Chapter 1468

In Southern Border, rank seven secluded cultivator Zheng Qing stands an hour from finishing six years of refinement toward rank seven pine needle Immortal Gu, using Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable’s wood path technique. He gained it as a mortal after falling onto a lotus in a valley. A sudden underground roar warns him of the same unprecedented earthquake that shook Southern Border months earlier, this time far larger. It tears open trenches for millions of li, collapses his mountain, and forces him back into human form, ending his six years of work. In the new trench he finds a mountain-like crystal rock breathing yellow smoke that thickens into soil, the rank eight earth path crystal essence of Hu land. Beside it lie jade scales, earth hole traveling flame and spring thunder condensed dewdrops, all very valuable and in huge quantity. Zheng Qing forgets his failed refinement and starts collecting them. ^{ch. 1468}

In Lang Ya blessed land, Fang Yuan finishes modifying five sword path killer moves: Triple Layered Sword Wave, Formless Flying Sword, Cloud Flying Sword, Ten Thousand Li Flying Sword and Five Finger Fist Heart Sword. One move, Triple Layered Sword Wave, comes from Lang Ya Sect, the rest from Bo Qing, and with fewer sword path Immortal Gu and far lower attainment than wisdom path, Fang Yuan’s versions stay about equal to Bo Qing’s originals. Five Finger Fist Heart Sword, once famed enough to shock the world, now manages only three of its five finger strikes, at peak rank seven power. Rank eight wisdom sword Immortal Gu could lift it to rank eight power, but Fang Yuan cannot yet produce the rank eight immortal essence it needs. He owns three rank eight Immortal Gu. Attitude Gu is easy to use, Years Flow Like Water depends on essence quality, and wisdom sword Immortal Gu is still beyond his reach. ^{ch. 1468}

Back in his cloud city, Fang Yuan returns to developing his sovereign immortal aperture, and at its extreme north in Mini Northern Plains he finds a mountain-like blue crystal rock breathing icy smoke. This is ice path crystal essence, an extremely rare rank eight material from the secluded domain Hu, seldom seen in the market. Its icy smoke pours out without stop and has already remade that stretch of the aperture, where snow falls deep and snow monsters pace and scream. It is the important part of the snowman tribe’s third set of gifts, sent after Xue Er recorded his defeat of the myriad head coiling dragon and sent the scene back to the tribe, which Fang Yuan deliberately allowed. He plans a snow monster production line from it, a future source of revenue. He understands why so poor a tribe held such a treasure, since generations of cruel competition left this batch of snowmen a high quality one, trapped now but still carrying their former glory. ^{ch. 1468}

While he considers this, Sixth Hair reports that heavenly secret Immortal Gu’s refinement has reached its crucial step and asks him to come finish it personally. Fang Yuan is instantly alerted. Refining it would let him learn of his coming calamities and tribulations in advance. ^{ch. 1468}