Chapter 1470

Heaven’s will raises the rank seven heavenly tribulation to its limit against Fang Yuan and still fails. Ying Wu Xie and the rest are left useless onlookers, shocked at the sovereign immortal aperture. He must pass twenty-four earthly calamities, three heavenly tribulations and three grand tribulations. ^{ch. 1470}

Fang Yuan let the five poisonous beasts reach peak strength to probe this tribulation’s limit, and concludes that heavenly tribulations no longer threaten him and earthly calamities are weaker still. He took his rank seven cultivation by annexing apertures, so this was his first rank seven heavenly tribulation, and grand tribulations remain his one unknown. Perceivable dao Immortal Gu confirms the tribulation gave him a thousand poison path dao marks, above an average of about seven hundred and fifty, since heaven’s will pushed it to the limit. From then on his poison path Immortal Gu gain a hundred percent amplification. The gain helps him little, since his poison path attainment is very low with only Woman’s Heart to use, and he judges heaven’s will chose poison path on purpose to slow his growth. He expects heaven’s will to hold future tribulations down, since raising them only feeds him dao marks, which leaves annexing apertures as his proper road forward. ^{ch. 1470}

A month passes, and Fang Yuan goes through an earthly calamity that gives him few dao marks, as expected. His other gains are large. His soul foundation reaches fifty million man soul, condensed enough to show signs of turning solid, and his ghost official garment killer move grows thicker still. Hei Lou Lan finishes refining her star, and Fang Yuan finds that star eyes Immortal Gu gives him a great investigative boost. His aperture’s basic development completes, though he has not yet fed his Immortal Gu. Completing it costs him nearly his entire immortal essence stone reserve, all three snowman gifts, and resources borrowed from Lang Ya Sect. ^{ch. 1470}

Of the seven levels of aperture development, Fang Yuan had already reached the fourth, trade, while still finishing the second, feeding his Immortal Gu. With the second level now done, he qualifies for the third: an ecosystem where beasts and plants form a natural food chain. His eagles still eat purchased food rather than hunting, and his year beasts depend on year Gu he manufactures using rank eight Immortal Gu Years Flow Like Water. Short on funds, he sets the third level aside. He works the fourth instead, raising his trading capability. ^{ch. 1470}

Guts Gu, a monopoly shared with Lang Ya Sect, earns him nothing right now, since its output all goes to his own soul cultivation. Year Gu remains untaken, its market damaged for the next few years by his own earlier actions. Its potential stays huge, since he alone holds Years Flow Like Water, a top rank eight Immortal Gu. Hei Fan created it and died before he could put it to full use. ^{ch. 1470}

Dragonfish trade collapsed once his disguise as Wu Yi Hai and his Wu clan network were exposed to Southern Border’s righteous path forces. Regretful spiders, sold mainly to Western Desert’s Xiao clan in a relationship growing firmer, are now his main income. His smaller lines, eerie fire dragon python, star path resources from Star Lord Wan Xiang, and spirit snakes from the annexed Han Dong blessed land, stay too small to matter. With the regretful spiders they barely keep his finances afloat. His snow monster and light shine fungus plans still need work before they pay. ^{ch. 1470}

His profits from year Gu are already spent. He needs to grow his other businesses urgently, and despite all he has invested, his aperture’s development has crept from three percent to four percent, while every front, the aperture, killer move modification and soul cultivation, still demands more capital. Facing a vast number of inheritances and countless resource techniques, Fang Yuan falls into deep thought over which to pursue first. ^{ch. 1470}