Chapter 1755

Fang Yuan sets up a mortal Gu House in a cave in a valley and enters quiet cultivation. Ying Wu Xie and the rest are still on the stone lotus island practising future self, which rebirth lets him skip. Its greatest help is letting him use Fixed Immortal Travel to cross the five regions and two heavens. He cannot enter places like the dragon whale paradise. ^{ch. 1755}

His time path clone, bathed in the light of wisdom, deduces continuously, and one task is to modify yama battlefield with a time path Immortal Gu. The battlefield would then extend time inside, one day outside becoming a month within. He brings his previous life’s killer moves and can raise them further, a huge advantage. Yama battlefield joins soul path and enslavement path, though its soul path gain from kills is weak because yama children convert slowly. In the previous life he trapped Feng Jiu Ge in it and stole Fixed Immortal Travel but could not kill him, because fate armor Immortal Gu stalled until Fairy Zi Wei broke the battlefield. With time path stretching it to three days and nights, she could still break it but would receive only a corpse. Cultivating many paths grows more useful as Fang Yuan gets stronger, and single-path Gu Immortals cannot easily deduce or defend against compound killer moves. ^{ch. 1755}

After four days and five nights in the nameless valley, the earth shakes, a crack opens and a huge Earth Trench devours the valley completely. The five regional walls are slowly shrinking and the earth veins gradually fusing, and in Southern Border, with the densest earth path dao marks, Earth Trenches form with extreme intensity. Fang Yuan descends once the trench stabilizes and searches it. It yields many Gu materials and lifeforms, most of them corpses. He takes the first desolate beast corpse as free loot, a bunch of rank six immortal materials though damaged, and is glad its soul can become a yama child. The trench lies in Luo clan’s territory, so their Gu Immortals will likely arrive, and by noon he is anxious at not having found his target. ^{ch. 1755}

At last he finds an ancient desolate beast, a diamond head turtle as large as a boat, with a wild Immortal Gu that is his goal for the trip. Using yama battlefield exposes his aura, and the turtle growls and tries to retreat, but yama children encircle it. Restrained for fear of damaging the Gu, he loses three yama children, which die without self-detonating. Yama battlefield, hard to detect from outside, then traps the turtle. With the yama children he weakens the turtle to its limit and captures it alive, taking its wild rank seven Immortal Gu. Very happy, he says the wild Immortal Gu will let him counter Fixed Immortal Travel, stores both in his immortal aperture and dispels the battlefield. ^{ch. 1755}

Back at the trench, Luo clan Gu Immortals have arrived and furiously scold, having discovered that Fang Yuan came first. Many immortal materials are gone, and Luo clan’s losses are huge. Fang Yuan looks at Luo clan’s Immortal Gu House, then conceals his traces and leaves quietly. ^{ch. 1755}

Using future self he returns from Southern Border to Lang Ya blessed land, and his sudden appearance shocks Lang Ya land spirit immensely. The land spirit asks whether he snatched Fixed Immortal Travel, which would make it very hard for Heavenly Court to invade. Fang Yuan answers that it is just a killer move and asks whether they are ready to refine Myriad Self. Disappointed, the land spirit says they are almost ready, but eight main materials are needed. Fang Yuan has only three and says there is no rush. The land spirit warns that Heavenly Court might invade any moment, and Fang Yuan tells him not to worry. ^{ch. 1755}