Chapter 463

Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus is a rank six Immortal Gu invented by Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable. Its rank three, four and five counterparts produce primeval essence, while the Imperial Lotus produces immortal essence, giving him the most immortal essence of any rank nine Gu Immortal in history. After his death it was guarded as a famous treasure until an extremely daring rank seven Gu Immortal, the next Venerable and later Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, stole it. The lotus was destroyed when he died. Long Hair Ancestor later refined a rank six one and advanced it to rank eight, and after he died and his obsession became a land spirit, his lotus stayed in Lang Ya blessed land. ^{ch. 463}

From his previous life Fang Yuan knows how Lang Ya blessed land ends. A soul path Gu Immortal called Gui Wang discovers it, leads the first wave of attacks and is captured, but his leak brings more waves. In the seventh, Heavenly Court sends rank seven Gu Immortals with Immortal Gu, the blessed land collapses in battle, and Feng Jiu Ge dies as Heavenly Court takes the recipes, which let central continent attack the four great regions alone. ^{ch. 463}

Fang Yuan offers an Immortal Gu recipe for the Imperial Lotus, and the land spirit refuses without hesitation, since it needs the lotus’s immortal essence to resist calamities and tribulations and to refine Gu. It offers other Immortal Gu: a rank seven recipe buys rank six, and a rank eight recipe rank seven or six. Fang Yuan knows the land holds a rank seven beast enslavement Gu, which let Long Hair Ancestor bury ancient desolate beasts under the twelve cloud buildings, and expects the land spirit to definitely keep that Gu. He is sure Long Hair Ancestor refined other Immortal Gu too. ^{ch. 463}

Fang Yuan starts writing, and the land spirit recognises the second aperture Gu recipe and boasts of countless recipes, thousands for Immortal Gu. He then writes the rank six Blood Deity, but at the third line the land spirit calls it a remnant recipe with conflicting steps and a very small chance of success, and refuses it. Fang Yuan knows it is inaccurate, a remnant he repaired through research and other Gu Immortals, which is mainly why he skipped it in his previous life and later abandoned it for an accurate Spring Autumn Cicada recipe. Spring Autumn Cicada holds his secret of rebirth, so he will not trade it. Of about a dozen Immortal Gu recipes he knows, most are remnants and Blood Deity’s is best, and only second aperture Gu and Spring Autumn Cicada are intact. ^{ch. 463}

Fang Yuan asks to swap a rank five recipe for stargate Gu. The land spirit offers only its existing Gu. Pressed that stargate Gu is completely new, it admits it wants to refine one and could sell it in treasure yellow heaven, but is not certain when it will. It says Fang Yuan, as Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable’s inheritor, has three opportunities to ask it to refine Gu. An Immortal Gu counts as one chance whether it succeeds or fails, a mortal Gu is guaranteed, and stargate Gu can be refined successfully. ^{ch. 463}

Fang Yuan sees why Ma Hong Yun, a mortal then, chose three rank five Gu, and why he regretted it once he became a Gu Immortal. Ma Hong Yun’s awkwardness is now Fang Yuan’s. A mortal cannot use an Immortal Gu, and hole earth Gu, connecting heaven Gu and stargate Gu cannot carry one to Hu Immortal blessed land. Each Immortal Gu refinement needs a recipe from Fang Yuan, and a flawed recipe or a Gu already owned elsewhere fails and costs a chance. The land spirit will not play tricks for Fang Yuan, but its refining ability is greatly reduced. ^{ch. 463}

Fang Yuan lacks the recipes, cannot guarantee success, and gains nothing from an Immortal Gu that only attracts disaster. He could leave the chances for now, but he truly needs stargate Gu. His strength path cultivation has only thirty jun and needs Gu to reform his skin and flesh. He can feed only about thirty thousand wolves without a tribe, and the region’s suppression blocks rank five although he meets the conditions. His wolfman soul is formed, and guts Gu at Dang Hun mountain can strengthen it. He is stuck in a deadlock. ^{ch. 463}