Chapter 1610

Fang Yuan demands one hundred and fifty kilograms of eight-parts jade from Shang clan within three days. Its immortal protests that treasure yellow heaven usually trades only up to five kilograms, but the conditions do not change however Shang clan negotiates. Ba clan says it has gathered the seven treasures water and proposes trading goods for person at once. As sincerity, Fang Yuan hands over the arm of the captive Ba clan Gu Immortal. He threatens to kill the captive or sell him to Wu clan unless satisfied. Ba clan’s immortal says they can talk, but Fang Yuan demands the water first, leaving that immortal pale, furious and helpless. ^{ch. 1610}

Luo clan, Hou clan and Chai clan are among the second wave, while Tie clan, Wu clan and others are not yet touched. With hostages in hand and his location extremely secretive, Fang Yuan keeps the initiative, and the righteous path bitterly meets his demands. Xia clan’s ten portions of spiral dawn light are the first to arrive. Eight-parts jade and seven treasures water follow. Soon Fang Yuan has most of the immortal materials for the year essence pool, which would take him at least a dozen years to gather himself, even if lucky. ^{ch. 1610}

Fang Yuan’s time path clone begins the last plunder, after which no Southern Border captive will have any Immortal Gu left. Each of the thirteen super clans mobilized a Gu Immortal expert of at least rank seven, and each carried three Immortal Gu on average. The Immortal Gu he has accumulated from them already total more than one hundred. Great Thief Ghost Hand loots a rank seven soul search Immortal Gu from Yang Ku. Fang Yuan takes two more soul path Immortal Gu from him, but neither is the devour soul Immortal Gu he wanted, which Shadow Sect once held. ^{ch. 1610}

The last captive is Wu clan’s Liu Hao, whose fixed space Immortal Gu restrained Fixed Immortal Travel. Fang Yuan steals a first Immortal Gu from him, and it self-destructs the moment it leaves the aperture, while every other Gu then self-detonates, leaving only remnant parts. Fang Yuan judges the clever refinement path method behind this to be at the level of Long Hair Ancestor. Having infiltrated Wu clan as Wu Yi Hai, he is extremely clear that it has no such method, so its recruit Liu Hao is very likely a person of Heavenly Court. The method catches him off guard and causes slight losses. He realizes that Heavenly Court has infiltrated Southern Border’s hunting team, that Fairy Zi Wei definitely arranged more backup plans, and that Wu Yong probably brought Heavenly Court in. ^{ch. 1610}

The Gu worm carcasses turn his mind to Gu as Before, a concept for restoring a destroyed Gu worm to its previous state. In them he can almost see a trace of it: space path Gu with refinement path dao marks added that destroy them when activated. He stores the carcasses carefully, judging them perhaps more valuable than the stolen Immortal Gu and hoping to find clues for refining Gu as Before. Referring to Heavenly Court’s methods and inheritance would be better, but is practically impossible. Having absorbed the Long Hair true meaning, he has reached quasi-supreme grandmaster in refinement path. Heavenly Court has definitely pocketed most of the inheritances of Old Eccentric Tian Nan and Old Immortal Kong Jue, the two other monumental refinement path figures equal to Long Hair Ancestor. He clearly sees the opportunity to refine Gu as Before, but Heavenly Court is like a heavenly moat obstructing his path. ^{ch. 1610}