Excitement filled Fang Yuan's heart, and for the first time in a very long while, he felt such overwhelming anticipation!
"A dual extreme physique?.. This truly feels like a dream come true, hahahaha!"
Fang Yuan laughed sincerely and joyfully.
In his previous life, he had obtained Shadow Sect's research results and the complete inheritance of the Life and Death Aperture. That method included a way to revive immortal zombies and reconstruct their immortal apertures!
The grade of the immortal aperture could even be raised to high-grade so long as the Gu Immortal possessed enough immortal zombie corpses of their own path.
And if there existed an immortal zombie with an extreme physique of that same path, then one could even obtain that extreme physique and a super-grade immortal aperture!
When Fang Yuan first obtained this method, he had imagined gaining two extreme physiques.
Specifically, the Desolate Ancient Moon Physique for cultivating time path and the Great Strength True Martial Physique for cultivating strength path.
But due to numerous reasons, he had never been able to realize this grand ambition.
And after obtaining the Sovereign Immortal Body, this method had become almost useless.
Furthermore, that original method carried many hidden dangers. Yet after Fang Yuan modified it now, it had become nearly perfect!
Enhancing a Gu Master's aptitude and raising it into an extreme physique—or rather, a half-extreme physique—was far easier than allowing a Gu Immortal to naturally possess a true extreme physique.
Fang Yuan looked toward Lang Ya land spirit, who had summoned five hairy man Gu Immortals.
"Although Shadow Sect spies exist within Lang Ya Blessed Land, I know who they are. With enough caution, they won't even realize a new master has taken control of the blessed land."
Fang Yuan had no intention of dealing with Shadow Sect spies like Sixth Hair, Twelfth Hair, and Thirteenth Hair.
Although killing them would be easy, it would reveal a massive flaw to Spectral Soul.
Fang Yuan could eliminate them after becoming a Gu Immortal himself and evaluating the situation further. Besides, their existence currently caused no losses.
As for these five hairy man Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan knew them from his previous life.
Every one of them possessed extremely high refinement path attainment, and they had served him well within the Sovereign Immortal Aperture.
Most importantly, none of them were spies—they were practically fools.
But their refinement path skills were undoubtedly first-rate.
Lang Ya land spirit used information path methods on them to ensure secrecy before informing them of the matter.
When the land spirit finished speaking, the first hairy men revealed fiery and excited expressions, as though they were about to leap in joy.
They all looked toward Fang Yuan, who controlled the formation, before pointing at him.
"Eh?.. First Hair, look! He's a human! Is he the one we're refining?"
"Fourth Hair, I don't know, but Lord Lang Ya said he's an honored figure. We must obey Lord Lang Ya!"
"By the way, who came up with the idea of using Gu Immortals as immortal refinement materials? This sounds incredibly evil!… But I'm excited to see the result!"
The hairy man Gu Immortals discussed things like children in front of Lang Ya land spirit.
Gradually, the land spirit's expression darkened with anger, but Fang Yuan's voice suddenly echoed beside his ear.
"Lang Ya, bring out the Gu Immortals."
Lang Ya immediately moved.
He activated several immortal killer moves before coffins emerged from beneath the ground.
There were eleven coffins in total, and within each lay a Gu Immortal with closed eyes. Their Gu worms had been completely suppressed or refined by Refinement Cauldron.
Among them, Fang Yuan saw familiar faces such as the ugly Gu Immortal Gui Wang, Lunar Hong Yu, and the three Hua Hai immortal women.
Using his methods, Lang Ya land spirit lifted these Gu Immortals into the air.
"Now extract their immortal apertures!"
Lang Ya land spirit immediately used the refinement path methods Fang Yuan had taught him and forcibly removed the immortal apertures before sealing them.
Fang Yuan nodded and used the formation to connect these immortal apertures into the formation itself!
Then he extracted the souls of the Gu Immortals and placed them elsewhere within the formation.
Only a small amount of rank eight immortal essence was consumed by Lang Ya land spirit.
But Fang Yuan still was not finished.
Using the formation, he opened the entrances to the immortal apertures of those Gu Immortals.
Everything inside their apertures had already been looted by Lang Ya land spirit. However, Fang Yuan did not desire their resources.
Instead, the formation's power infiltrated the immortal aperture origin cores.
The formation trembled weakly as sweat poured down Fang Yuan's body. He soon handed control of the formation to Lang Ya land spirit before stepping deep into the formation itself to complete the next step.
Lang Ya land spirit shouted while controlling the formation:
"First Hair and the others, help control the formation and purify the wills of the Gu Immortals from the aperture origin cores!"
The hairy man Gu Immortals rushed forward.
With intense concentration, they operated the formation as the process of purifying the Gu Immortals' wills began.
The immortal apertures and souls of the Gu Immortals merged into one enormous entity—a red sphere tinged with green.
Pure blue water flowed continuously, cleansing the reddish-green sphere of the Gu Immortals' wills.
Fang Yuan watched the process nervously.
"This sphere is the condensation of the immortal aperture origin cores of the Gu Immortals, but it is still incomplete. It must undergo several purification processes to remove the wills hidden within before it can be used as an immortal material, processed, balanced in dao marks, and slowly merged into my first and second apertures."
This process was lengthy.
It would require twenty days within Lang Ya Blessed Land, yet only around ten hours would pass in the outside world!
"Souls and bodies! Bring the souls and bodies of the Gu Immortals!"
Lang Ya land spirit shouted while focusing intensely on purifying the Gu Immortals' wills.
He had to ensure that not even the slightest remnant will remained within the aperture origin cores, otherwise hidden dangers would arise.
After a day and a half, Lang Ya land spirit and the hairy men completed the first step.
Afterward, they processed the souls and bodies of the Gu Immortals, merging them into the incomplete aperture origin core.
They continued purifying it for an even longer period until nothing remained except pure dao marks.
"Master, prepare yourself!"
Fang Yuan raised his head and waited.
The fully refined aperture origin core descended from the formation.
Its color had become almost completely red, with only faint traces of green remaining. A sacred aura radiated from it as it descended toward Fang Yuan.
The aperture origin core scattered apart, transforming into an enormous quantity of pure strength path and time path dao marks, alongside a small amount of dao marks from other paths.
Yet these dao marks did not clash or conflict with one another.
Instead, they remained balanced and harmonious.
Fang Yuan thought inwardly:
"One of heaven path's principles is balance and harmony…"
In the next moment, he clenched his teeth in agony!
The pain was unbearable and swept through his entire body—especially his first and second apertures!
This was the pain of forcefully adding dao marks onto the body!
The agony was several times more horrifying than having one's soul torn apart, and Fang Yuan could only bite through his lips completely as blood flowed from his mouth.
Yet he did not care.
Cold sweat drenched his body, but he endured it.
He had experienced this once before when adding heaven path dao marks into his body during the destruction of Fate Gu.
The process lasted for two weeks and one day before the formation finally ceased operating.
The hairy man Gu Immortals collapsed onto the ground in exhaustion.
At the center of the formation, Fang Yuan knelt weakly, nearly falling face-first onto the floor.
Lang Ya land spirit stared at Fang Yuan in alarm before quickly using several healing methods and transporting him to a safe and comfortable location.