Chapter 1756

After killing Meng Tu and Sleeping Lady, obtaining a Red Lotus true inheritance and taking a wild Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan still has a few days until Zhang Ji sells the floating life fire as in the previous life. Acting straight away has saved him the months he once spent deducing killer moves. Using future self from Lang Ya blessed land, he goes all over the five regions, most often Southern Border, to places where Earth Trenches have formed. In the previous life they grew more intense until his death at Duke Long’s hands, when the five regional walls had vanished and new trenches stopped forming. His gains are extremely high, with immortal materials piled into a mountain and three wild rank six Immortal Gu. His luck is worse than before, but clear information makes huge gains easy. He expects Earth Trenches and earth veins to cause bigger commotions in the next few years, and in the previous life their resources played a crucial role when the four regions attacked Heavenly Court. ^{ch. 1756}

This rebirth differs because his strength and influence far exceed those of any earlier rebirth, so the ink effect of his rebirth is much more significant. A few days later Zhang Ji is absent from treasure yellow heaven. Fang Yuan learns that Black Heaven Temple’s Zhang Ji lost a competition to Immortal Crane Sect’s Old Lord Can Yang, so the floating life fire they found went to Old Lord Can Yang. Both sects are among Central Continent’s ten great ancient sects, and Immortal Crane Sect is weaker overall, but Old Lord Can Yang has the stronger battle strength. In the previous life Old Lord Can Yang stayed out of it, and Zhang Ji obtained the fire with no hassle. ^{ch. 1756}

Old Lord Can Yang is a fire path Gu Immortal who can use the fire or contribute it to his sect, so Fang Yuan plans other sources. Then Old Lord Can Yang starts selling the fire publicly in treasure yellow heaven. Fang Yuan understands that Immortal Crane Sect wants publicity, as he did when selling Thunder Ghost True Monarch’s three rib bones. He becomes a buyer. Competing buyers raise the price to an absurd degree and start a huge ruckus. Fang Yuan realizes that buyers and sellers all belong to Immortal Crane Sect, which pays fees to show that it still belongs among the ten great ancient sects. He smiles bitterly and buys anyway, since the fire is too important and other plans are unreliable. ^{ch. 1756}

Fang Yuan passes the other main materials to Lang Ya land spirit, who checks them and familiarizes himself with them together with Fang Yuan and the hairy man Gu Immortals. Days later the land spirit leads them to the Long Hair refinement path formation. The land spirit calls Fang Yuan’s myriad self Immortal Gu recipe very incredible and estimates a forty percent chance of success. When the land spirit frowns at Fang Yuan joining despite lacking refinement path experience, Fang Yuan insists the refinement is extremely important to him and promises only to help. The land spirit takes charge and goes in first, then Third Hair, Fourth Hair, Sixth Hair, Seventh Hair and the others enter, with Fang Yuan last. ^{ch. 1756}

The refinement goes smoothly, and Fang Yuan acts only a few trivial times. Days later the Immortal Gu starts to form, a few steps from success. Then the light explodes, dust rises and a stench fills the air. Lang Ya land spirit and the rest are shocked and scramble to salvage the refinement. Fang Yuan suggests a temporary Gu formation within the formation to clear out impurities, and the helpless land spirit accepts. At Fang Yuan’s request the land spirit enters it without doubt and is immediately suppressed. Furious and shocked, the land spirit demands to know Fang Yuan’s aim, and Fang Yuan smiles lightly, asking whether the land spirit still does not get it. ^{ch. 1756}