Chapter 1116

Fang Yuan, wearing Hei Cheng’s guise, enters the small nest and finds a huge egg alone at its center: a young man’s height, oval and glass-shelled, extremely beautiful, but covered in death energy and devoid of life. After hours of searching he finds nothing beyond the crystals themselves, and wonders how Hei Fan, a time path great expert, could leave only an empty nest. He turns back to the dead egg, guessing it may be the key. He has surpassed the generations of Hei tribe Gu Immortals and must rely on himself now. ^{ch. 1116}

He walks the disguise around the egg, Gu worms confirming it absolutely dead, thwarting his guess that the inheritance lay hidden inside the shell. Fang Yuan then wonders whether an earlier visitor already stole it. He judges that not impossible, given his dealings with Sixth Hair. From Hei Cheng’s memories, Hei tribe’s Gu Immortals had realized attitude Gu was the key but never succeeded in using it, which does not mean nobody else did. ^{ch. 1116}

Finding nothing else, Fang Yuan judges no Hei Fan true inheritance likely remains, and feels very disappointed, since he had banked on it to slow time inside his aperture. He does not need it while Chu Du helps him now, but the assurance would still matter against future trouble. Even without it, the nest itself still carries great value. It is an entire nest of rank eight immortal materials, and all his other accumulated resources, his Immortal Gu aside, cannot match half its value. That count excludes Dang Hun Mountain, which sits with Luo Po Valley in Lang Ya blessed land, where Lang Ya Sect alone now runs the guts Gu trade and pays him a monthly share. ^{ch. 1116}

Fang Yuan follows a thread to treasure yellow heaven, wondering what the egg is. He buys books on ancient desolate plants and desolate beasts, his funds low after spending nearly ten thousand immortal essence stones on pill azure incense and with this month’s profits not yet in. He learns nothing about the egg, yet feels a little happy: the more mysterious it is, the greater his hope for Hei Fan’s inheritance, and his readings suggest it very likely belongs to an immemorial desolate beast. But treasure yellow heaven’s knowledge is basically useless here, reaching only rank six and seven, while most immemorial desolate beasts now live in white heaven, black heaven, or the five regions’ forbidden and catastrophic areas. ^{ch. 1116}

Fang Yuan rejects asking directly in treasure yellow heaven. It would be too eye-catching, drawing rank eight Gu Immortals to him. He turns instead to Lang Ya land spirit, the obsession of Long Hair Ancestor, who had been a rank eight Gu Immortal and a refinement path supreme grandmaster of undeniably immense knowledge. Seeking its help does not go smoothly, since Lang Ya Sect has recently been very unhappy with him, its progress against the falling star hound stalling at Tai Qiu. The land spirit offers him the sect’s books for killing the hound himself, or for a hundred contribution points, which Fang Yuan pays rather than go to Tai Qiu. ^{ch. 1116}

Still angry, the land spirit mentions Twelfth Hair, badly hurt and dejected after losing his desolate beasts to the falling star hound, and asks if Fang Yuan will visit. Fang Yuan, feigning sorrow, promises to go after getting the books. He then visits Twelfth Hair’s cloud city but is refused entry by a mortal Gu Master backed by the still-grudging Twelfth Hair. ^{ch. 1116}

He reflects that Sixth Hair’s doing brought his relationship with Lang Ya Sect to this state, a valuable tie he means to repair later though not urgently. Returning to his own cloud city, Fang Yuan checks the information and is not disappointed: the egg belongs to the upper extreme heavenly eagle, an immemorial desolate beast with rank eight battle strength. His heart shakes with joy, certain his effort was not wasted. If this truly is such an egg, Hei Fan’s true inheritance has not been taken after all, and it is still waiting for him. ^{ch. 1116}