Dao Veins and Famous Mountains

Shang Yan Fei seats his children in the hall on Shang Liang Mountain and takes out a stack of beast skins, each vividly drawing a dragon-like beast with ink text in one corner: the nine children dragon drawings, taken by chance from a Gu Immortal’s corpse in his younger days, an immortal opportunity he could not unravel even after asking Shang clan’s supreme elders. He gives the Qiu Niu drawing to Shang Qiu Niu, whom he named for it, and tells Shang Ya Zi to broaden his horizon rather than dwell on petty matters. In the street outside, experts lurking in the crowd attack Shang Xin Ci; she blocks every attack with a killer move shielding the shop behind her, then puts up a battlefield killer move that traps the troublemakers and silences the street, and her watching half-siblings feel they are looking at their father and see the air of a peak rank five expert. ^{ch. 2122} Handling clan affairs afterwards, she records the second inner city’s reparations finished and the fake Gu incident settled, and rules that the stores Shang clan manages will sell at a discount, which lifts the clan’s reputation while making up the losses of the double compensation. ^{ch. 2126}

Ni clan’s people gather in a place they reached from Southern Border about a dozen years earlier, a move their speaker credits to a Gu Immortal level existence; their Gu Masters have grown tenfold in that time, and the rising gold fragment current now threatens to flood the surrounding thousand li unless more channels are cut. ^{ch. 2126} They raise an embankment and dig a canal against the current, then break line by line under waves of river monsters, hold anyway, and counterattack; the clansmen had been brought into the sovereign immortal aperture and secretly nurtured by Fang Yuan, and the survival pressure of Mini Yellow Heaven had pushed them to unite. ^{ch. 2128} Watching one surviving Gu Master plan his future as Ni clan’s fourth elder, Fang Yuan calls Ni Ren’s method an ingenious human isolation style refinement technique: bloodline condensation appeared among the survivors one after another, over forty ran a fever and fell unconscious, and two woke and refined Immortal Gu inside their bodies. ^{ch. 2131}

Over fifty Gu Masters selected by Wu clan are told to enter closed cultivation and come out only when they feel certain of ascension, with Wu clan’s Gu Immortals resisting their tribulations; among them are Wei Shen Jing, Divine Doctor Sheng Shou and Wu Shen Tong, both revived through the dead sea life retrieval formation, and Zhong Yi, the Western Desert Gu Master who inherited the Fire Thunder true inheritance. Wu Yong hands that work to Mountain Moving Old Monster, whose surname is Qin and given name Jing Sheng and who was a lone immortal before Wu clan. Among Fang Yuan’s own subordinates the mood turns when they learn that a certain accumulation of contribution points can be exchanged for an Immortal Gu, and that the first task on the mission board is to ask their master for protection from tribulation, itself richly paid. ^{ch. 2132}

Landscape as before Immortal Gu had stood at rank six and is raised to rank eight, which is that Gu’s limit; rank eight is the limit of most Immortal Gu, because Gu are fragments of the Great Dao with their own ceilings, and only a small portion can truly advance to rank nine. The compound killer move cast through it carries time path, earth path, water path, rule path and soul path profundities at once, and under it Reverse Flow River gushes softly and expands at a rapid pace. Near Eastern Sea’s Tang clan, two variant human Gu Immortals tell Gu Ming Xu that their master is Gu Yue Fang Yuan and that they have come to kill his fellow humans so he tastes the pain they once felt, and Gu Ming Xu laments inwardly that Fang Yuan sends variant humans against his own race. ^{ch. 2136}

The totem killer moves Zhan Bu Du brought from Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven divide by grade into basic totems, unique totems and super totems: there are thousands of basic totems, a unique totem is developed out of a basic one and cannot be copied because it is tied to its owner’s dao mark distribution and scale, and Zhan Bu Du’s own kunpeng totem combines rain eagle and thunder fish. Fang Yuan wants Lu Wei Yin’s advice on how to put an earth vein into practice while staying on guard against him and against Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable: Lu Wei Yin has never been let into the sovereign immortal aperture, and Paradise Earth’s dream realms and Mushroomman Paradise are preserved rather than spent without deep consideration. ^{ch. 2140} Meng Qiu Zhen works those dream realms from the inside, playing a Tu clan Gu Master in one scene and returning in the sixth as the mushroomman Huang Xiao Mi, healed of the mushroomman plague by Huang Wan’s secret treatment. ^{ch. 2147} Silent hill, a Southern Border famous mountain as famous as Western Desert’s anti-sound desert, where any sound path killer move is greatly weakened and suppressed, is bought through envoys sent out to negotiate and carried by variant human Gu Immortals into a chosen area of the sovereign immortal aperture, where its mountain roots must then be developed; Wu clan sells Frosty Peak, whose ice and snow path yield had fallen after excessive excavation left it littered with holes. ^{ch. 2152}

Wu Yong comes to Frosty Peak to meet Fang Yuan in person, reasoning that Fang Yuan now runs foreign affairs through a whole series of transactions rather than brute strength, so super forces like Wu clan, Fang clan and Chai clan have reassessed him as someone who works to principles and rules and have decided to work with him. Fang Yuan proposes widening the famous mountain trade to Moon Bowl, Corpse Mountain, Phoenix Peak and Corpse Emperor Yu Ding Tian; Wu Yong will consider Moon Bowl at a reasonable price, refuses Corpse Mountain and the Corpse Emperor as things Wu clan needs for the enslavement path true inheritance of the Corpse Emperor it has obtained, and warns that taking Phoenix Peak away might strip it of the yearly gathering of phoenixes that is its true value. Lu Wei Yin arrives anxious with news that Divine Emperor City brought Heavenly Court’s immortals from Central Continent straight to Northern Plains’ Crazed Demon Cave the day before, that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable has likely revived, and that they must head there immediately; Fang Yuan answers that he still has matters to settle and that there is no need to rush him further. Hearing Limitless Demon Venerable’s Crazed Demon Cave and Primordial Domain named in front of him, Wu Yong recognises a fight that will affect the whole Gu Immortal world, the five regions and the two heavens, and senses acutely that he is being left behind. ^{ch. 2153}