"It's Longevity Heaven!"
Someone exclaimed in shock, and all the Gu Immortals present turned their heads to look.
Two elderly figures slowly appeared; they were clearly two Rank Eight Gu Immortals.
Although their hair and beards were white and their faces were covered in wrinkles, the majestic aura unique to Rank Eight Gu Immortals could not be concealed in the slightest—
The newcomers were none other than the contemporary Southern Desolation Immortal, Medicine Emperor, and the Northern Desolation Immortal who had just awakened, Meng Ri Bian.
"It's the Northern Desolation Immortal from three hundred thousand years ago, Meng Ri Bian! Why is he here?" The Meng family Gu Immortal, Meng Ji, revealed a look of shock, his gaze fixed tightly on the gray-haired figure.
Northern Desolation Immortal Meng Ri Bian's long gray hair danced wildly in the wind like waves.
His golden robe fluttered loudly in the strong wind; he had a white face and long beard, possessing an Immortal demeanor. dao marks circulated around his body, and every inch of his skin exuded the vicissitudes of someone who had lived through who knows how many years.
"It really seems to be the Northern Desolation Immortal! Yao Zihan, isn't that our Supreme Elder?" Yao Ju looked at the Southern Desolation Immortal, Medicine Emperor, beside her, her tone full of disbelief.
Medicine Emperor was indeed the Supreme Elder of the Yao family.
After the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, the previous Southern Desolation Immortal, Bi Xi Shang, had sacrificed himself to cover the retreat of the Longevity Heaven Gu Immortals back to Northern Plains, blocking the Heavenly Court Immortals alone, and ultimately died tragically under Duke Long's Three Qi Return Killer Move.
After the fall of Bi Xi Shang, Medicine Emperor, following Bi Xi Shang's last wish, naturally became the new Southern Desolation Immortal.
"With Longevity Heaven coming here, could it be to support the Hei Family?" A Gu Immortal couldn't help but speculate.
"That must be it, though I don't know how Hundred Legs Heavenly Lord will handle this." Another person replied, their voice kept extremely low.
The Northern Plains Gu Immortals whispered among themselves, their gazes glued to Medicine Emperor and Meng Ri Bian.
The two Rank Eight Gu Immortals did not care about the gazes of others and descended directly from the sky, landing in front of Hundred Legs Heavenly Lord.
Hundred Legs Heavenly Lord's face sank instantly; he knew clearly in his heart that with Longevity Heaven intervening, he was destined to suffer a huge loss of profit this time.
In Southern Border, within White Bone Blessed Land, bones were piled high, and Fang Yuan received the message sent by Chu Du.
Chu Du first expressed his respect for Fang Yuan in the letter, then mentioned the matter of Liu Guan Yi, his tone full of amazement, and subsequently expressed his willingness to continue cooperating with Fang Yuan.
After reading the message, Fang Yuan immediately picked up a brush to reply.
He first apologized for concealing his true identity from Chu Du previously, then stated his attitude of willingness to continue the cooperation, with not a hint of perfunctoriness between the lines.
After finishing the reply, Fang Yuan set off and entered the thirteenth eagle nest.
He wanted to hatch the Primeval Desolate Beast, Upper Extreme Heavenly Eagle, here using Rank Eight attitude gu, Rank Six blood capital immortal gu, his own Blood Path attainments, and Refinement Path methods.
The Upper Extreme Heavenly Eagle was a Space Path Primeval Desolate Beast, born with the ability to bore through obstacles; whether it was a grotto-heaven, blessed land, battlefield Killer Move, or Gu Formation, it could peck through them all.
In addition, an adult Upper Extreme Heavenly Eagle had Rank Eight battle strength; it would not be an exaggeration to call it a low-spec version of a rank seven immortal gu house.
However, the newly born Upper Extreme Heavenly Eagle naturally did not have such power; it would only show the dominance of a Space Path Primeval Desolate Beast once it grew up.
Fang Yuan took out some Heavenly Crystals to feed it—these Heavenly Crystals were all Rank Eight immortal materials and were also the food of the Upper Extreme Heavenly Eagle, extremely precious.
Not long after, the Upper Extreme Heavenly Eagle grew to the height of Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan flipped onto its back, and with a light shout, the Upper Extreme Heavenly Eagle flapped its wings and soared into the clouds, taking Fang Yuan and diving straight into Black Fan Grotto-Heaven.
Black Fan had once been the Supreme Elder of the Hei Family, a Rank Eight Space Path expert who had once survived a Myriad Tribulation and stood at the Peak of Rank Eight.
Back in his day, he single-handedly led the Hei Family to become the hegemon of Northern Plains. Throughout his life, he had possessed at least two Rank Eight immortal gu: attitude gu and Years Flow Like Water immortal gu.
The attitude gu was later lost and obtained by Fang Yuan through a stroke of Luck. It was precisely because of this attitude gu that Fang Yuan gained the qualification to inherit Black Fan's Legacy.
And that Rank Eight Years Flow Like Water immortal gu was currently inside Black Fan Grotto-Heaven.
Upon entering Black Fan Grotto-Heaven, Fang Yuan did not stand on ceremony at all, directly using the Handless Killer Move to steal all the immortal gu of the Hei Family Gu Immortals within the grotto-heaven.
Subsequently, Fang Yuan captured these Gu Immortals one by one.
He neither dealt a lethal blow nor used the Only I Am Supreme Killer Move to enslave them as Clones, leaving some leeway. Then, he coerced them.
Afterward, Fang Yuan smoothly recognized the Bell Earth Spirit as master and successfully obtained Black Fan's Legacy.
In this Black Fan's Legacy, there were only three Space Path immortal gu:
Rank Six Year Gu, Rank Seven immortal gu, and that most precious Rank Eight Years Flow Like Water immortal gu.
The reason there were only a mere three immortal gu was not because Black Fan lacked ability, but because, like his ancestor Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, he was very protective of his descendants.
In his later years, Black Fan loved to nurture and cultivate his juniors.
Therefore, before Black Fan passed away, he gave most of his immortal gu to the Hei Family descendants, leaving only these three most excellent Space Path immortal gu as Black Fan's Legacy.
Within Black Fan Grotto-Heaven, naturally, there was not only Black Fan's Legacy. There were also other Legacies of the Hei Family ancestors, Light Path, Blood Path, Luck Path...
A wide variety, all of them top-tier inheritances of Northern Plains in the past.
In addition, Fang Yuan also harvested an unexpected joy—the Blood Light Suppressing Spirit Killer Move.
The effect of this Killer Move was extremely wonderful; it could directly force Earth Spirits or Heaven Spirits to recognize him as their master.
Fang Yuan secretly rejoiced that fortunately he came early; if he had inherited Black Fan's Legacy later, and the Hei Family Gu Immortals in the grotto-heaven had beaten him to it, this Bell Earth Spirit would have had nothing to do with him.
Besides the Blood Light Suppressing Spirit Killer Move, Fang Yuan also obtained Space Path Killer Moves from the Legacy such as Bad Years, Days Like Years, Years Like Days, Months Like Years, Years Like Months, A Hundred Years of Harmony, Summon Year Beast, and so on.
Most of these Killer Moves were for auxiliary cultivation and not many could be directly used for offense and defense, which made Fang Yuan feel somewhat helpless.
However, he currently did not lack offensive Killer Moves at all; what he lacked were these kinds of Immortal Path Killer Moves for auxiliary cultivation and defense, so these came just in time.
In Black Fan Grotto-Heaven, there was also a longevity gu of over seven hundred and fifty years, which could add over seven hundred and fifty years of lifespan to a Gu Immortal out of thin air, which was incomparably precious.
In addition, there were mountains of resources within the grotto-heaven, and even the grotto-heaven itself was a huge treasure.
Fang Yuan had long planned it:
Once he became a Space Path Great Grandmaster, he would directly annex Black Fan Grotto-Heaven into his Supreme Immortal Aperture, and by then, Fang Yuan would be able to become a Rank Eight Gu Immortal.
Therefore, Fang Yuan planned to leave some Gu Yue Clan Members to guard this place instead of selling it.
He knew that before long, Hundred Legs Heavenly Lord would blame him for inheriting Black Fan Grotto-Heaven and would launch a fierce attack on Black Fan Grotto-Heaven, so the people guarding this place had to be strong enough.
Thus, Fang Yuan designated Gu Yue Fang Zheng, Dongfang Chang Fan, Black City, and Wind Returning Child, along with the rank seven immortal gu house mortal grass house, to guard Black Fan Grotto-Heaven together.
With such a lineup, plus Fang Yuan's plan to seclude himself in Black Fan Grotto-Heaven to build a prototype of an immortal gu house.
Relying on the geographical advantage of the grotto-heaven itself, even a Rank Eight cultivation level Hundred Legs Heavenly Lord would find it difficult to conquer it easily.
As for the Bell Earth Spirit within Black Fan Grotto-Heaven, Fang Yuan could not count on it.
Back in his later years, fearing a second Myriad Tribulation, Black Fan had specifically annexed a fragment of the Primeval Nine Heavens, and thus could never leave Black Fan Grotto-Heaven again.
After Black Fan died, his obsession, under the influence of the power of heaven and earth, turned into this Bell Earth Spirit.
But because it had been eroded by the will of heaven for many years, the Bell Earth Spirit became very foolish, unable to even carry out normal conversations, only knowing how to ring the bell "dang, dang, dang" every day.
Its level of intelligence was not even as good as Little Fox Immortal of Fox Immortal Blessed Land or the Star Constellation Boy of Star Constellation Blessed Land, so it could not be relied upon to resist the Rank Eight Gu Immortal, Hundred Legs Heavenly Lord.
However, Fang Yuan did not intend to kill this useless Bell Earth Spirit directly; what if he had a way to make it regain its sanity and become more intelligent in the future?
Because it had discarded the fragment of the Primeval Nine Heavens, Black Fan Grotto-Heaven had no disasters or tribulations from then on, so Fang Yuan used the Years Like Days Killer Move to greatly speed up the flow of time within the grotto-heaven.
The Years Like Days Killer Move could make one year inside the grotto-heaven equivalent to one day in the outside world.
After activating the Killer Move, Fang Yuan immediately ordered the Rank Six Gu Immortals of the Gu Yue Clan to open up more resource points within Black Fan Grotto-Heaven.
Because the development level of Black Fan Grotto-Heaven was extremely high, Fang Yuan also purchased a large amount of Cloud Soil and used the sky of the grotto-heaven to place the eagle nests he had previously snatched from Iron Eagle Blessed Land here.
Subsequently, Fang Yuan moved in hundreds of thousands of Stone Man Gu Masters and Mortals, digging out several underground cities beneath Black Fan Grotto-Heaven to cultivate various resources.
In addition, tens of thousands of Gu Yue Clan Members were moved into the grotto-heaven to live and manage resources here.
In order to better develop Black Fan Grotto-Heaven, Fang Yuan also bought a large number of Gu worms for modifying terrain from Lang Ya Earth Spirit to reshape the landscape of the grotto-heaven.
He also moved in hundreds of thousands of Little People; Little People were naturally able to make vegetation grow more vigorously, which was just right for taking care of the planting areas within the grotto-heaven.
Fang Yuan naturally would not personally do these trivial matters of managing the grotto-heaven, handing them all over to the Gu Immortals of the Gu Yue Clan.
This was also the reason why Fang Yuan had kept the Gu Yue Clan and had not directly abandoned them—with them around, he did not need to worry about these miscellaneous matters at all.
After arranging everything, Fang Yuan was finally able to find time to study Black Fan's Legacy.
Although there were only three immortal gu, they formed Immortal Path Killer Moves that covered all aspects.
For example, the Years Like Days Killer Move Fang Yuan had used earlier could directly change the flow of time.
Similar ones included the Years Like Months, Days Like Years, Months Like Years Killer Moves, which could both accelerate and slow down time.
There was also the A Hundred Years of Harmony Killer Move, which used Space Path Killer Moves to achieve Luck Path effects. Using this move could allow people to set a covenant that bound both parties, truly achieving "A Hundred Years of Harmony".
From this, it could be seen that Black Fan's attainments in Space Path were unfathomable.
Besides using Space Path Killer Moves to achieve Luck Path effects, Black Fan could also use Space Path Killer Moves to achieve Luck Path effects and Slave Path effects.
First, speaking of the Luck Path effect, it was the Bad Years Killer Move.
Enemies hit by this move would have bad years, their Luck would drop greatly, they would run into walls everywhere, and even drinking cold water would make their teeth hurt.
Speaking of the Slave Path effect, it was the Summon Year Beast Killer Move.
This Killer Move could use a Rank Six Year Gu as the core, and it could also use a Rank Eight Years Flow Like Water immortal gu as the core.
The Rank Six level Summon Year Beast Killer Move could summon ancient year beasts to fight for oneself;
The Rank Eight level one could summon primeval year beasts.
Fang Yuan wanted to try the effect of the Rank Seven level, so he planned to first refine the Rank Six Year Gu in his hand.
Year Gu was a very special type of Gu worm; it was a consumable type of Gu worm, but it was not a one-time consumable, but rather "consumed year by year".
For example, a hundred-year Year Gu, after being used once, would become a ninety-nine-year Year Gu.
And the process of refining Year Gu was even more special, requiring "refining year by year".
A Rank Seven Year Gu was a thousand-year Year Gu, a Rank Six Year Gu was a hundred-year one; if Fang Yuan wanted to refine the Rank Six Year Gu, he had to refine it slowly from one hundred years to one hundred and one, one hundred and two, one hundred and three...
Until one thousand years.
Upon reaching one thousand years, it would be a Rank Seven Year Gu.
Then, using the same method, continue refining until ten thousand years, that would be a Rank Eight Year Gu.
Thus, Fang Yuan began to refine the Rank Six Year Gu in his hand.
He was in Black Fan Grotto-Heaven, a Space Path grotto-heaven, which contained massive amounts of Space Path gu materials.
Fang Yuan himself was a quasi-Great Grandmaster of Refinement Path, so his Gu Refining success rate was extremely high, consuming almost no gu materials.
It was precisely because of this that Fang Yuan could wantonly refine the Rank Six Year Gu.
Not long after, Fang Yuan successfully refined a Rank Seven Year Gu.
After obtaining the Rank Seven Year Gu, Fang Yuan's Days Like Years, Years Like Days, Months Like Years, Years Like Months, A Hundred Years of Harmony, and Summon Year Beast Killer Moves all reached the Rank Seven level.
Fang Yuan activated the Rank Seven level Summon Year Beast Killer Move, and he saw a crack open in the surrounding space out of thin air. Through the crack, Fang Yuan could directly see the endlessly flowing River of Time.
The next moment, more than ten ancient year tigers roared and rushed out of the River of Time. Their fur was golden yellow, carrying the dominance of a barbaric Vicious Beast, staring straight at Fang Yuan, yet each of them looked as if they were looking at the God of Wealth.
Seeing this, Fang Yuan couldn't help but laugh out loud, and with a flick of his hand, over a hundred Mortal-level Year Gu were scattered out.
These dozen or so ancient year tigers were overjoyed to see this, opening their big mouths, and the over a hundred Mortal-level Year Gu were instantly devoured by them.
Year beasts fed on Year Gu, and it was precisely because of this that they were attracted by Fang Yuan's Rank Seven Year Gu.
After eating the Year Gu, these ancient year tigers would temporarily obey Fang Yuan and be willing to fight for him, just to get more Year Gu.
After a while, when they were full and satisfied, they would crawl back into that crack and return to the River of Time.
Fang Yuan did not have any enemies to attack at the moment, so he scattered another handful of Year Gu to feed these dozen or so ancient year tigers:
"Go back, all of you, come again next time."
The ancient year tigers ate to their heart's content, then obediently crawled into the crack and returned to the River of Time.
In addition, Fang Yuan also deeply studied Black Fan's Legacy and gained quite a bit of knowledge about Space Path.
However, Fang Yuan's primary task now was not to study Black Fan's Legacy, but to build his prototype of an immortal gu house.
Fang Yuan had a strong premonition in his heart:
Once he truly built this immortal gu house, even if it were a Peak Rank Eight Gu Immortal or a Pseudo-Venerable, he would have a chance to defeat them.
He had a sudden inspiration recently, and this idea came precisely from Thieving Heaven's Legacy.
Fang Yuan's defensive power was not weak, but he could make the immortal gu house transform into the Gu Immortal form after entering the house form.
In this way, not only could Fang Yuan activate the Five Finger Fist Heart Sword Killer Move as he pleased, but the weakness of his defensive power being too weak would also be completely compensated.