Chapter 693

In an underground cave lit by wisdom light, Wisdom Gu lies motionless atop a mushroom king. Fang Yuan deduces Immortal Gu recipes there and announces the second is complete. Two eighty percent remnant recipes later he has eleven beads left, and the third should take no more. ^{ch. 693}

Delight in Water and Mountain has been used since Hei Lou Lan’s tribulation yet is still not hungry, while Cleanse Soul, used just as hard, already is. Fang Yuan learns from Mo Yao’s will that she always feeds Delight in Water and Mountain to full rather than only when hungry. Forcing a hungry Immortal Gu to activate can kill it. Cleanse Soul’s hunger means using myriad self again risks destroying it, and losing Delight in Water and Mountain too would hurt his income badly. ^{ch. 693}

Fang Yuan resumes deducing the third recipe. The Demon Venerable true meaning infusion he absorbed helps. Two days later he finishes, obtaining three complete recipes, and sells them to Lang Ya land spirit, clearing his debt with eleven immortal essence stones left as profit. Eight days after that he closes a fifth deal with three more recipes, leaving him thirty six immortal essence stones and twenty seven beads of green grape immortal essence. ^{ch. 693}

Myriad self costs a bead of green grape immortal essence every use, and could drain his finances even in a fight he wins. Gu Immortals cultivating must weigh many things besides victory in battle. ^{ch. 693}

Fang Yuan hurt Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi, but spent more essence than either of them, and went bankrupt while they stayed fine. If they fought again now Fang Yuan would be weaker. Hei Cheng could have gone all out with the rank six Immortal Gu House Dark Prison, but the fight never called for it. ^{ch. 693}

Tai Bai Yun Sheng returns from Snowy Mountain. By then Fang Yuan has completed two more recipes. Tai Bai Yun Sheng talks on about the super grade blessed land he saw, calling Hei Lou Lan the tribulation’s biggest winner. He entered Lou Lan blessed land himself because she had asked him to repair it after her tribulation. ^{ch. 693}

Fang Yuan answers that a super grade blessed land comes from a dangerous survival fight, and asks how many Immortal Gu Hei Lou Lan refined during her ascension. Tai Bai Yun Sheng answers that her immortal aperture came from flying bear strength Immortal Gu, a gift from Giant Sun’s will and now her vital Gu. She also raised her core Gu, self strength Gu, to rank six. She gained a new rank six strength qi Gu too. ^{ch. 693}

Fang Yuan counts Hei Lou Lan’s confirmed Immortal Gu at four: flying bear strength Gu, self strength Gu, strength qi Gu, and slavery Immortal Gu. Divert disaster Gu was destroyed during the tribulation. She once destroyed the flying bear phantom and took its Gu, but Fang Yuan lost contact with it and does not know who holds it now. ^{ch. 693}

Hei Lou Lan’s strength has grown fast. With Fairy Li Shan’s backing, she skipped the hard early stage most new Gu Immortals face. Tai Bai Yun Sheng worries her super grade blessed land will leave his own cultivation speed far behind. The pressure weighs harder on Fang Yuan, whose cultivation stays stagnant as an immortal zombie. ^{ch. 693}

Fang Yuan says their basis to cooperate with Hei Lou Lan holds as long as Hei Cheng lives and Ma Hong Yun’s matter stays unresolved. He warns Tai Bai Yun Sheng to be careful in eastern sea. Tai Bai Yun Sheng rests two days at Hu Immortal blessed land. Then he sets off, bound by the death sentence awaits Immortal Gu and his promise to help Shark Demon explore Yu Lu blessed land. ^{ch. 693}

Fang Yuan stays behind. After a sixth deal he holds more than sixty immortal essence stones. Woman’s Heart and Connect Luck are hungry too, which with Cleanse Soul makes three Gu to feed. Cleanse Soul needs ten thousand white lotus giant silkworm Gu, Connect Luck needs five thousand kilograms of sand from a worldly sand gull’s resting area, and Woman’s Heart needs women’s hearts. He has no idea how to get the first two, so he settles the easiest first. ^{ch. 693}

In western desert, a large caravan crosses the sand dunes. A gruesome monster appears in its path: six meters tall, with eight arms and blood red eyes. Mo Yan, the caravan’s rank five leader, nervously asks who he is. Fang Yuan laughs, unafraid of the Mo clan name, and rushes into the caravan. The slaughter that follows goes quiet only after a while. ^{ch. 693}