Chapter 851

Fang Yuan keeps the severed arm in his immortal aperture and clears his traces. He then spends four days and three nights turning it into Song Zi Xing’s head at Hu Immortal blessed land. He travels to Earth Abyss and calls to Star Form land spirit that he has brought the head, and a starlight door forms. ^{ch. 851}

The wary land spirit checks through a slit that the head is genuine. The door opens fully and the land spirit greets Fang Yuan as master. Fang Yuan walks the starlight path in to find a bowl-shaped terrain ringed by mountains, its sky nearly dark with only a few faint stars. ^{ch. 851}

Hu Immortal blessed land has only days, Star Form only nights, a shift ordinary blessed lands gain only near grotto-heaven status. Fang Yuan placed this blessed land himself. Where the stars once shone bright, they now sit dim, since a land spirit alone cannot produce immortal essence and must struggle to manage a blessed land without a Gu Immortal’s strength. ^{ch. 851}

Fang Yuan has the land spirit guide him at a speed faster than blood rainbow flash to the arrow bamboo forest, the blessed land’s largest plantation, where star cave rocks and dark fragrance mushrooms mark the ground for star dart Gu. Of insects that sleep forty-nine days in a perforated star cave rock fed by bamboo juice, a portion become star dart Gu. The land spirit says the juice has thinned for lack of good watering liquid. Fang Yuan concludes he must buy moon well water in batches. Short on essence stones since Wan Xiang left few, the land spirit has had to prioritize other needs over watering the bamboo. ^{ch. 851}

He also inspects the northern meteorite pits. There, stellar fire Gu is raised and falling meteor Gu produced. Broken star lake at the center rears star river Gu, and fields of star fragment grass grow finer than any at Hu Immortal blessed land. These four areas, plus starlight firefly Gu, were Star Lord Wan Xiang’s main sources of income, while Fang Yuan himself still has only guts Gu and regretful spider to sell, his dragon pythons and dragonfish not yet on the market. ^{ch. 851}

Star Lord Wan Xiang was a rank six lone cultivator, past one tribulation. His standing should not normally have supported such development. His fortuitous encounter was Starry Sky grotto-heaven, whose owner Seven Star Child had turned immortal zombie and fallen into deep slumber inside Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s dream realm. Wan Xiang found the grotto-heaven opened yearly onto a spatial crack to the outside world, and his many visits there let his foundation grow to rival a typical rank six Gu Immortal of the ten great ancient sects, by Shi Lei’s own private judgment. Injured badly by Song Zi Xing and facing an impending tribulation, he risked exploring the grotto-heaven with Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei, and at its eighth hall his soul was destroyed in the dream realm, leaving only his body. Fang Yuan claimed that body and set the blessed land down in Earth Abyss, leaving its land spirit needing a new master. ^{ch. 851}

Four revenue sources will double his financial power, Fang Yuan reckons. He is delighted that inheriting Wan Xiang’s businesses spares him the hard work of breaking into treasure yellow heaven’s market from nothing. Bulk goods like star dart Gu and stellar fire Gu draw fierce competition, and carving out a share risks collusion or price wars, since the Gu Immortal world is cruel enough that a business without the strength to defend it invites plunder. ^{ch. 851}

For this reason he stays very careful with his dragon pythons and dragonfish, planning to enter Western Desert’s market through Xiao clan’s transaction token, though guts Gu, his monopoly, he can sell freely since no one competes for it. Pleased, Fang Yuan has the land spirit show him the blessed land’s Immortal Gu. ^{ch. 851}