a few steps and exposed the door behind him: "After opening this door, you will enter a tunnel, you need to walk quickly, do not stop, otherwise the tunnel will digest you. After passing it, you will reach a place, over there, do your best to survive. If you can find a way back and meet me once again, you will gain our organization's number one position."

"Yes, lord." Meng Qiu Zhen immediately got up, pushing open the door and entering the tunnel.

This tunnel was quite unique, it was round in shape but the inner walls were made of flesh and blood, there was slight vibrations in them as gastric acid flowed out constantly.

Meng Qiu Zhen activated the defensive method of this person but still felt deep pressure. Like what Sly Heart Old Man said, if he stayed for too long, he might really get 'digested'.

He quickly got past the creepy and wet flesh tunnel as he arrived in a huge world.

Within the primitive forest, fierce beasts roared as strange birds growled.

Far away, two beastman groups were fighting.

Meng Qiu Zhen turned around and looked back, the tunnel had already vanished, he only saw an ordinary mountain wall.

Meng Qiu Zhen was shook internally, to ensure that he could efficiently explore dream realms, the main body had given him many details of history: "That tunnel really is the intestine of the gluttonous demon frog, this is the place where Reckless Savage Demon Venerable left behind his true inheritance — Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven!"

Days later, the dream realm dissipated.

Meng Qiu Zhen had a tired expression as he started to inspect his gains.

"Transformation path and wisdom path attainment levels went up. Not bad." Meng Qiu Zhen was rather satisfied.

Forget about transformation path, but his wisdom path attainment level really needed a boost.

Especially when Fang Yuan knew his own luck, and the fact that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had very likely already revived.

The true Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven was naturally vast and boundless, but Meng Qiu Zhen was only in a dream realm.

Meng Qiu Zhen had dream armor Immortal Gu's protection, and also dream creation Immortal Gu and dream butterfly Immortal Gu as methods. Especially dream butterfly Immortal Gu, even though it was an investigative Gu worm, its use in exploring dream realms surpassed Dream Armor and Dream Creation.

Dream path master attainment level gave him instincts.

When instincts worked, Meng Qiu Zhen would use them to find the correct answers rapidly.

When instincts did not work, then Meng Qiu Zhen would use dream butterfly Immortal Gu to foresee the future possibilities of the dream realm and avoid danger, he would quickly find the most appropriate methods.

Like how Meng Qiu Zhen used dream butterfly Immortal Gu in front of Sly Heart Old Man earlier to find out the correct choice, in the past, Fang Yuan would have to test it one by one. If he chose wrongly, his soul would be injured, he would waste time healing himself and restart the dream realm all over again.

Even though Meng Qiu Zhen only had rank six cultivation level, his efficiency at exploring dream realms was many times that of Fang Yuan's main body!

Southern Border.

Central Continent's four great obscenities and Wang Xiao Er were forced into desperation by Qin Juan.

There was a sinkhole behind them.

"Don't come here, otherwise, we will jump off!" Wang Xiao Er shouted in anxiety.

Qin Juan smiled coldly as she walked closer: "Then jump, you will die if you do that. Behind you is Southern Border's Sun Moon Sinkhole, the pit is unfathomably deep, not just Gu Masters, even Gu Immortals cannot explore it easily. If you jump, you will surely die!"

The four great obscenities were currently injured, they gritted their teeth.

"Qin Juan, we'll remember you, you lunatic!"

"We already escaped to Southern Border but you actually pursued us all the way here, what are you after?"

"Even though we captured Spirit Affinity House's female Gu Master, no matter what relationship she has with you, we did not touch her at all."

"Qin Juan, you received a sect mission to kill us. But if we die like this, you won't be able to report your mission easily too, right?" Chen Yin Dao suddenly said with a deep gaze.

Qin Juan's movement froze for a moment.

But in just a moment, she realized that the enemy was trying to probe her.

And she fell for it, some information was leaked from this action.

Qin Juan concealed the shame in her heart as she placed her arms behind her back, looking at these defeated individuals, she said arrogantly on purpose: "I can't report it? Killing you is the best evidence I need! But it is not that I cannot let you live, hand over all your Gu worms and surrender, if I bring you back to Central Continent, you will still have a chance to live."

Chen Yin Dao sneered: "We know about the crimes we've committed. After Miss Qin Juan said that, it confirmed my guesses."

Qin Juan also sneered: "So what if you guessed it? Can you turn this around? Do you still have a chance?"

A strange expression appeared on Chen Yin Dao's face: "Actually, we still have hope. Brother Wang Xiao Er, we'll depend on you now!"

Saying so, he pushed Wang Xiao Er, who was hiding at the back, to the front.

Wang Xiao Er was shocked: "Brothers, I am not a Gu Master."

Qin Juan also felt confused, she had fought with the four great obscenities for this long, she knew that Wang Xiao Er was a mortal.

"Hmph, trying to bluster and act mysterious!" Qin Juan was about to attack.

But at the next moment, there was a loud explosion.

A huge air current surged as wind blew strongly.

Wang Xiao Er, Qin Juan and the others who were near the sinkhole were caught off guard, they were sent into the air by the currents before crashing down heavily.

"What happened?!" Everyone was shocked.

Next, the figure of a Southern Border Gu Master moved along this current as he flew into the sky.

"Kong Ri Tian, don't think of leaving!!"

The Gu Master who landed on the ground first was the demonic path Kong Ri Tian, he escaped without even turning around as he shouted: "Wu Ji, you are the leader of Wu clan, yet you are not keeping your promise!"

Wu Ji chased after him as she shouted: "What's the use of keeping my word to a demonic path scoundrel like you, leave behind the Gu worms of Sheng Tian true inheritance!"

Next, Shang Xin Ci, Xiao Yan, Counterfeit Master, Tie Ruo Nan, Yi Chong, and others also descended from the sky.

"Chase him, don't let him escape!"

"That is a Gu Immortal true inheritance!!"

As the group chased, a dust cloud was created along the way.

Qin Juan, Wang Xiao Er, and the rest were all stunned.

Seeing that he was about to be caught, Kong Ri Tian shouted at Qin Juan and the rest: "The people in front, whoever can help me escape will share this Gu Immortal true inheritance with me!!"

Qin Juan and the rest heard this, their eyes shined brightly.

"You cannot escape, everything belongs to my Wu clan!!" Wu Ji was enraged, she jumped into the air.

Both her fists were clenched, she raised them above her head as she activated a mortal killer move.

Boom!

As she landed on the ground, she slammed down, the ground shook, rocks were sent flying.

A huge vibration force spread to the surroundings rapidly, no one could avoid it in time, they quickly put up their defenses in a panic.

Qin Juan and the rest were also implicated, their expressions changed.

Wu Ji was the number one expert of the current Southern Border Gu Master world!

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Southern Border, Wu clan headquarters.

"Quick, quick, bring me the white king head flower herb." Wu clan's rank six Gu Immortal Wu Zhen Zhu called out with an anxious tone.

She was controlling the formation, her thoughts were focused on it at the crucial moment, she could not distract herself.

Thankfully, there were a few rank five Gu Masters assisting her, hearing these words, they quickly got to work.

White king head flower herb was a rank six immortal material, it was tossed into the immortal formation.

This immortal formation of Wu clan was famous in history, it was called dead sea life retrieval formation. It originally belonged to an Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortal, but after this Gu Immortal came to Southern Border and provoked Wu clan, they got killed instead.

Dead sea life retrieval formation was a healing immortal formation but the core Immortal Gu was only rank seven. That Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortal was indeed a rank eight Gu Immortal but before dying, all of their Immortal Gu were destroyed.

Wu clan spent a hundred years to finally refine the relevant Immortal Gu, managing to set up this dead sea life retrieval formation again.

Wu Ji and the rest had died on Yi Tian Mountain, the reason why they were able to revive was mostly because of fate Gu's destruction, and also due to the effect of this dead sea life retrieval formation.

As the formation slowly stopped, light faded as Wu Ji woke up in the formation with a pale expression.

"It seems that I revived again!" Wu Ji smiled lightly, she wanted to get up but her body was too weak, she only succeeded after three tries.

"You should relax a little, Wu Ji. This is the fifth time this month." Wu Zhen Zhu came to Wu Ji as she frowned deeply.

Wu Ji smiled indifferently: "Don't we have this formation? Even if I die, I can revive."

Wu Zhen Zhu scoffed: "Don't think so highly of Gu Immortal methods. Wu Ji, do you know that you almost died earlier, you managed to revive because of the dead sea life retrieval formation. But this method has less and less effect as a person uses it continuously, you are playing with your life! You have a good future, why don't you care a bit more about yourself, at this rate, you will die for real!"

Wu Ji raised her brows as her eyes shined brightly: "I'm someone who has died before, what is there to fear about death? Precisely because I had died before, I treasure life even more now."

Wu Zhen Zhu rolled her eyes in anger: "This is considered treasuring your life? Since you already obtained Sheng Tian true inheritance from Kong Sheng Tian, you can give it to the clan already, why did you still go after him relentlessly? Why did you not retreat even against the attacks of everyone?"

Wu Ji laughed loudly: "This is how I treasure my life. After dying once, I reassessed my own life, how should people live? Everyone has their own answer. This is my answer, the duration of life does not matter as much as the value of the life that is being lived."

"Even though I am not a Gu Immortal, I know about your circumstances. Lady Zhen Zhu, why do you think Gu Masters want to become an immortal so badly? After becoming an immortal, there will be countless calamities and tribulations, wouldn't they be courting death? How many Gu Immortals have died from tribulations? Don't they know the danger? Aren't they continuing to face danger head on because they want to obtain the true meaning of life?"

"In this great era, if I do not advance bravely, I will be letting down heaven for giving me this life, I will be wasting my second chance. I, Wu Ji, want to become immortal, I want to see things at a greater height, I want to gain more strength. This is the meaning of my life."

After hearing Wu Ji's words, a complex expression appeared on Wu Zhen Zhu's face.

She actually had high expectations of this junior Wu Ji, therefore she came to talk to her. But after talking, she found that she failed to convince Wu Ji, instead, she became the one who was convinced.

"Since you have decided this, I have nothing else to say." Wu Zhen Zhu sighed.

Wu Ji had a sincere expression as she bowed: "Lady Zhen Zhu, junior will remember the concern that you have shown to me."

Saying so, another Gu Immortal appeared: "Hahaha, Wu Ji, I heard your words earlier. As expected of the number one Gu Immortal seed of Wu clan, you did not shame our reputation."

"Wu Zhan Ping, you came here for…" Wu Zhen Zhu asked but she had a guess in her heart, she was quite happy for Wu Ji.

Wu Zhan Ping nodded at Wu Zhen Zhu as he looked at Wu Ji: "I am Wu clan's supreme elder in charge of guidance, Wu Ji, you have sufficient cultivation level and merit, I am tasked to guide you along the road of becoming an immortal!"

Wu Ji took in a deep breath, she clenched her fists unconsciously. This moment had finally arrived, she had been looking forward to it for a long time.

Wu Zhan Ping said solemnly: "Wu Ji, you are a senior of the mortal Wu clan, after being the clan leader for many years, you know of many Gu Immortal secrets. Our Wu clan cultivates many paths, we are most proficient in wind path, it is the reason why we are at the top of Southern Border's Gu Immortal world, our status is immovable."

"You can choose other paths too, we have almost all paths in our inventory, but I have a suggestion for you!"

Wu Zhan Ping had heard Wu Ji's words earlier, he liked this junior and was willing to say more things.

Wu Ji quickly replied: "Please teach me senior, I will listen."

Wu Zhan Ping continued: "Rather than choosing a path, it is more like you are choosing a true inheritance. Our Wu clan has the strongest wind path true inheritance, our first supreme elder Lord Wu Yong also cultivates wind path, he uses the strongest wind path true inheritance in Wu clan as well. However, there are many wind path cultivators, competition is very steep, I would not recommend you to choose it."

"Right now, Wu clan has two true inheritances that even us Gu Immortals feel desire towards, it is only that our paths have been set, changing it has too high of a cost. During normal times, we might have the opportunity to do that, but with the turbulent era now, chaos is everywhere, it is the best opportunity for you juniors."

Wu Zhen Zhu heard this, she agreed and said with happiness: "This means that first supreme elder is really taking out these three true inheritances to nurture our Wu clan's descendants?"

"Indeed, Lord Wu Yong has incredible foresight and magnanimity, everyone in Wu clan holds him in high regard." Wu Zhan Ping praised from the bottom of his heart, he told Wu Ji: "There are three true inheritances of high value that even us Gu Immortals want, I will list them for you, choose wisely."

"The first true inheritance is called Corpse Emperor true inheritance. He was a Southern Border rank eight Gu Immortal who turned himself into a zombie when his lifespan was near its end, hence the title. Corpse Emperor was in the demonic path, he was ruthless and vicious, causing super forces to join up and attack him. He died during the battle and his immortal zombie body turned into a corpse mountain upon his death. This mountain is hundreds of meters tall, zombies roam all over the mountain, it produces transformation path zombie Gu and qi path corpse qi Gu."

"Back then, Southern Border's Zombie Alliance wanted ownership of this mountain and offered a high price to buy it from us to use as their headquarters, but we rejected them. Right now, it seems like our decision was right. Zombie Alliance was a front of Shadow Sect, but that's not our issue now. The point is that with the shift of the era, a true inheritance appeared on Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian, which is this Corpse Emperor true inheritance."

"This is a rank eight enslavement path true inheritance, Wu Ji, if you choose it, Wu clan will definitely nurture you well. An enslavement path Gu Immortal can fight a group on their own, the problem with enslavement path is the huge amount of resources needed, but Wu clan can help you with it. The only downside is that this true inheritance lacks Immortal Gu."

Wu Ji considered it for a while before shaking her head: "Enslavement path is not my style, Immortal Gu are also hard to refine, I am not skilled in Gu refinement. It is too hard to cultivate this true inheritance well, even with the clan's help, I will not choose it."

"Alright, then onto the next one." Wu Zhan Ping continued to speak: "This true inheritance is a soul path true inheritance, it has a greater origin, it concerns Spectral Soul Demon Venerable!"

"This true inheritance is called seven-seven profound soul true inheritance, the most amazing method is to raise soul beasts and nurture them into seven-seven profound soul birds. Once a seven-seven profound soul bird is created, it is almost impossible to kill. Even if they were gravely injured, as long as one of them is still alive, they will reappeared in a short time. Even though this true inheritance also lacks Immortal Gu, it is able to bypass that and nurture soul beasts instead, the cultivation journey will be easier."

Wu Ji shook her head: "Even though soul beasts are strong, I dislike it. I cultivate my own body, raising soul beasts is like becoming a nanny, it does not suit me."

Wu Zhan Ping frowned slightly: "Choosing a true inheritance is not child's play, Wu Ji, consider it well before making a decision."

"Indeed." Wu Zhen Zhu also nodded: "Be it Corpse Emperor true inheritance or the seven-seven profound soul true inheritance, they are extremely rare, Wu Ji, you need to treasure this opportunity."

Wu Ji was unmoved: "Immortals, thank you for the advice, may I know what the third true inheritance is?"

Wu Zhan Ping: "The third true inheritance is the Sheng Tian true inheritance you retrieved. The person who left this true inheritance behind is famous in Gu Master history, he is called Kong Sheng Tian."

"Kong Sheng Tian had qi escape Immortal Gu, this Gu is incredible, it was once fourth place on the List of Mystical Gu. But in recently years, because of the number one demon in the world, Gu Yue Fang Yuan, Spring Autumn Cicada received public recognition and got elevated to the third mystical Gu, causing qi escape Gu to fall in ranking."

Speaking of Gu Yue Fang Yuan, Wu Zhan Ping and Wu Zhen Zhu showed complex expressions.

Wu Ji could acutely sense that these two Gu Immortals' breathing became slightly disoriented.

Fang Yuan had once disguised as Wu Yi Hai and made his way into Wu clan, even someone as intelligent and perceptive as Wu Yong fell prey to his acting. But Wu clan was no longer qualified to take revenge on him, over the course of the fate war and the pursuit over Fang Yuan afterwards, even the variant human battle that happened in Eastern Sea recently cemented Fang Yuan's throne of the number one demon in the world, nobody could topple his status.

Not wanting to continue talking about Fang Yuan, Wu Zhan Ping got back to the topic: "Kong Sheng Tian was a qi path Gu Immortal, he was most skilled at movement methods. The qi path movement killer move that he created back then was named Kong Sheng Tian, it is incredibly powerful. If you obtain this true inheritance, you will move unhindered in the world, you will always have the initiative."

"This true inheritance was retrieved by you after all, it could be said you are fated for it. But the Immortal Gu in the true inheritance are likely in the hands of that Kong Ri Tian now."