Chapter 1074

Fang Yuan concludes only Lang Ya land spirit will pay wisdom Gu’s price. Still young after his rebirth, he would spend or hoard any lifespan Gu rather than feed wisdom Gu. Lifespan Gu, though mortal Gu, are among the strongest currencies in Gu Immortal trade: even an Immortal Venerable or Demon Venerable must reckon with lifespan, one of cultivation’s two obstacles. ^{ch. 1074}

Wisdom Gu had sat in Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, starving into deep sleep in his later years. Spectral Soul Demon Venerable later found it there without feeding it, and lifespan Gu returned to the world after his death and again after Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable died. The building’s imperial court contest then ransacked Northern Plains’ lifespan Gu every ten years to feed wisdom Gu, until Fang Yuan destroyed Imperial Court blessed land. Wisdom Gu then followed him on instinct. It passed through Hu Immortal blessed land before reaching Lang Ya blessed land. ^{ch. 1074}

Fang Yuan recalls using two lifespan Gu at Three Kings blessed land to refine second aperture Gu, and obtaining one from Blazing Heaven Demoness before his rebirth, an opportunity rebirth cost him. Since she could give him one, he reasons she definitely held more. Catching himself, he realizes Spectral Soul plotted against her and took the wealth she left when she died, and that Shadow Sect and Zombie Alliance remnants still hold that immense fortune even though Spectral Soul’s plan failed. ^{ch. 1074}

Lang Ya blessed land, ancient and home to countless hairy men, naturally produces lifespan Gu from its own life forms, and Lang Ya land spirit’s absolute control lets him collect every one that appears. Ordinary Gu Immortals need lifespan Gu; Lang Ya land spirit does not. Fang Yuan, holding no lifespan Gu at all and worried about his coming calamity, lets Lang Ya land spirit feed wisdom Gu instead. ^{ch. 1074}

Even if wisdom Gu ends up acknowledging Lang Ya land spirit, Fang Yuan reasons his standing lets him use land spirit’s methods for sect contribution points. The experiment fails outright. Before leaving, Fang Yuan asks Lang Ya land spirit for one thing: an information path mortal Gu recording his change form Immortal Gu refinement, whose tribulation had grown strangely strong. Land spirit agrees, asking to be told if Fang Yuan learns why. Fang Yuan privately suspects sovereign immortal fetus Gu is the cause, but tells land spirit nothing. ^{ch. 1074}

Fang Yuan’s other goal is learning whether more traitors remain in Lang Ya Sect. Shadow Sect had already planted two hairy man spies who helped it attack Lang Ya blessed land once, and Fang Yuan now depends on Lang Ya land spirit for future tribulations. He flies toward his new home, one of Cloud Cover Continent’s twelve cloud cities, each a mortal Gu House. Those twelve cities, raised from the former twelve cloud buildings, can activate together as the twelve wave cloud confusion formation covering the whole continent. Lang Ya land spirit gave Fang Yuan this city; every hairy man Immortal holds one. Land spirit plans to trigger war among the three continents and move outstanding Gu Masters here for nurturing. ^{ch. 1074}

Elite hairy man Gu Masters welcome Fang Yuan to serve him. Their leader reports that the sixth city lord, Gu Immortal Sixth Hair, who guards the sixth cloud city, has waited long in the guest room. Uncertain why he has come, Fang Yuan meets him. ^{ch. 1074}

Sixth Hair pays respects aloud, greeting Fang Yuan as second city lord and asking him for combat guidance, but secretly transmits a different message: he represents Lord Ying Wu Xie, here to make a deal. Fang Yuan’s expression does not change. His gaze turns ice cold: Sixth Hair is Shadow Sect’s spy. He smiles warmly and invites Sixth Hair to sit, even as his mind races through the danger. He wonders how many other spies remain and whether the overture is a trap. Seated, Fang Yuan transmits coldly that if Sixth Hair’s claim is true he will hand him to the first supreme elder for judgment. ^{ch. 1074}