Banquet Transactions, Heart Blood Appears
At the qi sea banquet, transactions are underway, and the Eastern Sea lone immortal Wu Ma Yang walks onto the stage with a floating shell. The immortals recognize a small music clam shell, a rank seven immortal material, and show disappointment. Music clams are ordinary clams holding sound path dao marks, growing into giant music clams at desolate beast level and shrinking into small music clams as ancient desolate beasts. The clam is dead and merely a rank seven sound path immortal material. Wu Ma Yang says he is selling the music stored inside, and Qi Sea Ancestor nods his permission. When he opens a slit, a weak sobbing sound with a music rhythm restrains anyone who investigates it. Mortals are sure to succumb, and even Gu Immortals would be lightly injured, or killed in a severe case. ch. 1885
Wu Ma Yang shuts the clam after a while, and many Gu Immortals realize they were affected. The music is named rank seven immortal material ghostly wail, and he offers it for any rank seven dark path immortal material of equal value, preferably black hole wood or dark thread algae. One immortal offers dark thread algae and another offers black hole wood. After some negotiation Wu Ma Yang leaves the stage satisfied. The ghostly wail likely comes from the Earth Trenches. ch. 1885
Su Lun, a righteous path member of the Eastern Sea super force Su clan, sells a drought zombie flame next. It is a rank eight level flame, and Fang Yuan waves his hand to force it into a tight lump after it causes a slight commotion. Su Lun adds a method that lets a Gu Immortal near the lifespan limit use the flame to become a drought immortal zombie with the battle strength of a rank eight. Interest is low, because Heavenly Court plans to repair fate Gu, and immortal zombies would likely cease to exist once fate is restored. A rank seven immortal could only become a small drought immortal zombie, incomplete and at rank seven. Su Lun trades nothing, though a few immortals might buy at a lower price. Fang Yuan guesses the flame came from Eastern Sea’s Zombie Alliance, whose inventory list he holds from Shadow Sect’s inheritance, and Su clan is among the forces nearest its headquarters with Qing Yue clan, Song clan and Hua clan. ch. 1885
Fang Yuan has arranged the stage in turns of one righteous path immortal and one lone immortal, leaving no place for demonic path immortals, and the lone immortals welcome it. Another Eastern Sea Gu Immortal steps up and says in a hoarse voice that he came to exchange Immortal Gu. He reveals a small ladybug-like Gu with a bright red shell, and a bloody smell spreads as many immortals’ hearts pound intensely. This is the first Immortal Gu transaction of the banquet. The immortals call it a blood path Immortal Gu and name the seller Drowning Uncle, a demonic path immortal under arrest warrants from five Eastern Sea super forces. Everyone looks at Fang Yuan, who stays calm and says nothing, and they gather that he will likely not act. ch. 1885
Drowning Uncle is very excited at having gambled right. He announces a rank seven heart blood Immortal Gu caught inside an Earth Trench, to be exchanged only for another Immortal Gu. Many Gu Immortals bid, many of them offering water path Immortal Gu, but no righteous path member takes part. Blood path was created by Blood Sea Ancestor and later suppressed and sealed by the righteous path, but the inheritance he set in all five regions kept it alive while righteous forces secretly researched it. Many Eastern Sea Gu Immortals cultivate blood path, and the righteous path immortals look even uglier as so many blood path cultivators show themselves. Fang Yuan is not surprised, since in his previous life blood path grew into a mainstream path nobody could ban, and he was one of its cultivators. ch. 1885
Fang Yuan thinks he can try for the heart blood Immortal Gu, since it is the most appropriate core for the heart blood premonition killer move from Song Zi Xing’s inheritance. Before he acts, Zhang Yin speaks and says he wants it, offering any of his several rank seven water path Immortal Gu and a favor owed. It is the first time a rank eight Gu Immortal has spoken in the auction. The surroundings go silent. ch. 1885