Chapter 822

Learning Tai Bai Yun Sheng has returned to Hu Immortal blessed land, Fairy Li Shan rushes there, since Old Ancestor Xue Hu’s presence now bars him from Snowy Mountain. She sighs in relief, though her severe injuries need time to heal. ^{ch. 822}

As she turns to leave, Fang Yuan stops her with a huge proposal. He proposes pooling all four’s wealth to refine an Immortal Gu for star fog concealment, an immortal killer move from Dong Fang Chang Fan’s inheritance that hides its user from heavenly secrets. But the move needs two Immortal Gu as its core, and Fairy Li Shan shakes her head bitterly: refining even one is beyond their means. ^{ch. 822}

Having Tai Bai Yun Sheng restore Miniscule Mountain saved her a huge sum, but her injuries, Xue Hu’s missions and sponsoring Hei Lou Lan leave her finances as stretched as Fang Yuan’s own. He proposes instead that the four pool their wealth for hairy man slaves and raising experience, expand the guts Gu trade, and split the profits. Fairy Li Shan rejects this too: expanding a profitable monopoly would deepen Immortal Crane Sect’s jealousy and risk retaliation against Hu Immortal blessed land. Silent, Fang Yuan concedes she is right. ^{ch. 822}

She returns to Snowy Mountain blessed land. Hei Lou Lan stays to refine airsac Gu for him. Both plans failed, so Fang Yuan turns to Lang Ya land spirit, whose hairy men are the finest he has seen. Lacking immortal essence stones, he offers his wisdom path inheritance, Immortal Gu recipes and a huge quantity of immortal materials for a trade. ^{ch. 822}

The land spirit refuses hairy men. He repeats his one condition: find him the rank six immortal material, poisonous flower petals. Asked if completing that task would earn him hairy man slaves or experience, the land spirit refuses again, but offers a bigger bait instead: every all-out effort Gu recipe up to the rank six Immortal Gu recipe. ^{ch. 822}

The bait genuinely tempts Fang Yuan, though it also angers him a little. The task is dangerous enough to risk his life. The Northern Plains auction, where Fang Yuan profited hugely at the land spirit’s expense, turned their relationship ice cold. ^{ch. 822}

Land spirits, formed from obsession and heavenly power, are stubborn and rarely change a decision once made, so Lang Ya can offer him no further help. His plan failed, Fang Yuan turns his attention back to the blessed land’s calamity. ^{ch. 822}

Two days later, Fang Yuan activates myriad self, his eight strength path hands lifting Dang Hun mountain almost at once. Hei Lou Lan, watching from a stone nest, mutters he has grown stronger again. ^{ch. 822}

Lifting the mountain has grown far easier. He now uses eight hands, and has fully fused pulling mountain Immortal Gu into the move’s core alongside Self Strength. Fang Yuan has Tai Bai Yun Sheng take the mountain into his own immortal aperture, then sends him off to collect resources. ^{ch. 822}

Alone, Fang Yuan sits and mobilizes time luck Immortal Gu. He draws on his aperture’s mortal Gu to cast Time Assist Luck on his Dong Fang tribe captives. It snatches their lifespan for a temporary boost to his luck, leaving every corpse dried out and aged. ^{ch. 822}

The dying curse him as a murderer, and a mass of vengeful remnant spirits bursts from Fang Yuan’s body to attack his soul. His body stands unmoving as his own soul counterattacks these tattered souls, which briefly suppress it before he kills them all at heavy cost. Afterward his soul falls to thirty percent of its size, badly hurt. He crushes airsac Gu, and the guts Gu inside nourish his soul to full recovery. ^{ch. 822}

Fang Yuan reflects that remnant-soul backlash is time assist luck’s greatest weakness. But its refinement of his recovered soul is some advantage. ^{ch. 822}