Chapter 1093

In Lang Ya blessed land’s first cloud city, Lang Ya land spirit offers Fang Yuan a cup of fire rainbow tea. Fang Yuan holds the cup without drinking, lost in thought. He notices that the current land spirit favors this tea where the previous one preferred cloud smoke tea. ^{ch. 1093}

Land spirit presses him to drink, but Fang Yuan waves him off with a vague excuse, denying that anything is wrong with the Tai Qiu development. Disappointed, land spirit tells him that tea and wine owe their spread to food path, and that creating any tea or wine is itself an incomplete Gu recipe. Completing one refines a unique tea Gu or wine Gu, liquor worm and the addictive big smoke tea Gu among those that exist. Food path itself is mysterious and nearly extinct. Fang Yuan is more interested in feeding his Immortal Gu than in tea. From Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s memories Fang Yuan already knows food path’s creator was a beastman Gu Immortal, not a human one. He is privately certain Spectral Soul’s main body knows many food path methods, having inherited a food path true inheritance in life, but that body lies trapped and weakening in the giant dream realm, too hard a reach for now. ^{ch. 1093}

As Fang Yuan keeps talking tea, land spirit grows anxious and says he has a mission for him. Fang Yuan, already guessing as much, asks him to speak. Land spirit reminds him that Tai Qiu’s development was his own suggestion, and that their Gu Immortals have lately expanded their base there smoothly. But a problem has arisen: the falling star hound, an ancient desolate beast that has injured several Gu Immortals, has beaten back every mission sent against it. Land spirit believes Fang Yuan alone can beat it and asks why he has not taken the mission. Fang Yuan answers only that he has been very busy, hiding the true difficulty he cannot voice. ^{ch. 1093}

More than a month has passed since his last earthly calamity, and the next is already drawing near. He keeps the sovereign immortal aperture secret from land spirit; hiding it breaks no term of their alliance so long as it brings no harm. This secret is his trump card. Shadow Sect knows of it, and Fang Yuan reasons Shadow Sect, whose own aim is reclaiming sovereign immortal fetus Gu, has every reason to keep it hidden too. ^{ch. 1093}

Land spirit sees Fang Yuan’s revival as good fortune, and ready excuses satisfy him. Land spirit nods, agreeing Fang Yuan is indeed very busy, since as a land spirit he already knows everything happening inside Lang Ya blessed land. He adds that completing the mission would help Fang Yuan’s cultivation too, reminding him not to neglect Dog Shit Luck Immortal Gu, fed with six kinds of desolate hound’s faeces. With treasure yellow heaven closed, he suggests Fang Yuan rear desolate hounds inside his own aperture instead. ^{ch. 1093}

Dog Shit Luck matters greatly to Fang Yuan. Against heaven’s will, luck path has use where fate does not, since fate is fixed but luck can be turned to advantage. He recalls that when a heaven’s-will beast tide once hunted him, he found an immemorial desolate corpse, and now suspects that timing owed less to chance than to Dog Shit Luck’s passive help. Dog Shit Luck, which Fang Yuan already holds, is a key part of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s self luck true inheritance. The all living being’s luck true inheritance lay hidden in Imperial Court blessed land, the source of Connect Luck, Calamity Beckoning, and Fortune Rivalling Heaven. ^{ch. 1093}

Fang Yuan has a scary guess. Imperial Court blessed land was destroyed because of him, back when he was under Mo Yao’s fake will. He now wonders whether heaven’s will used him as its own tool even then, and destroyed Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s all living being’s luck true inheritance through him. Heaven’s will must take away surpluses while replenishing deficits, and fate is the best method it has. After Red Lotus Demon Venerable broke fate Gu, the power of luck path burst out and created Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. ^{ch. 1093}

Land spirit sits up and offers eight hundred sect contribution points if Fang Yuan takes the mission and settles it, whether by capture or by kill. Fang Yuan’s eyes flash at the number. But after a moment’s thought, he answers that he will have to say no. ^{ch. 1093}