Yuan Fang was about to go into seclusion, but before doing so, there were still a few matters he needed to handle properly.
First, he took out two immortal gu: one was Soul Purification, and the other was Soul Refining.
The food for Soul Purification Immortal Gu was the White Lotus Giant Silkworm Gu, and the recipe for the White Lotus Giant Silkworm Gu was already in his possession, allowing for mass production. As for the Soul Refining immortal gu, Qin Bai Sheng had provided an ample supply of food when he handed it over.
Since these two immortal gu were being raised so well, Yuan Fang's vital Gu, self gu, could naturally benefit as well. He let his vital Gu take two bites each from the Soul Purification and Soul Refining Gu; its Soul Path dao marks instantly surpassed two thousand, and it directly leaped to the level of a Soul Path Quasi-Grandmaster.
Afterward, Yuan Fang borrowed the two immortal gu, "the land remains as before" and "Man as Before," and went to Lang Ya Blessed Land to show off.
The Lang Ya Earth Spirit was already obsessed with Gu Refining, and seeing that these two immortal gu were extremely useful, he insisted on borrowing them for ten days to half a month to study them.
Yuan Fang took this opportunity to borrow the malice immortal gu from the Earth Spirit in return.
He also used a Killer Move to accelerate the time flow of the blessed land, adjusting it to a hundred times that of the outside world—only the time in the Heavenly Palace remained synchronized with the outside.
As for the malice immortal gu, because it had been carefully nurtured and treated by the Lang Ya Earth Spirit, it was now fully recovered.
However, the moment it appeared, memories of its painful past surged like a tide, making it tremble with fear and curl into a ball.
Unfortunately, the Lang Ya Earth Spirit's mind was entirely captivated by "the land remains as before" and "Man as Before," so he didn't notice the malice immortal gu's terrified state at all.
(The malice immortal gu screamed in its heart: It's over! It's all over! I'm completely finished!!!)
With the malice immortal gu, combined with the be pleased with mountains and waters immortal gu, Yuan Fang activated the wisdom gu and performed deductions in his blessed land for a full two years—equivalent to just one week in the outside world.
Regrettably, the Rank Seven immortal gu house, the human sovereign banner, was still not fully completed; he only integrated the Black Banner, Soul Purification, Soul Refining, and Soul Nurturing into it, as it was clearly missing several key Soul Path immortal materials.
These few immortal materials were crucial, directly related to the Human Path empowerment, and were the location of the main souls of the entire human sovereign banner.
And these main souls precisely corresponded to human grievances, love, hatred, partings, and the seven emotions and six desires.
So, Yuan Fang took a Blood Path immortal material and created a newborn infant, acknowledging him as his eldest son.
Too lazy to bother with a name, he simply used a special technique to plant the malice immortal gu into the infant's body and also sealed a wisp of his own malice inside.
Yuan Fang then air-dropped the infant into a river in the Western Cloud Continent, letting him drift with the current to survive or perish on his own. Afterward, he paid no more attention to the child and instead devoted himself entirely to the deduction of the Great Light Immortal Gu recipe.
After drifting for two days and one night, the infant was carried by the current to a Human Race village in the Western Cloud Continent, where he was discovered by the villagers.
The village chief, who had no children of his own, adopted him as his foster son and named him Li Seek Defeat.
In the twentieth year of Yuan Fang's blessed land, the second Earth Tribulation suddenly arrived—it was a Wisdom Path tribulation capable of disturbing the mind and even driving one to madness.
But Yuan Fang's strength was formidable, and he ultimately passed the tribulation without any real danger, gaining a significant amount of dao marks in the process.
By the thirtieth year of Yuan Fang's blessed land, the third Earth Tribulation followed; this was a Human Path tribulation.
Relying on his deep foundation, Yuan Fang successfully passed the tribulation once again, adding another two hundred Human Path dao marks, bringing his total to one thousand three hundred.
In the thirty-second year of Yuan Fang's blessed land, Li Seek Defeat had grown to fifteen years old.
At this time, the elderly Human Sovereign Gu Yue Fuqi came to the door, entering the Heavenly Palace to seek help. By now, he was over ninety years old, his life force exhausted and his end near.
Considering Gu Yue Fuqi's usefulness, Yuan Fang gifted him a life-extension method he had obtained from the Hundred-Year-Old Boy of the Southern Border, which he had acquired back at Three Kings Mountain.
By relying on this method, Gu Yue Fuqi was able to extend his life by several hundred years.
To clarify one point, no one should misunderstand what Yuan Fang did to Lin Hong in the chapter regarding the "wisdom gu."
At that time, he had simply obtained a secret technique called the "Cauldron Life Extension Method," and his actions were merely for the purpose of extending his life.
As for how to extract lifespan from a Cauldron...
Shifting focus back to Yuan Fang's blessed land, in the Western Cloud Continent.
Li Seek Defeat, carrying a longbow, was hunting in the mountain forest. He was chasing a wild deer, his figure as fast as a gust of wind, his movements incredibly agile.
With a kick of his legs, he leaped onto a treetop like a nimble ape, his right hand drawing the bow to a full moon, and an arrow pierced through the air, accurately hitting the wild deer dozens of meters away.
The Li Family Village where Li Seek Defeat lived had only about a hundred people and was located within the sphere of influence of the Cloud Palace. Everyone in the village was a slave to the Cloud Palace, and there was not a single Gu Master.
Because of this, Li Seek Defeat had practiced martial arts diligently since childhood, becoming proficient in swordsmanship and archery. His movements were light and agile, and he was born with immense strength, surpassing that of ordinary adults at a young age—all because he was condensed and born from Blood Path immortal materials.
Just as he was about to pick up his prey, his foot slipped, and he suddenly fell into a deep hole.
At the bottom of the hole stood a heavy stone door, emitting a nauseating stench. A line of ancient characters was carved upon the stone door:
"Blood Demon True Inheritance, left for the destined."
The stone door was as heavy as a mountain; he couldn't move it even an inch using just his bow.
Li Seek Defeat had inherited Yuan Fang's cautious nature, so he naturally refused to touch it with his bare hands. Instead, he brought over a rock the size of a human head and used it as a buffer to slowly push the stone door open.
Behind the door was a crimson Blood Lake, with a stone bridge spanning across it. The bridge stretched for a full thousand meters, as if extending all the way to the opposite shore.
The ceiling of the cave was incredibly high; looking up, it seemed to reach the very heavens.
Li Seek Defeat stepped onto the stone bridge; its surface was smooth and solid, clearly not something that could be carved by human effort.
He continued forward, crossing the crimson Blood Lake and passing the jagged Stone Forest protruding from the water, finally arriving at a stone chamber.
In the center of the stone chamber, a small waterfall was gurgling; it was an origin spring.
As soon as he approached, several soft orbs of light flew toward him; they were hope gu.
One step, two steps, three steps...
After an unknown amount of time, Li Seek Defeat finally succeeded in his Aperture Awakening. Within his aperture's primeval sea, it was almost filled with clear green primeval essence—this was a top-tier A-grade Aptitude of ninety-nine percent.
The moment he became a Gu Master, Li Seek Defeat officially embarked on the path to immortality.
Meanwhile, within the Heavenly Palace, Yuan Fang sat upon his throne, looking down at Xiao Mang.
After a period of deduction, he had finally completed the recipe for the Great Light Immortal Gu and had prepared a massive amount of Light Path immortal materials.
The time had come; it was time to refine the Great Light Immortal Gu. Yuan Fang intended to let Xiao Mang achieve Immortal Ascension, but before that, there was one more vital thing to do.
"Immortal Path Killer Move — Only I Am Supreme!"
With Yuan Fang's low shout, a pitch-black steel nail shot out like lightning, hitting Xiao Mang squarely in the forehead.
Simultaneously, the be pleased with mountains and waters immortal gu was vigorously activated, and Yuan Fang's massive amount of joyful will surged into Xiao Mang's mind like a tide. Xiao Mang's will offered no resistance and was instantly and completely enslaved.
"human qi gu!" Yuan Fang raised a hand, and a majestic current of air was injected into Xiao Mang's body, causing his human qi to skyrocket in an instant.
Immediately after, through the joyful will, Yuan Fang allowed Xiao Mang to fully "experience" the entire process of Immortal Ascension from a first-person perspective.
Having done this, he took a large number of earth qi gu and stingy gu and accompanied Xiao Mang to a secret location in the Northern Plains.
Xiao Mang began Undergoing Tribulation, while Yuan Fang activated the Calamity Beckoning immortal gu, quietly watching him shatter his aperture and absorb heaven and earth qi until a brand-new blessed land formed within his body.
At this very moment, the refinement of the Great Light Immortal Gu reached a critical stage, and countless golden light immortal swords suddenly descended from the sky, incredibly sharp!
Amidst the flashing sword light, it felt as if a thousand armies were pressing down.
In the next moment, the precious swords slashed down fiercely, and each strike condensed into golden light armored soldiers, charging toward Yuan Fang in overwhelming numbers. Seeing this, Yuan Fang activated a newly created sword path Killer Move:
"Immortal Path Killer Move — Sword Qi Sweeping Across!"
With Yuan Fang's low shout, countless sharp and chaotic strands of Sword Qi suddenly erupted from his hands, surging wildly in all directions.
As the Sword Qi overflowed, any golden light armored soldier that touched even a sliver of it would instantly crumble, and in just a breath, a vast number of them fell.
Seeing this, the remaining golden light armored soldiers actually merged together, transforming into a golden light giant dozens of feet tall, which charged toward Yuan Fang with the momentum of ten thousand tons.
Yuan Fang's eyes narrowed, and he immediately activated the wandering the world immortal gu, his figure shifting like a ghost to dodge. In the next instant, he raised his right hand high, and another Killer Move was fiercely unleashed:
"Immortal Path Killer Move — Sword Qi Transforming into a Dragon!"
A long dragon condensed from pure Sword Qi whistled forth, the Sword Qi so intense it distorted the surrounding air, as it crashed straight into the golden light giant.
However, to Yuan Fang's surprise, as soon as the long dragon hit the giant, the opponent scattered into a sky full of golden light armored soldiers, remaining completely unharmed.
"What a powerful tribulation! But... Mortal Path Killer Move — Blood Squirting!"
With Yuan Fang's sinister laugh, a surging blood river gushed from his mouth, crashing through ten thousand armored soldiers like a red tide.
Immediately after, he flicked his sleeve, releasing the blood dropper swarm.
The sky full of Blood Droplets blotted out the sun, numbering forty thousand in total; they quickly arranged themselves into a formation, transforming into a massive blood-colored whale.
The whale flapped its huge, long fins like a pair of wings that covered the sky, as if it were a Kunpeng from the Northern Dark Sea, like a myth come to life, striking awe into the hearts of all who saw it.
Looking at the Blood Droplets filling the sky, Yuan Fang couldn't help but think of his previous life. He remembered the past when, under the identity of Old Demon Han, he had raised a large number of Gold-Eating Beetles and used them to instantly kill Cultivators of the same rank in the cultivation world.
However, the Blood Droplets were ultimately just mortal things; even if there were a hundred million of them, they couldn't compare to a single Primeval Desolate Beast. This was the difference between immortal and mortal; the gap was frustratingly large.
But to deal with the golden light armored soldiers before him, the Blood Droplets were more than enough.
Coupled with the "Blood Squirting" Killer Move which had already broken the enemy's formation, the golden light armored soldiers could only be picked off and consumed by the Blood Droplets one by one.
As for those immortal swords floating in the sky, because they would continuously spawn soldiers, Yuan Fang sent the swarm to attack them first. With a few Immortal Path Killer Moves, he blew all the immortal swords apart.
Ultimately, this tribulation that felt like a thousand armies pressing down was completely overcome by Yuan Fang. Xiao Mang's vital immortal gu, "Great Light," was also successfully refined; his blessed land covered an area of over nine hundred mu, and its time flow was thirty times that of the outside world.
After this battle, now that Yuan Fang had the Great Light Immortal Gu, he could mass-produce Rank Seven ancient glory light—this wasn't just a Gu; it was clearly a money tree!
The Great Light Immortal Gu could only produce two portions of Rank Seven ancient glory light per month. Because the output was so scarce, Yuan Fang planned to save them for the auction, where they might be exchanged for many rare resources.
Based on this rarity, each portion could be auctioned for three-digit amounts of immortal essence stones, and this one Great Light Immortal Gu was already worth more than countless Great Light mortal Gu.
At that moment, a dragon breath carrying sharp sword path dao marks suddenly attacked, heading straight for Yuan Fang's face.
Yuan Fang hurriedly dodged to the side, but Xiao Mang wasn't so lucky; his entire right arm was consumed by the dragon breath on the spot.
The two turned to look and saw that the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon, which had appeared during Yuan Fang's Immortal Ascension Tribulation, had shown up once again.
"Dammit! It's that wretched, ugly reptile again! Immortal Path Killer Move — Sword Qi Sweeping Across!" Yuan Fang roared as he attacked.
On the other side, Xiao Mang also activated an Immortal Path Killer Move centered on the Great Light Immortal Gu—"Great Light Rosy Clouds."
A mass of rosy clouds wrapped in golden light boomed forth, crashing violently into the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon.
Facing two Immortal Path Killer Moves, the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon suddenly dodged and opened its mouth to spit out dragon breath, clashing head-on with the Great Light Rosy Clouds.
While Yuan Fang's Sword Qi carved one bloody gash after another into its body, they were only superficial wounds and couldn't hurt its foundation at all.
"Xiao Mang! We are no match for it, retreat!"
Yuan Fang grabbed Xiao Mang's left hand and frantically activated the wandering the world immortal gu. Unfortunately, the star gate gu's opening speed was too slow, otherwise he would have really wanted to slip away immediately.
At this critical moment, a Rank Seven Gu Immortal suddenly appeared. This person's name was Chu Du, a famous Demonic Path Gu Immortal in the Northern Plains who specialized in Strength Path and was known as the "Domineering Immortal."
He was not a kind soul by nature, and seeing the two of them being hunted by the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon, he intended to stay far away.
Perhaps due to the protection of the heavenly luck gu, the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon actually mistook Chu Du for Yuan Fang and turned its spearhead to launch a fierce attack on him.
Seeing this, Chu Du sighed helplessly, stepped forward, and threw a punch, followed by a storm-like offensive.
No matter how powerful the Ancient Sword Flood Dragon's Physical Body was, how could it rival the Northern Plains' Domineering Immortal? With just a few punches, Chu Du beat it until it had broken bones all over its body, fully displaying the terrifying style of a Strength Path Gu Immortal.
Yuan Fang and Xiao Mang took this opportunity to immediately open a star gate and fled the Northern Ice Plain in a pathetic state.