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After impersonating the Wolf King, Elder of Chang Family, Yuan Fang refined the Rank Five Cup Pushing Cup Changing Gu. Using this Gu worm, he sent an Information Path Gu to Little Fox Immortal.
"A letter from Master!"
Little Fox Immortal's eyes brightened instantly. Her tender little hand grabbed the Information Path Gu, which contained Yuan Fang's message—he had successfully impersonated Elder of Chang Family and detailed his subsequent plans.
Yuan Fang then sent all his immortal essence stones through the Cup Pushing Cup Changing Gu, and Little Fox Immortal gifted back three heavenly origin supreme treasure lotus in return.
(Wrote it correctly this time.)
Yuan Fang hadn't brought immortal essence stones before because the forms of stones in the Five Regions varied and were hard to use universally; now with the heavenly origin supreme treasure lotus, he no longer needed to rely on stones.
According to Northern Plains' worldly rules, Yuan Fang's cultivation should have been suppressed. However, he had previously obtained the recipe for the Boundary Wall Gu from the Immortal Crane Sect—the same kind used by Heavenly Crane Venerable. After refining it, his cultivation was unaffected and remained steady at Rank Five Peak.
Yuan Fang also subdued a Thousand Beast King level Shark Fin Wolf pack in the Rotten Poison Grassland. Then, he went to find external help.
This external help was none other than the Lang Ya Earth Spirit of the Lang Ya Blessed Land.
Yuan Fang claimed to be a descendant of Dao Tian. One must know that the Lang Ya Earth Spirit once had a deal with Demonic Venerable Dao Tian. In Demonic Venerable Dao Tian's Legacy, there was a promise for the Lang Ya Earth Spirit to refine three Gu worms for him, whether mortal Gu or immortal gu.
The Lang Ya Earth Spirit was formed from the lingering obsession of Old Ancestor Long Hair after his death. This Old Ancestor Long Hair had a massive background; he was originally a Rank Eight Gu Immortal and a Refinement Path Great Grandmaster.
Even after Fang Yuan became a Venerable, Old Ancestor Long Hair's Refinement Path attainment only dropped to quasi-Great Grandmaster.
Great Grandmaster is the Peak Realm of a path. Those who can reach this stage are all legends, such as the ten Great Venerables or the Pseudo-Venerable Sword Immortal Thin Green; all were such figures.
Although the Lang Ya Earth Spirit's Refinement Path attainment was not as high as Old Ancestor Long Hair's, he was still a Refinement Path Grandmaster. To Yuan Fang, he was still an unreachable existence.
"Junior, your Human Skin Gu is refined quite well."
The Lang Ya Earth Spirit spoke with a half-smile, his tone carrying a hint of ill intent.
Since he had a prior deal with Demonic Venerable Dao Tian, he absolutely could not move against a descendant of Dao Tian. But thinking about how Yuan Fang could have him refine three Gu worms for free made him fume, so he wanted to take the opportunity to intimidate Yuan Fang.
"It's better to say fewer threatening words. According to the covenant, you absolutely cannot move against me before refining those three Gu," Yuan Fang said calmly. His words left the Lang Ya Earth Spirit speechless, his face instantly turning ugly.
"You actually know even this? Junior, what Gu do you want to refine?"
Yuan Fang said there was no rush and first sold the recipes for the Human Skin Gu and the star gate gu to the Lang Ya Earth Spirit in exchange for some rare recipes he didn't have.
The Lang Ya Earth Spirit was full of praise for these two recipes. He had been obsessed with Gu Refining during his life, and after becoming a Earth Spirit, this obsession had only intensified.
"Earth Spirit, look at what this is."
Yuan Fang pulled out recipes from future generations like the Wordless Unbelief Gu and Blood Wings Gu. The Lang Ya Earth Spirit's eyes went straight, and he immediately expressed his desire to buy all these recipes.
Yuan Fang shook his head in refusal. The Lang Ya Earth Spirit immediately changed his demeanor, acting like a rogue as he did in the original work, putting on a pitiful act:
"Young man, how can you be so heartless? An old man like me spends his days researching Gu recipes; do you have the heart to see me so miserable?"
"Ahem, stop right there. Let's not talk about that for now. I want to buy the rank six Gu recipe for the blood god child."
Yuan Fang reached out and patted the Lang Ya Earth Spirit's small shoulder. This action immediately made the Earth Spirit reveal his true colors, a fierce light appearing in his eyes:
"You brat, show some respect!"
"It seems I'd better take these recipes back..." Yuan Fang made a motion to put the recipes away.
Seeing this, the Lang Ya Earth Spirit immediately forced a smile and said, "Hahaha, young man, I'm just joking with you! The blood god child recipe, right? But I'll only give ten percent of the recipe in exchange for these."
Yuan Fang raised an eyebrow and said, "Ten percent? You have the nerve to say that!"
The Lang Ya Earth Spirit also felt embarrassed and said, "Then... twenty percent... let's make it twenty percent."
Yuan Fang didn't yield an inch: "Thirty percent."
"Thirty percent it is, here you go," the Lang Ya Earth Spirit agreed bluntly.
After settling that, Yuan Fang used the heaven connecting gu to retrieve the spirit travel gu and exchanged it with the Lang Ya Earth Spirit for a rare reconcile immortal gu; then he brought out the second aperture gu recipe to exchange for the rank six all-out effort gu recipe.
He then spent seventy immortal essence stones to piece together his own remnant blood god child recipe with the Lang Ya Earth Spirit's, buying the complete rank six immortal gu recipe for the blood god child.
Yuan Fang then produced a large amount of ancient glory light to exchange for immortal materials to refine the all-out effort immortal gu. Seeing that he had so much ancient glory light, the Lang Ya Earth Spirit was full of surprise and couldn't help but ask.
"Don't ask what shouldn't be asked," Yuan Fang replied flatly, then added: "I have even more ancient glory light in my hands; I can set aside a portion specifically to sell to you in the future."
After establishing a trade relationship with Lang Ya Blessed Land, Yuan Fang finally told the truth, informing the other party that Fox Immortal Blessed Land was about to face an Earth Tribulation.
He also brought out thirty immortal essence stones, the blood skull gu recipe, and the bone flesh reunion gu recipe as payment, requesting the Lang Ya Blessed Land to provide support.
Hearing this, the Lang Ya Earth Spirit immediately hiked up the price, demanding Yuan Fang hand over another ten immortal essence stones. Yuan Fang cursed at the Earth Spirit in anger, but eventually, both sides reached an agreement again:
Yuan Fang would set aside more ancient glory light to sell to Lang Ya Blessed Land in the future.
With things settled, the Earth Spirit and Yuan Fang established an Information Path covenant, agreeing not to attack each other, and used the star gate gu to connect Fox Immortal Blessed Land and Lang Ya Blessed Land.
As for the support personnel, the Earth Spirit sent out the desolate beast Mud Swamp Crab from the Twelve Cloud Pavilions, ordering it to go to Fox Immortal Blessed Land to deal with that Mei Lan Movie.
Meanwhile, on Soul Searching Mountain in Fox Immortal Blessed Land, the Gu Yue Clan higher-ups looked grimly at the Mei Lan Movie—it had actually crashed into the crystal-like pink Soul Searching sub-Peak, leaving it battered, and the surrounding grasslands were a mess.
What a tragic sight! The corpses of foxes and Gu Yue Clan Members were strewn everywhere, a field of bodies and a river of blood, with the scent of blood permeating the air.
Just then, starlight suddenly exploded in the direction of Soul Searching Mountain, instantly consuming a massive amount of stardust grass.
The Soul Searching Star Gate slowly opened, and a figure stepped out. This person wore nomadic clothing with a wolf-skin cloak over his shoulders; the cloak was like a snapping war flag, and as it billowed in the wind, silver light flowed like a surging river.
A Rank Three Gu Master happened to encounter this person and instantly sensed that surging Rank Five aura. He immediately activated all his Gu worms to set up a defense and shouted a question:
"Who goes there? What is your business?"
Before his voice faded, a young girl suddenly teleported onto the person's shoulder; it was the Fox Earth Spirit. Little Fox Immortal threw herself into the man's arms, calling out joyfully:
"Master! You're finally back, I missed you so much!"
At the same time, all the Rank Five Gu Masters of the Gu Yue Clan arrived. Under the shocked gaze of the Rank Three Gu Master, they all bowed in unison and shouted respectfully:
"Welcome back, Lord Clan Chief!"
Fang Yuan had already informed Little Fox Immortal and the Gu Yue Clan higher-ups that he would change his appearance. Otherwise, with the investigative abilities of Fang Zheng and the others, how could they have recognized him?
Now Fang Yuan took control of the body, looking up at the Mei Lan Movie in the sky. Then, a giant Mud Swamp Crab crawled out of the star gate. Its carapace was covered in bubbling mud, thick and murky, looking nauseating.
Those were all rank six immortal materials—reconcile mud.
(There is also an immortal gu called 'reconcile'.)
Those mud bubbles burst one after another, splashing mud everywhere like popping beads, and countless small crabs crawled out of the mud, all offspring of this Mud Swamp Crab.
"Mortal Path Killer Move — Six-Armed Heavenly Corpse King!"
In the next moment, Fang Yuan transformed into an eight-armed flying zombie. In this life, his Six-Armed Heavenly Corpse King Killer Move appeared even earlier, having been deduced by Fang Yuan based on the Four-Armed Wind King Killer Move.
In the original work, the Six-Armed Heavenly Corpse King Killer Move was jointly deduced by Fang Yuan and Mo Yao's fake intent. Because Mo Yao's fake intent wanted to harm Fang Yuan, the Six-Armed Heavenly Corpse King Killer Move was full of drawbacks.
But in this life, the Six-Armed Heavenly Corpse King Killer Move was deduced with Yuan Fang's help, so the drawbacks were much fewer. Though the power was slightly weakened, compared to the advantages, it was much better:
The Six-Armed Heavenly Corpse King Killer Move was more durable; a Gu Master could continuously activate it for half a watch, which is one hour. If it were a Gu Immortal, about one watch would be the limit.
In the next moment, Fang Yuan shot out like a bolt of lightning. The Mei Lan Movie also sensed Fang Yuan's threat and made a direct impact.
"Mortal Path Killer Move — Corpse Hair Armor."
Black hair instantly grew on Fang Yuan's green zombie skin, growing extremely fast and visible to the naked eye. In a short while, the black hair covered Fang Yuan's entire body, making it impenetrable and indestructible.
"direct impact gu, Double Power Gu, battle bone wheel, Iron Head Gu, Momentum Gu, Carriage Strength Gu, strength gu, Mortal Path Killer Move — Hit the Jackpot!"
(Pardon, this isn't from the original work; it's an innovation by other readers.)
Behind Fang Yuan, a Strength Path phantom appeared, but it wasn't a beast phantom, it was... a red and incredibly festive... heavy truck?
The next moment, the truck phantom turned from ethereal to solid; this was the effect of the strength gu. With a loud bang, the solid truck phantom crashed into the deep blue and petite body of the Mei Lan Movie.
The 'Jackpot' was indeed impressive; this crash sent the Mei Lan Movie flying. Everyone watched as the Mei Lan Movie shot out like a cannonball, pinned by the truck phantom onto the grass outside Soul Searching Mountain, instantly smashing a huge deep pit.
At this moment, the Mud Swamp Crab had given birth to a massive army in an instant, and thousands of small crabs crawled sideways toward the Mei Lan Movie.
The Mei Lan Movie, after all, had rank six battle power; how could it be subdued by a mere Mortal Path Killer Move? It let out a loud cry like an angry bull, shredded the solid truck phantom in an instant, and lunged toward Fang Yuan in the middle of the small crab army.
A flash of thunder passed, and bolts of lightning like green snakes shot out. Amidst the sounds of explosions, thousands of small crabs died on the spot. The Mei Lan Movie wanted to decapitate Fang Yuan!!!
Seeing this, Feng Tianyu's heart leaped into his throat, and he said to Fang Yuan with concern: "Lord Fang Yuan! Be careful!"
But how could Fang Yuan not have anticipated this? Fang Yuan gave a slight smile, and suddenly a colossal object crashed down from the sky! This colossal object had immense power, suppressing the Mei Lan Movie on the spot.
Everyone looked closely and saw it was a nine-story tall ancient-style pavilion. The pavilion was a mix of red and blue; the body, pillars, and windows were blood-red, while the roof was water-blue. The eaves were inlaid with gold; its appearance was grand and majestic, yet it did not lack refinement and elegance.
It was the first mortal gu house of the Gu Yue Clan — bright moon still water tower.