Fang Yuan emerged from the Star Gate Gu and arrived within Lang Ya Blessed Land. However, his return caused no commotion at all. The amiable old-man-like Lang Ya land spirit appeared before him almost instantly.
"Master… you returned at the perfect time. The refinement of the last Immortal Gu, Months Flow Like Water, has been completed. Although it failed twice, the third attempt succeeded!"
Lang Ya land spirit immediately informed Fang Yuan, hiding nothing at all. With a wave of his hand, five Immortal Gu floated into the air. These Gu worms were all rank six, yet Fang Yuan could not help but praise Lang Ya land spirit.
"Land spirit, you've done well. Your refinement of these Immortal Gu will greatly benefit me in the near future."
Fang Yuan praised him while examining the Immortal Gu with satisfaction. These Immortal Gu were all extremely important to his plans, yet he originally lacked the ability to refine them himself.
But Lang Ya Blessed Land possessed that capability.
"Master, being able to assist you makes me extremely happy!"
Fang Yuan nodded toward Lang Ya land spirit before waving the Immortal Gu toward him and saying:
"Very good. We'll refine even more Immortal Gu later, but for now, bring me the Blood Asset Immortal Gu… ah yes, bring all the qi path, time path, and strength path Immortal Gu as well…, just bring all the Immortal Gu."
Lang Ya land spirit stared blankly for a moment before finally comprehending the order and retrieving every Immortal Gu in his possession.
"This master is truly terrifying… Earlier, I thought he was foolish, but in reality he's unbelievably frightening!"
Lang Ya land spirit no longer doubted Fang Yuan's abilities. After all, Fang Yuan had schemed against him using an Immortal Gu recipe itself! That alone displayed the terrifying attainment Fang Yuan possessed.
Moments later, countless Immortal Gu appeared as immortal aura surged like rising tides. Even Fang Yuan felt a trace of admiration. Although he already knew all the secrets of Lang Ya Blessed Land, he still found himself astonished.
There were Immortal Gu from nearly every major path.
There were even Gu from minor paths such as sound path, cloud path, and many others. The Immortal Gu ranged from rank six all the way to rank eight!
Fang Yuan first examined the time path Immortal Gu. There were roughly three time path Immortal Gu.
Time Concealment Gu, Time Needle Gu, and Consecutive Years Gu.
Time Concealment Gu and Time Needle Gu were rank seven, while Consecutive Years Gu was rank six. Yet Fang Yuan was already extremely satisfied with this Immortal Gu.
With the Immortal Gu Months Flow Like Water, Before Time, After Time, and Spring Autumn Cicada, Fang Yuan now possessed seven time path Immortal Gu!
This number was absolutely enormous.
Ordinary rank six Gu Immortals usually did not even possess a single Immortal Gu. Those with deeper foundations might possess one or two, while only those who inherited legacies possessed more—yet even then, the number rarely exceeded four.
But Fang Yuan possessed seven time path Immortal Gu.
Aside from that, there was only one strength path Immortal Gu, which disappointed Fang Yuan slightly, though it was still acceptable.
The strength path Immortal Gu was rank six Great Qi Lion Strength Gu. Fang Yuan could not use it with his mortal body, nor did he possess the immortal essence required to activate it. Thus, he merely inspected it briefly before handing it back to Lang Ya land spirit.
However, he soon found the Immortal Gu he desired the most.
"Rank seven Immortal Gu—Gather Qi! With it, I can gather heaven and earth qi through formations or killer moves and increase the amount of heaven and earth qi to match my human qi!"
Fang Yuan retained Gather Qi Immortal Gu while taking Blood Asset Immortal Gu and Formation Plate Immortal Gu into his hands.
"Land spirit, bring out the humans!"
Fang Yuan ordered loudly while handing Gather Qi Immortal Gu to the land spirit.
Lang Ya land spirit held Gather Qi Immortal Gu and revealed a massive group of humans.
The number of these humans was enormous, but very few among them were Gu Masters. Most were merely mortals.
Lang Ya land spirit waved his hand and all of them died instantly!
Afterward, he used Gather Qi Immortal Gu to collect their human qi. The human qi was milky white and resembled dense fog.
"These humans possess too little human qi. Unfortunately, I don't possess Human Qi Immortal Gu or the immortal version of Fake Gu to transform it into Human Qi Immortal Gu… I can only purchase humans and extract human qi from them. Using quantity can compensate for the difference in quality."
Fang Yuan required an enormous amount of human qi for his next plan.
However, within Yellow Treasure Heaven, very few Gu Immortals sold humans in large quantities. Thus, Fang Yuan would soon be forced to purchase variant humans as well to fill the shortage.
Humans possessed the highest spirituality and therefore more human qi than variant humans.
With Lang Ya land spirit's assistance, Fang Yuan began constructing an enormous super formation. The land spirit concealed the commotion while helping place the Immortal Gu into position.
Many Immortal Gu were installed, such as Gather Qi Gu, Qi Strength Gu, Blood Asset Gu, Water Refinement Gu, and countless other Gu worms.
Lang Ya Blessed Land possessed an unbelievable quantity of rank eight immortal essence!
And Fang Yuan spent it without hesitation.
Lang Ya land spirit stared at the formation for a while before speaking hesitantly.
"Master… isn't this a refinement path formation?"
Fang Yuan nodded.
"Primarily, yes. But you haven't seen its full depth. Although your refinement path attainment is quasi-Great grandmaster, you cannot comprehend this formation in a short period of time."
"This is indeed a refinement path formation, but it also contains the profundities of other paths—primarily heaven path, blood path, and human path, with food path and soul path as secondary components, alongside numerous other paths that complete the formation."
Lang Ya land spirit was stunned for a moment before asking eagerly:
"What does this formation do? Does it refine Gu, Master? It appears incredibly powerful—even using rank eight Water Refinement Gu as its core!"
Fang Yuan smiled mysteriously before replying:
"No. It does not refine Gu.It refines humans."
Lang Ya land spirit was shocked for a long time before his expression turned strange as he inspected the formation in thought.
"Will Master use this formation to refine the Gu Immortals who attacked the blessed land?"
He could hardly wait to see what would happen when a Gu Immortal was refined.
Fang Yuan thought inwardly:
"This formation was originally modified from Dong Fang Chang Fan's research, Shadow Sect's research regarding the Physique Pure Reality Dream Seeker physique, the Life and Death Aperture, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's Virtuous Physique inheritance, together with Shen Shang's human path research!"
Indeed!
Fang Yuan originally possessed the blood path formation created by Dong Fang Chang Fan for "revival." That formation was extraordinary—it allowed a Gu Immortal to use blood-related Gu Immortal relatives and their immortal aperture origin cores to form an extremely advanced immortal aperture that would reach the highest level among high-grade blessed lands.
However, Dong Fang Chang Fan's attainment in blood path, phantom path, soul path, formation path, and even wisdom path was far inferior to Fang Yuan's.
From Fang Yuan's current perspective, that formation was utterly flawed.
Fang Yuan was a Great grandmaster in most major paths—or at the very least a grandmaster.
Still, Dong Fang Chang Fan's revival formation saved Fang Yuan enormous amounts of time and research.
However, Fang Yuan encountered one small issue—which was not truly a problem at all.
He possessed no blood relatives aside from Fang Zheng, who was not even a Gu Immortal.
But Fang Yuan was a Great grandmaster in blood path—so what problem was that?
Combined with his human path attainment, he could simply use other Gu Immortals in place of blood relatives.
But where would he obtain Gu Immortals when he himself was merely mortal?
Even as a Gu Immortal, killing another Gu Immortal was already difficult enough, let alone capturing them alive!
Yet Lang Ya Blessed Land had endured two waves of attacks from Gu Immortals and captured many of them.
The first wave attempted to infiltrate Lang Ya Blessed Land during its earthly calamity. The land spirit deceived and captured them, afterward sending a message to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan replied that there would be more attacks and provided the land spirit with extensive information about the invaders. He even ordered the land spirit to capture them alive!
Originally, Fang Yuan did not intend to use them to nourish his own growth. His original intention was to keep them until obtaining the Sovereign Immortal Body and devouring their immortal apertures.
As a result, there were now eleven Gu Immortals imprisoned—mostly rank six, though four among them were rank seven!
But now, Fang Yuan could use them to nourish his aptitude and obtain tremendous gains.
With the foundation of his wisdom path and his attainment in human path and heaven path, Fang Yuan immediately modified the formation, turning it into a refinement path formation thousands of times superior to Dong Fang Chang Fan's version.
Lang Ya land spirit asked:
"Master, what do you mean by refining humans? Are you planning to refine these Gu Immortals into Immortal Gu or immortal killer moves?"
Fang Yuan laughed while looking toward Lang Ya land spirit.
"No. I'll simply eat them.Land spirit, with your high refinement path attainment, you should know about parallel refinement, correct?"
Lang Ya land spirit appeared puzzled before answering:
"Parallel refinement means adding dao marks to an Immortal Gu that is gradually consumed, such as Year Gu or Month Gu… like refining Eighty Year Gu through parallel refinement using time path materials to raise it into Ninety Year Gu, correct?"
Fang Yuan nodded in satisfaction at the answer.
"Correct. Although Year Gu undergoes parallel refinement, its rank does not rise. However, its potential becomes greater, allowing more years to be consumed from it."
"Similarly, the formation I created uses this principle. But instead of using a Gu worm, it uses the Gu Master himself and treats him as a Gu worm, while using Gu Immortals as Immortal refinement materials to add dao marks of a specific path into the Gu Master's aperture!"
Lang Ya land spirit's mouth fell wide open as he involuntarily applauded!
This formation was unquestionably at the pinnacle of the world!
Yet he could not suppress his curiosity and continued asking:
"Master, wouldn't this mean the Gu Master would awaken one of the Ten Extreme Physiques?!"
Fang Yuan admired the land spirit's sharpness and attainment before replying:
"Partially."
"An extreme physique exists because dao marks of a certain path fill both the Gu Master's aperture and entire body. Thus, when using Gu worms of that path, their effects become amplified."
"But this formation concentrates the dao marks solely within the aperture. Although the Gu Master will possess one hundred percent aptitude, he can only be considered half of an extreme physique…"
This was Fang Yuan's current limit.
Without a large number of suitable human path, blood path, and heaven path Immortal Gu, this was as far as he could presently go.