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Heavenly Court.
Ten rank five Gu Masters carried intense excitement as they arrived at a certain important location deep within Heavenly Court.
They were the ten children of human path.
"This is the derivation formation?" Xiao Qi Xing walked at the front.
Behind him were the other nine, Sun Yuan Hua, Fairy Bi Xia, Gu Ting, Wei Wu Shang, Ying Sheng Ji, Chen Da Jiang, Tang Ru Qi, Sun Yao, and Zhao Shu Ye.
These were the most outstanding Gu Masters of Central Continent's ten great ancient sects, they were nurtured by Heavenly Court and cultivated within Divine Emperor City's painting worlds, becoming the rising stars of human path.
They each carried a heavy burden, they were the budding sprouts of Heavenly Court and the venerables' desire towards human path, integral to the goal of Central Continent's dominance of the world.
The ten of then looked ahead and saw a vast field of grey-white smoke presented before everyone's vision.
The light continued to transform continuously, it was slithery like a dragon, fluttering beautifully like a butterfly, standing on the wall, or even tranquil like still water.
"This derivation formation is arranged by Lady Star Constellation Immortal Venerable personally, it is Heavenly Court's greatest secret!"
"We are immensely fortunate to be the first batch of Gu Masters allowed to cultivate in this formation."
"The outcome of black heaven engulfing white heaven is set, heaven's will is going to become stable again. Soon, we will be able to advance to become human path Gu Immortals."
"Thus, the derivation formation is our greatest fortuitous encounter before becoming a Gu Immortal, we need to make use of this unparalleled opportunity!"
"That's right, after entering the formation to cultivate, the relevant memories will be deleted in our minds, after that, who knows when we can come here again."
The ten children of human path discussed among themselves and arranged the order of which they would enter.
Sun Yuan Hua was the first to enter the derivation formation.
After fifteen minutes, he slowly stumbled out of the constantly changing light.
"How was it, what did you experience in the formation?"
"Are there any gains?"
"Quick, tell us."
The other nine quickly went to him and asked.
Sun Yuan Hua was still a little dazed now but he soon recovered his senses.
He recalled: "After I went in, all I saw was vast white fog. I tried stepping in and vaguely saw a human figure so I gave chase."
"I chased it for a long time, after an unknown distance, more and more human figures appeared in the white fog."
"There were five or six of them initially, after that, there were fifty or sixty, followed by six hundred or seven hundred. By the time I reacted, I was already inside a vast sea of humans, I was surrounded by people!"
"I wanted to ask them questions but I could not speak. I tried to smile to communicate with them. But in the end, I found that they were all smiling at me too."
"Their smiles were very fake, it looked like... a painting drawn using lines."
"Can you imagine? Countless people showed a fake smile at me as they squeezed around me, slowly getting closer and tighter, making me feel suffocated."
"I tried my best to push them away, but my strength became smaller and smaller."
"Eventually, I was engulfed by the sea of humans with fake smiles."
"By the time I regained my senses, I had already stepped out of the formation and saw you guys."
"At the same time, in the depth of my mind, I found the Immortal Gu recipe of shadow puppet Gu!"
After explaining his encounter, Sun Yuan Hua still showed some fear on his face.
His description was very useful for the others in their preparation.
"Why does it seem like a nightmare?"
"This formation is truly extraordinary."
"Looking at the situation, it seems that after entering the derivation formation, we will get a human path Immortal Gu recipe?"
"One attempt is not enough for a conclusion, who will go next?"
After the remaining nine discussed for a while and came up with no explanation, the second person was decided, Gu Ting.
Under everyone's gaze, Gu Ting slowly walked into the light fog.
Several minutes later, Gu Ting walked out of the formation in a daze, it was similar to Sun Yuan Hua's situation.
But soon, he recovered.
Everyone got around him and listened to his encounter.
Gu Ting's situation was quite different from Sun Yuan Hua, he did not see any human figures, instead, he felt like he did not even open his eyes.
The only thing he heard was music.
The music created by some instrument constantly played in his mind.
After the tune ended, Gu Ting walked out of the immortal formation.
"I received an Immortal Gu recipe, it is the vital Gu that I had recently swapped to — musician Gu."
The ten children of human path talked among themselves again.
Shadow puppet Gu and musician Gu were both human path Gu worms, they were also Sun Yuan Hua's and Gu Ting's vital Gu.
"That means the reward has something to do with our vital Gu?"
"Or more accurately, the reward is our vital Gu's Immortal Gu recipe? That is so useful to us!"
"That's right, we may be able to use the excess tribulation qi during our ascension to refine our vital Immortal Gu!"
The ten children of human path were very excited.
Heavenly Court had arranged for them to cultivate human path.
There was a benefit and demerit in doing so.
The benefit was that a new path had no counter in this world, the more human path developed, the greater its advantage against other paths.
The demerit was that a new path was too young, without the help of predecessors, the ten children of human path had to develop human path step by step on their own.
Although Heavenly Court had the human path killer moves made by the past venerables, they were too high ranked and of utmost secrecy, the ten children of human path had no authority to learn of them.
They understood that it would be extremely hard for them to create human path Immortal Gu recipes on their own. The time, effort, and resources needed were unthinkable.
Even if they could use the opportunity of natural inspiration to ask heaven's will when undergoing tribulation, they were not guaranteed an Immortal Gu recipe.
They were the pioneers of human path, it was possible that the world itself did not have the corresponding human path Immortal Gu they needed.
However, when the third person, Ying Sheng Ji, left the immortal formation, he did not obtain an Immortal Gu recipe.
"I obtained the rank one to five recipe of a brand new human path Gu, it is called pill refiner."
Ying Sheng Ji's vital Gu was doctor Gu, but after entering the formation, he actually obtained a new human path Gu recipe.
Ying Sheng Ji was a little disappointed.
In his case, the immortal ascension was coming soon, without doctor Gu's Immortal Gu recipe, he would not have a human path Immortal Gu to use for a very long time.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had always been keeping a close eye on the ten children of human path.
"After Sun Yuan Hua entered the formation, his comprehension and understanding of human path resonated with the inheritance of Heavenly Court's former shadow path Gu Immortal, Immortal Monarch Gu Ying. Thus, he obtained the Immortal Gu recipe of shadow puppet Gu."
Immortal Monarch Gu Ying was someone who appeared after Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's era.
But after inspecting the historical records, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had a deep impression of him.
Immortal Monarch Gu Ying had stated in his inheritance that although shadow path was just a small branch of dark path now, it had more potential. In fact, shadow path was not just a branch of dark path, it was also part of light path. How could there be shadow without light? Precisely so, if shadow path developed in the future, it could potentially fuse both light path and dark path to become a huge, more powerful path!
"After Gu Ting entered the formation, he resonated with a sound path inheritance and obtained musician Immortal Gu's recipe."
"As for Ying Sheng Ji, after entering the formation, because there was no resonance with any Gu Immortal's inheritance which was skilled at healing, Ruan Dan's pill path was drawn to him instead and created a result."
"Pill refiner Gu..."
Different from Ying Sheng Ji, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable felt that his gains were greater than the rest.
Human path was the path that Heavenly Court was trying to develop, while pill path was also a new path.
The result of the clash between these two paths was pill refiner Gu.
It was the fusion of Ying Sheng Ji's human path research result and the essence of pill path, this was a new accomplishment.
"The Gu recipe of pill refiner Gu consists of rank one to five, after refining them, we can produce a large number of pill refiners. These pill refiners are most skilled at refining pill Gu."
Most pill Gu were consumable Gu, from the ones that Ruan Dan created, one could see that they were very effective and powerful.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable acutely sensed that if pill refiner Gu was spread widely, it could change the current situation of the Gu Master world, there would be a huge revolution!
After Sun Yuan Hua, Gu Ting, and Ying Sheng Ji, it was Xiao Qi Xing's turn.
This person was seemingly the leader of the ten children of human path, after getting out of the derivation formation, he obtained the Immortal Gu recipes of soldier Gu and sergeant Gu.
Regrettably, his vital Gu was commander Gu.
Chen Da Jiang was the fifth to enter.
His vital Gu was constable Gu, but he had not gotten its Immortal Gu recipe.
"I obtained the recipe of police gate Gu, from rank one to six. They are one police gate Gu, two police gate Gu, and all the way to six police gate Gu."
"The police gate Gu are mutually connected, after they are refined, my constable Gu can create constables that are able to travel from one gate to another gate instantly."
After Chen Da Jiang, Zhao Shu Ye went in.
Her vital Gu was craftsman Gu.
After entering the formation, she resonated with a certain metal path inheritance and obtained the rank six Immortal Gu recipe of blacksmith Gu.
The ten children of human path entered the derivation formation one by one, they all had great gains, but these gains were all different as well.
"No matter what, this derivation formation is too amazing!"
"In just half a day, all thanks to it, the entire world had a huge breakthrough in human path's development."
"Star Constellation Immortal Venerable is truly the number one wisdom path expert throughout history."
The ten children of human path were extremely amazed, their eyes were shining brightly.
They wanted to enter the formation again but were rejected.
It was not that the derivation formation could not, but they themselves had reached a limit.
The essence of the derivation formation was to use the research results of the ten children of human path to clash with the inheritance of past Gu Immortal experts, to attempt deriving new human path research results that had never been possible before.
The ten children of human path had only cultivated for a short time, they were all rank five Gu Masters, their foundation was limited.
All of their current potential had been used up already, even if they went in again, their minds would only be corrupted by the inheritances, preventing them from innovating and creating new ideas, restricting their future development.
They were like young sprouts now, after this injection of essence, they would need to recuperate for a long time. Otherwise, excessive help would ruin their creativity in innovating for human path, their bright futures would become dim and hopeless, with no expectations left for them.
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Immortal killer move — Obscured Heavenly Secret!
Everything happened stealthily.
Only Fang Yuan knew how much immortal essence was used to activate this rank nine killer move.
Three hundred and sixty rank nine immortal essence beads!
After heavenly secret Gu was raised to rank nine, obscured heavenly secret was also finally modified by Fang Yuan, it became a true rank nine killer move.
Compared to the rank eight obscured heavenly secret, the rank nine version used much more immortal essence and the activation time was lengthened to over ten times of before. In addition, the steps were also six times more complicated, and Fang Yuan needed much more thoughts in the process.
After paying such a price, rank nine obscured heavenly secret also became much more powerful!
It was not a quantitative growth but a qualitative change.
Originally, rank eight obscured heavenly secret killer move could create temporary heaven path dao marks that resembled fishing nets, they were layered over each other in a criss-cross fashion, covering Fang Yuan's entire body.
It was like how a caterpillar used its threads to create a thick and hard cocoon around itself.
Right now, although the heaven path dao marks were still in a fishing net form, they were more tightly connected and were no longer overlapping, he only had one simple layer around him.
This layer of heaven path dao marks were not temporary dao marks, they had stabilized into a certain constant state.
Fang Yuan understood the reason behind this, after observing closely and using investigative killer moves, he barely managed to detect this layer of the heavenly secret fishing net.
It was in a state of existence and non-existence!
The heavenly secret fishing net immediately made Fang Yuan think of the killer move that Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable left behind, ghostly concealment.
Honestly speaking, the heavenly secret fishing net was still inferior to ghostly concealment. But Fang Yuan could sense that the two had already become similar, they shared a type of special trait.
Ghostly concealment could last for a long time without expending immortal essence.
The heavenly secret fishing net was also the same.
But the heavenly secret fishing net could not compare to ghostly concealment, the reason was that although it could stabilize, it could still be consumed.
As long as the investigative method used on it was strong enough, the heavenly secret fishing net would be expended while resisting it, as long as the expenditure exceeded the natural recovery speed, then the heavenly secret fishing net would start experiencing a deficit, it would be like a sinking ship that got gradually submerged.
Of course, ghostly concealment had such a flaw too, but its recovery speed and durability were much higher than the heavenly secret fishing net.
Naturally, the information of Fang Yuan's ghostly concealment was already known by his enemies, they had created countermeasures against it.
Thus, ghostly concealment's actual value was much lower than obscured heavenly secret.
Even though it was more refined than obscured heavenly secret, it was outdated.
Other than the huge boost in power of obscured heavenly secret due to the qualitative change, there was another benefit, the amount of heaven path immortal materials needed to activate it had fallen greatly, by a total of eighty percent!
The reduction in consumption of heaven path immortal materials was very beneficial to Fang Yuan in his attempt to accumulate them.
Heaven path immortal materials were not easy to obtain.
Fang Yuan had only gotten a good opportunity recently when the two heavens were fusing.
In fact, the appearance of so many heaven path immortal materials was also thanks to the senseless Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. This was truly an extremely rare opportunity.
Rank nine heavenly secret Gu and rank nine obscured heavenly secret had many tactical implications to Fang Yuan.
This was an advancement!
If the advancement failed and Fang Yuan got exposed, he would get attacked by the two venerables.
It was clear from how Giant Sun Immortal Venerable got targeted by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable after he took rank nine light Gu.
She was very overbearing and showed a tough stance.
Eventually, she only gave up after Giant Sun Immortal Venerable brought Light Emperor into Longevity Heaven.
If Fang Yuan was exposed, everyone would see that he had two rank nine Immortal Gu!
He did not have an impregnable base like Longevity Heaven or Heavenly Court.
Once Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Giant Sun Immortal Venerable cooperated, they would be very terrifying!
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's wisdom path controlled certainty.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's luck path explored uncertainty.
The two were mutually conflicting, but if they worked together, they would complement each other perfectly. With the potential of such coordination, even Fang Yuan could not stop them.
After all, Fang Yuan had not created his own rank nine offensive method.
Even if Fang Yuan could stop them, the external situation of the contest of three venerables would start to emit pressure on him. He did not have enough strength to obliterate Longevity Heaven and Heavenly Court.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could not be taken down, if they deepened their cooperation, it was very likely that they would become a huge hindrance to him.
One could say, if Fang Yuan was exposed, he would fall into an extremely passive state.
But the situation was fine now.
With rank nine obscured heavenly secret, he could stabilize the situation at the critical moment.
The refinement of rank nine heavenly secret Immortal Gu was not hard, but Fang Yuan still had to take a fatal risk to succeed.
He succeeded on his first attempt at refining it, he was quite fortunate.
This was the turning point of the contest of three venerables!
Right now, Fang Yuan's foundation in heaven path was as such. He had heaven path grandmaster attainment level, various killer moves like heaven envies heroic geniuses, heavenly web protection veil, emotionless heaven and earth, heavenly summary earthly norm, obscured heavenly secret, and others, as well as Immortal Gu like Heavenly Web, Heavenly Secret, Heaven's Envy, and Heavenly Birth.
He also had the truthful floating ice.
At this point, he had already unsealed over half of the truthful floating ice.
Worth noting was that after becoming a heaven path grandmaster, his speed of unsealing the truthful floating ice also became faster!
This was easily understood.
Fang Yuan's heaven path attainment level was like a foundation, once it rose, he would be able to understand and comprehend the heaven path profundities within the truthful floating ice at a faster rate.
Back then during the battle in Crazed Demon Cave, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable obtained the truthful floating ice and unsealed it rapidly, he almost became a heaven path venerable!
"However, my heaven path attainment level only rose to grandmaster after using more than half of the truthful floating ice. It will be too hard for me to reach great grandmaster using the remaining portion."
The higher the cultivation level, the greater the difference between ranks.
This was the same for attainment level.
If half of the truthful floating ice could help Fang Yuan go from ordinary to grandmaster attainment level, then it would be very hard for the remaining half to elevate Fang Yuan to a great grandmaster.
Regardless, Fang Yuan was satisfied.
The truthful floating ice he gained from Crazed Demon Cave had been extremely useful to Fang Yuan.
Ignoring anything else, just the rank nine heavenly secret Immortal Gu recipe was something that did not originally exist in the world.
Fang Yuan knew clearly.
This Immortal Gu recipe was the research result of over a million years through the Crazed Demon formation that Limitless Demon Venerable created, using the chaos outside the world and rank nine derivation Gu as the core.
The concept was ahead of the entire world.
It was too hard to achieve it on his own.
Fang Yuan's human path attainment level was not low, he was a grandmaster. But why did he not try to create rank six human path Immortal Gu recipes?
It was too hard.
Such an attempt would expend too much of his time, energy, resources, and manpower. In fact, success was not guaranteed.
In the current world, wild human path Immortal Gu were very rare.
Creating a rank six human path Immortal Gu recipe was making something that did not exist in the world, it was the development of human path beyond its current limit, it was also pushing the current world beyond its current boundary and limit.
Going from zero to one was like going from nothing to something, this process was very difficult.
But from one to two, the process was just quantitative growth, gradual development was possible with much lower difficulty.
Rank six human path Immortal Gu recipes were very hard to create, as for rank nine heavenly secret Immortal Gu's recipe, the difficulty was countless times higher!
Fang Yuan was almost certain, this rank nine Immortal Gu recipe was the most valuable part of this largest piece of truthful floating ice.
"In the following period, I need to find a chance to meet with Li Xiao Bai and secretly use obscured heavenly secret on him."
Rank eight obscured heavenly secret could deceive Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, the rank nine version was even better.
Of course, that was under the situation that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable did not have their own path's rank nine Immortal Gu.
If there was no opportunity, he would create one.
But it would be hard for the two venerables to not become suspicious.
Fang Yuan looked afar and cast his gaze on Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
Different from Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's intention to kill, Fang Yuan wanted to use Spectral Soul Demon Venerable as his shield to conceal his true actions.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was currently bathed in fire.
Under the threat of survival, rank nine fire Gu erupted with its strongest attack.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable had been tortured for tens of days, he was in a state of distress.
His originally colossal body had already shrunk by thirty percent.
Although his rank nine aura was still domineering, there was already a hint of tiredness.
Only several hundred of his countless thick black arms remained, while one of his three heads was burned to ashes.
However, fire Gu was not longer as powerful as before, its firepower had clearly fallen.
A rank eight Gu Immortal slowly approached Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
"If Spectral Soul Demon Venerable still had his senses, he could definitely capture fire Gu. It is a pity that he has no sanity now, he cannot even isolate the natural essence of the world, otherwise, fire Gu would not have such terrifying power."
This Gu Immortal had an incredibly deep gaze, he could comprehend a certain profound concept from Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's body.
It was Feng Jiu Ge!
At this moment, a soul beast army was moving a hundred li away.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable seemed to have sensed the soul beast army, his expression was ruthless as he roared and flew to them.
The soul beast army was easily disoriented by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, he opened his mouths and devoured them. In a few breaths of time, he had already eaten over ten thousand soul beasts.
These soul beasts immediately melted into soul path dao marks that were transferred to Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's body.
His injuries healed rapidly, but soon, the fire burned and created new injuries.
"Although Spectral Soul Demon Venerable has the instinct to consume, he was just lucky to have met a soul beast army, prolonging his struggle."
"Let me lend you a hand in that case."
Feng Jiu Ge slowly activated his immortal killer move — Destiny Song!
His voice was illusory and deep, it was filled with unique contradiction.
Initially, the song was like a small stream of water in the mountains, flowing slowly. Gradually, the stream turned into flowing lava that expanded the river's width, in the range of mountains, it sounded like a dragon's roaring echo.
At the same time, the river of lava on the mountain turned into a raging tide, swish swish swish, ebb and flow, it continued without stopping.
The lava and waves collided, reacting and creating steam that covered the entire sky.
The steam condensed into clouds that wanted to fly towards the high heavens.
Suddenly, lightning struck and thunder roared, the lightning bolts landed on the clouds, the immortals felt like they had fallen from the sky, they felt a sense of hollowness in their hearts.
Phantom or real, high or low, being proud and confident at times, feeling lost and desperate during disasters. Bending one's back at times, spreading one's words at times...
Feng Jiu Ge's expression soon turned pale.
His current destiny song was far stronger than before. In fact, his voice was wondrously beautiful and contained the essence of heaven and earth, clearly, after retrieving the heavenly melody, Feng Jiu Ge had gained a lot of insight.
Destiny song only lasted for over ten breaths of time before Feng Jiu Ge stopped using it and retreated.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was still engulfed in terrifying flames as he growled in pain, it was as if Feng Jiu Ge's destiny song had no effect.
However, three days later.
The red flames on Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's body went from burning hot to an grey-blue cold.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable quietened down like an injured beast, he finally had time to recuperate.
He did not refine the wild fire Gu, while fire Gu also stopped attacking and resisting him. Inside his body, a certain intricate relationship was formed as they started helping each other!
Puff, huff, puff...
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's breathing became slower as the huge grey-blue fire around him became dimmer, until it was completely gone.
His entire body was like a gravestone, he gave off an endless aura of death accompanied by an icy chill.
Then, at the next moment!
Rumble!
Flames surged and burst out over several thousand li, quickly spreading throughout the area in all directions.
Everywhere it went, living beings crumbled, they broke down and burned into ashes as their soul essence was rapidly absorbed by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, it was as if they were returning to the source.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's injuries healed quickly, his body also started to expand at an observable rate.
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The shocking change to Spectral Soul Demon Venerable who was inside the two heavens ruined the plans of the venerables again.
Eastern Sea.
Fang Yuan raised his head and used his investigative killer move.
He saw that the icy flame had covered half of the immemorial two heavens, everywhere it went, all life was extinguished. Even immemorial desolate beasts could not last long.
This was definitely a slaughter.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable benefited greatly from this, his entire body had grown to a hundred times of when he was in Crazed Demon Cave! He had over ten thousand black pillar-like arms now.
His terrifying aura and killing intent permeated the entire heaven.
Although he was motionless in the two heavens, he took the role of the old sun of white heaven, he was now the absolute overlord of the night sky.
"Feng Jiu Ge..." Fang Yuan's gaze was deep.
He had already found out that the cause of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's huge change was Feng Jiu Ge.
Ever since the fate war, Feng Jiu Ge had betrayed Heavenly Court and gone missing.
To think that the next time he showed up, he did such a shocking thing.
But the suspicious thing to Fang Yuan was that Feng Jiu Ge seemed to still have his pseudo venerable battle strength!
This was the only explanation for how he could quickly affect Spectral Soul Demon Venerable and escape successfully.
Be it Fang Yuan, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, or Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, they could not use their investigative method on Spectral Soul Demon Venerable all the time. This required thoughts and immortal essence.
That was also why Star Constellation Immortal Venerable created the star array calculation formation, it helped her to monitor the whole of Central Continent.
"Destiny song..."
"It is able to allow Spectral Soul Demon Venerable and the wild fire Gu to coexist, achieving harmony. Feng Jiu Ge's killer move has gotten stronger."
Fang Yuan was now a refinement path venerable.
In the entire world, aside from the venerables, Feng Jiu Ge was the number one person who deserved Fang Yuan's attention the most!
This person's talent was shocking to the world, he was even Feng Jin Huang's father.
In the five hundred years of Fang Yuan's previous life, Feng Jiu Ge was plotted against by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable and died while attacking Lang Ya blessed land.
Now that Fang Yuan thought about it, he could see that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable had also paid a lot of attention to Feng Jiu Ge!
Precisely because of this, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable plotted and killed Feng Jiu Ge. Otherwise, during those five hundred years, he would have created his own legend and shone brightly like the stars.
The weird thing was that although Spectral Soul plotted to kill Feng Jiu Ge in that life, currently, Feng Jiu Ge seemed to be helping the former instead!
"So, is the pseudo venerable battle strength that Feng Jiu Ge possesses a result of future self or did he cultivate himself during this period of time?"
Fang Yuan pondered deeply.
This was a crucial question.
If Feng Jiu Ge still had future self killer move, that meant that he still had a close connection to Red Lotus Demon Venerable!
In that case, the person behind Feng Jiu Ge would be Red Lotus Demon Venerable, meaning he was plotting from behind the scenes.
Fang Yuan knew about the relationship between these two.
Back then, after he failed and was reborn, in order to destroy fate Gu, he gave crucial intel to Feng Jiu Ge and allowed him to get his own Red Lotus true inheritance.
Why was Feng Jiu Ge helping Spectral Soul Demon Venerable? There was also Heavenly Court's attitude towards him that Fang Yuan had to consider now.
Right now, Fang Yuan knew that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had sent Heavenly Court Gu Immortals to hunt down the remnants of Shadow Sect like Fairy Zi Wei. Then, why was Star Constellation Immortal Venerable not going after Feng Jiu Ge? Why did they leave Feng Jin Huang alone, as if they forgot about her?
What was Star Constellation Immortal Venerable planning?
Spring Autumn Cicada could not be used anymore, while Fang Yuan did not know of many secrets and hidden information now.
And because he lacked effective investigative methods that could be used on the venerables, he had to pretend to be weak and only make guesses blindly.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had already healed, after leaving Heavenly Court, she had been refining Central Continent's wisdom path dao marks these days.
At the same time, she was making deductions.
"Feng Jiu Ge... destiny song..."
"I cultivate wisdom path which controls certainty. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable cultivates luck path which explores uncertainty. This destiny song actually contains both certainty and uncertainty, it involves heaven path and human path!"
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable recalled her own experiences, throughout humanity's history, or even the variant human's history, in terms of pure talent, Feng Jiu Ge was definitely top ten.
"Feng Jiu Ge met with Fairy Zi Wei and the rest, he might have helped them. Right now, he helped Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, these actions will greatly benefit his destiny song killer move."
Heavenly Court's pursuers failed.
They could not bring back Fairy Zi Wei and the rest.
But through the traces left behind, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable managed to deduce many details of the truth.
At this moment, inside Heavenly Court.
Derivation formation was currently in operation.
Che Wei and several other Gu Immortals stood before the formation and waited.
The ten children of human path had left Heavenly Court already, their memories regarding this were deleted.
This was done by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable personally, she did not remove their memories carelessly, she had altered them meticulously.
In the following period, these ten children of human path would have bursts of 'inspiration' which would allow them to 'create' the respective Gu recipes.
Fang Yuan was a vigilant person, but Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was even more vigilant when it came to this.
She did the same to anyone who had come into contact with the derivation formation.
In this case, as long as one did not have higher wisdom path attainment than her, they would not be able to gain intel about the derivation formation from the ten children of human path.
The derivation formation was too important to Heavenly Court.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had to think of ways to protect this secret to the best of her abilities!
Ruan Dan flew out from the derivation formation.
Che Wei and the rest quickly went up and asked for the results.
Ruan Dan's expression soon went back to normal, it was extremely excited: "Amazing, this derivation formation is too amazing! I obtained over a thousand pill path Gu recipes, among which are a hundred Immortal Gu recipes! I've tried to create pill path killer moves for so long without much progress, but now, I obtained more than two hundred killer moves, among which, there are over fifty immortal killer moves!!"
Che Wei and the rest were shook.
Ruan Dan was the first to enter the formation, to think that the gains would be so immense!
Different from the ten children of human path, Ruan Dan was a legendary immemorial desolate beast, it had a long lifespan and countless experiences, its foundation was very deep.
"Friend Ruan Dan, although you created pill path, you do not know much about other paths. With this derivation formation, you can come into contact with the research results of other paths by using pill path as the core. After creating a resonance, countless new results would be derived, thus, your gains were so immense!" Feng Da Qi analyzed.
She was a Gu Immortal of Heavenly Lotus Sect, this time, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had chosen her to become one of the people entering the derivation formation.
Ruan Dan nodded in agreement: "Fairy Feng is right. For a brand new path like pill path, the first step of development is to popularize it. After many generations of Gu cultivators come into contact and cultivate it, through their various life experiences and perspectives, they will slowly build pill path with their unique ideas."
"After that, more and more cultivators will emerge, among which, geniuses will create new advancements and breakthrough, obtaining huge research results."
"But now, the derivation formation has taken the place of all these steps. Using all sorts of exceptional Gu Immortal inheritances, the historical characters are helping us in this development. In just a short period of time, we can accumulate a vast amount of pill path foundation."
After hearing the analysis, Che Wei and the rest had increasingly heated gazes.
"I will go next." Che Wei was the second person to enter the formation.
Several days later, he came out.
His gains were as huge as Ruan Dan!
The immortals continued their analysis.
Ruan Dan said: "Friend Che Wei, although you have only created weapon path for a short time unlike me, you are a purebred human with the strongest spirituality. Therefore, your gains are equal to mine. If you had created this path for a longer time, your gains will even exceed mine."
Che Wei shook his head in response: "I do not agree with this conjecture."
"Any path that reaches grandmaster attainment can learn about any path using their own as a foundation. Through their path, they can mimic the expertise of other paths. For example, one can use fire path Gu worms to create a move with water path abilities."
"The derivation formation might be a forceful type of mimicry."
"The vast number of true inheritances stored in the immortal formation were described through Ruan Dan's pill path and my weapon path. For example, the iron rod Gu recipe that I obtained is the result of converting metal path into weapon path. There is also leather whip Gu which is the resulting derivation by combining transformation path and weapon path."
Che Wei's words made the immortals' understanding of derivation formation deepen again.
It was Feng Da Qi's turn.
She only had rank seven cultivation level but was Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable's bloodline descendant.
After entering the formation, she only spent a day and night before getting out.
After returning, she had a smile on her face.
"I've obtained painting path research results, next, I will refine painting path Immortal Gu and change my vital Gu to painting path."
The immortals congratulated her.
The use of the derivation formation was not just to help develop human path, pill path, and weapon path, it could also extract the specific essence of the various paths to create new branches of an existing path.
Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable did not leave any painting path inheritance for his descendants.
But through the derivation formation, Heavenly Court could directly nurture their own painting path Gu Immortals!
Gu are the essence of heaven and earth, man is the spirit of all living beings.
There was no point in discussing the strongest Gu worm, only the strongest Gu Immortal mattered.
The way of Gu involved nurturing, use and refinement, these were all integral.
Limitless Demon Venerable used rank nine derivation Immortal Gu and other cores to create his Crazed Demon formation.
He created the truthful floating ice and tried to utilize his eternal life research results but failed in the end, more than half of the truthful floating ice was lost. The remaining portion was split into three by Fang Yuan and the two venerables.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable used derivation Immortal Gu to create the derivation formation, allowing the various paths to develop rapidly. A vast amount of research results were produced, saving a lot of time and also preventing these results from leaking to the outside world, which was a huge drawback of development.
If Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had such a method, he would not have needed to make his Blood Sea clone distribute blood path inheritances worldwide.
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For the three venerables, the shocking change to Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was only beneficial to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
Longevity Heaven.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable let out a breath of turbid air as he sat cross-legged with a bare upper body.
Muscles could be seen on his strong upper body, his black chest hair gave off a manly aura.
"My injuries have healed." Giant Sun Immortal Venerable let out a sigh of relief.
If Spectral Soul Demon Venerable continued to fight against fire Gu, the two of them would suffer heavy injuries, causing the venerables to fight over them again.
However, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's injuries were more severe than Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
If he chose not to participate, he would lose the opportunity.
But if he went with such injuries, he would be at a disadvantage.
Not long ago, because of the contest over light Gu, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable face pressure from two venerables. He even had to protect his son Light Emperor, causing him to pay a huge price in the end.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable healed long ago while Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had only just recovered.
Due to Feng Jiu Ge's action, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable became much stronger, forcing Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Great Love Immortal Venerable to continue observing.
Thus, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable benefited from this.
The feeling was very familiar to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable as it was experienced in his previous life.
He was a luck path cultivator who explored the uncertainty.
The stronger he got, the more advantages these uncertain situations would bring to him.
After preparing for a while, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable activated his luck path investigative killer move.
But this time, he did not inspect the venerables, he checked himself.
After Star Constellation Immortal Venerable refined Heavenly Court's wisdom path dao marks, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable reduced the number of times he inspected others, he started to focus on himself.
His luck was not good.
"I successfully obtained rank nine light Gu but my luck is still bad. Just what is causing this bad luck?" Giant Sun Immortal Venerable frowned.
"Don't tell me the reason is because rank nine light Gu does not suit me? Furthermore, it is currently injured and is being nurtured inside Light Emperor's body?" Giant Sun Immortal Venerable guessed.
Rank nine light Gu was injured after Fang Yuan used his crippled refinement killer move.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable did not have any method to heal it, but Light Emperor was more specialized in light path, he thought of the only solution to this.
That was to use his light body to refine and nurture it, eventually converting light Gu into his vital Gu, allowing him to make use of it. If this was a normal wild rank nine light Gu, Light Emperor would have no way of refining it.
But light Gu was injured, its will was heavily affected, together with Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's help, Light Emperor saw a chance of success.
This had its flaws.
For a long period of time, Light Emperor would lose all mobility, he even needed assistance in eating and drinking.
Longevity Heaven immediately lost a pseudo venerable battle strength expert.
But Longevity Heaven could not do anything else.
They could not give light Gu to Fang Yuan and ask him to repair it!
This was a rank nine Immortal Gu.
While Fang Yuan was someone with no bottom-line.
Giant Sun and Light Emperor were not stupid enough to ask Fang Yuan for help.
Looking at his poor luck, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable sighed helplessly: "If I had obtained a rank nine luck path Immortal Gu instead of light Gu, no matter which luck path Gu it is, the situation will be much better now."
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was also very familiar with this situation.
Although many sudden events would often benefit him in the end, most of the time, they were not things that he needed.
After all, this was uncertainty, not certainty.
Currently, if Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had a rank nine luck path Immortal Gu, he would be able to create a rank nine investigative killer move and find out who was his biggest threat.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable did not have a rank nine luck path Immortal Gu, thus, when he used an investigative killer move amplified by Longevity Heaven's dao marks, he could only see the general trend of the luck.
The contest of three venerables, the rampage of the senseless Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, the interference of pseudo venerables like Feng Jiu Ge, as well as the possible plotting of other venerables in the background. All of these types of luck intertwined together and prevented Giant Sun Immortal Venerable from seeing the specific details, he could only see a trend.
Rank nine Immortal Gu was very important.
It signified a qualitative change!
No matter how much the amplification of dao marks became, it was only a quantitative boost.
"I may be the person with the most progress among the three venerables. Looking at this luck, it is likely that the other venerables will attack me because of rank nine light Gu. This will cause their luck to collectively suppress mine."
"Of course, there is another possibility — someone surpassed me! I've already lost my advantage. But if that is the case, who is the one hiding so deeply?"
Like what Fang Yuan did when he thought about Feng Jiu Ge and Heavenly Court, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable could only make a guess, he could not see the truth immediately.
Now, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had to leave Longevity Heaven and continue to refine Northern Plains' dao marks.
After thoroughly refining Northern Plains' luck path dao marks, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable would expand his base from Longevity Heaven to the entire Northern Plains.
There were many benefits in this.
For example, if Giant Sun Immortal Venerable got attacked by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Great Love Immortal Venerable again.
He would not need to escape to Longevity Heaven, as long as he was inside Northern Plains, he would receive the amplification of power.
Naturally, the amplification would be weaker than being in Longevity Heaven, but it would be enough to resist two venerables.
At the same time, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's control over Northern Plains would increase, he would be able to specially nurture Gu Immortal descendants. He would not need to worry about a certain shameless venerable who could slaughter the Huang Jin tribes while disregarding his status, who Giant Sun Immortal Venerable did not have a good way to stop.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable understood that as time dragged on, the venerables would continue to get stronger, and as they progressed, the immortal essence storage would also become more abundant.
At the initial stage of development, the venerables lacked immortal essence. At this time, it would be the best opportunity to refine the natural dao marks of the world.
If he missed this opportunity, it would get tougher.
If one was interrupted when refining natural dao marks, their progress would be very small.
If other venerables took the lead, it would be even worse.
For example, if Star Constellation Immortal Venerable first refined the wisdom path dao marks of an area, then her strength would be much higher there.
By then, if Giant Sun Immortal Venerable wanted to refine the luck path dao marks of that area and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable attacks, his best option would be to retreat.
Excluding the senseless Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, among the three venerables, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had the clearest advantage.
He had refined the most luck path dao marks.
Once he refined all of Northern Plains' luck path dao marks, he would not allow the other venerables to attempt the refinement here.
Be it Star Constellation Immortal Venerable who would want to refine Northern Plains' wisdom path dao marks or Fang Yuan who would want to refine Northern Plains' refinement path dao marks, they would have to face Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's all-out retaliation!
Thus, now was the best timing to refine natural dao marks.
After some time, the difficulty would rise greatly.
Other than this reason, there was another crucial secret that forced the venerables to quickly refine these dao marks.
That was, one had to completely refine all the natural dao marks in the world to maintain their supreme grandmaster attainment level!
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable emitted a cold flame and slaughtered the lifeforms of the two heavens while the three venerables refined their respective natural dao marks, the five regions' Gu Immortal world experienced temporary peace for the moment.
Countless beast groups were escaping from the fused two heavens, landing in the five regions.
The super forces of the five regions were extremely busy, they had to move out to defend their territories.
As most of the beast groups were killed by the icy flame, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's body continued to expand as his aura surged like the boundless sea.
Some time later, his icy flame covered the entire two heavens.
As the three venerables and countless lifeforms of the five regions watched, the blue fire burned for two days and night.
The white heaven and black heaven fragments in the fused two heavens melted and joined together in this blue fire, becoming one entity.
A new heaven had appeared!
People named it — spectral heaven.
With immemorial black heaven as the foundation and white heaven being completely conquered and absorbed, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable who had devoured black heaven's heavenly spirit became the ruler of the new heaven.
His body was colossal, on par with the previous sun.
As the blue fire slowly extinguished in spectral heaven, only Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's body was left burning, even the smallest spark of fire on his body was tens of feet tall.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable became the greatest source of light in spectral heaven, he emitted a cold and chilly killing intent at all times, spreading his aura to the five regions.
This was an unprecedented change!
Even in the five hundred years of his previous life, Fang Yuan did not see such a phenomenon.
The entire Gu cultivation world's environment was slowly changed by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable.
Light path was suppressed while dark path was amplified.
Conflicts and deaths arose all around the world, most lifeforms including Gu Masters could not avoid the influence of the immense killing intent.
Soul beasts started to appear all over the world.
At the same time, heaven's will also stabilized.
Eastern Sea.
A rank five female Gu Master looked at spectral heaven and the majestic figure at the center of it.
She looked for a while before quickly lowering her head, retracting her gaze entirely.
In just this short time, the killing intent in her heart accumulated to her limit, almost exceeding her endurance. If the killing intent overwhelmed her, she would need to perform a massacre to calm down.
The female Gu Master was very old, she was ninety-three years old. Her name was Hua Ben Ku, she had just passed down the role of clan leader in Eastern Sea's Hua clan.
She stared at Spectral Soul Demon Venerable intentionally.
After the killing intent dissipated, she started the greatest attempt of her life.
Immortal ascension!
First step, breaking the aperture.
Heaven and earth qi surged and formed grand calamities and tribulations.
Hua Ben Ku had a solemn expression, although she had the information provided by Hua clan, facing the calamities and tribulations now, she was still shook internally.
Second step, taking in qi.
Heaven, earth, and human qi surrounded Hua Ben Ku as she focused to try and balance all three qi.
At the same time, natural inspiration occurred!
Regarding the external calamities and tribulations, Hua clan's Gu Immortals took action to defend her.
This was the benefit of being a super force.
Third step, putting in the Gu.
Her vital Gu was placed into the lump of three qi as an explosion occurred, creating a new small world!
At this time, Hua Ben Ku's rank six immortal aperture was formed, her immortal ascension succeeded.
A high grade blessed land.
But there was no extra heaven and earth qi to refine a vital Immortal Gu.
But Hua Ben Ku was satisfied.
She could barely calm down.
During the natural inspiration, she had huge gains.
Her lifetime accumulation included her proudest killer move, it had received a qualitative transformation, becoming an immortal killer move.
As long as she used this move, she could sit on top of an Immortal Gu House and cry, it would cause the target to suffer heavy damages and even reduce the reputation of the Gu Immortals inside.
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After spectral heaven formed, it gradually stabilized. The beast groups that escaped earlier returned and lived in the new heaven again.
All the various grotto-heavens' doors were tightly shut as they condensed into one spot, although there were some losses, they had managed to survive at least.
Despite Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's dominance of spectral heaven, he rarely moved.
The two heavens' grotto-heavens tried not to open their doors and connect to the outside world, otherwise, it was possible that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable might approach them.
Fang Yuan, Star Constellation, and Giant Sun were busy refining natural dao marks, they were competing with each other as they fell into another deadlock.
While the venerables had ceased fire and everyone gained some respite, a large number of Gu Immortal seeds started to prepare for the attempt at immortal ascension!
Central Continent.
Heavenly Lotus Sect's headquarters.
"Mu Huai greets first supreme elder." A newly advanced rank six Gu Immortal knelt on the ground and greeted.
Heavenly Lotus Sect's first supreme elder nodded and gave Mu Huai some words of encouragement before telling the immortal beside him: "Wu Zhang, you nurtured Mu Huai so you will be the one making arrangements for him now."
"Understood." Wu Zhang answered as he brought Mu Huai out of the hall.
Wu Zhang was the fifth supreme elder of Heavenly Lotus Sect, long ago, he had created the Five Virtues Sect in Central Continent under his own name.
Five Virtues Sect had the five virtues elders, among them, Mu Huai was the wood virtue elder.
This time, he took a risk to undergo immortal ascension and succeeded, obtaining a medium grade blessed land. Wu Zhang brought him to Heavenly Lotus Sect as he gained the first supreme elder's recognition.
From now on, Mu Huai was a member of Wu Zhang's faction.
Days later, in Northern Plains.
An immortal ascension had just ended. Ouyang Bi Sang only had half of his body remaining, but he barely survived.
"Second brother, you succeeded!" Mo Shi Kuang shouted loudly as he ran forward in excitement.
Ouyang Bi Sang could only smile as he could not speak, he looked towards Liu Wen Wu with a grateful gaze.
If not for Liu Wen Wu's help, Ouyang Bi Sang would have definitely died.
Right now, all thanks to Liu Wen Wu's immortal killer move, Ouyang Bi Sang managed to survive.
Liu Wen Wu was once Liu tribe's Gu Immortal seed, he was the sworn brother of Ouyang Bi Sang and Mo Shi Kuang, they had participated in the Imperial Court contest.
Liu Wen Wu was already a Gu Immortal, with his help, Ouyang Bi Sang also succeeded.
Liu Wen Wu understood what Ouyang Bi Sang was thinking, he smiled gently: "Second brother, go ahead and rest. With me here, you will be safe."
Ouyang Bi Sang did not even have the strength to nod, he shut his eyes and fell asleep. This showed how much trust he had in Liu Wen Wu.
"Big brother! Second brother has already succeeded in the immortal ascension, I can do it too. When are you going to help me? I want to try it too." Mo Shi Kuang showed a heated gaze and spoke in an anxious tone.
Liu Wen Wu smiled bitterly: "Third brother, calm down. You've seen what happened to your second brother, the immortal ascension is very dangerous, he almost failed to balance the three qi and nearly failed completely."
"With just my help, it is very unreliable to try and go through the unpredictable immortal ascension calamities and tribulations."
"We were lucky this time because the calamities and tribulations were within my abilities. But you need to know that there are all kinds of tribulations, by the time you undergo immortal ascension, we may not be so lucky."
"This..." Mo Shi Kuang scratched his head.
Liu Wen Wu added: "Let's wait a while for your second brother's cultivation level to stabilize. Once he has some immortal methods, we can work together to help you, that will be safer."
"Brother, you are right, I'll wait." Mo Shi Kuang agreed with the words and changed his decision.
But he did not know that Liu Wen Wu was sighing internally.
Long ago, Liu Wen Wu was just a Gu Master, he did not have such a wide vision, thus, he became sworn brothers with Mo Shi Kuang.
But after becoming a Gu Immortal, he realized that the world was ruled by humanity, all variant humans were marginalized.
Mo Shi Kuang's inkman identity was increasingly sensitive.
After Liu Wen Wu helped Ouyang Bi Sang to become an immortal, the latter would become Liu tribe's external supreme elder. He would be Liu Wen Wu's supporter and stand on the same political side as him.
Even though Ouyang Bi Sang was a purebred human, Liu tribe's other factions still attacked them —
Why was Liu Wen Wu helping an external member instead of nurturing Liu tribe's own Gu Masters?
If Mo Shi Kuang became an immortal through Liu Wen Wu's help, it would be an even worse situation when he becomes a member of his political faction.
This would be a weakness for the other factions to target!
Sometimes, Liu Wen Wu envied the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent.
The supreme elders of these ancient sects were able to create their own sects under their personal name to gather and distribute Central Continent's resource points. If they were able to nurture Gu Immortals, then those would become their subordinates or companions.
This was a superb political method by the ten great ancient sects to control Central Continent.
But this could not work in the super clan dominated regions. Creating one's own force was too much of a taboo.
Like in Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's lifetime, he wanted a hereditary monarchy, he wanted to unify and rule the entire world.
Eastern Sea's Hua Ben Ku, Central Continent's Mu Huai, and Northern Plains' Ouyang Bi Sang...
With the deep foundation of the super forces, they knew the secrets behind immortal ascension, thus, many of their Gu Immortal seeds were quickly using the opportunity to ascend.
Southern Border.
"Oh no!" Yi Peng had a grim expression, he watched as the heaven, earth and human qi lost their balance.
Within the qi lump, Gu Master Yi Chong failed the immortal ascension, by the time the three qi lump dispersed, he was almost reduced to a stick, his arms and legs were gone, his entire body was a bloody mess.
Calamities and tribulations could be resisted by allies, but the balancing of three qi was something that only the Gu Master could handle, no one else could help.
"Sigh, you were too immersed in the natural inspiration. I already told you not to be greedy!" Yi Peng landed beside Yi Chong and sighed regrettably.
Yi Chong did not move, after a few breaths of time, he died.
Half a month later.
On an unknown mountain in Central Continent, Ben Duo Yi succeeded in the immortal ascension.
"I've finally become a rank six Gu Immortal." He had a complex emotion, while he felt joy and excitement, there was also regret.
In order to resist the calamities and tribulations while balancing the three qi, he gave up on the chance of natural inspiration.
Ben Duo Yi's master was Yu Mu Chun, a refinement path quasi-great grandmaster, and also a member of Shadow Sect. From this aspect, Ben Duo Yi was also a remnant of Shadow Sect.
He was chosen by Yu Mu Chun due to his exceptional talent. Ben Duo Yi was more witty than the average hairy man, he had clear thoughts and did not lose to humans in terms of spirituality.
This successful immortal ascension also proved that Yu Mu Chun had great foresight.
After cleaning up, Ben Duo Yi quickly left the mountain.
Not long after, a Gu Immortal arrived at this place.
"This is it."
"The star array calculation formation showed that someone underwent tribulation here."
"Oh? Seems like a lone cultivator."
After inspecting, this Gu Immortal obtained some clearer clues.
His eyes started to shine.
The immortal ascension of lone cultivators was very difficult, since they succeeded, it meant that they were very valuable.
"If I can recruit this person successfully, I will earn a huge sum of contribution points. This person can also be in my faction in the future."
Places with people would have competition for benefits, leading to conflict.
As long as the internal conflict of a sect was well managed, it would be a great system for eliminating the weak and nurturing the strong.
The sect higher-ups were willing to see this.
However, this Gu Immortal did not know that the person undergoing tribulation was not a purebred human but a hairy man.
Ben Duo Yi's immortal ascension was just one of countless others.
First, the five regions' super forces' Gu Immortal seeds made their attempt, afterwards, lone immortals and demonic cultivators also gave it a shot.
Gradually, the trend of immortal ascension was formed.
The immortal ascension trend involved the righteous path, demonic cultivator, and even lone cultivators. Many lone cultivators like Ben Duo Yi emerged and showed themselves, surprising the world with their appearance.
The super forces of the five regions were also involved. Among super forces, there was even some hidden competition!
Tie clan's Tie Ruo Nan became a rank six metal path Gu Immortal.
Shang clan's Shang Xin Ci succeeded in her immortal ascension.
Two of Western Desert's Lin clan's Gu Masters became immortals at the same time.
Eastern Sea's Nan Gong clan did not fall behind, in just seven days, two Gu Masters took a risk and succeeded, they both had considerable gains.
Next, Southern Border's Tie clan spread joyous news again.
The revived Tie Mu Bai and Tie Bai Qi both succeeded in their immortal ascension.
The one that shocked the five regions' Gu Immortal world the most was Southern Border's Wu clan.
Wu clan's Zhong Yi, Wu Shen Tong, Divine Doctor Sheng Shou, Wei Shen Jing, and others became rank six Gu Immortals, there were a total of nine people who succeeded, this was the number one record in the five regions!
Wu clan was lacking Gu Immortals previously, but under Wu Yong's reform, they took in a large number of external elders.
With these Gu Immortals' presence, Wu clan immediately became the Southern Border's super force with the most number of Gu Immortals!
Immediately, all sorts of congratulatory letters from various forces were sent to Wu Yong via treasure yellow heaven or information path Gu worms.
Wu clan gained a huge amount of fame but Wu Yong only snickered coldly without feeling happy at all.
"Such celebrations are just a form of self-consolation for the chaotic future under the rule of the venerables. So what if we have more Gu Immortals, can we be safe? Against the venerables, we are all ants."
"Moreover, in terms of numbers, Heavenly Court, Longevity Heaven, and the Heaven and Earth Great Love Alliance definitely have the most number of immortal ascensions. They are huge and possess too many super forces under them."
Wu Yong was extremely clear of the situation.
He knew that the true trial was not the number of successful immortal ascensions, it was the huge impact that these new external supreme elders would cause after joining Wu clan, when they go against the traditional factions that had been long established through time.
As the first supreme elder of Wu clan, Wu Yong needed to maintain the stability of the clan, if there was too many internal conflicts, they would weaken themselves. In that case, he might as well not implement this change.
Central Continent.
Xiao Qi Xing descended from the sky. There was some dust on his white robe.
His eyebrows were sharp like swords, his body was straight like a spear, his expression was cold and he gave off an aura of pride.
"Good, good, good." Gu Immortal Xiao Bai Hong laughed as he stroked his beard, looking at Xiao Qi Xing with a gaze of appreciation: "As expected of my beloved great-grandson. You went through the immortal ascension without external help."
Xiao Qi Xing replied: "Great-grandfather, this is nothing to be proud of. Many lone cultivators could achieve it, so why can't I? Rank six is merely the starting point."
"Hahaha, well said!" Xiao Bai Hong's laughter became even louder.
Next, Xiao Qi Xing asked the other nine children of human path.
"What? Sun Yuan Hua, Gu Ting, and the rest became rank six Gu Immortals but did not refine their vital Gu into an Immortal Gu?"
"Hehe, they are really trash!"
Different from the others, the immortal ascension of the ten children of human path were kept secret.
They were the key to developing human path in Central Continent, they were the future pillars of human path. Before they grew to a certain level, it was better to let them grow safely.
Some succeeded in their immortal ascension, some died while taking risks.
Some made their ancestors proud, their names were spread throughout the world, while some kept quiet and developed earnestly, keeping a low profile.
Some did not try to undergo immortal ascension, like Feng Jin Huang.
Some did not even have the qualification to try, for example, Southern Border's Xia Cha and Ba Shi Ba.
There were also some who were preparing to undergo immortal ascension, like Western Desert's Mo Li, and sovereign immortal aperture's Gu Yue Fang Xiang.
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