Chapter 1773

Inside yama battlefield, Fang Yuan offers Chi Qu You a transaction: his dream path research results. Chi Qu You is slightly stunned, and excitement flickers in his eyes. One could say those results stand at the peak of the five regions. Fang Yuan says he has made only slight progress and asks what Chi Qu You would think if his formation path attainment had come from the dream realm. The remark lands like a huge rock, and Chi Qu You can no longer hold his cool. Fang Yuan tosses him an information path Gu worm of dream path mysteries, and Chi Qu You, incredibly moved, finishes it quickly. ^{ch. 1773}

Fang Yuan wants dream realms in exchange for future dream path results. Chi Qu You objects that almost all of Southern Border’s dream realms are guarded by righteous path super forces. Fang Yuan names those on Yi Tian Mountain, where Chi Qu You is in charge and has hidden backdoors that would let Chi clan steal some easily. Chi Qu You is shocked that Fang Yuan knows of the backdoors, his proud creation, and thinks he has underestimated this world’s geniuses. He is overthinking, for Fang Yuan learned of them in his previous life from Chi Qu You himself. The transaction is settled quickly and is very advantageous to Fang Yuan. Chi Qu You agrees despite the humiliation, because he cannot act against Fang Yuan, working together stops the plundering, and Fang Yuan may lead him to the traitors he suspects. ^{ch. 1773}

In the sovereign immortal aperture, the rank six rockman Gu Immortal Shi Shi Cheng, completely awed by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, stands on a bare mountain that rockman Gu Masters built in more than ten days. At least thirty earth path Gu worms died in the work. Fang Yuan’s rank six time path clone descends, and every rockman kneels. Shi Shi Cheng, leader of the rockman tribe, reports that the fire path formation inside the mountain is set up from the chart Fang Yuan provided. Shi Shi Cheng once fought Fang Yuan, and his immortal battlefield grey cloud rock puppet made a deep impression. After moving the rockmen in, Fang Yuan had sent the other rockman Gu Immortals to stone lotus island, leaving Shi Shi Cheng behind. ^{ch. 1773}

Shi Shi Cheng uneasily says the Southern Border righteous path is fearful and that even Chi Qu You could only watch Fang Yuan leave freely. The clone asks whether the rockman Gu Immortals want him to stop. Shi Shi Cheng begs forgiveness, saying the idea is his own, unknown to the supreme elders on stone lotus island. The clone sneers inwardly, since the rockmen fear that Fang Yuan’s death would expose the aperture and implicate them all. Fang Yuan cannot stop, because he needs to destroy fate Gu for eternal life and has a chance only at the final Central Continent Refinement Path Convention, when Heavenly Court is weakest. In truth the idea belongs to many variant human Gu Immortals, who used Shi Shi Cheng to voice it safely, a mature political tactic. The clone neither rejects nor agrees and orders Shi Shi Cheng to bring the tribe’s elites and leave the mountain. ^{ch. 1773}

The clone activates the formation, which becomes a furnace, and the top of the mountain erupts into a volcano. Huge hands scatter sunset parasol trees that root into the lava, then fire phoenixes that the formation seals, some of them ancient desolate beasts. The clone leaves many fire path birds of all types. The clone names the volcano Fire Bird Mountain, a mid sized resource point for the rockman tribe, as the reward for building the mountain. Eggmen would suit a volcano best, but Fang Yuan has no intention of bringing them in now. Shi Shi Cheng kneels, very excited and incredibly thankful. The clone adds that Fire Bird Mountain is not the final mission, and Shi Shi Cheng realizes the phoenixes were plundered and Fang Yuan will keep taking risks. ^{ch. 1773}

Shi Shi Cheng dares not contradict and feels a little joy, since the resources are also his for cultivation. Fang Yuan’s political tactic has already separated Shi Shi Cheng from the other rockman Gu Immortals. Shi Shi Cheng’s words give Fang Yuan insight: this time he has taken in many variant human tribes and must nurture them. Enslavement path methods could subdue them all but would end any chance of nurturing them. Reflecting that people have their own thoughts and desires and no two are identical, Fang Yuan has a flash of inspiration. He realizes he had a human path killer move all along. His human path attainment rises to master. ^{ch. 1773}