Chapter 758

Several more luck path Immortal Gu appear, among them break luck Immortal Gu, the one Fang Yuan wants. Each seller wants a mainstream path Immortal Gu in trade. That is a weakness Fang Yuan cannot cover, so he cannot even join the bidding. This round leaves him no chance, missing break luck Immortal Gu, which would have worked with his own connect luck Immortal Gu, by a hair. ^{ch. 758}

A rank seven luck path Immortal Gu comes up next, Calamity Beckoning. It is rare in an auction stocked mostly with rank six Gu. Interest fades once the hall learns its use, taking on another’s tribulation by harming oneself, though large forces sometimes need it. Fang Yuan asks a rank seven strength path Immortal Gu for it, then allows a rank seven time path one, but nobody responds. Feng Jiu Ge, suspecting the tenth secret room owns it, asks to speak with the seller directly; Fang Yuan refuses, snorting that Fairy You Lan has finally lost patience. Calamity Beckoning goes unsold, with a second chance still ahead in the open transaction. ^{ch. 758}

Time passes, and more Immortal Gu sell. Anticipation builds toward the auction’s centerpiece, the luck path true inheritance’s essence. Before that, Qin Bai Sheng announces delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu, wisdom path and rank six, the seller wanting a rank six strength path Immortal Gu, ideally defensive. Fang Yuan again asks only for strength path, naming nothing of his immortal zombie body, his method to regain life, or white lotus giant silkworm Gu, since combining any with a strength path request would make his clues too obvious. ^{ch. 758}

The condition is much lighter than Calamity Beckoning’s, and Gu Immortals bid: wisdom path stays stable while strength path declines. Fang Yuan waits, unmoving, for Swordmaster You Lan to bid. She enters with eat strength Immortal Gu, both strength and food path, letting its user grow strength path dao marks naturally by eating beast meat or plants tied to that path, marks that fully fit the user’s own body. Food path has almost vanished, worse off even than declining strength path, known now mainly for nurturing Gu. ^{ch. 758}

Feng Jiu Ge had requested this Gu from Prince Feng Xian earlier, anticipating Fang Yuan’s demand, though among strength path Gu he personally holds only Pulling Mountain and Pulling Water. Prince Feng Xian had broken a formless hand that flew to his grotto-heaven when Eighty-Eight True Yang Building collapsed, captured eat strength Immortal Gu from it, and sent the Gu secretly to his fellow sect member Feng Jiu Ge, having little use for it. Chu Du offers another strength path Gu plus materials for it, promising not to interfere with the bidding for delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu. Feng Jiu Ge refuses, confident that whoever wants strength path so badly in the tenth secret room will want eat strength Immortal Gu even more. He is right: Fang Yuan is overjoyed, the Gu too suitable for him. ^{ch. 758}

A Gu Immortal’s cultivation grows through tribulations undergone in their immortal aperture. Each tribulation adds dao marks of their own path, and more dao marks mean stronger resonance with a matching Immortal Gu. Fang Yuan’s water path Worldly Wave Trace conflicts with his own dao marks and unleashes only sixty to seventy percent of its power. A strength path Gu like Pulling Mountain or Pulling Water resonates with his body instead, letting him unleash even a hundred and thirty percent and deepening his grasp of strength path toward a future breakthrough. ^{ch. 758}

Fang Yuan’s greatest problem is that he is an immortal zombie. His dead aperture faces no tribulations, a mercy it could not otherwise survive, but it also means no new dao marks and a stalled cultivation. Beast strength Gu like iron crown eagle strength Gu can carve some on regardless, though poorly suited to a human body, two or three together yielding less than a single earthly calamity. Only all-out effort Gu would let carved dao marks resonate fully, but Fang Yuan’s own copy is rank four, and the recipe to refine it into an Immortal Gu has been lost to history. His hope now rests on Lang Ya land spirit, whose blessed land holds thousands of recipes that might include it. ^{ch. 758}