Chapter 810

Fang Yuan asks the land spirit about the Dong Fang tribe Gu Master captives; he killed Dong Fang Qing Yu and many others but still holds about one to two hundred survivors. She has set up an underground prison, and asks whether to sell them. Forcing them to refine Gu would risk sabotage, so Fang Yuan instead orders their mortal Gu stripped and the captives fed a little daily like pets. He has other uses for them. ^{ch. 810}

Asked his stock of immortal essence stones, she answers one hundred and thirty-seven. Little Hu Immortal has also bought two or three fox groups from treasure yellow heaven. ^{ch. 810}

He sets aside twenty stones for emergencies and seventy for green grape immortal essence. The battles for the wisdom path inheritance completely spent his seventy-seven beads. He gives the rest to Little Hu Immortal for star thought Gu materials. Oil water and air bubble fish cannot be sold, and the literature carps are too few yet for a buyer, but the eerie fire dragon pythons, regretful spiders and dragonfish are plentiful enough for businesses. ^{ch. 810}

These three arrived at a good time. The guts Gu trade, his only revenue, was limited, and he still could not progress or dare to refine Immortal Gu. Plundering a super force as deep-founded as Dong Fang tribe had already broadened his prospects. ^{ch. 810}

Fang Yuan considers soul searching Chang Fan for the tribe’s business secrets. Everyone guards their own tricks, and Chang Fan, as first supreme elder, surely knows them. ^{ch. 810}

A fourth search yields Chang Fan’s possession technique, both his original version and his own modification, plus a method of extracting same-bloodline Gu Immortals’ origin cores to advance at once. Fang Yuan weighs reviving through it, wondering if his little brother still lives. But the technique’s calamity would be terrifying, and success would cost his new body its second aperture, whose enormous value he is not ready to give up. ^{ch. 810}

Seeing him moved, Chang Fan’s soul breaks its silence: the technique suits an immortal zombie whose cultivation has stalled, and he claims he can improve it to hide from heaven, letting Fang Yuan possess a mortal to lessen heaven’s anger. Using it raw is suicide, he admits, offering himself as proof. But his own experience, he claims, can definitely improve it, and he presses that cooperation benefits them both while division only harms. ^{ch. 810}

Fang Yuan answers that he mistook the silence for surrender. Chang Fan calls them the same kind. Fang Yuan turns this against him: precisely because they are alike, he cannot let Chang Fan live, and will destroy the soul completely once he extracts its value. Stupefied at his killing intent, Chang Fan’s soul still forces a laugh, insisting Fang Yuan is already interested. ^{ch. 810}

Fang Yuan agrees he is. Chang Fan holds master level attainment in blood path and phantom path and grandmaster in wisdom path, a gap too wide for Fang Yuan to close even with the inheritance in hand. ^{ch. 810}

Attainment in using Gu runs through five levels. They are ordinary, master, grandmaster, great grandmaster and supreme grandmaster. Master is use of Gu risen to an art, reached through abundant talent or long accumulation. Grandmaster is a very profound grasp of one’s own path. Chang Fan held wisdom path grandmaster, flying quasi-grandmaster, and master in space, soul, enslavement and blood path. Fang Yuan held blood and strength path grandmaster, refinement and flying quasi-grandmaster, enslavement and transformation path master, only ordinary in soul, space, time and dream path, and had not even touched phantom path. ^{ch. 810}

Fang Yuan’s attainments fall short of improving the possession technique. Chang Fan specialized in exactly that. Soul searching yields only memories, never attainment, which is a person’s own experience condensed, and for now only a successful dream realm exploration can take it. Fang Yuan knows cooperating could bring extraordinary benefit, but fears betrayal more. He is the true culprit behind Eighty-Eight True Yang Building’s collapse, and that secret in Chang Fan’s hands could get Fang Yuan killed. ^{ch. 810}