Chapter 817

Fang Yuan decides to feed the silkworm Gu to cleanse soul Immortal Gu. It is starving and weak enough to die if the feeding waits. ^{ch. 817}

Fang Yuan feeds it the silkworm Gu until every piece is gone. It can fly again, though still hungry with nothing left to give. Nearly given up on, cleanse soul Immortal Gu has escaped starvation for now, and Fang Yuan keeps it while trying not to call on it again. ^{ch. 817}

Fang Yuan rushes into an underground cave, where the rank nine wisdom Gu flies around a lingzhi king. Wisdom Gu carries far more intelligence than his other Immortal Gu and can be communicated with, which let Fang Yuan carry it away from Imperial Court blessed land. Seeing him, it lands and lets its light of wisdom cover him. Fang Yuan spends star thought Gu on a deduction attempt, and it succeeds beyond his expectations. ^{ch. 817}

Star thoughts, Fang Yuan judges, are really durable. Roughly, one equals three or four malicious or memory thoughts. They are poor at plotting or memory but extremely useful for deduction, an advantage that grows immense as the thoughts spent on a killer move or Immortal Gu recipe climb from hundreds into the millions. ^{ch. 817}

This inheritance suits Fang Yuan more than any other, since he has always been limited by how many thoughts he holds. He has several things to deduce toward his plans. ^{ch. 817}

The disguise move vaguely familiar face is only partly finished. The Immortal Gu recipe for Blood Deity is barely attempted. A move pairing time luck Immortal Gu with inch of time is abandoned, since he failed it and now holds time assist luck instead. Fusing Pulling Mountain and Pulling Water into myriad self would make that killer move stronger. Modifying airsac Gu and his other refinement recipes would lower the risk and death rate among his hairy men. ^{ch. 817}

Fang Yuan breathes deep and calms his mind. Vaguely familiar face matters most, since the world grows tenser and he needs an immortal-level disguise. The airsac recipes are not urgent, since future expansion will need far more Gu. Blood Deity is only long-term, not truly necessary, since Fang Yuan cultivates strength path now and plans time or wisdom path next. With Hu Immortal blessed land’s calamity approaching, his priority instead becomes fusing pulling mountain Immortal Gu into myriad self. ^{ch. 817}

Fang Yuan shuts his eyes and deduces with concentration as countless star thoughts rumble. Days pass, from an hour to two full days. On the afternoon of the third day he opens his eyes, exhaustion written across his face despite his zombie physique. He has finally fused pulling mountain Immortal Gu into myriad self, raising its power by ten percent, or by at least twenty percent against earth path Gu Immortals or mountains and rocks. ^{ch. 817}

About forty thousand star thought Gu remain of the fifty thousand he started with, this single deduction having used ten thousand. Star thought, memory thought and malicious thought Gu all still need refining and a huge stock. It is not yet time for Hu Immortal blessed land’s calamity. But too little time is left to get anything done on vaguely familiar face. ^{ch. 817}

Fang Yuan returns to Dang Hun palace. There he keeps studying the wisdom path inheritance. It holds hundreds of mortal Gu recipes, over ten Immortal Gu recipes, dozens of mortal killer moves and nearly ten immortal killer moves, plus mind-expansion techniques, astronomy, geography, cultivation’s dangers, blessed-land management, and immortal ascension with its tribulations and calamities. ^{ch. 817}

This inheritance amounts to a Gu Master’s encyclopedia for becoming a Gu Immortal, naming what is easy and hard for growing stronger against enemies. It is not solely the work of its creator, the Heavenly Court’s star path Gu Immortal, since every inheritor added to it across generations. Fang Yuan can trace Central Continent’s and Northern Plains’ ancient history within it. At the end of its section on immortal killer moves, he finds the newest addition of all: the previous owner’s own move, Dong Fang Chang Fan’s Myriad Star Fireflies. ^{ch. 817}