Although the Little People Gu Immortal already had a Rank Seven cultivation, he could not withstand the opponent's superior numbers and numerous immortal gu.
The Little People Gu Immortal, Dong Fang Cuo, was quickly beaten to the brink of death, losing even the strength to fight back.
Yuan Fang had not originally intended to kill this Little People Gu Immortal directly, but rather wanted to trap him. He planned to lock him within his own Sword Path Blessed Land and slowly extract his value.
Outside Bitan Blessed Land, Fang Yuan also successfully captured Eternal Ordinary.
This man, Eternal Ordinary, although possessing extraordinary resourcefulness and talent, was ultimately only a Rank Six Gu Immortal.
Furthermore, after the previous great battle, his battle strength had already plummeted to rock bottom.
Facing the Rank Six Gu Immortal Fang Yuan, whose battle strength reached Rank Seven, he lasted less than an hour before being completely defeated and becoming Fang Yuan's prisoner.
After Yuan Fang left Bitan Blessed Land, he met up with Fang Yuan in a very secluded mountain cave.
One could see a thin man in black clothes holding a moderately handsome young man in his right hand.
This man in black was Fang Yuan.
He originally had the body of an eight-armed Immortal Zombie, but he had used the Killer Move Familiar Face, so at this moment, he looked like an ordinary black-clothed man with pale skin.
Fang Yuan loosened his right hand, and Eternal Ordinary, covered in scars from head to toe, rolled onto the ground with a "thud."
At this time, Eternal Ordinary was completely unconscious, and all the immortal gu on his body had self-destructed.
Because he had previously performed Possession on Dong Fang Yu Liang, his cultivation had suddenly dropped back to rank six, and his strength was greatly diminished.
Yuan Fang backhandedly unleashed a move of the Only I Am Supreme Killer Move.
This move took him a full hour and consumed a massive amount of immortal essence before finally crushing Eternal Ordinary's will, turning him completely into Yuan Fang's seventh Gu Immortal Clone.
After finishing all this, Yuan Fang raised his hand and blasted the entire scene into fine powder, leaving not a single trace behind.
Then, Fang Yuan stuffed everyone into his dead aperture and used Fixed Immortal Travel to teleport directly back to Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
The Gu Yue Clan's harvest from this trip to Bitan Blessed Land could be said to be extremely bountiful. Below is the list of immortal gu they harvested this time:
Sword Eye, Sword Shadow, Wandering Sword, Star Thought, Moving Cloud, Myriad Wood, Madman, and Iron Wing Eagle Strength immortal gu, as well as the Fireball and Fire Demon—two Fire Path immortal gu—in Scarless White's hands.
They harvested a total of ten rank six immortal gu, though they had not yet obtained any Rank Seven immortal gu.
Thinking back to Fang Yuan's five hundred years in his previous life... what kind of miserable days were those? Compared to the current Fang Yuan, it was simply a world of difference.
After this battle, Yuan Fang gained four more Clones: Scarless White, Willow Like Smoke, Eastern Orc, and Eternal Ordinary.
The path attainments of Human Path Clones can be shared. Here, we will conveniently list all the path attainments of both Fang Yuan and Yuan Fang:
Blood Path Grandmaster, Wisdom Path Grandmaster, Flying Grandmaster, Star Path Grandmaster, Refinement Path Grandmaster, Servitude Path quasi-Grandmaster, Transformation Path quasi-Grandmaster, Strength Path quasi-Great Grandmaster, Luck Path Great Grandmaster, Sword Path Great Grandmaster, Light Path Master, Human Path quasi-Grandmaster, Soul Path quasi-Grandmaster, Space Path Grandmaster, Phantom Path Master, Food Path quasi-Grandmaster, and Fire Path quasi-Grandmaster.
In addition, they were suspected to have touched the threshold of Space Path and Wood Path quasi-Great Grandmaster.
Generally speaking, those who can reach the Grandmaster Realm are mostly Rank Seven Gu Immortals. Only a very small number of Rank Six Gu Immortals can achieve this, such as Fang Yuan who lived for five hundred years in his previous life.
As for Great Grandmaster or quasi-Great Grandmaster, those are exclusive Realms for Rank Eight Gu Immortals. Like Old Ancestor Xue Hu, who is an Ice and Snow Path Great Grandmaster.
However, there are exceptions. The Second Supreme Elder of the Fang Family, Fang Di Chang, is a Rank Seven cultivation Wisdom Path quasi-Great Grandmaster.
(If memory serves correctly.)
But Fang Yuan and Yuan Fang are currently only Rank Six Gu Immortals...
All of this is thanks to Yuan Fang's self gu and various opportunities, allowing them to possess so many profound path attainments at such a low cultivation level.
Regarding cultivation resources, in this operation at Bitan Blessed Land, Fang Yuan's group seized a total of twenty-seven resource points.
Now these resource points have all been placed within various blessed lands. Among them, several resource points are particularly important or can earn many immortal essence stones, as follows:
Over a hundred desolate beast Dragon Fish—these are very precious Food Path immortal materials. They are now being raised in the Bulin Blessed Land of the Food Path Gu Immortal, Eastern Orc, bringing in an income of nearly a hundred immortal essence stones every month.
The rank six Cloud Path immortal material 'Dark Cloud'—this item can be used to feed the Black Banner immortal gu. Because of its large quantity and regenerability, it has been placed in Yuan Fang's Human Path Blessed Land, earning thirty immortal essence stones per month.
The Little People in Fang Cun Mountain, totaling three million. Yuan Fang does not intend to sell them; instead, he placed Fang Cun Mountain and these Little People together in the desolate lands of southern Central Continent.
The rank six Star Path immortal material 'Starlight Fruit'—this is the food for the Star Thought immortal gu. They are now all planted in the Chang Fan Blessed Land, earning forty-one immortal essence stones per month.
Thirty thousand Dong Fang tribesmen, most of whom are Mortals with only a small portion being Gu Masters. Yuan Fang moved them all into the Sword Path Blessed Land, tasking them with managing the immortal aperture and allowing them to live and multiply there.
There are also a large number of Bubble Fish. Yuan Fang released most of the Bubble Fish into the Xiaoqiang Blessed Land in Southern Border, with only a small portion raised in the Human Path Blessed Land, bringing a steady income of fifty immortal essence stones per month.
There are five Starry River Caves in total. Inside the caves, Star Thought Mortal Gu, Star Shine Mortal Gu, Star Bud Mortal Gu, Star River Mortal Gu, Star Intent Mortal Gu, and Starlight Mortal Gu are naturally produced.
Yuan Fang moved two of them into Fang Yuan's Star Form Blessed Land, two into the Chang Fan Blessed Land, and kept one in his own Human Path Blessed Land, earning one hundred and fifty-six immortal essence stones per month.
There are also hundreds of thousands of beastmen slaves. Yuan Fang used an improved Transformation Path Killer Move, 'Human Hearts Are Not What They Used To Be,' to erase part of their memories, then settled them in the desolate lands of southern Central Continent.
A pack of desolate beast Falling Star Hounds. They themselves are Star Path immortal materials, and even the dog dung they produce is immortal material.
Yuan Fang raised them all in Fang Yuan's Star Form Blessed Land, and the monthly immortal essence stone income can reach twenty-seven.
There are three Starlight Prairies in total, which can produce Mortal materials like stardust grass, Seven Star Grass, Star Flower Grass, and Starlight Grass, while also naturally producing Star Thought Mortal Gu, Flying Firefly Mortal Gu, and Starlight Mortal Gu.
Yuan Fang placed these three Starlight Prairies in the Human Path Blessed Land, Chang Fan Blessed Land, and Star Form Blessed Land respectively, earning sixty-one immortal essence stones per month.
There are eight Green Mountain Vine Valleys, which are rich in various Wood Path immortal and Mortal materials, such as Green Wind Vine, Green Flood Dragon Vine, Green Snake Vine, and so on.
Yuan Fang placed one in Fox Immortal Blessed Land, five in the Qing Shu Blessed Land, and two in the Human Path Blessed Land, bringing in at least two hundred immortal essence stones in income every month.
There are two Myriad Flower Caves, which contain Wood Path and Star Path immortal materials, producing Starry Azaleas, Pine Leaf Green Vines, Dripping Water Green Lotuses, and Myriad Star Ancient Stalactites.
In addition to producing immortal materials, this place is also very suitable for planting the desolate plants Azure Dragon Vine and Vermilion Star Fruit.
Yuan Fang put one Myriad Flower Cave into the Qing Shu Blessed Land and the other into the Human Path Blessed Land, earning one hundred and nineteen immortal essence stones per month.
Now, all the resource points have been settled and have begun normal production.
The Gu Yue Clan can be said to have become rich overnight, with a net profit of seven to eight thousand immortal essence stones every month—this is a massive sum of money!
This income is equivalent to more than ten Gu Yue Clans from before the Bitan Blessed Land incident, and it is also worth hundreds of the previous life's five-hundred-year-old Fang Yuan.
However, such vast assets caused Yuan Fang some worry.
There were simply too many resource points, while the Gu Yue Clan's manpower was too small, and the Gu Yue Clan's Gu Immortals were pitifully few. With so many resource points, they simply couldn't manage them all.
This was the trouble of being overstuffed, but also a kind of happiness called being "stuffed."
The scene shifted to Central Continent, Tian Ti Mountain, Fox Immortal Blessed Land, inside the Stone Nest.
Beside rows of stone vats stood rows of Hairy People slaves, who were refining Gu with all their might. What Gu were they refining?
It was Great Light Mortal Gu.
At the skylight of the Stone Nest, a Gu Yue Clan member activated a Mortal Path Killer Move.
A beam of intense golden light was emitted; this beam was the rank six Light Path immortal material—ancient glory light.
To refine Great Light Mortal Gu, the participation of ancient glory light was necessary.
Under the irradiation of the warm ancient glory light, the hair on the Hairy People was illuminated into a golden yellow, like the first ray of light appearing in an ancient forest at dawn.
The rough, large hands of the Hairy People, bathed in the ancient glory light, tossed one Light Path Mortal material after another into the Gu Refining apparatus.
Those hands of theirs, having been illuminated by ancient glory light for a long time, were already covered in scars, all of which were left behind during Gu Refining.
Soon, a batch of semi-finished Great Light Mortal Gu was refined.
The Hairy People placed these semi-finished products on a black-and-yellow-checkered Rank Five Conveyor Belt Gu. Along the long Conveyor Belt Gu, hundreds of semi-finished great light gu were transported to another Stone Nest.
In the other Stone Nest, there was yet another design.
Hundreds of semi-finished great light gu tumbled like dumplings into a giant white refining furnace with a "pitter-patter" sound.
"Ignite!"
A Gu Yue Clan member sat on a bamboo reclining chair, which swayed beneath him, making a "creak-creak" rubbing sound.
This Gu Yue Clan member held an elaborately woven cattail fan in his left hand, while his right hand gestured at the Hairy People slaves, directing them in the Gu Refining.
Five Hairy People slaves simultaneously pulled a valve.
In the next moment, hundreds of Fire Oil Gu, like a red Chinese dragon, followed the Rank Five Golden Qi Pipe Gu and drilled like lightning into the bottom of the giant white refining furnace, igniting a raging fire.
Separated by a layer of fireproof light membrane, the Hairy People slaves could clearly see the intensity of the fire behind the membrane.
If the fire was too strong, the Hairy People would pull a blue valve to introduce water vapor gu to cool it down;
If the fire was too weak, they would pull a red-and-white valve to introduce Fierce Wind Gu, using the wind to help the combustion.
After the Hairy People controlled the fire to the most suitable degree, they pulled another golden valve.
Countless Light Path Mortal Gu poured into the refining furnace like a waterfall. The Hairy People immediately acted, pouring in countless primeval essence with all their strength.
The light suddenly converged and then burst forth as dozens of Great Light Mortal Gu successfully flew out of the furnace.
As for the remaining hundreds of Great Light Mortal Gu, they all died inside the furnace, turning into ashes.
Feng Tianyu and Yuan Fang watched the entire process from the side, and Yuan Fang appeared exceptionally excited.
This "Dumpling Gu Refining Method" was a Gu Refining method Feng Tianyu had created himself, and he had even given it a name: "Dropping Dumplings."
Using this "Dumpling Gu Refining Method," great light gu could be refined on a large scale. Even if operated by small Hairy People, the success rate could reach ten percent.
This meant that as long as there were enough Gu materials, the production of ancient glory light would be higher.
And the foundation of all this was that the value of ancient glory light was high enough.
The Gu Yue Clan was running a monopoly; no matter how high the price was set, there were no competitors to steal the business.
At this moment, Feng Tianyu said to Yuan Fang:
"Lord Yuan Fang, I have discovered a method to increase the success rate of the 'Dumpling Gu Refining Method,' which needs to be verified. Therefore, I would like to borrow the Great Light immortal gu for a use."
Yuan Fang readily agreed. However, before lending out the Great Light immortal gu, he had to go to Lang Ya Blessed Land to handle a major matter.
It turned out that through the rank six Inspect Luck immortal gu, Yuan Fang discovered that his luck was slowly declining.
Before this, Yuan Fang had used Ma Hong Yun to take some of the Heavenly Luck, and at that time his luck was incredibly good, with everything he did going smoothly.
But now, Yuan Fang's luck was entangled with a strand of Death Qi, as if a sharp sword was hanging over his head, ready to fall and stab him to death at any moment.
Yuan Fang was a Luck Path Great Grandmaster and also a Wisdom Path Grandmaster; he had a certain ability to foresee the future.
Yuan Fang also deduced the reason for his declining luck:
It was the backlash from the heavenly luck gu.
One must know that the continuous luck immortal gu was merely a rank six immortal gu, while the heavenly luck gu was a high rank eight immortal gu.
Therefore, as long as there was a possibility of Yuan Fang dying or encountering major danger, the heavenly luck gu would abandon Yuan Fang without hesitation to preserve its own Ma Hong Yun.
As for that strand of black Death Qi, Yuan Fang guessed that it was very likely related to the Great War of Righteous and Demonic Paths on Yi Tian Mountain.
As for how to increase his own luck, Yuan Fang had two methods:
One was to connect luck with the future Great Dream Immortal Venerable, Feng Jin Huang. She was likely one of the few people in the world today whose luck could compare with Ma Hong Yun's.
But this method was also prone to backlash because Yuan Fang was not a Dao Protector, nor could he become one.
Although such behavior could alleviate immediate needs, it was ultimately like drinking poison to quench thirst.
As for the other method, it was to go to Lang Ya Blessed Land and exchange with the Lang Ya Earth Spirit for Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's Self Luck True Inheritance.
Yuan Fang already had Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's all living beings luck true inheritance, which was equally famous as the Self Luck True Inheritance and heaven and earth luck true inheritance.
With the Self Luck True Inheritance, it might not be impossible to suppress the backlash of the heavenly luck gu.