Chapter 1324

In the dream, Fang Yuan appears as a boy with Tu Shi Cheng playing his father, and Fang Yuan judges Tu Shi Cheng completely unreliable. Tu Shi Cheng orders him to rely on feelings, but innate talent cannot be summoned that way, and a failed Gu formation ordinarily injures or destroys its Gu worms and can backlash onto the Gu Master. Building one is a precise, rigorous task, like deducing an Immortal Gu recipe, but since the dream insists, he plays along. Tu Shi Cheng confirms he needs at least two of the four Gu worms. Fang Yuan drops the earth path Gu he cannot identify, leaving three choices, while Tu Shi Cheng presses him for an answer inside three breaths. Fang Yuan considers using unravel dream: his last exploration of the giant dream realm had left him rationing a limited stock, but he now holds a very large supply of dream path mortal Gu from refining captured nightmare demonic colts. Since failure at this first layer is recoverable, he decides not to spend unravel dream on it. ^{ch. 1324}

He activates formation heart Gu, then adds the water path Gu worm, in which he is a grandmaster though only ordinary in fire and wind path, and the wind path Gu worm besides. The three settle into an extremely stable, if incomplete, arrangement around the core. A trace of gloominess and disappointment flashes past Tu Shi Cheng’s eyes, unnoticed by Fang Yuan. ^{ch. 1324}

He adds the fire path Gu worm blindly, unsure of the next step. Its power joins the wind path Gu and clashes with the water path Gu, and the resulting explosion destroys formation heart Gu and injures the other three. It leaves the water and fire path Gu on the verge of death, while the wind path Gu is heavily injured. Tu Shi Cheng declares the attempt a failure and calls him a true disappointment. Fang Yuan is expelled from the dream with his soul badly hurt, an injury he heals at once with two guts Gu. ^{ch. 1324}

Fang Yuan reasons he should be the first to explore the dream realm, ahead even of Shadow Sect’s remnants, because he holds two trump cards for exploring dream realms generally. The first is guts Gu, from Dang Hun Mountain inside Lang Ya blessed land. He and Lang Ya Sect jointly hold a monopoly on the Gu, and he has been stockpiling rather than selling it, straining his finances. The second is unravel dream, whose power to solve a problem is somewhat unreasonable. ^{ch. 1324}

Unhurried, he uses connecting heaven Gu to enter treasure yellow heaven, buys The Encyclopedia of Earth Path Gu Worms from an earth path Gu Immortal, and separately buys other information, including mortal-level formation path inheritances. It costs him close to ten immortal essence stones, a trivial sum to him. He never sells his own five-hundred-year rebirth knowledge, since such information normally sells very cheap and would erode his advantage. He learns the unfamiliar earth path Gu is a mortal Gu that appeared early in the Late Antiquity Era and went extinct once its materials vanished, and he obtains its recipe. ^{ch. 1324}