Chapter 1657

In the small house, Fang Yuan feeds a golden scale from a desolate beast golden dragonfish into a ball of black oil essence. He uses two immortal materials, the scale and the black oil, so the refinement is already immortal level. He finds the two highly compatible and keeps adding scales. The result is gather oil Gu, a recipe of his own, made for the fishing village’s oil collecting Gu Masters. ^{ch. 1657}

Fang Yuan is truly trying to help them, because of the Merit Obelisk’s mission. The more he considers what merit is, the more he senses an objective of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable. Helping the village is meant to complete the mission and test his conjecture. He no longer cares about kindness or evil, and will do good to gain the maximum benefits from Paradise Earth’s true inheritance. ^{ch. 1657}

Xia Lin wakes in the village, and a middle aged Gu Master tells her Master Chu saved her and healed her injuries. She is extremely happy to be completely healed of injuries too heavy for her tribe’s greatest healing Gu Master. She asks to be taken to Master Chu. A black-golden light bursts from the small house as they arrive. ^{ch. 1657}

Fang Yuan walks out to the bows of the waiting Gu Masters. Xia Lin had imagined a white haired expert of immense kindness, so she is surprised he is so young. She kneels, vowing to repay him even if she must break all her bones. He answers that it was a simple matter, seeing she is not Xie Han Mo, who has passed on and is gone with the wind. ^{ch. 1657}

Days later, Fang Yuan returns to the Merit Obelisk, finds a new mission and changed rankings, and sees himself third. He is a little joyful, since this affirms his guess that merit is helping others. Had he collected the black oil alone, he would not place third. So he had distributed the Gu and gone into the sea himself, taking most of the black oil and leaving a small amount for the village’s Gu Masters. ^{ch. 1657}

Information path mortal Gu at the obelisk’s base hold findings left by Miao Ming Shen and others. Some found humans and mermen living together in peace with equal statuses. Some chose difficult missions and killed a desolate beast, but many humans died, and they returned to the bottom of the ranking. Some guessed that the board means doing good deeds, but never confirmed it. Fang Yuan’s eyes shine at learning that Gu Immortals entered before Miao Ming Shen’s group. ^{ch. 1657}

The most valuable information comes from Feng Jiang: the paradise holds a forbidden sea area called Demon Suppression Regret Crying Sea. In legend, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable suppressed a supreme demon there under a super immortal formation that forces regret and repentance. The demon’s cries of regret sound across the sea area all the time. Seeing this, Fang Yuan thinks of the name of a Gu worm: regret Gu. ^{ch. 1657}