Chapter 667

Fang Yuan approaches under a new name, Eight Arm Immortal, having changed his divine sense Gu and connecting heaven Gu so Star Lord Wan Xiang no longer recognizes him as the former Fox Immortal. The seller’s will quotes four immortal essence stones for the entire group of over twelve hundred starlight firefly Gu, calling the worm a nearly extinct antiquity. Fang Yuan calls the price a scam, since he already knows the market rate, and threatens to buy from Fairy Yao Guang or Di Yuan instead. The will backs off, claiming it was only a joke. After further bargaining the two settle on three immortal essence stones for the twelve hundred starlight firefly Gu. ^{ch. 667}

Fang Yuan then asks whether Star Lord Wan Xiang sells star path killer moves, and is shown three. Dazzling star armor is a defensive move forming a shining full body armor, priced at half an immortal essence stone. Spring star rain drizzles a nutrient rich rain for three days and nights that raises crop yield, priced at one and a half stones since the seller’s main body created it himself. Spiral drill star spear is an offensive move priced at one stone. Each is described only in vague terms, with no exact counts or activation order, and its full detail is revealed only after purchase. ^{ch. 667}

Fang Yuan already knows dazzling star armor as extremely common and judges half a stone too expensive for it. He had hoped instead for icy stardust, a wide ranged mortal move whose frost still slows an enemy even when it fails to break their defense, but Star Lord Wan Xiang does not offer it. He has never heard of spiral drill star spear, which tells him it fell out of use long ago. A move out of use that long definitely carries many weaknesses. ^{ch. 667}

Spring star rain catches Fang Yuan’s interest instead. It feeds the star fragment grass that starlight fireflies need, and his demand for starlight firefly Gu will only continue. Looking closer, he notices one component, star shoot Gu, a consumable he has never heard of before. He works out Star Lord Wan Xiang’s ploy: since only Star Lord Wan Xiang sells star shoot Gu, every future use of spring star rain would force a buyer back to him. ^{ch. 667}

Fang Yuan offers two immortal essence stones for spring star rain and the star shoot Gu recipe, but the seller refuses, insisting the Gu forms naturally in his Myriad Star blessed land with no recipe to sell. Fang Yuan suspects an excuse. A well managed blessed land can birth new Gu on its own, but he has no way to enter and check. He offers instead two stones for spring star rain and dazzling star armor together with ten activations worth of star shoot Gu, and the seller refuses this too, calling it a loss. Neither side yields on dazzling star armor’s price, and Fang Yuan reads the move as not yet spread before the coming war. In war battle merits and sect contribution points replace immortal essence stones as currency and lift the economy. Fang Yuan stops pressing and buys spring star rain alone for two immortal essence stones, with enough star shoot Gu for ten activations. ^{ch. 667}

Continuing to search treasure yellow heaven, Fang Yuan finds air bubble fish priced at least ten times higher than before, since two Gu Immortals fought above air bubble sea last year and poisoned it into a death zone. He expects the fish to grow even more sought after once the five regions war arrives, since a group of them boosts the rate at which mortal Gu appear within insect groups. Regional walls isolate the five regions, so their events barely cross. Since his rebirth he has disrupted northern plains most, central continent next, and southern border least, while western desert and eastern sea remain unaffected. Using Spring Autumn Cicada, he has come to understand the river of time’s own inertia together with its butterfly effect, deepening his grasp of this world’s law of time. ^{ch. 667}