Chapter 671

Half a month later, Fang Yuan returns to Lang Ya blessed land, restored to its former state by Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s repairs. Lang Ya land spirit still carries fifteen of his original eighteen qi path seal layers, three removed with Inkman King’s help. Fang Yuan lends him a rank four east window Gu holding three Immortal Gu recipes, all completely deduced. Lang Ya land spirit pays thirty immortal essence stones for them. Deducing the recipes cost Fang Yuan six green grape immortal essence beads, and the profit is still immense. ^{ch. 671}

Inkman King suggests trading goods instead of essence stones. Fang Yuan asks for three small swamp Gu and six pine island Gu. Lang Ya land spirit explains both are olden antiquity Gu. Small swamp Gu turns terrain into swamp, and pine island Gu grows a floating island held together by one huge tree’s roots. He keeps up to a hundred of these Gu from past refinements. The materials to refine more are now extinct, and neither Gu is sold in treasure yellow heaven. Fang Yuan pays one immortal essence stone and receives three small swamp Gu with six pine island Gu. ^{ch. 671}

Fang Yuan then asks how the land spirit feeds so many collected Gu. Mortal Gu can simply hibernate and go unfed, but a hibernating Immortal Gu still needs half its normal food. Eighty-Eight True Yang Building’s true inheritance secluded domain cuts that cost greatly, and Lang Ya land spirit credits Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s food path methods for the resources its Immortal Gu still take. Food path is a secretive path devoted to feeding Gu worms, wild beasts, variant humans and even humans. Lang Ya land spirit’s main body Long Hair Ancestor swore with Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to keep those methods secret, and the land spirit does not know them either. Fang Yuan accepts this, since land spirits never lie. ^{ch. 671}

Fang Yuan then shows a star shoot Gu, a rank three star path Gu, asking for its recipe reverse refined. Lang Ya land spirit judges the Gu tampered with and says recreating it needs at least a refinement grandmaster. Fang Yuan reveals he holds over five thousand star shoot Gu, needed for the killer move spring star rain and already found very effective. The land spirit will reverse refine it at that quantity, but he remains sealed. Removing his remaining fifteen seal layers will take at least a year, since the seal is definitely an immortal killer move that hardens the more of it is undone. Inkman King suggests having other refinement masters work under the land spirit’s direction instead, but the land spirit rejects this, since a refinement grandmaster’s work needs wisdom, cultivation, talent and huge amounts of practice that no group of masters can substitute. Fang Yuan agrees to wait and leaves through the stargate; the land spirit still demands three immortal essence stones for the work once he is unsealed. ^{ch. 671}

Back at Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan uses the small swamp Gu and pine island Gu, his last missing pieces, to seal Spring Autumn Cicada. He spends seven days planting Gu on his stomach and first aperture. Their linked effects ease the cicada’s pressure on his first aperture, vent its modified aura outward, and still let it activate. The seal holds for four years, resolving the bursting risk for now. Sealing an Immortal Gu with mortal Gu takes a toll: his soul, already exhausted, fades slightly. Fang Yuan then sleeps for three days. ^{ch. 671}