Chapter 972

Fang Yuan hurries to Yi Tian Mountain almost as soon as he is reborn, hoping to claim Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage early, but finds neither the Immortal Gu House nor the rank eight Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie it once suppressed. He has come too early. The House’s earlier appearance was actually triggered by Bai Ning Bing, who had activated a mysterious Immortal Gu given to him by Old Man Yan Shi, something Fang Yuan does not know and cannot repeat. He leaves quietly and sets the plan aside to pursue other ideas first. ^{ch. 972}

He activates Fixed Immortal Travel again. This time he reaches the vast space path formation in Northern Plains’ Earth Trench and goes straight to its center. In the desolate land of purple sand there, his memory, still very clear, lets him collect eighteen rare, extremely valuable immortal materials, basically all rank eight, including the tiger-striped honey bee’s wings and a fragment of the immemorial desolate beast cloud phoenix’s body. At the same multi-layered Gu formations as before, he leaves the structures intact but destroys every crucial thought inside, unwilling to let anyone else recover the life-and-death immortal aperture method. Outside the desolate land, countless plants and beast corpses only look valuable; picked up, they all turn to purple sand, so he ignores them. In his previous life, reaching this hidden space took scheme upon scheme; this life, rebirth spares him all of it, the whole process very simple, like a dream. ^{ch. 972}

Using Fixed Immortal Travel again, he returns to Hu Immortal blessed land, now poor after a failed refinement that lost his success dao mark and destroyed most of his immortal materials. As before, he places several materials in treasure yellow heaven, where their rarity causes a huge commotion and lets him trade easily for what he needs. He feeds every Immortal Gu he holds except self strength and wisdom Gu. His Immortal Gu now number sixteen, not counting the rank nine wisdom Gu he cannot yet refine, spanning strength, star and luck path Gu along with Spring Autumn Cicada, Fixed Immortal Travel, Woman’s Heart, Cleanse Soul and Unravel Mystery. Change form Immortal Gu, which he held at this point last time, no longer exists. Feeding so many Immortal Gu, unusual among rank six Gu Immortals, has long been extremely heavy, and the new materials finally ease it. He instructs Little Hu Immortal to have the hairy men refine only airsac Gu from now on. ^{ch. 972}

He then travels to Lang Ya blessed land, where the land spirit’s extremely harsh condition, an immortal material from the immemorial nine heavens, has cooled their relationship. Fang Yuan hands over the rare material, the poisonous flower petals, asking in return for some exert strength and disappointment Gu, plus a great many star thought Gu. Lang Ya land spirit agrees on the strength of that immortal material, and the countless hairy men of his blessed land, home to the rank eight Immortal Gu House, Refinement Cauldron, refine such Gu easily. He warns that next time he wants at least thirty half moon qilin scales, or he will grant no further requests. Fang Yuan accepts and leaves. He has taken a loss on the trade and does not mind it. ^{ch. 972}

Fang Yuan could shed his immortal zombie body now. He holds both the life-and-death immortal aperture revival method and a strength path nirvana fire, but chooses not to, since becoming alive would cost him his zombie body’s battle strength and, with a living man’s shortened lifespan, his access to the light of wisdom. He leaves for a village in Central Continent, where an extraordinary tree, a spring dream fruit tree his previous life once lost before it could be picked, still stands. Rebirth spares him the search for a revival method through Zombie Alliance, so he arrives half a year earlier than before, making up for an old regret. ^{ch. 972}