Chapter 871

At Snowy Mountain blessed land in Northern Plains, a rainbow carries another order from Old Ancestor Xue Hu to the third peak. Inside it, Fairy Li Shan looks into her immortal aperture: warm and lush, its precious materials thick around Miniscule Mountain, a secluded domain small enough to pass for a mound. Minimen work it for her. When she first took it they resisted, so she installed a puppet leader and killed forty percent of the tribe before it submitted. She then moved Miniscule Mountain into her own aperture, and its wood path resources have grown fast since, tended by minimen born with wood path dao marks and an inherited gift for plants. ^{ch. 871}

Her rank seven jade yin grass, once wilting, filled a miniature field after half a year with the minimen, though the earlier battle had halved their number; at full strength her pressure now would be halved. Two information path Gu letters arrive at once. One comes from outside, the other from within her own blessed land. Old Ancestor Xue Hu orders her to gather three materials: concealing heaven dust, rank eight, and rock dragon eye and elephant tusk flame, both rank seven. ^{ch. 871}

Elephant tusk flame is a pea-sized fire that burns briefly in a dead ancient desolate beast elephant’s tusk and goes out on contact with air. It is rare even in treasure yellow heaven, because a tusk does not produce the flame every time. Concealing heaven dust comes only from yellow heaven, destroyed by Ren Zu’s children. Gathering it would take a large fragment world and great trouble, so she would rather pay dearly to buy it in treasure yellow heaven. ^{ch. 871}

Rock dragon eye is harder still: the eye of an ancient desolate beast rock dragon, born when lightning strikes buried rockman corpses, its body rock like the rockmen who revere it as their ancestor reborn. It was once among the finest war beasts of the Immemorial Antiquity Era and the Remote Antiquity Era, when variant humans ruled and true humans were scarce. Rockman tribes are now rare and mostly enslaved, so rock dragons are extremely hard to find. Even if found, Fairy Li Shan’s own strength could not defeat one. So the rank seven rock dragon eye is harder to obtain than the rank eight concealing heaven dust. Only the elephant tusk flame seems easy; the rest depend on luck as well as strength. Her wealth now piles up twice as fast, thanks to her minimen investment and Hei Lou Lan’s push for independence ending her funding requests. ^{ch. 871}

The second letter is from Fang Yuan, who promises great benefits for help killing an immortal zombie of Northern Plains Zombie Alliance. She paces, then sneers. Fang Yuan once disguised himself as Sha Huang to join the Alliance, and now wants help killing one of its own members, so he must have a motive. She notes he has grown rich from Dong Fang tribe’s resources and Dong Fang Chang Fan’s wisdom path inheritance. With Central Continent’s investigation team still hiding, she guesses he wants another zombie’s contribution points and the Alliance’s revival research. ^{ch. 871}

At Central Continent’s Heavenly Court, four Gu Immortals surround the rank nine Immortal Gu House, Heaven Overseeing Tower. Its old Lord declares the Recovery of Fate begun. Countless Gu worms burst out to form a giant formation. Bai Cang Shui, present for the first time, is shocked: this refinement path formation stands one step from a rank eight Immortal Gu House. Lian Jiu Sheng throws a huge quantity of rock dragon eyes into it, which breaks them down and fuses them within moments. ^{ch. 871}

Back at Hu Immortal blessed land’s Dang Hun palace, Fang Yuan crushes an information path Gu worm. He has been rejected. Another Gu worm then appears in his aperture. Wondering if Fairy Li Shan has changed her mind, he checks it, and finds instead a request for reinforcements from Lang Ya land spirit. ^{ch. 871}