Chapter 1852

At Mansion Mountain in Southern Border, Ba Shi Ba holds a rank one mortal second aperture Gu. Ba clan spent almost all its luck path immortal materials to buy it from Fang Yuan, who is extorting them. Dripping blood onto it and feeding it until full makes it self-detonate, with no primeval essence or immortal essence needed. It creates a tiny rank one aperture in Ba Shi Ba’s body, and he shakes intensely with excitement. He can cultivate again. ^{ch. 1852}

Fang Yuan had captured and soul searched Ba Shi Ba and taken his first aperture, so this Gu is another form of extortion. Once rank eight, Ba Shi Ba is now a cripple with a fallen reputation, though still first supreme elder. While he was captive, Ba De reached rank eight and became second supreme elder, leading the clan, and Ba Shi Ba lost his authority. Sure he can become an immortal again, Ba Shi Ba uses all his relic Gu and reaches rank one peak stage. His cultivation then sticks. He feels he has paid a huge price for a fake product. ^{ch. 1852}

Ba Shi Ba has nearby Gu Immortals contact Fang Yuan, who is researching Primordial Origin’s true inheritance. Smiling coldly, Fang Yuan remarks that they seem to have found the problem and, prepared for it, answers at once. He had said only that the Gu could awaken a second aperture, and had mentioned no restriction on advancement. Ba Shi Ba breaks his favorite teacup. When a wisdom path Gu Immortal on Xia Cha’s side spots the same problem, Fang Yuan tells her the Gu was an Immortal Gu that he modified into a series from rank one to six. She wants rank six, but he is only selling rank one. ^{ch. 1852}

Fang Yuan notes that Ba Shi Ba is in a worse state than Xia Cha. He infers that Ba De has reached rank eight though Ba clan keeps quiet. The Southern Border immortals hold an immense grudge against Fang Yuan, but they share Heavenly Court as an enemy. So he returned their bodies and souls and gave them second aperture Gu, though he annexed their immortal apertures, to leave them strength to trouble Heavenly Court. He now has deep foundation and many subordinates, and can secretly form a huge plan to encircle Heavenly Court. ^{ch. 1852}

Ba Shi Ba understands that regaining rank eight takes the whole series up to rank six, which means being extorted six times. He curses, then laughs at himself, since surviving capture was already immense fortune. He sees human life from a height he never saw as a rank eight. He smiles. He still hates Fang Yuan, yet calls him a formidable demon, accepts the extortion and resolves to act fast before his influence dwindles. ^{ch. 1852}

Fang Yuan got the recipe from Three Kings blessed land, kept its former part and changed the latter part beyond recognition, turning a rank six Immortal Gu recipe into a series. A mortal level second aperture Gu costs extremely little, since it needs captured human Gu Masters instead of lifespan Gu or immortal materials. He sells it at an extremely high price, for hundreds or even thousands of times the profit. He means to extort the Southern Border immortals all the way, and judges the method usable in Eastern Sea, Western Desert and Northern Plains too. Central Continent’s Gu Immortals he would rather kill. ^{ch. 1852}

Many clans hand over precious luck path immortal materials. Fang Yuan orders the hairy man Gu Immortals to refine luck path Immortal Gu without restraint, and they report another success. His materials dwindle, but his gains are immense, and several luck path Immortal Gu have become his possession. ^{ch. 1852}

In Heavenly Court, Yuan Qiong Du fails again. He failed to refine fixed space Gu, and then several luck path Gu worms. He concludes that many of these Immortal Gu already exist, so he cannot refine them. Fang Yuan’s tactic of refining the luck path Immortal Gu first costs Heavenly Court great losses. Unless Fang Yuan stops, Yuan Qiong Du will keep failing. ^{ch. 1852}