Chapter 952

Half a month has passed in Hu Immortal blessed land. Time runs differently there from outside. Fang Yuan sits in the underground cave in his zombie form, deducing under wisdom’s light, and can hold one deduction for only seven days before he must rest. He has completed only twenty percent of Nirvana Fire’s modification even with wisdom’s help, and alone would need countless years to reach this point. Immortal killer moves are very hard to create, and Nirvana Fire is more profound still, using fire path to display the mysteries of life and death; Blazing Heaven Demoness might not have made it without fire path great grandmaster attainment. ^{ch. 952}

Fang Yuan enters treasure yellow heaven. He sells some of his lowest quality rank eight immortal materials, keeping the precious quasi rank nine ones. Their huge attraction lets him easily complete his current goal of feeding his Immortal Gu. Very few Gu Immortals hold as many Immortal Gu as he does, and the burden of feeding them is huge. He cannot easily sell these Immortal Gu, since transactions of them are very rare and trade only Immortal Gu for Immortal Gu. ^{ch. 952}

Fang Yuan sets the costly refinement of star thought Immortal Gu aside. Its success rate is too low and its losses are already huge. He will not refine his rank six recipe for all-out effort Gu, though losing self strength Immortal Gu cut his battle strength drastically. His funds are tied up building Star Form blessed land, but with the revival method now in hand he feels no urgency there. ^{ch. 952}

Just as Fang Yuan prepares to rest for the night before continuing the modification, Hei Lou Lan arrives excited: she has captured Hei Cheng’s soul and drawn shocking information from it about the hundred days battle once fought in Luo Po Valley. She asks Fang Yuan to retrieve the valley for her. She promises compensation and urges speed before complications arise. ^{ch. 952}

Fang Yuan says nothing. He thinks of the open door Gu and close door Gu he already holds, and a clue to the valley he has kept since before this. Other matters had kept him away, and he is privately glad of his caution, since the valley was once Shadow Sect’s base, and going there without enough strength would have meant capture. Hei Lou Lan says this is a chance, and Fang Yuan grants that Shadow Sect has fallen and the Central Continent Gu Immortals hold the valley as outsiders who cannot stay long. He judges that leaking some information would force them to flee, though neither yet knows the Central Continent Gu Immortals have already left Northern Plains. ^{ch. 952}

Fang Yuan judges Shadow Sect not to be underestimated. Its members are unafraid of sacrifice and unusually unified. He knows the Door of Life and Death sits inside its land, though his own strength remains too low to act on it. ^{ch. 952}

Hei Lou Lan invites Fang Yuan and her aunts to explore Luo Po Valley and split the gains under their alliance agreement. Before they go, he refuses to let her take the valley completely. Hei Lou Lan demands what he means, but Fang Yuan states the valley’s location himself, information she had withheld from him. He explains his own open door Gu and close door Gu openly, since they will be used anyway. The two grow very agitated in an intense verbal fight before finally agreeing: Blazing Heaven Demoness takes fifty percent ownership, Fairy Li Shan twenty, and Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan ten each. ^{ch. 952}

Hei Lou Lan is very crafty, using her two aunts to force his hand. Ten percent might be little, but it achieves what he wants, since he only needs the right to use the valley and never meant to claim it for himself. Blazing Heaven Demoness, busy refining Gu and drawing great attention with every action as a rank eight, transmits only that Fang Yuan’s Fixed Immortal Travel will let her save them in danger. Only Fang Yuan, Fairy Li Shan, and Hei Lou Lan actually go, and Hui Feng Zi, guarding the entrance, spots and reports them. Prince Feng Xian is soon informed as well. ^{ch. 952}