Chapter 1058

Three days after his tribulation, inside the vast sovereign immortal aperture, Fang Yuan lies submerged in a lake of blood, only his upper body whole and his lower body still severed. He turns to blood path body refinement. Tens of thousands of mortal Gu move through the lake at his will, and a rank six Immortal Gu rises from his body, a pearl the size of a goose egg under countless shifting markings, Blood Asset, one Fang Yuan did not know beforehand. The previous Lang Ya land spirit had innovated it from blood path recipes bought in treasure yellow heaven and prized it too deeply to trade. After a change of personality, the new land spirit cared more about promoting hairy men than Gu refinement, and it passed to Fang Yuan in their transaction. Ordinary Gu Immortals can only use Blood Asset in refinement path, where it protects some materials or Gu worms and can partly restore them if a refinement fails. Fang Yuan is a blood path grandmaster and can push its ability past that limit. ^{ch. 1058}

Fang Yuan uses Blood Asset to make the lake of blood boil, drawing its life force up and pouring it, purified, back into his body. His bones crack, his withered flesh fills out, his injuries vanish, and in the blink of an eye his severed lower body is whole again. He heals within three days. He credits his sovereign immortal fetus Gu body, whose dao marks span every path without interfering with each other, letting him use any path’s healing method at full effect. He settles Blood Asset into his chest as a red pearl tattoo, the only storage available while his sovereign immortal aperture stays outside in the world. This storage is not safe, since a destroyed body would destroy Blood Asset with it, though he judges the risk manageable if he stays careful. ^{ch. 1058}

In his previous life Fang Yuan became a blood path grandmaster without ever obtaining a blood path Immortal Gu, and had to refine Spring Autumn Cicada instead. As a rank six he once defeated two ordinary rank seven Gu Immortals using only blood path mortal Gu and moves, a feat that terrain and other coincidences helped decide. He still lacked a blood path Immortal Gu. After rebirth he took huge risks yet still found none, until he finally obtained Blood Asset from trading with Lang Ya land spirit. ^{ch. 1058}

He asks the land spirit for nothing more, since every exchange raises the chance of leaking information, and he has kept back the sovereign immortal aperture’s biggest secret. He had held off on blood path deliberately. Any blood path Gu Immortal is detected by Heavenly Court and listed on the Demon Judgment Board. Facing Chu Du left him no choice: he used Blood Asset both to seal the aperture’s gap and to heal himself rapidly afterward. Unlike Hei Lou Lan, who struggled to raise self strength phantom to immortal level, Fang Yuan modifies his mortal killer moves into immortal ones easily. ^{ch. 1058}

Three days pass with no attack, and Fang Yuan concludes Chu Du cannot break into a placed immortal aperture, since piercing one needs space path methods that Chu Du’s strength path lacks. He still expects Chu Du to keep watch nearby, reasoning that a Gu Immortal so desperate for Reckless Savage’s true meaning will not simply give up. He counts himself trapped for now. Chu Du could bring in others to help even without breaking the aperture walls. Fang Yuan weighs escaping by collecting his aperture and using Sword Escape Immortal Gu, but its straight line flight means he must stop to change direction, and that flaw makes it insufficient against a Domination Immortal. ^{ch. 1058}

Flying down toward the tribulation site, he draws the snow monsters’ attention. Huge snowballs fly at him, and he decides to leave and ignore them, since his aperture holds nothing yet for them to destroy. He resolves to modify his mortal killer moves into a blood path immortal killer move for movement, built around Blood Asset as its core. His sword path attainment is too weak to rely on Sword Escape alone, so blood path methods offer more hope. ^{ch. 1058}