Marriage with Fang Yuan
In Northern Plains’ icy plain, rockmen and snowmen hold a six-day negotiation over Moli Region after a territorial dispute. Shi Zong claims the region for the rockman tribe, calling it their territory for four hundred years, but Bing Yuan counters that a senior of her tribe later won it in a bet against Shi Zong himself. Shi Zong denies the agreement and dismisses the bet as a joke. He had already destroyed the agreement itself with information path methods. The snowmen lose the negotiation, and the rockmen take control of Moli Region, ordering the snowmen to leave. ch. 1459
Back in their territory, Bing Zhuo rages at the rockmen for distorting facts behind their rank eight immemorial rock dragon. Bing Yuan calms him and reveals a plan to gain rank eight strength of their own: marry her granddaughter Xue Er to Fang Yuan, tying his rank eight battle strength to the tribe and ending the rockmen’s bullying. She notes she already sold Lang Ya Sect’s Sixth Hair a large amount of snow lotus essence that Fang Yuan needed for refining Immortal Gu. She charged for it because he might refuse a free gift and because open generosity would make the rockmen suspicious. The snowmen do not know that Fang Yuan has since lost the upper extreme heavenly eagle. Bing Zhuo sees they have only barely begun building a tie with him, but Bing Yuan is more confident, calling Xue Er a perfect match and noting that a failed attempt would not worsen relations. Bing Zhuo agrees to try. ch. 1459
Inside the sovereign immortal aperture, Fang Yuan checks with his divine sense, finds no issues, and uses Hei Fan’s true inheritance time path methods to restore the aperture’s rate of time to its original speed. The aperture holds more than 335,000 square kilometers of space and runs at one-to-sixty against outside time, faster than the ten extreme physique blessed land’s one-to-forty and a high grade blessed land’s one-to-thirty. Its origin core yields ninety-six immortal essence beads a year inside, which is sixteen red date beads a day in outside time at his current rank seven, worth sixteen hundred immortal essence stones. At rank eight the same daily yield of white litchi immortal essence would be worth a hundred and sixty thousand immortal essence stones. The higher his rank grows, the faster this value accelerates. ch. 1459
Fang Yuan restores the rate now because his surge in battle strength leaves him confident of getting past calamities and tribulations. The immortal killer move Exposing Heavenly Secret, created by Old Man Yan Shi, lets him learn a tribulation’s details in advance. His own development needs also demand the restoration, and he plans to further speed the rate later with Hei Fan’s methods once their cooldown ends. With the faster rate, light shine fungi can now reproduce quickly, so he decides to move wisdom sword Immortal Gu and attitude Gu outside the aperture. That step should finally satisfy their long-standing feeding problem. Fang Yuan sighs in relief. ch. 1459
