Sea of Immortal Material Remains
Such an enormous Gu formation would take at least several months to unravel and about a month just to pry open. Fang Yuan’s hands move fast as the king returns; his wisdom path grandmaster attainment alone lets him glimpse the formation’s scenery before time is up. He retreats at once, avoiding it. Back in its nest, the king senses something off from the auras he left behind. It patrols on its tentacles, finds nothing missing as the auras fade, and calms, lying down but not sleeping. ch. 934
His worry eased, Fang Yuan retreats further, reading this king as the nest’s highest guard, since it stayed behind while the others fought outside. Any alarm might call the others back and restrict his movements. So he picks a corner and, hesitating, activates Fixed Immortal Travel anyway. The formation, unmanaged and unmanned for years by the time he found its trace, is not too risky to enter. Finding a way to revive from his zombie state is worth that risk, since a living aperture would serve him better than his blessed lands. ch. 934
Fang Yuan teleports inside; the king outside stays unaware, shielded by the formation’s isolation. Extremely vigilant, he confirms this is indeed the place he inspected earlier. Charging into a Gu formation is normally dangerous, but nothing attacks him. He relaxes slightly, yet stays extremely vigilant, since an unmanned formation can still function if its maker’s will remains in its core. ch. 934
This giant space path formation creates a huge special space: a yellow sky over fertile purple sand, dense with vegetation like a rainforest. With just a glance Fang Yuan makes out dozens of immortal materials, scribe grass, nutrient peaches, immortal beans and blood tide flowers among them. Most are rank six, with a few rank seven. Their quantity alone is truly shocking, even to him. ch. 934
Fang Yuan reasons this scale of gathering, spanning all five regions, needs at least an organization rather than one person. Regional walls grow harder to pass the stronger a Gu Immortal is. Only a huge organization, not a small one of two or three, could spare such assets. ch. 934
Fang Yuan’s heart thumps with excitement. Such enormous wealth is simply unimaginable, enough for dozens, even hundreds of Immortal Gu refinements. He guesses that in his previous life these resources may be why Northern Plains Zombie Alliance rose and even suppressed Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance. The total value is hard to estimate, enormous, very enormous, and at his current income he might not match it in a thousand years. ch. 934
This enormous Gu formation itself, Fang Yuan realizes, has even higher value than the materials it holds. He is glad he did not rashly destroy it: it lets him plant countless materials, easier than an aperture, though low in defense and unmovable. He praises the predecessor who arranged it. A zombie’s own aperture is dead, yet this predecessor’s formation replaces an aperture’s use to a degree. ch. 934
Fang Yuan grabs a large amount of the purple sand, extremely fine, slipping through his fingers with fluorescent light. Setting it aside, he flies gently around searching for the revival method instead. As time passes his joy fades: the place is too peaceful, quieter even than his own dead aperture. Other things feel wrong too: immortal beans on sand instead of spring water, nutrient peaches with no snake tail monkeys, not even an insect. ch. 934
He tries picking scribe grass, and it withers to purple sand the moment it leaves the ground; other materials do the same, unusable. This is strange, since withering should disturb a material’s dao marks, yet there is not even a slight disturbance here. A chill rises: could his own zombie body, which also holds dao marks, risk the same fate? This, he realizes, is a sea of immortal material remains. ch. 934
His unease keeps building, and he flies up into the sky, away from the purple sand. Something about this Gu formation is definitely wrong, he decides, tied to the whole formation and not just the sand. Better to find the revival method quickly and leave. ch. 934
