Chapter 668

Fang Yuan holds very few air bubble fish at Hu Immortal blessed land. He had sold off most of an earlier batch at a loss when funds ran short on his northern plains trip. He plans to buy and even breed a large group later, once air bubble sea recovers and prices fall, for future profit, though the need is not urgent. ^{ch. 668}

Fang Yuan finds his next target, Little Immortal Xing Luo. Her divine sense answers eagerly, her goods few and common, a clear sign of poverty. From memory Fang Yuan knows her as a lone cultivator at the hardest stretch of building a trade, unnoticed among Gu Immortals though mortals revere her. He recalls that during the five regions war she will use her killer move icy stardust to build wealth quickly and become a famous figure. The three venerables prophesied that the five regions war starts the great era in which this generation’s Great Dream Immortal Venerable is born. In his previous life Fang Yuan rose among the new Gu Immortals of that era. ^{ch. 668}

Fang Yuan asks if she sells killer moves. She offers icy yarn, an ice path move obtained by chance, priced at half an immortal essence stone, the lowest a rank five killer move can go. Fang Yuan objects that its wide area defense is weaker than a single target one and needs many rank five Gu at once, and Little Immortal Xing Luo privately admits he has named the exact reason it is hard to sell. ^{ch. 668}

She has no choice but to keep trying, since she is a lone cultivator needing great resources to start her cultivation. Left penniless after her tribulation, with most of her Gu worms destroyed, she has planned to plant shiver trees in her blessed land but lacks the startup fund, holding billions of primeval stones and not one immortal essence stone. Hearing Fang Yuan’s criticism, her hope drains away. ^{ch. 668}

Fang Yuan then offers to buy icy yarn at half a stone if she adds some innovative small move, reviving her hope. She offers her own creation, six-nine stardust, which uses six rank three Gu and nine rank four Gu to unleash a rank five Gu’s attack power, warning it may be useless to him. Fang Yuan judges it barely acceptable, possibly worth some inspiration, and pays the half stone as a favor to a newcomer. Little Immortal Xing Luo is overjoyed, finally short only half a stone of her goal. She wishes him well as they part. ^{ch. 668}

Fang Yuan spends two more stones on Gu refinement material and mortal Gu worms. He spends two more on elderly hairy men, the costliest of slaves but experienced in Gu refinement. He means to have them refine stargate Gu for him, since the Gu’s success rate is low even for Lang Ya land spirit, and doing the work himself would waste his time. ^{ch. 668}

In central continent, at Immortal Crane Sect’s own Fu Hu blessed land, Fang Zheng enters a tunnel. Elite rockman guards, at least rank four and skilled in earth path, stand every hundred steps. Every thousand steps stands a huge rockman at least three times normal size, radiating rank five Gu Master aura. Fang Zheng mutters to the spirit incubating flea about Immortal Crane Sect’s strength. If these rockmen were shown outside, every other sect would be shocked. ^{ch. 668}

Lord Sky Crane, inside the flea, disagrees. He names the current owner of Fu Hu blessed land as the sect’s third supreme elder, Lord Tiger Demon, whose rockman slaves are the best in central continent and whose influence reaches even treasure yellow heaven. Fang Zheng notes that rank five is nothing rare here, with at least thirty huge rockmen in this one tunnel. Lord Sky Crane answers that a rockman cannot match the sect’s own rank five Gu Masters one on one and shows its worth only in group battle. ^{ch. 668}

Lord Sky Crane adds that these rockmen are simply stupid, owing their accomplishments only to a rich master, and announces that they have reached the blood pool. The words strike Fang Zheng, whose muscles contract involuntarily. He pushes open the door before him and enters a cave. ^{ch. 668}