Chapter 466

After several months in northern plains, Fang Yuan is fully back in Hu Immortal blessed land, where five times the outside pace of time has made his absence feel like a year to Little Hu Immortal. The stargate behind him, barely his own height, is far smaller than the towering one he left guarded on the northern plains grassland. ^{ch. 466}

He reasons that if Little Hu Immortal activates first while he holds the other half, he avoids spending his own primeval essence on a Gu that even a peak rank five Gu Master could barely sustain for three breaths. The gate also needs abundant starlight, plentiful in northern plains but scarce here, where the only source is the swarm of starlight firefly Gu, already reduced from more than five hundred insects as one dies every three breaths the gate stays open, thirty-two lost already. He has Little Hu Immortal deactivate it; it reverts to an oval sapphire stone. ^{ch. 466}

She offers it back to him with both hands. He tells her to keep and care for it, promising to reach her through moving perspective cup Gu if he needs it again, and she tucks it happily into her dress. She also presents two immortal essence stones left over from trading his Immortal Gu recipe for the starlight firefly Gu swarm. Fang Yuan notes their extreme worth, more than two hundred million ordinary primeval essence stones, and recalls that across his entire previous life the most he ever held at once was just over sixty. ^{ch. 466}

Uneasy over the second stargate Gu left in northern plains, he has Little Hu Immortal teleport them to Dang Hun palace and activate connecting heaven Gu at once, permanently linked, like any planted hole earth Gu, to treasure yellow heaven, a barren grotto-heaven holding nothing but goods for trade. Its mirror cycles through Gu worms, beast groups, ore, wine and other supplies for sale, then shows a swarm of starlight firefly Gu offered by Starlord Wan Xiang. Fang Yuan wants a large stock of ordinary starlight fireflies, since the Gu itself cannot reproduce, but Wan Xiang refuses to sell. ^{ch. 466}

Unbothered, certain nothing is truly unsellable at the right price, Fang Yuan writes several remnant Immortal Gu recipes onto cowhide and sends them through, where they register three to nine meters of rainbow colored treasure light and draw a flood of interest, enough divine sense that Little Hu Immortal’s face pales relaying it all. He offers each recipe to whoever queues for it and sets the asking price for the fireflies at no less than a hundred thousand. Three bidders answer: Fairy Yao Guang, Starlord Wan Xiang, now eager, and a third calling himself Di Yuan. Fang Yuan lets the three negotiate rather than push them, and each independently offers thirty-three thousand starlight fireflies. ^{ch. 466}

Their three swarms register unevenly: Fairy Yao Guang’s the faintest at three meters, Di Yuan’s at five and a half, and Wan Xiang’s the brightest at seven, since real starlight firefly Gu are mixed among his. Fang Yuan recalls that Wan Xiang made his fortune this way once before, selling firefly Gu at rising prices until the market stopped selling swarms at all. He trades three recipes for the lot, over a hundred thousand starlight fireflies in total, meaning to breed them himself rather than pay steep prices later. ^{ch. 466}