Chapter 988

In Star Form blessed land, Fang Yuan refines all-out effort Gu using an earth path move traded from Lang Ya land spirit, a benefit of joining Lang Ya Sect. In exchange he is deducing an Immortal Gu recipe for Lang Ya land spirit, thirty percent complete. He binds the materials into a muddy ball, then Blood Refinement Snake draws seven snakes from his bleeding orifices to coil the ball and fuse into it within two hours. Blue, green and yellow fires roast it in turn, and after a day and a night under the yellow the brown ball turns pure gold. He tries to break the golden ball open to form a half-completed Immortal Gu. It explodes into gold powder instead, wasting his materials, though he grows slightly more practiced for next time. ^{ch. 988}

Using Fixed Immortal Travel, Fang Yuan reaches Southern Border and activates star eyes Immortal Gu, his reward from Yu Lu blessed land. Rank six and tenth on the list of top ten mystical Gu, it lets him watch any place lit by starlight across all five regions. It cannot be used at once. He must first connect with a star, spending eight beads over one night. Refining a star costs about as much as ten attempts at refining a rank six Immortal Gu. He notes it pairs well with Fixed Immortal Travel, and guesses Blazing Heaven Demoness chose this reward with that pairing in mind. ^{ch. 988}

In the following days Fang Yuan keeps refining all-out effort Immortal Gu, studies Fairy Yu Lu’s battlefield-move methods, and tracks the outside world with star eyes Immortal Gu. The most valuable thing in those methods is how to create a battlefield killer move inside an immortal aperture without harming it. Northern Plains and Central Continent match his previous life. But in Eastern Sea the three clans, alert since Blazing Heaven Demoness’s visit, hold their feuds in check and break the outside lone cultivators and demonic immortals before those manage anything. In his previous life those outsiders wrecked the three clans’ arrangements, and Seven Seas Snake Woman’s mockery drove Song Yi Shi to destroy a seaside village and kill Li Xiao Yao’s ancestor. Fang Yuan cares most about Luo Po Valley, where he knows Feng Jiu Ge leads Central Continent against Qin Bai Sheng’s Shadow Sect in the hundred days battle. He can only place investigative Gu about a hundred li away, still a very dangerous range, since both sides are definitely wary of spies and have set battlefield moves and formations in advance. ^{ch. 988}

This time he kept Xue Song Zi alive on purpose to add to Shadow Sect’s strength, which will likely change how the hundred days battle goes. In his previous life, Shadow Sect lost but some of its members escaped, while Central Continent’s win cost it Feng Jiu Ge. Fang Yuan wants to see whether the new battle turns out differently. He will not interfere before it is decided, since losing Self Strength and failing to refine all-out effort Gu leave him lacking confidence. Three days pass beyond when the battle ended in his previous life, and waiting in Northern Plains, Fang Yuan finally senses a reaction from Luo Po Valley. ^{ch. 988}