Chapter 469

Relic Gu directly increase the foundation of a Gu Master’s aperture and raise the cultivation realm. They run from rank one to five as green copper, red steel, white silver, yellow gold and purple crystal, and are mortal Gu with no Immortal Gu form above rank five. The first three are widely sold, but large organisations restrict the last two for their effect on rank four and five Gu Masters. Treasure yellow heaven sells them, though yellow gold stays few and purple crystal fewer. Gu Immortals cannot raise cultivation with purple crystal relic Gu, yet it is still very rare, since Immortal Gu recipes use it as a catalyst. Fang Yuan used it and yellow gold for Spring Autumn Cicada and second aperture Gu, and Blood Deity’s remnant recipe needs large amounts. ^{ch. 469}

Fang Yuan buys three purple crystal relic Gu and, for a great sum, an immediate success Gu that raises the success rate of refinement. He buys many low rank Gu and refinement materials for rank five breath concealment Gu and others. Treasure light height cannot show whether a Gu worm was tampered with, which is not very safe, so he will refine the Gu himself. Having sold every remnant recipe he holds, he keeps twenty-eight immortal essence stones after treasure yellow heaven’s processing fee. Spring Autumn Cicada, second aperture Gu and Blood Deity remain his most precious. The others can be sold again only after a few months, since repeat sales lower treasure light and with it the price. Waiting also gives earlier buyers time to research, since an Immortal Gu is unique once created. ^{ch. 469}

Fang Yuan must still supply rockmen to Immortal Crane Sect to stall for time, though Dang Hun mountain is dying and each transaction carries fewer. Fang Yuan expects Immortal Crane Sect to think him a trapped fish, never a man who went to northern plains and returned, and Old Man Yan Shi not to foresee it either. With no recipes to sell, he turns to soil, which blessed lands sell in treasure yellow heaven as rare goods. His soil is gruel mud. Under Immortal Gu Gruel Mud’s power, Dang Hun mountain began turning to rotten mud that still holds that power, so Gu Immortals see the mud as a must-have ingredient for refining the Gu. ^{ch. 469}

Placed in treasure yellow heaven, the mud, giving off an intense Immortal Gu aura, draws great attention, though one Gu Immortal admits he lacks the recipe and has no use for it. On Fang Yuan’s order Little Hu Immortal asks only for the gruel mud Immortal Gu recipe, and the Gu Immortals scoff. She says she does not need the complete recipe, and whoever brings the remnant recipe with the highest treasure light gets the mud. A Gu Immortal offers one at about four meters, below Fang Yuan’s standard, so she adds a jin of mud for every further remnant recipe. Plenty of mud cleared from Dang Hun mountain sits in the west of Hu Immortal blessed land, where a swamp is slowly forming. The recipes come in, and the light climbs from four meters to about six, still rising. Immortal essence stones can barely serve as currency there, so most deals are barter. ^{ch. 469}

Fang Yuan leaves through the stargate Gu carrying refinement materials and low rank Gu worms. He steps out at crescent lake near dawn. Snatching Ma Hong Yun’s fortune won him Lang Ya land spirit’s help and the stargate Gu, and connecting heaven Gu has settled his lack of resources, so the whole chessboard is alive once more. He returns to Ge tribe camp with the wolf group and locks himself in the lizard house to refine Gu. A Gu belongs to the region where it is refined, so his central continent materials will make northern plains Gu free of suppression. First comes moving perspective cup Gu, since the rank five set from Hu Immortal blessed land can be used only one more time. ^{ch. 469}

Meanwhile Yan tribe’s nine Gu Masters on hump wolves stop at a mass of footprints from poison beard, wind, turtleback and night wolves, among others. Such a mix of wolves means a Gu Master controls them. Their leader reasons that Ge tribe, forced to migrate, could not feed so large a group, so it likely belongs to a demonic Gu Master. They go on to seek reinforcements from Ge tribe, ready to retreat quietly if Ge tribe is in trouble, or to help encircle the wolves for a cheap favor. ^{ch. 469}