Divination Tortoise Shell Immortal Gu
Fang Yuan already buys dazzling light Gu to intensify his aperture’s aurora light, because more intense aurora light forms more flowing light fruits for rank eight attitude Gu to feed on. Light shine fungus, a desolate plant, gives off light of its own rather than aurora light, and Fang Yuan judges wood path methods could eventually graft it into an aurora light shine fungus. He also wants multicolored overlord flowers for wisdom sword Immortal Gu, and planting them at scale needs illumination, sweet scents and pearl soil, with illumination the piece his light path dao marks and annexed light path blessed land cannot yet supply. Light shine fungi could put that mass planting within reach. They grow in the deep sea, but he expects a desolate plant to manage elsewhere. Plundering Liu tribe’s jade light pit already helped, and at crucial moments he can convert transformation path dao marks to light path ones temporarily. ch. 1297
On the platform, Tong Hua offers her light shine fungi for three six-storey building water elephants, a fair price. Eastern Sea’s storey building water elephants scale from a one-storey boat-like form through six-storey desolate beasts and seven-storey ancient desolate beasts to extremely rare eight-storey immemorial ones. A nine-storey form does not exist. A Gu Immortal with only one six-storey elephant offers a partial trade instead, and Tong Hua agrees after weighing whether he means it honestly. Fang Yuan offers immortal essence stones instead; Tong Hua refuses, though not entirely, since as a new find she does not yet know its market price and fears selling low before treasure yellow heaven can set it properly. Fang Yuan understands: once other Gu Immortals learn to find the plant, her monopoly will not last, and he would raise the price himself the same way, for the same brief window of huge profit. ch. 1297
A second Gu Immortal trades marrow sucking stone for thousand year floating wood, and the deal succeeds. Mermen call the black beach stone a demon stone for how it draws in anyone with bone marrow who nears, and some merman tribes in Eastern Sea’s past worshipped it as a deity. Tu Tou Tuo offers an ancient desolate beast queen toad that commands huge toads of rank six and below, but finds no taker. A fourth Gu Immortal asks whether anyone can point him toward the mysterious qi sea, offering to pay well for the information, and again nobody answers. The round nears its end. Miao Ming Shen, trading second to last, offers his own rank seven divination tortoise shell Immortal Gu, and Fang Yuan’s eyes shine when he hears it. ch. 1297
