Chapter 995

Fang Yuan identifies a silver and blue, finger-sized Immortal Gu shaped like a centipede with soft hair instead of legs as sword eyebrows Immortal Gu, matching what he learned from Feng Jin Huang. It is Sword Immortal Bo Qing’s rank seven Immortal Gu, a sword path aid rather than an attack Gu, letting its user embed every eyebrow hair with sword path dao marks, which carry immense amplification effects on an Immortal Gu’s power. Fang Yuan judges its value very high. But since he does not cultivate sword path, he treats it as little better than nothing, sealing it in Mo Yao’s aura. ^{ch. 995}

A third Immortal Gu has no fixed form, snake or sword by turns, its body pale blue like translucent liquid, and it gives off an extremely sharp feeling. Fang Yuan guesses it is rank seven wave sword Gu. Records say Bo Qing once tried raising it to rank eight, failed, and suffered a huge loss as the rank seven Gu was completely destroyed, later refining and laboriously re-raising a rank six version back to rank seven. ^{ch. 995}

The fourth Immortal Gu is flying sword Gu. This rank seven Gu is shaped like a silver-winged dragonfly, one of Bo Qing’s most used combat Gu. Built as the core of many sword path killer moves, including formless flying sword, cloud flying sword, pursuing flying sword and ten thousand li flying sword, it left a deep mark in history. ^{ch. 995}

The fifth Immortal Gu, sword escape Gu, resembles a golden bee. Made for movement, it turns its user into a blade at a speed nearly matching qi escape Immortal Gu of the same rank. In one recorded case a same-rank rival could not beat Bo Qing, then rank seven, after three rounds and fled with qi escape Immortal Gu. Bo Qing gave chase with sword escape Immortal Gu but never closed the gap. In that same fight he used his immortal killer move sword rampage, with this Gu among its cores, and took the rival’s head. ^{ch. 995}

Fang Yuan keeps luring Gu from the slumbering Bo Qing until his investigative Gu near the river trigger, warning of approaching Gu Immortals. He fears them less than an accidental waking of Bo Qing, risking beheading before he could speak. With Mo Yao’s fake will nearly spent, he must leave. He needs enough left to mask his aura, too close to risk Fixed Immortal Travel whose surge would wake Bo Qing and kill him. ^{ch. 995}

Just then, after by far his longest wait, a sixth Immortal Gu appears, a simple, ordinary-looking floating bubble whose aura marks it rank eight sword path. Unable to identify it, he pulls it into his aperture at once and flees. His total gains this time are huge, dwarfing even his earlier haul from Earth Trench, so with more Gu Immortals soon to explore the river he cannot linger. Leaving Falling Heavenly River goes very smoothly, since the rank seven Gu Immortal who arrived is distracted by fierce beasts fighting over drifting immortal materials. ^{ch. 995}

Once clear, Fang Yuan shudders. He realizes this sixth Gu is likely the legendary wisdom sword Gu, made by Bo Qing to counter the wisdom path Gu Immortals he had once suffered against. It is not only a sword path Immortal Gu but also carries wisdom path ingenuity. He resolves to subdue this Gu first among his haul, since his wisdom path grandmaster attainment tells him it could transform his wisdom path methods far beyond one more rank eight Gu. ^{ch. 995}

Back in Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan judges his wisdom path prospects the brightest, though strength path and time path help him more at present. He seals away everything he took using freshly made batches of Mo Yao’s fake will. Such will is costly, since thinking greatly expends it. ^{ch. 995}

Stealing an Immortal Gu from an awake owner is extremely rare, achieved only by figures like Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable. He managed it solely by striking while Bo Qing slept. He judges Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s dream-prophecy truly formidable, already understanding its first two lines, but the remaining three stay too ambiguous for him to guess yet. ^{ch. 995}