Chapter 1790

Inside the sovereign immortal aperture, Fang Yuan’s time path clone lands in the empty Mini Yellow Heaven before his subordinates. Bai Ning Bing, Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Miao Yin are there, as are Lady White Rabbit, Xue Er, Bing Yuan, Shi Zong, Shi Shi Cheng and Mo Tan Sang. Only Ying Wu Xie is absent, working in green ghost desert. These subordinates took part in the ambush and saw him control the situation, so they look at him with more heated respect than before the battle. The clone approves the wisdom refinement formation, which uses the light of wisdom, Woman’s Heart and Unravel Mystery to refine other Immortal Gu. He made its main part himself and left only minor portions to his subordinates. In the previous life he modified it and it had great power, and now a small tweak is enough. ^{ch. 1790}

Behind him floats a dream realm holding a perfect Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body, a move he learned from Feng Jin Huang in the previous life. His soul cultivation is too low to create a split soul, so only his will controls it, which makes it half a dream path clone. That is enough for now. A Southern Border Gu Immortal is pushed out of the dream, and the subordinates identify him as Yang clan’s Yang Ku, one of the peak soul path experts of Southern Border. ^{ch. 1790}

While Yang Ku’s lower half hangs outside the dream, Fang Yuan’s main body uses the immortal killer move Great Thief Ghost Hand. It enters Yang Ku’s immortal aperture and tosses a rank seven soul path Immortal Gu into the formation, which starts refining it. Its second theft is devour soul Gu, the core that finally lets him use the killer move devour soul. Two more trips strip Yang Ku of every Immortal Gu, and unaware variant human Gu Immortals are shocked. The hand has been modified since he gained results from the Steal Life true inheritance. He can name its target, and when he knows the target well and where their Immortal Gu are, it steals Immortal Gu every time. He knows Yang Ku’s aperture completely, having annexed it in the previous life. ^{ch. 1790}

Fang Yuan refines the stolen Gu into his own and forms devour soul, a version more effective than in the previous life. Yang Ku’s soul is drawn out and sealed by a soul path killer move before it can wake. The aperture is then pulled out and sealed into a light grey lump. Bai Ning Bing and two other Gu Immortals carry it to Mini Southern Border and fuse it into a mountain peak. The aperture expands back into Yang Ku’s blessed land, and a beast tide and flower wing white bone birds pour out, as Fang Yuan had deduced. Bai Ning Bing disperses the tide while a variant human Gu Immortal draws the birds away, and the chaos from the broken ecology soon vanishes. ^{ch. 1790}

Days later only Ba Shi Ba and Liu Hao remain among the captives. A huge dark inkstone vein goes to the rockmen, to Shi Shi Cheng’s delight, and dozens of Southern Border mountains appear in Mini Southern Border. Shi Zong sighs that plundering and killing brings the most profits. Most resources go to Mini Southern Border. The rest go to the other mini regions and the mini nine heavens, such as a huge heaven pillar wind in Mini Northern Plains and a dozen hibiscus trees in Mini Western Desert. Fang Yuan’s most important gain is Xia Cha grotto-heaven’s year essence pool, which he takes over instead of building a duplicate as in the previous life. He throws the year beasts, ancient year beasts and immemorial year beasts that had troubled him into it. ^{ch. 1790}

Fang Yuan has plundered almost all of the captives’ life savings without waste. The watching immortals, numb after much shock, praise his attainment in so many paths and the stability of his grotto-heaven. They liken the captives to livestock slaughtered by a butcher, rank eight Gu Immortals included, and his mass annexing chills them. The variant human Gu Immortals are more shocked than during the ambush. ^{ch. 1790}