Chapter 1082

Lang Ya land spirit calls Fang Yuan’s proposal a huge contribution to the sect, not the modest opinion Fang Yuan claims. Sect rule would normally raise a member’s status a level for a contribution this size, as Sixth Hair could rise to Fifth Hair. Fang Yuan is not yet a true hairy man Gu Immortal, so he receives two hundred sect contribution points instead of that rise, and both show regret at the limit. He laments wanting to become a true hairy man, playing the wish as sincere. Land spirit says treasure yellow heaven is closed and calls the wait a pity, planning a large purchase of desolate beasts once it reopens. ^{ch. 1082}

Fang Yuan calls buying for so many hairy man Gu Immortals a strain even a wealthy sect cannot bear, and proposes developing the sect’s own resources instead, the way other super forces occupy ground across the five regions. Land spirit balks. Hairy men are a variant human race that cannot move openly in the current age, he says. He points to Inkman City, one variant human force in Northern Plains, which barely survives on two counts: only one Inkman Gu Immortal shows in public, and its founder, Immortal Yi Yan, bought an agreement with Giant Sun Immortal Venerable at a heavy price. A hairy man force as large as Lang Ya Sect, moving openly, would certainly draw every human power against it. Fang Yuan clarifies he means quiet development of unclaimed ground, and the land spirit lands on the answer himself: the ten great fierce areas left once the major and super forces split Northern Plains. ^{ch. 1082}

Fang Yuan names Earth Trench, proposing a teleportation Gu formation there to train hairy men against its desolate beasts, refine transformation path Immortal Gu from their remains, and enslave captured beasts to strengthen the blessed land’s defense. Lang Ya Sect already holds the method, a Gu formation built to transport Gu Immortals. Land spirit calls the matter too significant to decide at once. Fang Yuan defers, turns the talk to the flowing light fruits he came for, and leaves with a large supply, returning to his cloud city to arrange them. They are food for Attitude Gu, a pure condensation of aurora light rather than an ordinary fruit. ^{ch. 1082}

The transactions with Ying Wu Xie leave Fang Yuan holding an Immortal Gu total the chapter calls terrifying. Rank nine holds Wisdom Gu alone, rank eight adds Attitude Gu and Wisdom Sword Gu, and rank seven holds Change Soul, Sword Eyebrows, Wave Sword, Sword Escape, and Calamity Beckoning. Rank six adds fourteen more, among them Woman’s Heart, Star Eyes, and Pulling Mountain. Woman’s Heart was left at Hu Immortal blessed land before Yi Tian Mountain as a core, with Unravel Mystery, of a Gu formation refining Bo Qing’s sword path Gu. It returned to Fang Yuan’s hands only after Lang Ya Sect stripped both blessed lands of their resources following that battle. ^{ch. 1082}

Connect Luck Gu and Iron Crown Eagle Strength Gu, both originally his, sit in treasure yellow heaven where Ying Wu Xie placed them, unrecoverable now. Of his star path Gu, only Star Eyes returned. Whether Star Shoot, Star Mark, Starlight, and Star Thought remain with Ying Wu Xie, or exist at all, Fang Yuan cannot say. Many of Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage’s Gu worms were destroyed when it broke apart at Yi Tian Mountain, though some survived in the immortal zombie body’s aperture. Memory loss leaves Fang Yuan unable to identify the survivors or count what Ying Wu Xie withheld. ^{ch. 1082}

Very few Gu Immortals, even at rank eight, hold as many Immortal Gu as Fang Yuan now does. Quality over quantity is the ordinary rule, since two Immortal Gu cover offense and defense together while one leaves a Gu Immortal exposed, and more than three generally becomes a burden. His nine-five sovereign immortal aperture is why the rule does not bind him. Its space and fast internal time let it feed many Immortal Gu at once, and his extremely strong daily income, sixteen beads by outside time, gives him the needed capital. These reasons, with Lang Ya Sect as a third resource, settle him on raising large numbers of Immortal Gu for battle strength. He reads Ying Wu Xie’s scheme plainly, that the gift was meant to burden him and keep him from moving against Shadow Sect, but proceeds anyway. ^{ch. 1082}