Chapter 1033

Fang Yuan examines sword escape Immortal Gu, golden bee like and extremely fast, not inferior to a rank seven qi escape Immortal Gu. He also examines flying sword Gu, silver dragonfly like and very famous as Bo Qing’s most used offensive and defensive Gu worm. After Yi Tian Mountain the light of wisdom had refined all those sword path Immortal Gu into his own. The pair close a gap he had in movement and attack, which attitude Gu, change soul Immortal Gu and unravel mystery Immortal Gu had not filled. His battle strength surges. He judges he could now kill Huo Kong Dong if they meet again. He stops using connecting heaven Gu, letting treasure yellow heaven’s commotion over the transfer settle on its own. ^{ch. 1033}

Using moving perspective cup Gu, he keeps contact with land spirit, who reports thirty sect contribution points gone, part on treasure yellow heaven’s fee and part on the mortal Gu bought. Fang Yuan’s total falls to two hundred and seventy points. The two then negotiate the guts Gu trade late into the night, reaching agreement. His trade had been capped by hairy man slave numbers, since guts Gu needs airsac Gu, and airsac Gu needs Hei Lou Lan’s strength qi Immortal Gu, now unreachable with her missing. Increasing that slave count is very difficult: hairy man slaves are the priciest variant human slaves in treasure yellow heaven, and refining Gu kills off however many he replenishes. He already holds a secret replacement recipe deduced by the light of wisdom, kept hidden to protect his cooperation with Hei Lou Lan. ^{ch. 1033}

Joining Lang Ya Sect removes that cap: its hairy man population, perhaps the largest anywhere in the five regions, can refine airsac Gu at a scale far beyond his own. Even after Lang Ya Sect takes more than half the proceeds, the guts Gu trade alone should bring six thousand immortal essence stones a month, versus two thousand total from all his businesses before. He had joined the sect for three reasons: it is the safest refuge once the world hunts him, Lang Ya blessed land survived seven waves of attack across his previous life’s five hundred years, and land spirit cannot lie to him. His first night back nets him this trade and a place of safety both. ^{ch. 1033}

Fang Yuan then spends the night inside the house Gu, eating and inspecting his nine-five sovereign immortal aperture until near dawn. It spans over 335,000 square kilometers, with a time ratio of one outer day to two months, or one to sixty, exceeding Hei Lou Lan’s one to thirty-eight. A faster ratio usually brings calamities more often, so the aperture not being far more extreme is a relief. It also yields sixteen beads of green grape immortal essence daily, four hundred and eighty a month, an extraordinary output only a living aperture can produce, far surpassing his previous life’s aperture. At dawn he recites his verse and leaps from the cliff, flying southeast. ^{ch. 1033}

His body also carries dao marks of many paths, fire, water, wood, light, dark, poison and luck among them, at roughly a hundred per path, and a hundred marks amplify a Gu worm by a tenth. Ordinarily cross-path dao marks weaken a mortal Gu’s effect, yet Fang Yuan feels no such resistance and full amplification regardless of path, a break from common sense. He finds no vital Gu, though every immortal should carry one. Unable to solve either mystery himself, he decides he needs answers from Spectral Soul, Shadow Sect and Ying Wu Xie. He expects Southern Border’s Gu Immortals to seal off the area near Yi Tian Mountain as forbidden to outsiders, its changes too large with a dream realm manifested. With Ying Wu Xie’s location unknown, his goal becomes the current generation Ni Xiang. ^{ch. 1033}