Chapter 561

Fang Yuan asks why a mysterious Gu Immortal would take an enormous risk by tampering with Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s arrangement to set up an inheritance. He concludes that the inheritance required such an arrangement. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable passed away countless years ago, so a grudge is close to impossible and only benefit remains. From Lang Ya land spirit’s information, Fang Yuan recalls how Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was made. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable asked Long Hair Ancestor for an everlasting inheritance treasure, and Long Hair Ancestor divided the Immortal Gu house into countless sub-bodies, the small towers. ^{ch. 561}

The towers attracted wild Gu worms for ten years, then sank, sacrificing the wild Gu inside and resonating with the blizzard to form heavenly power that condensed into a floor. Layers of floors became the complete building. Its refinement was not a complete success. A truly complete building would stand forever, and Long Hair Ancestor said it would then be a rank nine Immortal Gu house, which had never existed. The Gu of legend, such as strength Gu, wisdom Gu and fate Gu, are rank nine and long vanished. Fearing an Immortal Venerable’s might, Long Hair Ancestor agreed anyway and devised a rank nine house that could exist only briefly, so the building ended at rank eight. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, displeased at first, praised it after inspecting it as holding the secret of a mortal becoming a Gu Immortal. ^{ch. 561}

A mortal must cross the hurdle of three elements: heaven, earth and man. The Imperial Court contest spread the element of man, the ten year blizzard was heaven, and the sinking towers borrowed the blessed land’s element of earth. The building they formed plundered northern plains’ resources and gave rise to Huang Jin family’s super tribes. ^{ch. 561}

Fang Yuan realizes that the Gu Immortal who set up Di Qiu inheritance broke one of the small towers and made a hole. Every ten years, as the main body forms, heavenly power should first flow back to repair the gaps in the towers. Yet the tower over Di Qiu inheritance has gone unrepaired for many years, and the Gu Immortal used some method to seal the gap and deceive the building. The aim was to use the heavenly power condensing into the building. Fang Yuan takes the secret phrase to be a Gu refinement method, which he had guessed before and is now much more confident of. ^{ch. 561}

Hei Lou Lan’s group is defeated by the golden-white tiger phantom and sent out of the tower. Fang Yuan uses the glass owner token to leave as well, so as not to attract suspicion. The group emerges battered, having pushed forward over ten rounds, and Hei Lou Lan and the others eye Fang Yuan with probing and doubt. Hei Lou Lan pats Fang Yuan’s shoulder and, calling him Wolf King, names him first in contribution before ordering a three day banquet. Fang Yuan declines, saying he needs closed cultivation to consolidate what he gained. Hei Lou Lan’s smile freezes before he calls it no problem, and Fang Yuan goes back to study Di Qiu inheritance. ^{ch. 561}

Six days later, Fang Yuan has fully solved the secret of Di Qiu inheritance. The cipher is a recipe for refining an Immortal Gu with the power that would condense into the building. Even a mortal Gu Master can succeed by following the phrase step by step, since the strength is the building’s. What the Immortal Gu is, Fang Yuan does not know. ^{ch. 561}

He judges that the Gu Immortal very likely comes from central continent. He estimates the inheritance to be a chain, of which he obtained only a part. Central continent Gu Immortals in his past life planned to use this loophole, so they should have found the preceding clues. They should not have known the latter part Fang Yuan holds, or they would not have wasted a chance at an Immortal Gu. Without those clues the phrase is extremely incomprehensible, and only the building’s intel and his previous life’s memories let him understand it. ^{ch. 561}