After subduing the Imperial Court Blessed Land's land spirit, Frost Jade Peacock,
Fang Yuan carefully freed it from its seal before extracting the land spirit from Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Fang Yuan had no intention of attacking Eighty-Eight True Yang Building immediately. Instead, he ordered the land spirit to open the entrance of the blessed land and draw in heaven and earth qi.
A super Immortal formation was deployed, using the Immortal Gu Gather Qi as its core along with a massive number of Small Family Qi Gu.
Then, Fang Yuan returned to Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and—
"Hong Yun, hurry! Hurry!"
A Gu Master from Ma tribe urged Ma Hong Yun to run faster while a single-striped white tiger chased them from behind.
"Ah! I can't anymore, my primeval essence is running out!"
Ma Hong Yun activated a movement Gu and leaped across great distances like a frog. However, he was only a rank two Gu Master, and his primeval essence reserves were extremely limited.
Ma Hong Yun stopped using the movement Gu and instead began sprinting desperately. Sweat drenched his body, his clothes sticking tightly against his skin, yet he had no time to care.
Behind him, the tiger roared and closed to within five meters.
Ma Hong Yun turned his head and screamed in terror before abruptly changing direction and rushing toward the trees to his left. The single-striped white tiger followed fiercely, but just as it neared Ma Hong Yun and prepared to crush his skull—
its hind leg suddenly slipped, causing the tiger to tumble violently across the ground.
Seeing this, Ma Hong Yun became overjoyed and immediately rushed into the forest.
Behind him, the Ma tribe Gu Master watched in stunned disbelief.
"This child definitely won't survive. The single-striped white tiger is a powerful beast capable of rivaling rank two Gu Masters. Even if Hong Yun were at full strength, he still wouldn't be able to kill it, much less now… Forget it, I'll return and report this."
The Ma tribe Gu Master saw no benefit in saving Ma Hong Yun. After all, even he lacked sufficient primeval essence himself.
Thus, the Ma tribe Gu Master immediately retreated, abandoning Ma Hong Yun behind.
Inside the forest, the white tiger attacked Ma Hong Yun once more and nearly tore his arm from its socket.
Yet at the critical moment, Ma Hong Yun twisted his body aside, causing the tiger to slam directly into a protruding stone spike. Its mouth was pierced through, leaving a massive hole in its jaw.
The tiger roared in agony, wrenching itself free before continuing the pursuit.
Every single time the white tiger came close to catching Ma Hong Yun, strange accidents would occur, causing it to fail while suffering even more injuries in the process.
Eventually, Ma Hong Yun recovered enough primeval essence and managed to kill the already exhausted and heavily wounded single-striped white tiger.
"Lady Zhao Lian Yun, wait for me! A single-striped white tiger is incredibly rare outside… I'll definitely earn a huge amount of primeval stones from this!"
Ma Hong Yun was incomparably excited as he quickly collected all the valuable materials from the tiger's corpse.
Afterward, he returned toward the Sacred Palace and the Ma tribe region.
The Imperial Court Blessed Land's land spirit had observed this entire process from beginning to end and could not help speaking with hatred and irritation.
"This child carries the aura of luck path… Does Master know about him? Wait… could he be Giant Sun's arrangement to deal with me? …Or perhaps the inheritor of All Living Beings Luck inheritance?! No… impossible. The luck path inheritance still remains within Eighty-Eight True Yang Building… I must inform Master immediately!"
Frost Jade Peacock had completely regained its freedom and recovered most of its strength.
However, it could not fully recover because of Giant Sun's modifications to Imperial Court Blessed Land.
And because of Fang Yuan's strict orders, it could neither destroy those modifications nor act independently without first informing Fang Yuan.
The message instantly reached Fang Yuan, who was currently passing through the rounds within Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
"Ma Hong Yun?… Why should I deal with him? …He is an extremely useful pawn for the future, and interfering with him would consume my own luck. It is better to leave him alone and exploit him against Giant Sun's will instead."
Fang Yuan transmitted his response to the land spirit before continuing onward.
However, he did not proceed to the next round immediately. Using his authority inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, he remained within the current round and established a subsidiary formation.
Then he moved to the next round and repeated the process.
After clearing each round, he created another subsidiary formation linked to the previous one, all of them connected to the main formation within the true inheritance domain!
After the first floor of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building appeared, the second and third floors emerged as well. With this, experts like Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Hei Lou Lan began frantically exploring the building.
Fang Yuan also occasionally appeared in person using his main body, but most of the time he left matters to his will and human path clones.
He possessed very little time.
Faced against a terrifying enemy like Giant Sun, he had to squeeze every ounce of effort from himself and work tirelessly.
He had already hidden many trump cards, moved several steps ahead, plundered most of the Immortal Gu, and even subdued the Imperial Court Blessed Land's land spirit.
Yet one matter still left him somewhat uncertain.
Giant Sun's Immortal Essence.
That was rank nine yellow apricot Immortal Essence — and there were more than four hundred beads of it!
Fang Yuan controlled part of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and possessed nearly complete access to most of its regions. Yet he still could not locate Giant Sun's Immortal Essence.
Nor did he believe he would be able to find it anytime soon.
It had clearly been hidden extremely deeply by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable himself. Most likely, Fang Yuan would only discover it after refining the majority of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Even without Immortal Gu or territorial advantage, Giant Sun's will still controlled a peak rank eight Immortal Gu House. And with rank nine Immortal Essence supporting it, the situation would become utterly terrifying.
But Fang Yuan was not overly worried.
He had already anticipated such a scenario and possessed a solution prepared in advance.
That solution was constructing mortal Gu Houses within every single round of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
He had obtained this idea from Fang clan in Western Desert during his previous life, when they had attempted to scheme against him while refining the Immortal Gu House Divine Bean Palace.