Chapter 815

Fang Yuan shakes his head: the two services are not equivalent, since Landscape as Before is a necessity for Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan while he can face his own earthly calamity alone. Hei Lou Lan, unwelcome in Snowy Mountain blessed land, shelters with him rent-free. Yet she argues back, unabashed. They settle: she will stay, contributing strength qi without compensation and no share of the guts Gu, and will help defend Hu Immortal blessed land during its earthly calamity. ^{ch. 815}

Fairy Li Shan is not anxious to leave once the deal is settled. She stays to discuss immortal materials, wanting to buy from his auction haul. After she obtained Miniscule Mountain, Xue Hu only borrowed it to look, without taking it from her. ^{ch. 815}

Snowy Mountain blessed land’s status rose rapidly once Xue Hu defeated both rank eights. He summoned Fairy Li Shan, citing his protection of Miniscule Mountain from Yao Huang, and gave her many material-collecting missions. Fairy Li Shan’s position is awkward: even with Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s help saving her a huge cost, she is still very heavily injured. ^{ch. 815}

She once had ample savings from mountain pledge Gu, but funding Hei Lou Lan drained her dry. Beyond material goods, she still has one resource: information. A huge network makes her a top tier collector. Fang Yuan’s materials were meant for the Refinement Path Convention, but his surplus is so large that selling some to her costs him nothing. ^{ch. 815}

Fang Yuan agrees to sell. But in return he asks for an immortal killer move he has long wanted, knowing Fairy Li Shan has held it from the start and that used well it would rival mountain pledge Gu. Fairy Li Shan feels extremely bitter, knowing the request was coming, but circumstances are stronger than her wishes, and she gives in. The move, time assist luck, uses time luck Immortal Gu, stealing another’s lifespan to boost one’s own luck temporarily. Fang Yuan had failed to spend inch of time Gu in place of that lifespan, and failed again to deduce a move easing its heavy drain, lacking both thoughts and time path attainment. ^{ch. 815}

He asks where she got it. She says she cannot answer. Her mood is cold, taken advantage of even as she needs his help. ^{ch. 815}

Fang Yuan guesses it traces to Zhou Ye Zi, a secluded Northern Plains lone cultivator who raged when a huge battle of the five regions chaotic war reached him and seized three Gu Immortals. He then refused Northern Plains’ call to fight. But he protected its Gu Immortals with the time path move Fang Yuan knows as Delay. Delay postpones a fatal blow’s effect, giving time to seek help or, in a certain-death case, pass resources to descendants. Delay greatly reduced Northern Plains’ casualties in that war and forced a deadlock, wrecking Central Continent’s plan for a quick conquest. ^{ch. 815}

If it really was Zhou Ye Zi, Fairy Li Shan bought delay from that lone cultivator at a price Fang Yuan cannot guess, and delay is what stalls the damage of her broken alliance agreement. He reflects that many Gu Immortals hide so deeply their cultivation stays unknown, as with the owner of Starry Sky grotto-heaven, revealed only when it was exposed. Fang Yuan knows Northern Plains hides more than five such rank eight Gu Immortals. He thinks too of Purple Mountain True Monarch, who never once showed himself during the chaotic war. ^{ch. 815}

Fairy Li Shan reveals nothing more of Zhou Ye Zi, and the transaction succeeds at a high price. She brings the immortal materials back to Snowy Mountain blessed land, where she will recuperate, resolve the alliance agreement, and study how to raise minimen. Hei Lou Lan stays behind. Fang Yuan flies her to Hu Immortal blessed land’s three stone nests, where a production line method borrowed from Earth splits each Gu worm’s refinement into many secret steps. ^{ch. 815}

The nests produce airsac Gu behind soundproofed walls, blocking accident noise and preventing the hairy men from talking. A hairy man who suffers backlash from failed refinement is lucky just to survive, since the price can be death, mental ruin, or a crippling handicap. Fang Yuan heals the mildly hurt but euthanizes those too badly hurt to treat. ^{ch. 815}