Chapter 1458

On a nameless Eastern Sea island, Tong Hua repays Ren Xiu Ping, an elderly rank seven enslavement path Gu Immortal and one of her lenders, after selling her light shine fungi to Fang Yuan. Ren Xiu Ping notes the sum is a little lacking; she returns most of the debt at once and promises the rest later, greatly alleviating a crisis brought on by the costly rebuilding of her immortal aperture. Their agreement is the strictest of her debts, with the highest interest. Her finances actually crumbled from over-investing in the light shine fungi modification, and without that she could have carried the rebuilding on her own foundation. Before she can leave, Ren Xiu Ping offers to sell her an incomplete wood path true inheritance from Kui Wu Zi, a rank eight great expert known for battle strength, saying it will help her modify light shine fungi. Tong Hua’s difficulty has been her wood path attainment rather than light path, so she buys the incomplete inheritance from him and leaves the island. ^{ch. 1458}

Once she is gone, a storm breaks, and Ren Xiu Ping admits to himself that his scheme has succeeded. He had learned of her modification work through simple investigation, then used the incomplete inheritance to trap her. He had withheld crucial information from Kui Wu Zi’s inheritance, so it will not actually help Tong Hua. Light shine fungi is hard to modify. Tong Hua cultivates light path, not wood path. ^{ch. 1458}

In Lang Ya blessed land, Fang Yuan activates a new immortal killer move, Light Fungus Radiance, turning green light shine fungi into pure white fungi that radiate strong light instead of wilting. He checks the result with investigative methods and is satisfied enough to plan wide-scale plantation. He created the move despite a wood path attainment lower than Tong Hua’s, relying on the light of wisdom and on Shadow Sect’s and Lang Ya Sect’s inheritances. The move uses perseverance, self love, and wood sprout Immortal Gu as its cores, with snack Immortal Gu supplementing them. Wood sprout Immortal Gu is borrowed from Lang Ya Sect for the move. Perseverance and Self Love were already his, and Snack proves useful just after being refined. ^{ch. 1458}

Fang Yuan places the modified fungi into Mini Orange Heaven, home to aurora lights and flowing light fruits, and Mini White Heaven, home to multicolored overlord flowers. Both places begin to shine intensely. The aurora lights expand, mildly for now but substantially over time, while the overlord flowers grow energized. Once both fields are developed he expects them to satisfy the food requirements of attitude Gu and wisdom sword Gu, the hardest of his three rank eight Immortal Gu to feed. Because the fungi reproduce on their own and the white version is marketable, Fang Yuan plans a business: green fungi in Mini Eastern Sea, mostly white fungi for himself, and the surplus for sale. ^{ch. 1458}

He calculates four million immortal essence stones in total to reach that scale and sell it commercially. Success would give him a monopoly on an extremely profitable market. His earlier year Gu sales have already spilled into the month Gu and day Gu markets. Afterward, he resolves to restore his sovereign immortal aperture’s rate of time to normal. ^{ch. 1458}