Chapter 491

Fang Yuan inspects the air bubble fish in three lakes that Little Hu Immortal chose and guards herself, under starry clouds thick with star fragment grass and starlight fireflies. The hatchlings are milky white and round bellied, and they swim by bobbing up and down. Barring a big change, a fight between Gu Immortals will poison Eastern Sea’s air bubble sea near the end of the year and greatly raise the fish price, yet he has too few even for his own use. Knowledge from his past life lifts their reproduction rate by thirty percent, and he praises Little Hu Immortal. Dang Hun mountain keeps worsening, its dying aura turning his mood grave. ^{ch. 491}

Linked to treasure yellow heaven through connecting heaven Gu, he finds bids for the gruel mud he offered in exchange for Immortal Gu Gruel Mud’s recipe, a recipe worth many times more than the mud. He picks Immortal Mudfeet, whose remnant recipe shows a sixty-five feet high treasure light, a bit lower than rivals, but who adds hairy men. Fang Yuan needs hairy men to refine the many wolf enslavement Gu whose rank one to rank five recipes he holds from Lang Ya land spirit, who had refused to sell him hairy men. He and Little Hu Immortal alone might not manage the amount in two-three months. ^{ch. 491}

Immortal Mudfeet offers ten thousand hairy men, but Fang Yuan wants old ones, since young ones help little with refining. Immortal Mudfeet, whose blessed land has excess hairy men, sells over three thousand old and over seven thousand young after haggling, and Fang Yuan adds half an immortal essence stone. The remnant recipe holds only sixty percent of its contents, which Immortal Mudfeet has likely tampered with many times, so the real contents must be combed out. It still gives him a foundation to deduce the complete recipe later. He holds Immortal Gu Gruel Mud himself, buried because it cannot yet enter Hu Immortal blessed land, and while he leaves it unused no one can refine that Gu, so he keeps selling the mud. ^{ch. 491}

Needing more myriad beast kings after the huge loss against the three tribes, Fang Yuan spots a wolf emperor on sale. Beast emperors carry rank five wild Gu, fight at rank five and command the myriad beast kings below them. Very few Gu Immortals sell them, since they reflect a blessed land’s strength. His dog emperors Ying Ming and Ba Huang once held off rank five Gu Masters, but he fled and does not know whether they were killed or taken in. This night wolf emperor is old and wounded, with two-three wild Gu left, and Fang Yuan guesses correctly that its owner stepped in before a young emperor could kill it, then put it up for sale. It still draws three bidders, and he buys it for two immortal essence stones along with over eighteen thousand night wolves. ^{ch. 491}

He adds thirty thousand turtleback wolves and ten thousand wind wolves, bringing the group to a hundred thousand. Ma Zun, Yang Po Ying and Jiang Bao Ya hold groups of at least four hundred thousand. Jiang Bao Ya had over six hundred and fifty thousand in his prime. With the heroes assembly near, Fang Yuan must compete with them as Chang Shan Yin, so he buys ten thousand water wolves with one myriad beast king and six thousand wolf kings. Then he settles on rare vermillion flame wolves, which carry flame path Gu worms and can very easily burn the grassland into an inferno, and buys eighty thousand. ^{ch. 491}

He planned a hundred thousand, so Little Hu Immortal receives the task of buying the other twenty thousand. His leaders are six vermillion flame myriad wolf kings, three turtleback ones, two wind wolf ones, a water wolf myriad beast king, a mutated beast white eye wolf and the night wolf beast emperor. He surmises the battle strength has risen tenfold. Common Gu Masters would need a large tribe and six-seven years of searching to reach this stage; his leap seems easy but shows a Gu Immortal’s methods. ^{ch. 491}