Chapter 1817

Inside the sovereign immortal aperture, Fang Yuan trains his qi path killer moves, and after more than ten breaths he barely controls them and unleashes Heavenly Astral Cloth Robe on his dragonman clone. Every thread of the grey-white robe is made of astral qi. The move is rank seven, but his one million qi path dao marks raise its power a thousandfold. The thin robe has incredibly shocking defense, with rank eight power that beats winter coat and falls short of reverse flow protection seal. The immortal essence it costs stays at rank seven. ^{ch. 1817}

A venerable would in theory hold at least three hundred thousand dao marks after three myriad tribulations. A million qi path dao marks is truly not a joke, a scale only rank nines normally possess. Fang Yuan wonders whether a rank eight core would reach rank nine power under the same amplification, and his main body deduces with him. The clone judges the chance small, because rank nine killer moves most likely need rank nine Immortal Gu. Ten times the dao marks might change the quality of the move. Fang Yuan is not certain. ^{ch. 1817}

Rank nine remains shrouded in complete mystery to him. From Lang Ya land spirit and his own past, he knows each venerable is an absolute monster beyond common sense. Just Limitless Demon Venerable already held Gu Immortal level dao marks as a Gu Master. Fang Yuan smiles that the other venerables starting with merely three hundred thousand dao marks is close to impossible, since the world has no invincible Gu worms, only invincible Gu Immortals. ^{ch. 1817}

Fang Yuan sees himself among the greatest experts, yet ten venerables still loom above him like giant mountains. He owes his position to them, above all the sovereign immortal aperture of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. Only Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable could otherwise annex Qi Sea grotto-heaven, which holds a million qi path dao marks. Dissecting it piece by piece would waste its dao marks, but the aperture devours larger apertures, and Fang Yuan absorbed every mark without loss. Heavenly Dao could not condone the aperture’s existence. To stop Spectral Soul, it nurtured Fang Yuan and sent him back five hundred years against Shadow Sect’s plan. ^{ch. 1817}

Fang Yuan feels admiration for the venerables, not dejection. None of the ten attained eternal life, and as long as fate Gu exists it lets no life form gain it, as The Legends of Ren Zu confirmed. He finds that interesting enough to pursue. ^{ch. 1817}

While the main body keeps training, the clone flies off and looks into treasure yellow heaven to buy qi path immortal materials for killer moves. Qi path materials are the most mobile and simplest, so even a Gu Master of low attainment can use them in place of Gu worms. Being very rich, Fang Yuan buys profound yin qi, minor sun qi, astral qi and domination qi, and asks Southern Border’s Gu Immortals for none, to keep his qi path battle strength secret. Any other qi in mortal grade would not tempt him, since his aperture produces it. Blood qi is different. It holds both qi path and blood path dao marks, and its huge quantity lets it count as an immortal material, so he buys all of it. ^{ch. 1817}

In Central Continent, Gu Yue Fang Zheng finds no blood qi left in treasure yellow heaven. The seller says an incredibly affluent Gu Immortal swept the market a few hours earlier. Stunned, Gu Yue Fang Zheng guesses a super force acted. No other stall has any. He briefly thinks of asking his sect for blood qi, dismisses the idea, and decides to collect it himself. ^{ch. 1817}