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Southern Border.
Wu Yi Mountain, Wu clan's headquarters.
In a hall.
Ke Xin Hong had a faint smile as he greeted politely: "Ke Xin Hong pays respects to Wu clan's first supreme elder."
Wu Yong sat and smiled: "Esteemed envoy, no need to be so polite."
Ke Xin Hong spoke openly and straightforwardly: "I came here with fan wind Gu, it has already been refined and raised successfully. Please do examine it now."
Wu Yong could not help but feel surprised: "So quickly? Does Fang Yuan have a method to refine fake Immortal Gu, is he here to scam me?"
He received it and checked thoroughly, there were no flaws at all.
"It is a genuine rank eight Immortal Gu. But how can Fang Yuan refine a rank eight Immortal Gu in such a short period of time?" Thinking of this, Wu Yong was uncertain again.
In his mind, Fang Yuan's main traits were craftiness, viciousness, shamelessness, unscrupulous, and ruthlessness. This number one demon in the world could not be assessed using common sense.
"Envoy, please hold on, our Wu clan Gu Immortal will come and check it." Wu Yong answered.
Wu clan had their own refinement path Gu refinements, but they were not strong.
Wu clan was not specialized in refinement path, they were best at wind path. Not only in Southern Border, even in the five regions, Wu clan was first rate in wind path.
After a few minutes, Wu Yong received information that rank eight fan wind Gu was the real thing, it could not be fake.
Wu Yong had a complex emotion.
Immortal Gu were unique, because rank eight Immortal Gu were too hard to refine, they had an extremely important significance!
Ordinary rank eight Gu Immortals did not even have one rank eight Immortal Gu. For example, Old Ancestor Xue Hu lost everything that he had worked to accumulate for many years on Snowy Mountain blessed land after trying to refine fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu.
Of course, this was because his ambitions clashed with Heavenly Court's and Longevity Heaven's benefits.
"Even though the world has been changing in the last few years, with the movement of earth veins and rampaging of qi tides, a vast amount of immortal materials surfaced, it will likely cause a large increase in rank eight Immortal Gu. But for ordinary rank eight Gu Immortals, especially the lone immortals, they will still face problems getting one rank eight Immortal Gu."
"To think that my Wu clan has gained a new rank eight Immortal Gu."
Wu Yong was happy but also gained increasing wariness regarding Fang Yuan.
"Even though I know that Fang Yuan had annexed Lang Ya Sect, it is still hard to believe that his refinement path ability has become so incredible, it feels like he had an easy time refining a rank eight fan wind Gu with no problems encountered at all."
On the other hand, Ke Xin Hong added: "Since you have checked it, which two Immortal Gu does your clan want to refine next? I can bring them both back next time."
Wu Yong became hesitant.
Should he pass the seven-faced prestige wind Gu to Ke Xin Hong?
If he could refine eight-faced prestige wind Gu, Wu Yong would gain a huge boost in strength. But precisely so, seven-faced prestige wind Gu was extremely important.
If he gave it to Fang Yuan and the latter snatched it, what would he do?
"Come to think of it, there are many options." At this moment, Wu Yong felt that three chances were too few. He would want nothing more than to raise all of Wu clan's Immortal Gu to rank eight!
"To think that you acted so quickly, I am quite spoiled for choice at the moment, I need to think about it carefully. Envoy, why don't you stay here and give me three days to consider?" Wu Yong asked.
Wu Ba Chong heard this and added, urging Ke Xin Hong: "Speaking of which, this is the third time you've come to Wu clan, let us host you and bring you around."
"Alright." Ke Xin Hong smiled lightly: "I do like Wu clan's style a lot, I'll trouble you with my stay. As for first supreme elder's considerations, I understand. In fact, I have been tasked with another mission, I wonder if your clan would like to undergo another transaction with us?"
"What transaction?" Wu Yong became alert.
He thought of the secluded domain of heaven and earth Hu Land, it was akin to a quasi-rank nine Immortal Gu, but Fang Yuan forcefully bought it.
Thinking of this, Wu Yong felt a slight heartache again.
Ke Xin Hong explained the details while Wu Yong fell into contemplation.
Wu Ba Chong shouted in shock: "What? Fang Yuan wants to dig away our Wu clan's famous mountains? In return, he will refine rank eight Immortal Gu for our Wu clan?"
"Precisely." Ke Xin Hong nodded.
Wu Ba Chong snickered: "How can that be? Any famous mountain is a large resource point at least. Most of them are giant resource points, a select few are super resource points, they can produce rank eight immortal materials! Even though you can refine rank eight Immortal Gu, you are still using our Immortal Gu as the foundation to raise their rank, you are not giving us additional Immortal Gu."
"Furthermore, Immortal Gu are hard to feed, rank eight Immortal Gu are too. Even if they are refined, they will expend our resources. Yet, famous mountains are able to produce resources continuously, they will almost never dry out. You want to take our famous mountains, you are trying to cripple our foundation, what intentions do you have, what schemes are you up to?!"
Towards the end, Wu Ba Chong was basically screaming in anger.
But Ke Xin Hong was prepared for this, he spoke calmly: "Not so, not so at all. Elder Wu Ba Chong, you are too pessimistic about this. Think about it carefully, your clan has just gotten many Gu Immortal seeds to undergo immortal ascension recently, but you only gained six new immortals, with most of them being external members."
"Even with more Gu Immortals, Wu clan's territory is too big, you cannot defend it. Since that is the case, you might as well sell some territories. In that case, not only would Wu clan have higher ranked Immortal Gu, you will even have sufficient manpower."
"Furthermore." Ke Xin Hong continued: "Immortal Gu are unique, I am sure Elder Wu Ba Chong knows how priceless rank eight Immortal Gu are. Immortal materials can be sold and bought, but can Immortal Gu be easily bought? They are unique, they can only be traded. Even if treasure yellow heaven is the number one market in the world, let me ask you, how many Immortal Gu have been traded in it over these years?"
"The five regions are now one, the five regions chaotic war cannot be avoided. Gu Immortal battle strength is the most important thing, you can only consider the rest after having sufficient strength to defend yourself. A rank eight Immortal Gu can cause your clan's strength to rise sharply, not only can you protect yourself, you can invade others and gain a huge amount of wealth in war."
"This..." Wu Ba Chong hesitated.
Ke Xin Hong looked at Wu Ba Chong, he cast a secretive glance at Wu Yong without showing any signs, continuing to convince them.
"Human Smoke Mountain is Chai clan's headquarters, they sold it to us recently."
"What? There is such a thing?" Wu Ba Chong was stunned.
Ke Xin Hong did not elaborate further, he took a step back: "If Wu clan does not want this trade, we will not force you. This time, other than bringing back Immortal Gu for refinement, I also need to find other clans and undergo this trade with them."
Wu Ba Chong's expression changed mildly.
If Wu clan did not deal with Fang Yuan but the other clans did, their battle strength would surge instead.
Even if they give up on resources now and lose future potential, what if they decide to expand through invasion?
By then, if Wu clan refuses to work with Fang Yuan, their battle strength would be surpassed by other clans, by then, Wu clan would fall from their throne of the number one Southern Border force, they would be bullied by others.
Wu Yong tapped on the table with his finger as he fell into deep thought.
"Fang Yuan is so domineering even when doing business, he gives others no way of rejecting!"
"However, even though Ke Xin Hong is trying to convince us, he is not wrong about it."
"This trade is sensible, but we need to control the extent of our dealing!"
At almost the same time, in Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
"Gan Ni pays respects to master!" Earth Extremity of the Eight Extremities knelt before Immortal Zombie Giant Sun.
Earth Extremity Gan Ni was a female immortal, she cultivated earth path and refinement path, her refinement path attainment was quite deep.
At this moment, she held four rank eight Immortal Gu and handed them over respectfully.
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun inspected them for some time and felt pleased: "Gan Ni, you are our Longevity Heaven's refinement path expert indeed. Since the fate war until now, you received my orders and refined four rank eight Immortal Gu, you have made a huge contribution."
Gan Ni quickly answered: "It was all thanks to master's luck path methods, otherwise, with just my mere talent, we could not have refined so many rank eight Immortal Gu in these few years. But because of that, Longevity Heaven's luck fell greatly..."
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun interrupted her as he waved his hand: "In this world, there are losses where there are gains. To refine these Immortal Gu, luck expenditure was a necessary investment."
Immortal Zombie Giant Sun took one of these four Immortal Gu and observed it carefully in front of him.
This Gu had a peculiar shape, it was cubic and resembled a wooden box.
This was imitation Gu, it was eighth place on the List of Mystical Gu, originating from Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable!
If one placed this Gu with any Immortal Gu in the world together for some time, the Gu cultivator could activate imitation Gu to turn itself into that Immortal Gu.
Immortal Gu were unique, but imitation Gu could bypass this logic to some extent. However, the imitated Gu could not compare to the real one in power.
Back then, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable asked Heavenly Court for human qi Immortal Gu and failed.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable took another path, refining imitation Gu and turning it into human qi Immortal Gu. Next, with this 'human qi Immortal Gu' as the core, he established Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Other than this imitation Gu, the other three rank eight Immortal Gu were all blood path Immortal Gu!
Divine Emperor City.
Light flickered, the ten children of human path came out of the painting world, returning to the real world.
"We... are finally back."
"It is a pity that we did not manage to take down those two new paintings."
"We were nurtured by Heavenly Court but the time is up, we needed to leave."
"What are you worried about? Even though we did not take it down entirely, the situation has been set. There are so many beast tamers in the painting world, even cultivators have appeared. Moreover, with the deep foundation that we created, there is no chance of failure."
"That's true."
After the ten children of human path conversed for some time, their sect's Gu Immortals arrived to bring them back.
Qin Ding Ling and the rest concealed their traces, watching the scene unfold before them.
"These ten people are the human path immortal seeds of our Heavenly Court. Regardless of the results from this Crazed Demon Cave expedition, we need to nurture these people, invest fully in them!" Qin Ding Ling announced.
"Yes, madam." The Gu Immortal in charge listened to Qin Ding Ling's words and engraved it in his mind.
"Let's go." Qin Ding Ling turned around and said to Genesis Lotus' will.
Genesis Lotus' will nodded.
At the next moment, Divine Emperor City moved, the huge city flew up again, heading straight from Central Continent with unparalleled momentum.
The target was Crazed Demon Cave!
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Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
Several variant human men gathered into a circle, they were busily engaging in an important business.
"Slowly, slowly."
"Guys, relax a little, don't be so anxious."
"Faster, faster, I can't endure it anymore."
Bam.
A loud sound was heard.
A gigantic hill landed on the ground.
This hill was not tall, it did not have clear waters of beautiful vegetation, there were mostly dust rocks and iron cloud stones on the mountain, causing it to look grey in most areas.
And most amazingly, this entire hill was completely silent.
Even though there were many life forms, when Gu Immortals spoke here, no sound could be transmitted unless they used specific methods.
This was silent hill.
It had the same reputation as Western Desert's anti-sound desert, famous in the world. Any sound path killer move used here would be greatly weakened and suppressed.
Silent hill was a famous mountain in Southern Border, but because it produced little resources, it had not been very useful to anyone.
This time, Fang Yuan sent envoys all over the place to negotiate in transactions.
Silent hill was sold to Fang Yuan as a result, these variant human Gu Immortals moved in groups, they were in charge of moving silent hill back into a specific location of the sovereign immortal aperture.
But relocation was just the first step, next, they had to develop its mountain roots.
The one in charge of this was a rockman Gu Immortal.
He activated a method as silent hill's mountain roots began to grow rapidly, stabbing into the surrounding environment.
"Deeper, go deeper!" The leader instructed as he suddenly sighed: "Sigh, why did you stop? Are you finished so quickly?"
The rockman Gu Immortal said impatiently: "Say, leader, can you keep quiet? I want to go deeper too, but I only have rank seven cultivation level. This is a famous mountain, it is very exhausting to influence and manipulate its mountain roots!"
But the leader said: "That's why I said you need to work harder. Your cultivation level is too low, when will you become a rank eight?"
The rockman Gu Immortal rolled his eyes: "Boss, I was still rank six some time ago, I only went to pass the tribulation and reached rank seven because of our master. I also want to reach rank eight, but that is just too difficult."
The other Gu Immortals quickly spoke.
"Leader is right, in our group, you're the only one that can deal with the mountain roots, allowing them to grow thick and long. If you were stronger, we would complete our mission to a greater extent, we would receive better rewards as well."
"You are in charge of the mountain veins, your contribution is the highest among us!"
"I heard that you went to sleep recently?"
"I have not slept in two months, I have been doing mountain relocation missions the entire time."
"Master has such grand ambitions and inspirations, he is managing a project to create artificial earth veins. But this plan will eventually be completed, aren't we grabbing onto this chance when it is available to us? Look at the other groups, the more missions they complete, the fewer we will have for ourselves."
The other Gu Immortals stared at the rockman Gu Immortal, they had a look of expectation and disappointment.
The rockman Gu Immortal was very helpless: "Don't you guys know? We rockmen have no lack of sleep in our lives. Because our bodies are too heavy, it is a huge burden on our soul. We need to sleep to pacify our soul."
"Then use the liver life formation!"
"I already used it."
"On master's contribution board, aren't there soul path methods to raise your soul foundation?"
"But I cultivate earth path, soul path methods are less effective on me. Instead of using my contribution points on them, I might as well raise my earth path attainment instead."
The leader gritted his teeth: "Stop arguing, let's pool our funds and help our little rockman brother. Let's gather some points and raise his soul foundation."
The other Gu Immortals agreed together.
Right now, the rockman Gu Immortal was their group's weakness, if he got stronger, the entire group would benefit from it.
Fang Yuan handed out all sorts of missions, they were created after wisdom path deductions, their contents were simple but they had deep meaning.
Be it the difficulty of the mission or the content itself, Gu Immortals often had to cooperate with others, it was hard to do any mission alone.
This gave the Gu Immortals of various races a chance to work together intimately.
After a long period of cooperation, they naturally developed camaraderie and friendship.
Thus, within the entire sovereign immortal aperture, all the different tribes and races were seamlessly fusing together into one big community.
Humans, rockmen, feathermen, inkmen, snowmen, and others, they were all working together, contributing blood and sweat for the sake of building their wonderful homeland.
"Excellent, silent hill has been relocated already. All the famous mountains are distributed around the mini five regions, the most basic requirement has been met, we can now start developing the earth vein."
Fang Yuan had been paying huge attention to the famous mountain relocation plan.
After seeing the situation over at silent hill, he started to take action personally.
In order to construct the earth vein, he had already created many immortal formations in the important areas of the mini five regions.
At this moment, Fang Yuan willed as immortal essence was expended, the immortal formations started to activate on their own.
The ground of the mini five regions was shaking with greater intensity as time passed.
The variant humans living in the various areas were lost and confused, while some showed expressions of joy.
"What is happening? Is there another earthquake?" Most of the mortal Gu Masters did not understand the situation.
"Master has started to take action. Oh heavens, he is affecting the entire mini five regions in one go, this is truly a huge project!" The Gu Immortals sensed the situation, they all felt intense joy and also deeper admiration towards Fang Yuan.
Rumble...
The ground continued to rumble but the extent was not too severe, there was not much loss from this.
An earth vein started to form in a chain due to the effect of the Gu formations in various areas, using the famous mountains as its various nodes.
This earth vein crossed through the mini five regions, it was present in Mini Eastern Sea, Mini Central Continent, Mini Northern Plains, Mini Southern Border, and Mini Western Desert.
If one looked from above, this earth vein would resemble an irregular geometric shape, the lines were very clear and simple, it barely covered the area of half the mini five regions.
The earth vein was successfully constructed, the ground returned to normal.
The immortal formations of various places came to a halt, they were basically fueled by immortal materials that were almost completely expended, the formations were now incomplete and could not be used again.
Fang Yuan started to carefully assess the outcome.
He was very patient and thorough, after some time, he nodded in satisfaction.
It had gone according to plan, the entire earth vein was created perfectly, no flaws could be observed.
Of course, this had to do with the simple design of the artificial earth vein, it was simply too crude.
The truth was, the hardest part of the artificial earth vein project was not the creation of the earth vein. The problem was the way to gather enough famous mountains to use as the nodes of the various regions' earth vein.
The second hardest thing was the method to create an artificial earth vein.
"The earth vein is completed in its initial state, it is quite crude now and does not have an immediate impact on the entire sovereign immortal aperture. In fact, it might even cause problems to occur frequently during this initial period, but after some time when things go back to normal, the sovereign immortal aperture will become more stable than before!"
Fang Yuan estimated in his mind, he withdrew his attention from the sovereign immortal aperture and used Cooking Luck Pot to inspect his luck again.
With one glance, Fang Yuan's eyes shined, joy was expressed in his gaze.
The creation of his artificial earth vein had a huge effect on his luck.
His luck was originally a grand pillar of silver light, but it was quite loose like cloud soil, it could scatter with one touch.
Now, even though the silver pillar was smaller, it became more condensed.
This was quite an assuring development.
"But the luck of the other venerables has also grown stronger." Fang Yuan frowned to himself.
At the top of the silver light pillar, three clouds were looming over it, they represented Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, and Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
Star Constellation's cloud was still in control of the first level, it had expanded slightly.
Spectral Soul was at the second level, while Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was at the third.
But there was an odd scene now, Star Constellation's cloud seemed to be devouring Spectral Soul's cloud.
This scene was quite confusing to Fang Yuan, he had many guesses in his mind but he was not certain about anything.
There was also another transformation.
At the bottom of the silver light pillar, yellow-brown dust started to spin around it again. This earthy dust moved around the silver light pillar, seemingly stabilizing it.
Through luck inspection, Fang Yuan confirmed that the artificial earth vein plan was very useful to himself, he became even more resolved to continue this plan.
"But after getting an earth vein, I can no longer use myriad beings assimilation transformation." Fang Yuan reminded himself.
Myriad beings assimilation transformation killer move was the ultimate method of Beast Calamity Immortal, it contained the highest profundity of transformation path, able to turn dao marks of all other paths into transformation path dao marks. It could even influence heaven path dao marks, thus all sorts of tribulations could turn into beast calamities.
Fang Yuan's main body could not use it anymore.
This move that transformed dao marks had a huge effect on the sovereign immortal aperture's habitat.
Fang Yuan had a terrifying number of dao marks now, ignoring anything else, just refinement path dao marks alone amounted to over six million. If these six million dao marks suddenly turned into another path's dao marks, the sovereign immortal aperture would not be able to adapt to the change.
By then, a huge issue would occur in the environment, the terrifying tribulation that occurs would have unimaginable consequences!
For example, it was like a fish swimming in water but the water turned into lava, it was easy to guess the outcome of the fish.
In the past, when Fang Yuan used myriad beings assimilation transformation, the sovereign immortal aperture's development was still quite low, there were very few life forms inside. At that time, he also had far fewer dao marks.
If he used myriad beings assimilation transformation now, there would be too many dao marks transformed, it could not be done. But if he transformed fewer dao marks instead, against venerables, it would not have any purpose in combat.
Immortal killer move — Heaven and Earth Travel!
At the next moment, Fang Yuan's main body went from Eastern Sea to Southern Border.
A tall mountain peered into the clouds, frost energy emanated from it, its mountain roots were cut already, Fang Yuan was here to retrieve it after the preparations were done.
This was Frosty Peak.
Back then, Fang Yuan disguised as Wu Yi Hai and sneaked into Wu clan, he had gotten into conflict with Xia clan over this mountain.
Frosty Peak was a famous mountain of course, it produced ice and snow path resources. However, the originally white and beautiful Frosty Peak was now littered with holes all over as a result of excessive excavation, not only was it ugly, the production of resources was also affected.
Thus, this Frosty Peak was sold to Fang Yuan by Wu clan.
At this moment, there were many Gu Immortals surrounding Frosty Peak.
Other than the variant human Gu Immortals that Fang Yuan dispatched, Wu clan's Gu Immortals were here as well, Wu Yong was among them.
"Fang Yuan, have you been well?" Wu Yong took the initiative to greet him, showing a complex expression at the same time.
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Wu Yong wanted to meet Fang Yuan personally.
If the pursuit of Fang Yuan had just ended, Wu Yong would not dare to get close to him at all.
Fang Yuan was the number one demon in the world, Wu Yong would not dare to approach him, there was a threat of getting killed.
It was too dangerous!
But now was different.
Fang Yuan had an entire series of methods for foreign affairs, he engaged in transactions with many major forces without using brute strength.
The initial effect might be small but after so long, super forces like Wu clan, Fang clan, and Chai clan could see that Fang Yuan was someone who could work with principles and rules.
After these super forces reassessed Fang Yuan, they decided to work with him.
It was not easy to reach this stage.
Would a rabbit have the guts to make transactions with a wolf?
"But this man in front of me achieved this feat." Wu Yong looked at Fang Yuan while feeling complicated internally.
Wu Yong was a current generation hero, his talent and aptitude were top rate even among rank eight Gu Immortals. Seeing Fang Yuan's actions these days, even Wu Yong sighed to himself as he developed feelings of admiration.
Having strength but not abusing it or bullying the weak casually, this was not something easy to achieve. On the surface, this seemed like the demeanor of someone with self-control and an understanding that one could not abuse their advantage or they would eventually falter. But the truth was, he was unaffected by greed or ambition, his logic had always suppressed other emotions.
In the current world, no, throughout time, throughout the history of mankind, how many people could reach this stage?
Fang Yuan could even make these weaker forces undergo transactions with him without worries. Initially, there was only Wu clan, but Wu Yong soon found that almost all super forces were transacting with him, they sold some useless famous mountains in exchange for the chance to refine rank eight Immortal Gu.
This was not easy.
It showed that Fang Yuan had incredible interpersonal skills.
Be it through threatening or temptation, even if he used other methods, the result was that he succeeded.
"Fang Yuan is truly an incredible person! Even though he started from the demonic path, his mannerism and mindset has never been restrained by shallow ideas like factions."
"He can be righteous or demonic, he can either help the world or cause chaos in the world, everything depends on the methods he adopt. Even throughout history, such a demon is truly the most terrifying."
"Being born in the same generation as this person is also my blessing."
Wu Yong was wary of Fang Yuan, he had felt disappointment and rage because of Fang Yuan, but he had also gained morale and inspiration, he even saw the beauty of life because of Fang Yuan.
Because from Fang Yuan, he saw himself, it was a testament to his own ideals.
He had too many similarities with Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's series of actions during this period allowed Wu Yong to see Fang Yuan's vision, he knew that Fang Yuan was someone who saw ten steps ahead of each action.
"Since everyone's opinions and actions have changed because of Fang Yuan, why can't I try to cooperate even more deeply with him?" After losing Hu Land, Wu Yong developed this thought.
What to do with an enemy you could not beat?
The best way was to cooperate with them, to turn from enemies to allies!
Cooperating with Fang Yuan had huge potential for gains, it was very helpful to Wu clan.
Wu Yong was someone with high restraint, but he also had the honor of the righteous path.
Except that the honor of an ambitionist like him was worth less than a piece of paper. As long as the benefits were high enough, Wu Yong could tear this paper into pieces with no second thought.
Thus, Wu Yong took the initiative to come and meet with Fang Yuan personally, he wanted to talk and try to see if he could deepen their cooperation!
Seeing Wu Yong, Fang Yuan also revealed a faint smile.
Wu Yong had once chased after his life, but so what?
If you can kill me, that is testament to your strength! This is a world where the strongest survive, if I die because of you, that is because I am weak, it is my own lack of capability, it is my fault!
The weak were devoured by the strong, was this not a natural thing?
Thus, in Fang Yuan's heart, he had never felt any pointless hatred or grudge.
Wu Yong came here of his own accord, his intention to cooperate was obvious, then let's cooperate!
For Fang Yuan, working with Wu clan had benefits and gains too.
Wu Yong was the leader of the Southern Alliance, while Wu clan was the number one super force in Southern Border. They would become a role model for other forces if they chose to cooperate.
Like how Fang Yuan traded with other forces for famous mountains, he had used Wu clan's transaction records to tempt them.
But just when Fang Yuan was about to talk with Wu Yong, a Gu Immortal flew over in the sky.
This Gu Immortal was dressed in a grey hemp garment and conical hat, he had a muscular body and a chin that was wide and thick, it was Lu Wei Yin.
He had always been calm and composed, but now, he showed an anxious expression.
Lu Wei Yin saw Fang Yuan and shouted from afar: "Lord Fang Yuan, I finally found you!"
"What's the matter?" Fang Yuan smiled.
Lu Wei Yin flew towards Fang Yuan, casting a glance at Wu Yong but not greeting him.
Wu Yong became quite curious, he had never seen Lu Wei Yin in such a frantic state.
Lu Wei Yin spoke directly in front of Fang Yuan: "Lord Fang Yuan, do you know that yesterday, Divine Emperor City brought Heavenly Court's immortals from Central Continent straight towards Northern Plains' Crazed Demon Cave!"
"Oh?" Fang Yuan's expression moved slightly.
Lu Wei Yin continued: "Star Constellation Immortal Venerable has likely revived, if she joins up with Heavenly Court, they will be able to work together, Crazed Demon Cave's situation will be very dangerous. There is no time, we need to head there immediately and take control of the situation!"
"What?" Wu Yong heard this and felt incredibly shocked.
What in the world was going on?
Why were Heavenly Court and Crazed Demon Cave involved in something?
Wu Yong was very perceptive, he immediately realized that this was an incredibly important fight. Regardless of the result, it would definitely affect the entire Gu Immortal world, as well as the five regions and two heavens!
But Fang Yuan was not anxious, he consoled Lu Wei Yin: "Your information network is really broad. But don't worry, don't be anxious, I still have matters to settle."
Saying this, Fang Yuan used a method to put Frosty Peak into the sovereign immortal aperture.
"How can I not be anxious?" Lu Wei Yin took off his hat as he stared with wide eyes, urging: "We are going against Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven, the location is also Limitless Demon Venerable's Crazed Demon Cave, as well as that secluded domain of heaven and earth, Primordial Domain. Lord Fang Yuan, we cannot lose our initiative in this fight."
"What? What? Heavenly Court, Longevity Heaven... Limitless Demon Venerable... and Primordial Domain? The secluded domain of heaven and earth recorded in <
He wanted to know everything.
Fang Yuan had a solemn expression: "I know that you want to make contributions, I've already promised you. If Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable wants to revive, I will help you. But I have my own judgment towards the situation, if I do not use my time to strengthen myself, how can I go up against the venerables? There is no need to rush me any further."
"This..." Lu Wei Yin pondered without speaking further.
Fang Yuan turned to Wu Yong as he smiled again: "Wu Yong, regarding the sale of famous mountains, I think we can expand the scale of transactions. For example, Moon Bowl, Corpse Mountain, Phoenix Peak, or Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian, and others."
Wu Yong showed a difficult expression: "These famous mountains have higher value than Frosty Peak. The true value of Phoenix Peak is that phoenixes will gather every year to lay eggs. If you take the mountain, it might not have great value anymore."
"As for Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian or Corpse Mountain, they are things that Wu clan needs. Not long ago, we obtained the enslavement path true inheritance of the Corpse Emperor, we are trying to develop and use it, these two mountains are not for sale."
"As for Moon Bowl, as long as the price is reasonable, we can consider selling it."
Wu Yong spoke with a sincere tone but his mind was wandering elsewhere.
He had been anticipating this conversation for a long time. But because of Lu Wei Yin's words earlier, Wu Yong's attention was drawn away to the issue instead.
Fang Yuan negotiated with Wu Yong for some time, Lu Wei Yin was left unattended beside them.
Fang Yuan truly needed more famous mountains now.
Even though the earlier transactions were helpful, they were mostly useless mountains. But if Wu clan led the transaction, this huge deal between Fang Yuan and Southern Border's super forces could go one step further.
After the discussion, Fang Yuan waved his sleeves: "Alright, I'll see you both another time."
Lu Wei Yin stretched out his hand: "Lord Fang Yuan..."
Before leaving, Fang Yuan cast a cold glance at him: "I have other matters to attend to."
Lu Wei Yin could not speak any of the words that he had bottled up inside.
At the next moment, heaven and earth travel was activated, Fang Yuan vanished on the spot.
He really had things to do.
This time, he went to Rotten Mud Mountain and took the mountain.
"Sigh!" Lu Wei Yin sighed deeply to himself.
Wu Yong smiled: "We have not met for some time. Why don't we..."
Lu Wei Yin waved his hand: "Wu Yong, I have matters to attend to, when I am free, I will definitely visit Wu Yi Mountain."
Saying so, Lu Wei Yin left.
He did not have the mood to explain things to Wu Yong.
Wu Yong also had a bunch of bottled up questions, he felt horrible internally.
He immediately turned his gaze towards the variant human Gu Immortals that were present.
His smile did not change, he asked these people.
But what did these variant human Gu Immortals know?
The leader replied calmly: "Without master's permission, how can us subordinates speak out of line? Please do not blame us, Lord Wu Yong, we need to continue moving the mountains."
Wu Yong was helpless as he watched these people leave.
Even though he spoke to Fang Yuan and achieved his original goal, Wu Yong could not be happy.
He sensed acutely that he was starting to get left behind by Fang Yuan and others. He had no idea what was going on in Crazed Demon Cave, for example.
"No wonder Fang Yuan is trying to work with the major forces... Star Constellation Immortal Venerable revived? One can only imagine the pressure he is facing."
"Maybe I should use this to haggle for more conditions with Fang Yuan?"
After understanding Fang Yuan's difficulties, Wu Yong started to develop some thoughts.
"Wait." His eyes burst with bright light: "Lu Wei Yin could have transmitted those words to Fang Yuan, why did he speak in front of me purposely? It is likely that I can gain more information by asking him. He rejected me earlier to try to raise his status and get a higher price."
Wu Yong smiled bitterly internally.
He knew that if he contacted Lu Wei Yin now, he would be extorted by the latter.
But if he did not ask for information, how could he know if there was a chance to benefit from this situation?
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Immemorial white heaven.
Intense winds blew, Fang Yuan's hair fluttered in the wind as a result.
After preparation, he activated his killer move.
A rank eight earth path grotto-heaven was devoured by the sovereign immortal aperture under Fang Yuan's method.
Like what he did earlier, Fang Yuan did not annex this grotto-heaven wholly, he chose to split it into different portions and placed them into the sovereign immortal aperture's various areas.
Of course, because this was a rockman earth path grotto-heaven, most of it landed in the mini five regions, only a small portion ended up in the mini nine heavens.
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture.
As profound light faded, a mountain range appeared in Mini Central Continent out of nowhere.
"It's here, it's here, our tribe's Myriad Ravine Mountain Range!" Shi San Bai was incredibly excited.
"Yes, this is our former Sacred Mountain, but now that it is inside the sovereign immortal aperture, it has become quite ordinary." Shi Gua Bi had a complex expression, he felt dejected but also happy.
These few rockman Gu Immortals gathered together for this moment.
They were the Gu Immortals of this former grotto-heaven, but they were sent into Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture in advance.
During this period of time, their cultivation levels rose rapidly, they also gained many Immortal Gu. They were simply on a whole new level than before.
"Let's go, let's go in." The rockman Gu Immortals flew into Myriad Ravine Mountain Range.
"Greetings to supreme ancestor!"
"The ancestors have finally returned!!!"
Myriad Ravine Mountain Range still had a large number of rockman Gu Masters, after seeing the rockman Gu Immortals, they cheered loudly.
"Indeed, this is our new home."
"We have a bright future living here."
After the rockman Gu Immortals gave them a speech, they started to take action.
They had missions to do.
This Myriad Ravine Mountain Range was a famous mountain too, it was going to be one of the cores of an earth vein.
Fang Yuan spent several hours annexing this earth path grotto-heaven, during the process, certain changes developed in various places across the sovereign immortal aperture.
In Star Collection City, Combat Beast King held the fort as he observed the commotions in the sovereign immortal aperture along with other Gu Immortals.
"During this period of time, master annexed several grotto-heavens and caused the dao marks to rise in number. It can be expected that the various areas of the sovereign immortal aperture will have increasing commotion over time, with rising intensity."
"Isn't this good? The more incidents there are, the more missions we have to do."
"Sigh, when will our tribe's grotto-heaven be annexed by master?"
The Gu Immortals talked among themselves, feeling expectant towards their future prospects.
Their mindsets had already changed drastically.
In the past, they were against Fang Yuan annexing their grotto-heavens, but now the situation was different, they looked forward to it. It was as if they could not gain their master's acknowledgement if their grotto-heaven had not been annexed. Many Gu Immortals who had their immortal apertures annexed felt that they were a true part of the sovereign immortal aperture, they felt superior to the Gu Immortals of the two heavens.
"Lord Fang Yuan, Lord Fang Yuan!" Lu Wei Yin shouted.
He flew over from afar.
Fang Yuan turned around and smiled: "It has been tough on you, you came all the way here to immemorial white heaven."
Lu Wei Yin smiled bitterly, he said in an urgent tone: "Lord Fang Yuan, you must know why I came here. Let's set off now, do you know that yesterday, a rank eight Immortal Gu House flew from immemorial black heaven to Crazed Demon Cave."
Fang Yuan nodded: "Many people saw that, the Immortal Gu House should be the one that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable left behind, Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, right?"
"Indeed." Lu Wei Yin nodded continuously, staring at Fang Yuan: "Right now, Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court have moved. If we still do not start taking action, we are going to lose this prime opportunity."
Fang Yuan nodded: "Fine, let's go."
"Really?" Lu Wei Yin heard the answer he wanted, but he could not believe it.
These last days, he had used information path methods to urge Fang Yuan to go, but he kept on refusing it.
To think that Fang Yuan was actually going to move now.
"Can I confirm when Lord Fang Yuan will go?" Lu Wei Yin was still in disbelief.
Fang Yuan smiled: "How about now?"
Lu Wei Yin was overjoyed: "Lord Fang Yuan is truly resolute, that is the best answer, let's go, let's go!"
The truth was, Fang Yuan had already decided to go to Crazed Demon Cave now.
He had already used up all of the dream realms, his attainment levels rose accordingly.
Quasi-supreme grandmaster: refinement path, time path, enslavement path.
Great grandmaster: theft path, transformation path, rule path, qi path, fire path, wisdom path, water path, earth path, poison path.
Grandmaster: blood path, strength path, star path, dark path, formation path, soul path, sword path, human path, wood path, food path, phantom path, luck path, ice and snow path.
Master: dream path, space path, metal path, wind path, cloud path, lightning path, information path, light path, sound path.
As for the remaining paths like bone path, they were not at master level yet, but he still had some progress. Heaven path was the same.
Even though he did not reach Spectral Soul's level, Fang Yuan's attainment levels were already top rate in the current world. Be it breadth or depth, he could be considered the number one person in the world!
After all, Spectral Soul lost his attainment levels after leaving behind the dream realms, while Star Constellation and Giant Sun would not retain their supreme grandmaster attainment levels even if they revived now.
Of course, he still had insufficiencies.
For example, painting path, weapon path, and others, they were completely blank.
These paths were just too rare, painting path was intentionally concealed by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, while weapon path was crudely created by Heavenly Court's Gu Immortal Che Wei recently.
With the rise of attainment level, Fang Yuan could annex more grotto-heavens, the sovereign immortal aperture reached its limit once again.
If there was some time to digest the new gains, the sovereign immortal aperture would become more stable.
But there was neither time nor opportunity.
Through luck inspection, Fang Yuan found that the situation had worsened again, even though there was still leeway, it had clearly gotten quite severe.
With a resolute decision, Fang Yuan immediately went to Northern Plains with Lu Wei Yin.
Ever since that pursuit battle over Fang Yuan ended, he had already used all his time to the limit, recuperating and raising his strength as much as he could.
Now, it was time to face the venerables head on!
Years had passed, Fang Yuan returned to Crazed Demon Cave again.
Initially, when he first came here, he only had rank seven cultivation level and was restricted by an alliance agreement.
Now, he looked down towards Crazed Demon Cave, ready to engage in battle with venerables.
The first layer of Crazed Demon Cave was a huge land of yellow soil.
This was a huge cave, it was almost circular at the entrance, spanning hundreds of kilometers, it looked extremely grand.
Inside the cave, there was a lush rain forest, filled with the colors yellow and green. Desolate beasts formed into groups, vines and trees tangled together, growling could be heard everywhere, it was a primitive sight.
"We will go down from there." Lu Wei Yin said.
"No rush." Fang Yuan raised his hand: "These immortal materials are useful to me."
He opened his immortal aperture's entrance, many variant human Gu Immortals were let out.
These Gu Immortals were talking among themselves, they went down in groups, causing chaos in the entire first layer.
"Quick, there is a desolate plant here!"
"Dig it up, bring it back."
"Oh oh, there's a group of desolate beast monkeys here, let's work together."
"Squeak squeak..." The monkey group cried out together.
"These rocks are immortal materials, bring them back, bring them all back."
"These are all contribution points!!"
The Gu Immortals worked enthusiastically, they were like a group of bandits that entered a mortal village.
Even though the first layer of Crazed Demon Cave had wild beasts and plants, Fang Yuan's subordinates were superior in numbers, there were also many rank eight Gu Immortals among them that possessed rank eight Immortal Gu and rank eight killer moves.
The first layer of Crazed Demon Cave was completely looted!
Lu Wei Yin watched with a dazed expression.
In just this short period of time, how did Fang Yuan's subordinates become so strong, didn't their strength rise too absurdly?
"I have too many people under me, our resource expenditure is very high, especially when I made the artificial earth vein recently. This is really embarrassing." Fang Yuan smiled.
Lu Wei Yin quickly waved his hand: "Of course not, I feel admiration towards you instead. In the current world, only Lord Fang Yuan is capable of making use of these chaotic immortal materials."
Because Crazed Demon Cave had demonic sounds at set intervals, dao marks would become chaotic and all the immortal materials would be useless. Living beings would rampage and lose their senses, even rank eight Gu Immortals became lunatics in such an environment.
A while later, the first layer that was filled with vitality became a barren land.
The variant human Gu Immortals were still not satisfied as they brought the vast amount of resources back into the sovereign immortal aperture.
Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin went into the second layer after that.
Crazed Demon Cave's second layer was an incredibly hot land of burning rocks. A large amount of rocks were piled up together, big and small, the large ones were like huge elephants, the small ones were like pebbles.
These Gu materials also had chaotic dao marks, but they were mostly made of fire path and earth path dao marks.
"Take them all." Fang Yuan ordered, the variant human Gu Immortals moved again.
They swept the area like a locust swarm, emptying the entire second layer.
After that, Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin went into the third layer.
The third layer was covered in dense fog, it had a vast number of fog worms and cloud bamboos. These life forms were also senseless and chaotic, they were all taken down or chopped down and collected by the variant human Gu Immortals.
There was even a Fog City here.
A ghost city of dead people.
The Gu Immortals who died in Crazed Demon Cave gathered together with vengeance and created this Fog City.
When Fang Yuan came here before, he avoided it as he had rank seven cultivation level, if he entered it, he would definitely die, there was no way to escape.
But it was different now.
Fog City?
Mine.
Take it away!
After looting everything in his path, Fang Yuan arrived at the seventh layer of Crazed Demon Cave.
He spent much less time compared to his previous expedition.
Back then, Fang Yuan was led by Not Immortal, they kept taking detours. The deeper they went, the more turns they had to make, sometimes, the straight distance seemed to be short, but they had to make a long detour. With their strength back then, detours actually saved them more time than taking a straight path.
But now, Fang Yuan moved unhindered.
No matter what obstacles he met along the way, he placed them all into the sovereign immortal aperture.
The seventh layer of Crazed Demon Cave was filled with bright colors. The rocks, grass, soil, and trees were all shining in bright lights.
Every piece of soil or rock here was a quasi-rank nine immortal material.
But the dao marks were chaotic, they could not be used at all.
Of course, that was the case for most Gu Immortals in the world.
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Fang Yuan was the exception, of course.
As demonic sounds rang, Fang Yuan had already prepared himself. Back then, he was able to deal with the demonic sounds, now, it was simply too easy.
Under the demonic sounds' influence, dao marks of the same path in the seventh layer gathered together and formed large areas of beautiful rainbow lights, they were no longer as scattered and random as before.
"Such an incredible sight!" Lu Wei Yin sighed in amazement: "Eh..."
At the next moment, he saw Fang Yuan taking out Immortal Gu House Thieves Den.
Steal dao killer move activated!
Large numbers of dao marks were stolen, forming into corresponding rank nine immortal materials within Thieves Den.
These rank nine immortal materials were very pure, they only had one path's dao marks, they had immense value.
Lu Wei Yin watched, he became tongue-tied.
He estimated that in just over ten breaths of time, Fang Yuan obtained at least three rank nine immortal materials!
Rank nine immortal materials!
Wasn't he obtaining them simply too easily?
Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin moved together, everywhere they went, large areas of dao marks vanished.
The beautiful sight turned into something that resembled cheese gnawed by rats, everywhere Fang Yuan went, there were large pieces of black and white spots.
Lu Wei Yin watched, his eyes turned slightly red.
Fang Yuan's gains were too huge, the benefits were large enough for him to feel envy internally.
"Such wealth, he's earned a fortune! This is the first time I've seen anyone gain a vast number of rank nine immortal materials so easily!!" Lu Wei Yin shouted internally to himself.
He could no longer guess how many rank nine immortal materials Fang Yuan had obtained.
The only thing he was knew, his gains were huge, enormous, unthinkable.
Continuing to move forward, they finally arrived at the entrance of the eighth layer.
Fang Yuan's expression was slightly pale, the burden of using Thieves Den and the killer move steal dao along the way was not small, especially in terms of immortal essence expenditure.
Lu Wei Yin became slightly worried: "Lord Fang Yuan, do pay attention to your immortal essence storage."
"No need to worry." Fang Yuan smiled mildly: "I have rank eight Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus."
Lu Wei Yin heard this and his expression froze before replying: "Impressive, impressive, as befitting of Lord Fang Yuan."
At the entrance, Fang Yuan saw three paths ahead again.
One path was filled with golden light, luck surged around it. It was the luck path left behind by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
One path was dark and horrifying, killing intent filled it. It was the soul path left behind by Spectral Soul when he entered the eighth layer.
One path was humble and plain, giving a virtuous aura. It was Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's path.
Because Lu Wei Yin had methods prepared beforehand, he could enter Paradise Earth's path.
But Fang Yuan waved his hand, Thieves Den activated, the three paths were completely devoured, they disappeared.
A large number of rank nine immortal materials were produced as a result.
Lu Wei Yin moved his lips but he did not manage to say anything, he followed Fang Yuan into the eighth layer wordlessly.
Nothingness!
This was a boundless void that resembled a huge ocean with no shore in sight.
Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin who entered were like two bugs in the ocean, extremely minuscule and insignificant.
Fang Yuan had once come here, he had a deep impression of the place.
In this boundless void, countless worlds were created and destroyed, deriving brand new heaven path dao marks.
He had once tried to enter the ninth layer but he did not succeed.
This void was evidently the profundity of phantom path, but Fang Yuan did not have phantom path attainment back then, he could not deduce the location of the ninth layer's entrance.
This time, he came prepared.
His phantom path attainment level had reached grandmaster.
Immediately, Fang Yuan used his phantom path method.
"Hmm?" At the next moment, Fang Yuan raised his brows: "The void here is different from the one I experienced last time."
But Fang Yuan could not point out the exact difference.
Even though he made huge progress in phantom path, he was still very far from understanding or breaking Limitless Demon Venerable's eighth layer arrangements.
"Please follow me." Lu Wei Yin activated a certain killer move and found his direction, leading the way.
Fang Yuan followed after Lu Wei Yin.
Along the way, he saw worlds created and destroyed, it was truly an extraordinary sight.
But different from before, these worlds were moving along the void, no matter which world it was, they went in the same direction.
Fang Yuan's deductions finally had some results.
He was evidently moved: "I understand now, this void is contracting. At the final moment, all of the worlds and heaven path dao marks will be squeezed together, they will be completely fused into one. Is this Limitless Demon Venerable's plan?"
Lu Wei Yin shook his head: "I only know the location of Yellow Earth Great World, we need to hurry and head there."
The two immortals flew for a few more hours before finally seeing their destination.
"This is?!" Lu Wei Yin expressed shock on his face, because he did not just see Yellow Earth Great World, he also saw the worlds that Reckless Savage and Genesis Lotus left behind.
Fang Yuan squinted: "The three great worlds are fusing into one, not just that, there are also many small worlds following beside them."
These worlds were motionless within the void.
Each world was like a bubble, the three great worlds were the largest bubbles, being green, yellow, and red respectively. The three worlds were joint together at the center, the periphery was filled with smaller bubbles that were linked to the surface of the three great world bubbles.
"Oh no, lord, please look!" Lu Wei Yin pointed at the yellow bubble and said anxiously.
Fang Yuan turned his gaze and saw that Yellow Earth Great World was currently attacked by the joint efforts of the other two great worlds.
Even though the view outside the bubble was quite vague, Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin could still sense the intensity of the battle inside. Especially when the connecting area of the three worlds was filled with corpses, it was the most intense area of the battle.
"Lord, with my method, Yellow Earth Great World will not resist us. Let's go and reinforce them!" Lu Wei Yin charged in like a falling meteor.
Fang Yuan followed after him, his body was also shrouded in a yellow light.
It was this yellow light that allowed them to easily pass through the bubble and enter Yellow Earth Great World.
Looking at the great world, the thing that attracted Fang Yuan's gaze the most was that huge mound at the center.
This mound resembled a mountain, the mountain itself was quite flat, it looked man-made.
But Fang Yuan could see the true essence of the mountain at first glance: "This is Tomb Earth of the Ten Earths? This is such a huge tomb."
This unprecedented tomb had a tombstone on it.
The tombstone had six words written on it — Tomb of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable!
Seemingly sensing Lu Wei Yin and Fang Yuan, the tomb suddenly emitted a grand pillar of light.
It rose up into the skies, resembling a pillar that held up heaven itself, the entire battlefield froze, everyone's eyes were attracted to it.
"The Sacred Tomb is shining, heaven and earth can bear testament to it. Our sage has arrived!" After a few breaths of time, a huge roar erupted in Yellow Earth Great World, it was like a huge tsunami.
The people of Yellow Earth Great World became energized and surged with morale, they started to counterattack.
Green Lotus Great World.
This was the Dao field of Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, look at it, forests and vegetation were abundant, it was filled with greenery and vitality, giving off an unfathomable aura.
In this densely green world, there was a black and white mountain.
At the peak of the mountain, there were rows of chairs that extended downwards.
The top two chairs were unoccupied, while Qin Ding Ling sat at the fourth seat!
"Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin arrived after all!" After receiving the information, Qin Ding Ling snorted coldly.
During the pursuit battle against Fang Yuan, Lu Wei Yin took the initiative to help Fang Yuan, not only did he help to kill Spectral Soul, he even helped Fang Yuan escape.
Lu Wei Yin was Southern Border's Paradise Earth inheritor, after that, Paradise Earth's intention to cooperate with Fang Yuan became obvious.
The Paradise Earth Sacred Tomb at the center of Yellow Earth Great World was also openly seen to everyone, the Gu Immortals of the three worlds knew of it.
Thus, there was nothing strange about Lu Wei Yin and Fang Yuan showing up here.
Qin Ding Ling gritted her teeth as she said: "Currently, we need to split up into two groups, one group will advance and attack Yellow Earth Great World, the other will aid Demon Judgment Board in suppressing and resisting Savage Wilderness Great World as well as restraining Longevity Heaven. As for the other Gu Immortals, you can go conquer the small worlds in groups."
"Originally, our side was cooperating with Longevity Heaven to devour Yellow Earth Great World, but now that Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin showed up, Yellow Earth Great World is no longer meat on the chopping block, we can suffer losses if we are careless."
Saying so, Qin Ding Ling stood up and bowed to the Gu Immortal on the third seat: "Lady Ming Hao, please allow this subordinate to use Divine Emperor City and personally lead the group invading Yellow Earth Great World to resist Fang Yuan."
Qin Ding Ling was originally the leader of Heavenly Court, but here, she was only fourth place, she had to obey the three fairies at the top.
Currently, the first and second fairies were not around, only the third Fairy Ming Hao was here to control the situation.
This Fairy Ming Hao had the appearance of a three to four year old girl, she was cute and delicate, her large eyes shined with sparkling starlight specks.
She blinked her large and shiny eyes, she pondered before replying with a childish voice: "I've heard of Fang Yuan, but do you need to deal with him personally? Let them go instead."
Saying so, her tiny arm waved as a Gu worm flew out.
This information path Gu worm flew to the middle of the mountain and landed in front of two Gu Immortals.
These were neither human nor variant human Gu Immortals.
One was an old tree with a thin and dry trunk, it had countless branches of different length but had no leaves on them. It had thin and long roots that number to a hundred. The tree's name was Mu Cha Lang.
The other was a long bamboo that was green like jade, its name was Qing Hao Zi.
Qing Hao Zi floated in the air, casually and peacefully sleeping.
Mu Cha Lang was lying on the mountain rock that seemed like a chair, its branches wrapped around a small rock like a person resting his legs on a stool, it was very relaxed.
After seeing the information path Gu worm, Mu Cha Lang stood up immediately.
It extended its branches to nudge Qing Hao Zi: "Stop sleeping, stop sleeping, the sage has sent an order."
Qing Hao Zi waved back and forth because of the nudge but it did not land on the ground.
After getting awakened, it straightened its body and remained in the air: "To think that we are going to move out so quickly."
Next, the two immortals left the mountain, leading their troops to the front lines.
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Savage Wilderness Great World.
A grand and ancient dark gold palace floated in the sky.
It was Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace.
Within the palace, Bing Sai Chuan sat on a cushion with one information path Immortal Gu on the tiny table in front of him.
Several Gu Immortals were standing towards his left and right.
Bing Sai Chuan stared at the information path Immortal Gu, he frowned slightly.
Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin came together, it created a huge uncertainty in the battle of the three great worlds. What should Longevity Heaven, which occupied Savage Wilderness Great World, do?
Should they retreat first or send more people to probe Fang Yuan's strength?
Bing Sai Chuan could not decide immediately.
He thought for a while and cast his gaze towards the first person on his left.
A fatty was sitting there.
The fatty was lying down on the table, fast asleep, there was even saliva flowing out of his mouth, onto his sleeves and the table below.
Bam bam bam!
Bing Sai Chuan knocked on the table with his knuckle several times.
The fatty was woken up by this noise, he opened his sleepy eyes and asked in a daze: "What happened?"
Bing Sai Chuan withheld his anger: "Gai Mei, you are the Heaven Extremity, you cultivate wisdom path. The newest information is here, I want you to deduce what our following actions should be."
Saying this, the information path Immortal Gu flew and landed on the fatty's head.
The fatty did not use his hand to touch it, he looked into the Immortal Gu directly, his pupils shrank immediately.
"What? That demon Fang Yuan is here?" The fatty shrugged: "See, weren't my previous deductions correct?"
Bing Sai Chuan knocked on the table again: "I want you to deduce what action our side should take for this situation. Originally, Yellow Earth Great World was weak, with our control over Savage Wilderness Great World, and Heavenly Court's control over Green Lotus Great World, we could invade Yellow Earth Great World and strengthen ourselves before deciding the victor between us. But now that Lu Wei Yin and Fang Yuan appeared in Yellow Earth Great World, if we attack it by force, they might counterattack and expend our strength instead."
Bing Sai Chuan was not afraid of Fang Yuan's counterattack, he was worried about the impact on the overall situation instead.
After all, the current situation was more complex than before, the three worlds were resisting each other. If any two forces went ahead and fought too intensely, the third force would benefit.
"Then let me deduce it." The fatty Gu Immortal, Heaven Extremity Gai Mei, waved his loose sleeves and stretched out five fat fingers, he pretended to make a deduction.
"Oh, I deduced it, let's follow our original pan." Gai Mei said.
Bing Sai Chuan watched with a dumbfounded expression: "Can you use your Immortal Gu to activate a killer move and make a proper deduction?!"
Gai Mei blinked innocently: "What? How did you know I was pretending? You actually found out, you are so smart! You must be the wisdom path cultivator instead, right?"
Veins bulged on Bing Sai Chuan's forehead: "Do you think you are Southern Border's Wu Yong? You have no methods to conceal your aura, hurry up and make a deduction!"
Gai Mei waved his wide sleeves again, exposing his five fat fingers, he was about to make a deduction when he suddenly sighed: "Sigh! Forget it, the killer move is too tiring to activate. Why don't we just ask our lord ancestor instead?"
Bing Sai Chuan was livid with anger, he shouted: "Absolutely not! Our lord is working with Earth Extremity, Black Extremity, and Space Extremity to deduce Limitless Demon Venerable's plot, how can we disturb him?"
"Currently, Heavenly Court already has the initiative, they obtained Book Mountain. We are relying on our lord to have any hope of catching up to Heavenly Court. Heaven Extremity, can't you see the big picture?"
Gai Mei pouted unhappily: "Stop calling me Heaven Extremity all the time, I didn't even want to be Heaven Extremity, you guys forced it on me."
Yellow Extremity Jiao Huo who was sitting beside Gai Mei tried to convince him: "Brother Gai, just help out and make the deductions. This is not just about the strength of Yellow Earth Great World, it also concerns Fang Yuan's possible actions."
"This demon Fang Yuan has no regard for his identity as a human. I am more worried that he might relocate the local Gu Immortals of Yellow Earth Great World and the ones he captures from our forces into the sovereign immortal aperture. Look at what he did in the five regions, he recruited the variant humans to become his subordinates and almost rejected nobody. In my opinion, it is likely he would do this."
"In that case, it might foil our lord's plans."
Jiao Huo spoke, trying his best to convince Gai Mei, but he still shook his head, smiling instead: "Actually, you guys don't have to be so worried. Isn't Heavenly Court just as worried as us? Let's see what Heavenly Court is doing now, wouldn't that do? They are guarded by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, she is the number one wisdom path expert in history, she is definitely better than me at deductions."
Jiao Huo's expression froze: "Even so, if Heavenly Court deduces first, they will gain the initiative. If we join them in their plan, we will fall behind them."
"Regardless, I am not going to work!" Gai Mei rolled his eyes as he went back to sleep on the table.
Jiao Huo and Bing Sai Chuan stared at him angrily, but he completely ignored them.
"Charge, charge with me!"
"Force back all of these enemies."
"Charge—!"
Thousands of Gu Masters engaged in battle on the ground, the front lines looked disorderly, blood flowed everywhere.
The sky was the battlefield for Gu Immortals as they fought, more than ten Gu Immortals engaged in a chaotic battle at once.
On the ground, Yellow Earth Great World's Gu Master army launched a powerful counterattack, while in the sky, Yellow Earth Great World's Gu Immortals were suppressed.
Yellow Earth Great World's sage had already descended, the Gu Masters were spirited and motivated, but in the battle between Gu Immortals, morale alone could not make up for their difference in strength.
After all, Yellow Earth Great World had fewer Gu Immortals than Green Lotus Great World.
This could not be helped.
The three great worlds were made one after another, Savage Wilderness Great World had the longest history, but it had a lot of internal conflict over the years. Green Lotus Great World was second while Yellow Earth Great World was the most recent. After all, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was the most recent venerable.
Yellow Earth Great World had very few Gu Immortals to begin with, it was even attacked by the joint force of two other worlds, they had fewer and fewer Gu Immortals gradually, the situation was dire.
"Our sages have arrived, there is still hope."
"I will defend Yellow Earth Great World, I will defend my homeland!"
The Gu Immortals of Yellow Earth Great World shouted together, raising their morale.
Green Lotus' side laughed coldly.
"Even if your sages arrive, they cannot stop us from killing you guys."
"You have sages but so do we. The result of this battle will not change!"
"We don't want to do this too, but we have orders from our sage, we need to kill all of you and devour all the worlds to prevent the apocalypse from happening."
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals continued to attack.
Yellow Earth's Gu Immortals were specialized in defense, even though the situation was dangerous, they were barely able to hold the line, struggling at the brink of defeat.
Right at this time, from the huge tunnel connecting Yellow Earth Great World and Green Lotus Great World, two armies appeared.
They were led by the Gu Immortals Qing Hao Zi and Mu Cha Lang.
Immortal killer move — Spring Upon Withered Tree!
Mu Cha Lang shouted as green leaves appeared all over its entire tree body, the new leaves flew out and landed on the Green Lotus Gu Immortals.
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals were not severely injured to begin with, their large injuries became small while their small injuries healed completely.
The condition of the Green Lotus Gu Immortals improved immediately!
Immortal killer move — Green Life Taker.
Qing Hao Zi flew with extreme speed, creating a green trail in the sky, piercing the body of a Yellow Earth Gu Immortal.
The Yellow Earth Great World's Gu Immortal was a black bear, it grabbed its empty chest.
After gasping, it fell to the ground.
The Yellow Earth Gu Immortals were anguished.
After dealing the fatal blow, Qing Hao Zi looked at these Gu Immortals arrogant and said: "The Sacred Mountain gave orders, you will all die."
Mu Cha Lang laughed loudly: "So what if your sage is here? The eventual victor will only be our Green Lotus Great World!"
At the same time, in another battlefield.
Savage Wilderness Great World's main forces were fighting against another group of Yellow Earth Great World inhabitants.
"Die! Die! Die!"
A six legged black tiger that was as large as a mountain charged around in the sky, it managed to grab a Yellow Earth Great World Gu Immortal.
"I finally caught you!" The six legged black tiger laughed and exerted force with both claws.
Swoosh!
With a soft sound, the giant-like Yellow Earth Gu Immortal was torn into two by the six legged black tiger, dying on the spot.
"Hahaha!" The six legged black tiger laughed loudly, the giant's blood spurted all over its face, the tiger licked and showed a maniacal and bloodthirsty expression.
"Little Rock Monarch was killed by Hei Liu Biao."
"Let's retreat, we are not these people's match."
"Indeed, our sage has already arrived, let's return and ask him to take charge of us."
The Gu Master armies were still fighting on the ground, but in the sky, Yellow Earth Great World's Gu Immortals had lost their fighting spirit, they wanted to retreat.
Suddenly, there was an eagle cry as white light flashed in the sky.
Everyone turned to look, they saw a snow wing eagle pecking a Yellow Earth Gu Immortal and devouring him whole.
"Xue Li Du!"
"He ate another person!!"
The Yellow Earth Gu Immortals were furious and shocked.
Snow wing eagle Xue Li Du said in a shrill voice: "Escape? Don't even think of running!"
The morale of the Yellow Earth Gu Immortals collapsed at once.
At Paradise Earth's Sacred Tomb.
"Kan Ke La greets both sages!"
"Big Rock Monarch greets both sages, we implore you, please save our Yellow Earth Great World!!"
A group of Gu Immortals knelt on the ground.
They were either beasts or plants. Some even had peculiar forms, some seemed like they had been formed from casually molded clay, some were like children's doodles, there were no pure humans.
These Yellow Earth Gu Immortals were all injured, some had severe injuries, on the brink of death.
But because of the commotion that Fang Yuan and Lu Wei Yin caused when they arrived, these sick and injured Gu Immortals came over.
Fang Yuan took a glance at them, seeing a 'familiar person'.
This was a giant grey fish, it resembled a goldfish but had the size of a whale.
When Fang Yuan first entered the eighth layer, he met with this fish and forcefully enslaved it, it was named Little Flower.
Right now, as Little Flower saw Fang Yuan, it was very excited and wanted to say something, but in this situation, it chose to control its emotions as the timing was inappropriate.
Fang Yuan nodded, saying: "I wanted to see the ones behind Green Lotus Dao field as well."
"Lord Fang Yuan, you cannot attack rashly." Lu Wei Yin suddenly transmitted.
Fang Yuan looked at Lu Wei Yin with a peculiar gaze, seemingly saying: 'Didn't you invite me here because of my battle strength?'
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Lu Wei Yin secretly transmitted as he explained in detail: "Lord Fang Yuan, you may not know this, because of your high battle strength, it will trigger a retaliative method from Limitless Demon Venerable. After our obvious arrival, why did Heavenly Court send more troops to provoke us? It was to probe our strength and try to lure you into attacking, which would be the best outcome for them."
"What are the details about this?" Fang Yuan asked.
Lu Wei Yin smiled bitterly: "I'm not sure about the exact situation, but I know that Limitless Demon Venerable exerted huge effort to create Crazed Demon Cave back then, it was to make derivations regarding the Heavenly Dao, to find the true path of eternal life. At this point in time, the arrangement is finally about to reveal the result and bear fruit."
"The current eighth layer void is contracting and shrinking now, all the various worlds are lured to the center, fusing into or annexing each other, until only one great world is left in the end."
"And this great world might be the result of Limitless Demon Venerable's derivation, it might contain the answer to eternal life."
"If we attack abruptly and cause a huge commotion in battle, we may disrupt the eventual derivation of Crazed Demon Cave, Limitless Demon Venerable's method will immediately activate to deal with us."
"That will incur an unfavorable loss to our side."
"Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven will be happy to see that happen. If we end up suffering mutual losses with Limitless Demon Venerable's method, we will be less threatening to them while Limitless Demon Venerable's method will also be exposed, they will be able to discern information about it."
Fang Yuan pondered: "In that case, we can only make a move when the final great world is formed? Then why would Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven come here early to take charge of their respective great worlds?"
Lu Wei Yin explained patiently: "More precisely, only people with battle strength like yours cannot make a move. I am still able to take action here."
"If our side can control Yellow Earth Great World and emerge victorious, we will have the upper hand in the final battle. When the final great world is created, the amount of control we have over it will determine our gains. Thus, we need to invade more worlds and devour them to expand our territory."
After his transmission, Fang Yuan finally understood the situation.
Currently, he could not take action.
Once he took action and caused a big commotion, he would disrupt Crazed Demon Cave's final derivation, it would trigger the retaliative method of Limitless Demon Venerable.
Of course, Fang Yuan could suppress his strength to take action.
But there was no need to.
Suppressing his strength would mean that Fang Yuan was about as strong as other Gu Immortals, he might be slightly superior but that would not have an impact on the overall situation. In fact, after making many moves, Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven would gain information about his methods, he would even waste his luck in advance.
Thus, Lu Wei Yin invited Fang Yuan over mainly to deal with the final eventual battle.
Once the final world was formed, Fang Yuan, Star Constellation, and Longevity Heaven might have equal battle strength, they would fight it out for the final fruit in Crazed Demon Cave.
At that time, they would fight for real.
Before that, Lu Wei Yin could still make a move (he was pseudo venerable battle strength only in terms of defense) to try to make Yellow Earth Great World the victor of this war.
This would have significant impact on the final battle.
If Lu Wei Yin could succeed, Fang Yuan would gain the initiative later.
"Even if Yellow Earth Great World cannot win in this battle, we cannot let the other two worlds gain too much of a lead. As long as we defend the Sacred Tomb, during the final battle, Lord Paradise Earth will be able to revive successfully. By then, our battle strength will reign above the other two forces." Lu Wei Yin explained his meticulously crafted plan to Fang Yuan.
The conclusion was to defend now and counterattack later.
Defending their base initially while stirring conflict in secret, to make Savage Wilderness Great World and Green Lotus Great World fight each other and expend their strength, to make sure the three forces were eventually matched in the end.
At the later stage, after Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable revives, he would gain Fang Yuan's support and use their superior battle strength to gain victory over the others.
This was a logical arrangement to bide for time, it suited Lu Wei Yin's nature.
But...
This was not Fang Yuan's style.
Fang Yuan looked at the kneeling Yellow Earth Gu Immortals before turning to Lu Wei Yin, smiling: "Taking hits passively is not how I do things. Since we cannot use our top battle strength easily, it means that Heavenly Court is taking advantage of the fact that we lack subordinates."
"In that case..." Fang Yuan smiled as he looked towards Green Lotus Dao field: "Everyone, come outside."
Saying so, he opened his immortal aperture's entrance.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh.
A large number of Gu Immortals flew out.
"We pay respects to master!" Dozens of Gu Immortals greeted at once.
Their voices were thunderously loud, all of the Gu Immortals had evident excitement on their faces.
"The details are listed on the mission board, go." Fang Yuan waved his hand casually.
Swoosh swoosh!
These Gu Immortals immediately split into two groups, charging towards the two battlefields.
The kneeling Yellow Earth Gu Immortals were dumbfounded.
"How did so many Gu Immortals appear at once!"
"These people seem to be calling that handsome sage master."
"We are saved, Yellow Earth Great World is saved!"
After the Yellow Earth Gu Immortal reacted, they all relaxed and some even wept in joy.
Not just them, even Lu Wei Yin was shocked.
He had seen Fang Yuan dispatching variant human Gu Immortals all over Southern Border to collect mountains, he also knew that Fang Yuan led the variant human alliance, his force was not small.
But after seeing the main force that Fang Yuan sent out, Lu Wei Yin was filled with shock.
"So many Gu Immortals, they number to over fifty!"
"And from their aura, there are eighteen rank eight Gu Immortals, the rest are all rank seven Gu Immortals."
"How can there be so many rank eight Gu Immortals?"
"The rank seven Gu Immortals also have surging auras, they are close to the realm of rank eight already."
"No, there is no way Fang Yuan has zero rank six Gu Immortals, this means that these Gu Immortals are not his entire force?"
"That's right, Fang Yuan's clone Wu Shuai has not showed up either."
As Lu Wei Yin analyzed, the disbelief in his heart intensified.
He also felt worried.
"Did Fang Yuan spend all of his recent time nurturing these subordinates? According to his personality, he should not be this unwise..."
"Also, even though these Gu Immortals are high in number and have high cultivation level, who knows how high their actual battle strength is."
The ones that Lu Wei Yin was confident in were Xiao He Jian and Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
Front lines.
"Go and die!" Qing Hao Zi killed another Yellow Earth Gu Immortal.
But its injuries were not light either.
It had to temporarily stop its movement and go to Mu Cha Lang.
After Mu Cha Lang's healing killer move was used, Qing Hao Zi recovered greatly.
"This is all thanks to you, my old friend." Qing Hao Zi was overjoyed.
Mu Cha Lang said in admiration: "This is all I am skilled at, I feel admiration towards your ability to kill so many people. But don't be too rash and forget your defense, the final struggle of these Yellow Earth Gu Immortals will not be simple to heal if you get hit."
"Don't worry." Qing Hao Zi raised its bamboo tail: "I will try to kill four people."
"Hey, you guys should calm down, leave some for me to kill." Qing Hao Zi called out loudly as it entered the battlefield again.
Right at this time, a group of Gu Immortals flew over from the sky.
They were led by rank eight snowman Gu Immortal, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch.
He shouted: "We are the subordinates of Yellow Earth Sage, Gu Yue Fang Yuan, we are here to help and kill the Green Lotus Gu Immortals!"
The Gu Immortals were stunned.
The Yellow Earth Gu Immortals who were in deep peril saw hope, they became overjoyed.
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals started to feel their hearts pounding wildly.
It could not be helped.
Together with Mu Cha Lang and Qing Hao Zi, they only had eight people.
But there were over twenty Gu Immortal reinforcements!
Among them, there were nine rank eight Gu Immortals!
On Green Lotus' side, only Mu Cha Lang, Qing Hao Zi, and Old Forest Moss had rank eight cultivation level.
Weren't their reinforcements simply too large?!
Mu Cha Lang gritted its teeth, shouting: "Don't be scared by numbers, who knows what their actual battle strength is!"
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals regained their morale upon hearing this.
That's right, cultivation level was just part of the battle strength, only by fighting could their true strength be seen.
If they did not even dare to fight and retreated immediately, how would they face the sages on the Sacred Mountain?
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals disregarded the Yellow Earth Gu Immortals, they faced Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's group instead.
Immortal killer move — Snow Avalanche!
Immortal killer move — Crashing Rock Slide!
Immortal killer move — Great Earth Collapse!
Immortal killer move — Refine Life!
Immortal killer move — Multi-layered Five Poisons!
...
Bam Bam Bam Bam...
The Yellow Earth Gu Immortals who were disregarded opened their mouths in shock as they watched.
The moment they fought, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's group erupted with their full strength.
All sorts of killer moves were sent out like fireworks, the commotion was huge, resounding in heaven and earth.
Green Lotus' group also unleashed killer moves but the quantity was lower, their strength was also largely inferior.
Only after just one round, the Green Lotus Gu Immortals faced a terrible loss.
"Retreat, quickly retreat!" Old Forest Moss shouted.
"How can this be? The other side has so many rank eight Immortal Gu!" Qing Hao Zi shouted.
He had become a rank eight Gu Immortal long ago but he had never obtained a rank eight Immortal Gu, in this life, he had not even seen three rank eight Immortal Gu!
But Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch was quite unsatisfied, he scolded: "Don't launch a barrage like this, it is very wasteful, understand? The moves conflicted with each other, half of it was wasted, only thirty percent landed on the enemies! Find your individual targets and don't let them escape!"
Even though the first round had huge commotion, a lot of the moves' strength was wasted.
The outside world was not the sovereign immortal aperture after all.
Thus, the Green Lotus Gu Immortals managed to survive.
But the first round of combat gave them huge gains too.
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals were completely scared and lost their morale, they wanted to retreat now.
But Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch's group had advantage in number, they dispersed and encircled the enemies.
Battle resumed.
The Green Lotus Gu Immortals were soon beaten up harshly, they were battered and bruised.
"These Gu Immortals have an absurdly perfect set of Immortal Gu!" Qing Hao Zi shouted.
"We can only focus on one aspect, but all of them have superb healing methods." Mu Cha Lang said bitterly.
"They have too many killer moves, they are all incredible methods!" Other Gu Immortals shouted.
Fang Yuan's refinement path attainment was number one in the world, Heavenly Court and Longevity Heaven could only look at him in admiration.
After obtaining a vast number of immortal materials from the various grotto-heavens, compared to other forces, Fang Yuan had the highest number of Immortal Gu in the world.