Chapter 655

Fang Yuan works under the light of wisdom to deduce the gruel mud Immortal Gu’s recipe, a harder task since one set of materials can number thousands. His wills drain at a shocking pace. Days of accumulated wills are spent in a dozen breaths, advancing the deduction by less than a tenth of one percent, progress he judges would take at least half a year without the light. He is not satisfied. ^{ch. 655}

His plan was to deduce and sell Immortal Gu recipes this way, but mortal Gu produce too little will, already pushed toward damage. He decides instead to try the rank six Immortal Gu, Delight in Water and Mountain, spending one bead of green grape immortal essence to activate it. It floats above him, pouring brilliant light into his mind like a river. ^{ch. 655}

The joyful will it produces fills a third of his mind before stopping, on a scale far past the puddle a rank five mortal wisdom path Gu manages. Special will appears in his mind as golden sand, joyful will as bright yellow. Fang Yuan reasons that three activations would fill his mind completely. Strength path Gu shapes the body; wisdom path Gu shapes the mind. ^{ch. 655}

Fang Yuan enters the light of wisdom again. He tests countless materials and Gu worm groupings at speed. He leaves only once the joyful will is spent. He is certain barely a dozen breaths have passed when in truth seven minutes have gone by, returning at once to his slow zombie self. The gruel mud recipe’s deduction has advanced by one percent, huge progress compared to before. ^{ch. 655}

Fang Yuan leaves the cave for Dang Hun Mountain’s palace, where Tai Bai Yun Sheng waits after inspecting the western part of Hu Immortal blessed land. He had already obtained a lifespan Gu from Fang Yuan. With his own lifespan now limited he dares not approach wisdom Gu closely. ^{ch. 655}

Fang Yuan tells him mortal Gu proved inefficient. Delight in Water and Mountain, though, advanced the recipe’s deduction by one percent. Excited, Tai Bai Yun Sheng reasons that a hundred such uses could complete a whole recipe, sellable in treasure yellow heaven for endless profit. ^{ch. 655}

These days Tai Bai Yun Sheng has worried over cultivation resources. A Gu Immortal must nurture an immortal aperture to produce essence faster. ^{ch. 655}

Fang Yuan is satisfied that sending him to inspect the blessed land taught him this lesson. But selling Immortal Gu recipes is still out of reach, since deducing a rank six recipe from nothing would cost over a hundred beads of green grape immortal essence. That is too great an investment for them now. ^{ch. 655}

Tai Bai Yun Sheng notes he already deduced one percent. Fang Yuan clarifies that this was the gruel mud Immortal Gu’s remnant recipe, already sixty percent complete from his earlier trading, not one built from nothing. With wisdom Gu, no problem resists him for long, and a recipe grows easier to deduce as it nears completion. A sixty percent remnant already rules out many elements, which is why progress came so readily; from zero he would not even reach one percent. ^{ch. 655}

Fang Yuan counts what they hold: eighteen beads of green grape immortal essence for himself, twenty-six for Tai Bai Yun Sheng, and only sixty-four beads of Bai Hu’s essence in all of Hu Immortal blessed land. Tai Bai Yun Sheng and the land spirit cannot share his wisdom light halo, so lending Delight in Water and Mountain to him would not help Fang Yuan directly. Their best lead still needs about forty beads to finish. ^{ch. 655}

Fang Yuan reminds him that northern plains’ Gu Immortals and Immortal Crane Sect are hunting them, and that every Gu Immortal in the five regions would move against them with killing intent if wisdom Gu were exposed. Tai Bai Yun Sheng agrees some green grape immortal essence must stay in reserve. He looks to the ground, disappointed. ^{ch. 655}

Tai Bai Yun Sheng then remembers that Lang Ya land spirit, misled when Fang Yuan claimed to have deduced Eighty-Eight True Yang Building’s secret, believes him a wisdom path Gu Master eager to cooperate on Gu recipes. He proposes they work with it instead. Fang Yuan feigns sudden realization, agrees his sixty percent gruel mud recipe is his best remnant so far, and guesses Lang Ya land spirit likely holds recipes with far higher completion. Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughs, delighted with the plan. ^{ch. 655}