Chapter 633

Fang Yuan is too busy fleeing the formless hands to shatter any more formless fists. Hei Lou Lan appears in front of him demanding his Gu back, and Fang Yuan sneers and activates wind flower Gu to swerve past him without losing speed. Hei Lou Lan is delighted, thinking his luck has finally turned. It is a trap: Hei Lou Lan has laid one time expenditure Gu as dark vortexes across the area to catch enemies. ^{ch. 633}

Fang Yuan’s speed collapses as he senses he has fallen into one, with the formless hands less than a hundred steps away. He escapes with flash bug Gu, teleporting five hundred steps off. Within a few breaths he falls into a second dark vortex, and then a third soon after that. True inheritance secluded domain is naturally dark, so these vortexes stay hidden until someone blunders in, and then they pull like a swamp or quicksand. Hei Lou Lan shouts that he has laid countless traps across the surrounding hundred li, and Fang Yuan, furious, forces himself free with Six Arm Heavenly Zombie King and charges straight at him. ^{ch. 633}

Hei Lou Lan is not afraid of Fang Yuan attacking him. He is only afraid Fang Yuan will keep fleeing and never give him a real fight, and new hatred layers over old between them. But before they can clash, Hei Lou Lan suddenly reverses and flees, and Fang Yuan retreats just as fast. A group of at least five to six hundred formless hands sweeps down, dyeing the sky blue, and splits to chase both men. Fang Yuan cannot dare fly into such a mass and can only race forward with them closing behind him. ^{ch. 633}

Ye Lui Sang, guarding a fire path Immortal Gu alongside three other Gu Masters, cries out in panic as Fang Yuan flies straight toward his group with the hand swarm in tow. Fang Yuan seals their best escape routes with long range attacks and slows them before angling away and continuing on. Within a few breaths every Gu worm is stripped from Ye Lui Sang’s group, leaving them with primeval essence and nothing left to spend it on. Ye Lui tribe’s supreme tribe elder Ye Lui Lai had lent him the fire path Immortal Gu to help him win the Imperial Court contest. Ye Lui Sang had already lost, but bore the disgrace of siding with Hei Lou Lan just to keep the Gu. Now the disaster Fang Yuan steered his way has taken it from him entirely. ^{ch. 633}

Fang Yuan sees the pursuing swarm thin out. He realizes he can shed it entirely by drawing the hands onto others, an option his flying master attainment gives him that most lack. He spots Ma Hong Yun, whom luck path supreme true inheritance is shielding along with Zhao Lian Yun while it dodges a smaller group of hands, and flies straight for it. The true inheritance senses a greater threat and swerves, but Fang Yuan closes the distance regardless, while Ma Hong Yun begs to be let go and Zhao Lian Yun shivers in fear. Fang Yuan stays unmoved and arcs beside it, and the whole pursuing swarm is drawn to the true inheritance’s aura instead. ^{ch. 633}

With his immortal aperture nearly finished forming, Fang Yuan starts seizing the exposed luck path Gu worms as formless fists fly free, taking more than ten before he circles away satisfied he cannot catch them all. He then spots a six fingered formless fist, which signals a rank six luck path Immortal Gu inside it, and chases it down as Six Arm Heavenly Zombie King, smashing it open and grabbing the Gu with a laugh. In that instant of happiness his guard slips. A six fingered formless hand grabs him in turn, and his mind goes blank until it releases him two breaths later. He flees to find fifty to sixty formless hands crashing into each other at the spot he had just left. ^{ch. 633}

Checking himself, Fang Yuan finds the Gu that was taken from him was not any Immortal Gu he had won, nor Spring Autumn Cicada, but Fixed Immortal Travel, his primary way to return to Hu Immortal blessed land. He curses the loss. He stores the luck path Immortal Gu away and sets off after the six fingered fist that carries Fixed Immortal Travel. Fortunately, his immortal aperture finishes stabilizing during the chase, and Fang Yuan’s dangerous bid to advance succeeds: he becomes a true strength path Gu Immortal. ^{ch. 633}

His strength path immortal aperture spans about three thousand five hundred square kilometers, its sky orange yellow above lofty, bare white stone mountains, and an invisible tributary of the river of time flows into it at a ratio of one day outside to sixteen inside. Most important of all, it holds twenty two green grape immortal essence beads. Fang Yuan sighs that this makes it a medium grade blessed land. A small blessed land tops out at two thousand square kilometers, draws only a small tributary, yields over ten essence beads, and is poor in resources. A medium one runs from two thousand to four thousand square kilometers, with a bigger tributary, over twenty beads, and plentiful resources. A high grade one spans four thousand to six thousand square kilometers, with a large tributary, over thirty beads, and enough leftover heaven and earth qi to refine a mortal Gu into an Immortal Gu in a burst of inspiration. ^{ch. 633}

Tai Bai Yun Sheng refined two Immortal Gu on his own ascension, marking his blessed land as high grade, while Fang Yuan’s own is only medium. Fang Yuan reasons he likely carries more human qi than Tai Bai Yun Sheng did, but that Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s human qi Gu let his own human qi greatly surpass Fang Yuan’s in the end. But the protection of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and Giant Sun’s will cut both ways, since it isolated most heaven and earth qi outside and let only a small part seep in for him to absorb. Giant Sun’s will had only helped him out of helplessness. It would never willingly let in more qi that could give him greater potential. Spring Autumn Cicada is the other factor, since it drinks the tributary’s water and cuts off the aperture’s own nourishment, which is why his time ratio of one to sixteen sits below the ordinary standard. ^{ch. 633}