Chapter 1133

Fang Yuan spends the next few days touring the grotto-heaven, checking the true inheritance’s own account against the real place. He moves the heavenly crystals first, from the grotto-heaven’s first forbidden ground, an enormous storage pool built in the sky and ringed in layers of Gu formations. The light azure crystals fill only a small area at its center. He places the pool into Mini Azure Heaven, judging that its crystals and the heavenly crystal eagle nest together should feed his upper extreme heavenly eagle for five to six years, and heavenly crystals are hard to buy in treasure yellow heaven. His own blessed land cannot make the pool produce more. ^{ch. 1133}

The second forbidden area is a huge cave of hibiscus stalactites, rare outside but plentiful here. Fang Yuan digs it out with pulling mountain Immortal Gu and transplants it into Mini Southern Border, noting future growth will draw earth qi from his own aperture. Among the ancient desolate plants is a walking meat tree. It is a rare strength path plant that Hei Fan once raised in darkness, its branches soft and thick like octopus tentacles, able to send a desolate beast flying with one light whip. This is only Fang Yuan’s second sighting of one, after Starry Sky grotto-heaven, and he regrets that his eat strength Immortal Gu, which he wanted for raising strength path dao marks off such a tree, is already destroyed. He relocates the tree into Mini Black Heaven, where the environment suits it without any of Hei Fan’s special arrangements. ^{ch. 1133}

Using Hei Fan’s own methods, Fang Yuan lures every other desolate beast and ancient desolate beast in the grotto-heaven into his aperture, among them three remnant heavenly dogs. These dogs are of little use now, since his rank six dog shit luck Immortal Gu needs a different desolate beast’s faeces, but theirs will serve if that Gu reaches rank seven. After half a month Fang Yuan has emptied the grotto-heaven entirely, even moving the now-bare Immortal Succession Mountain into Mini Southern Border. He kills the Gu Masters and mortals still living there, all descended from Hei tribe’s criminal immortals, and collects their souls to feed Dang Hun Mountain. He feels slight regret that Hei Fan grotto-heaven raised no variant humans. Gu Immortals rear them once an immortal aperture reaches a certain stage, and Hei Fan could have but did not. ^{ch. 1133}

Even with most common resources already used up by generations of resident Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan’s gains are immense, and the sovereign immortal aperture turns from a desolate state to a living one. Reaching this stage alone would have taken six hundred years at best, he reflects, and Hei Fan grotto-heaven’s resources got him there at once. By value the aperture now surpasses most rank seven Gu Immortals, and he judges he might barely reach rank eight standards. The newly moved resources face a changed environment and fewer time path dao marks, so their production will drop greatly and some may wither and die. A few days later Fang Yuan brings Chu Du into Hei Fan grotto-heaven. Chu Du looks around, surprised and disappointed at how barren it has become. ^{ch. 1133}

Fang Yuan smiles and points at the sky: by their alliance agreement he owes Chu Du thirty percent of his gains, and Hei Fan grotto-heaven is now his. Chu Du, shocked, asks if he is serious, and Fang Yuan nods. Chu Du is greatly enticed and cannot refuse: even emptied, the grotto-heaven still outmatches his own blessed land, where storing resources risks losing them to a calamity or tribulation. Hei Fan grotto-heaven carries none, since it holds a fragment of immemorial azure heaven. Chu Du accepts even so, knowing he alone will be seen to hold Hei Fan’s true inheritance while Fang Yuan stays hidden, and boasts that the Domination Immortal fears nothing, not even Heavenly Lord Bai Zu. But handing over the grotto-heaven meets one snag: the brass bell heavenly spirit refuses since Chu Du carries no Hei tribe bloodline, and Fang Yuan destroys it with one hit, solving the problem at once. ^{ch. 1133}