Chapter 1159

Days later, Fang Yuan shows Immortal Hua Die a fresh trace of the River of Time. She is overjoyed and certain it will let her locate the tributary after decades of fruitless searching, and can finally bring Miao Ming Shen good news. Fang Yuan asks no compensation, saying only that he may need Miao Ming Shen’s help someday, and takes his leave. Before parting she warns him that Ding Qi has appeared and clashed with Zhou Li and Tang Song, and advises him to avoid them. Fang Yuan thanks her. Hua Die has no idea the man before her already killed Ding Qi, Zhou Li, Tang Song and everyone with them, and in so complex an area their disappearance draws no notice. ^{ch. 1159}

Half a month later, Fang Yuan returns to Lang Ya blessed land. The trip did not reach its original goal, but left him with great gains. In the cloud city’s secret room, he inspects the sovereign immortal aperture with his divine sense. Once barren, it now holds resources enough that its own vastness still leaves most space unused. ^{ch. 1159}

Mini Northern Plains carries desolate beasts on its grassland half. Mini Eastern Sea holds artificial lakes of dragonfish, air bubble fish and literature carp, restocked from the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals he killed. Mini Western Desert holds eleven eerie fire dragon python dens breeding fast in the aperture’s quickened time. Mini Central Continent carries a mirror willow forest a hundred li across, from Hu Immortal blessed land, plus an underground blood zhi forest nearly as large. ^{ch. 1159}

Mini Southern Border, which took in most of the Hei Fan grotto-heaven resources, is the most flourishing region yet unfilled, its mountains led by Five Light Mountain and Immortal Succession Mountain, its regretful spider group grown greatly. The nine heavens above hold smaller gains: flowing light fruits from his earlier farming, azure fog from pill azure incense he bought, star fragment grass and arrow bamboo making star path mortal Gu, a modest gold fragment river, and a walking meat tree. Mini Blue Heaven keeps a saved falling star hound, Mini Purple Heaven only an upper extreme heavenly eagle egg where the eagle ate the heavenly crystal eagle nest, and Mini White Heaven three remnant heavenly dogs, eagle hounds and multicolored overlord flowers. Fang Yuan regrets not bringing City Well back with him. ^{ch. 1159}

Even greatly damaged, Landscape as Before could restore City Well. Its buildings cannot be repaired, but Miniscule Mountain, destroyed when Fairy Li Shan died at the battle of Yi Tian Mountain, could still be reformed, since The Legends of Ren Zu names it part of City Well. He reasons through the three stages of developing an immortal aperture. The initial grows enough to feed one’s own Immortal Gu, the middle develops resources to sell and aid cultivation, and the upper raises variant humans or humans inside it. ^{ch. 1159}

His own aperture sits at the initial stage. It still struggles to feed newly gained Immortal Gu such as Attitude Gu and wisdom sword Immortal Gu. In the middle stage his achievements are incredible: resources from Star Form blessed land, the Dong Fang tribe and Hei Fan grotto-heaven sell well outside, and Guts Gu from Dang Hun Mountain has always been his greatest source of profit, earning daily. He still cannot raise variant humans in number: buying them outright, as in Hu Immortal blessed land, is not the proper way, only natural growth lets them thrive, since slaves bought there kept dying from Gu refinement. ^{ch. 1159}

With City Well, isolated and suited to raising humans whose births and deaths would nourish it, Fang Yuan could begin upper-stage development early, growing his cultivation many times faster. Ending his inspection, he is pleased that dao marks such as earth path have grown greatly, though still scarce. He is troubled that every region but Mini Southern Border remains largely empty in an aperture too vast to fill, a good problem that still courts conflict. Fast-growing mirror willows could clash with another plant, and fierce beast groups, left alone, could fight to the death, losses he might not notice in so large a blessed land. He resolves to plan early for what the aperture will need later. ^{ch. 1159}