Chapter 930

Fang Yuan’s fourth attempt at refining star thought Immortal Gu fails. It does not even reach one-third completion. This is a secret room inside Northern Plains Zombie Alliance, where he has been given enough immortal materials for each attempt. The failures have left him owing Blazing Heaven Demoness a huge amount. Time assist luck has done little each time, and he has no suitable Connect Luck target. The surface effort of refining Gu has gone on long enough, and it is time to move toward the inheritance deep in Earth Trench. ^{ch. 930}

He cannot rush straight there, since that would expose his intent. So he keeps refining Gu openly, while two rank six immortal zombies watch him closely. Blazing Heaven Demoness ordered them to guard him against his debt, and their agreement bound both sides with information path methods and immortal killer moves. Even so, a cultivator as cautious as she is might still suspect he has found a way around it. His previous life gave him ways to break that restriction. But he lacks the Immortal Gu those methods need. He genuinely wants to refine star thought Immortal Gu too, so his cooperation with Blazing Heaven Demoness is sincere, even as he now wants the inheritance more. ^{ch. 930}

Dark Flow Giant City has reopened, and its morale is rising. Blazing Heaven Demoness is attacking Old Ancestor Xue Hu’s greatest weakness rather than the man himself, the fortune rivalling heaven Gu that almost all Northern Plains Gu Immortals know he wants. Refining a rank eight Immortal Gu, even with Ma Hong Yun as the main material, needs many sets of materials and every chance to raise the odds. Old Ancestor Xue Hu’s demand for immortal materials is extremely huge. Blazing Heaven Demoness uses that pressure, deploying experts to ambush and disrupt the demonic path Gu Immortals worn down gathering his materials. The luck path backlash already working against them raises every strike’s success rate. Snowy Mountain blessed land’s morale is falling as Zombie Alliance’s rises. ^{ch. 930}

Emerging from the secret room, Fang Yuan brushes past Doctor Yin Xuan’s respectful greeting and Landlord Lei Yu’s resentful stare. Doctor Yin Xuan bows and asks after the refinement. Fang Yuan waves him off with a curt dismissal, but Doctor Yin Xuan follows him closely all the same. ^{ch. 930}

He reaches the immortal material warehouse, where the managing immortal zombie hands him a Gu worm listing the stock and reminds him he may take anything, registering only what he uses. Blazing Heaven Demoness, Corpse Detonation King and Pu Wan Dao left two days ago to strike at Snowy Mountain’s demonic path Gu Immortals and have not returned, and Fang Yuan judges their absence his opportunity. One look at his disordered hair and clothes tells the warehouse keeper the refinement has failed again. Fang Yuan reacts with sudden fury at the reminder, then storms off muttering over his four failed attempts and weighing a costly method he had been reluctant to use. The three immortal zombies watch him with a trace of pity replacing some of their disdain. He resolves to commit to it. ^{ch. 930}

Fang Yuan orders Doctor Yin Xuan and Landlord Lei Yu to pack and follow him into Earth Trench, shocking all three immortal zombies. Landlord Lei Yu refuses, offering to gather any materials rather than risk dangerous Earth Trench, and Doctor Yin Xuan pleads that the leader charged them both with keeping Fang Yuan safe. Fang Yuan insists he needs earth shell snail star night mucus, not the ordinary mucus already stocked in warehouse six. He explains why he must go himself. Ordinary mucus dries and loses effect unless sealed within ten breaths. Star night mucus is made by processing it on the spot, seven breaths to process and three more to seal, a window only reachable at the source. Doctor Yin Xuan and Landlord Lei Yu have no answer to this. ^{ch. 930}