Phantom Aperture Gu was something Fang Yuan had intended to create long ago in his previous life. One only needed to look at the benefits of this supreme method when it was used by Heavenly Court or Shadow Sect.
For example, Zhao Lian Yun had merely been a mortal Gu Master when Heavenly Court granted her a phantom aperture. Yet she was able to produce immortal essence and use Immortal Gu. Or Bai Ning Bing, who had been given a phantom aperture by Shadow Sect and, because of it, possessed the battle strength of a Gu Immortal.
After Fang Yuan inherited Shadow Sect's legacy, it naturally included their research regarding the phantom aperture method. Shadow Sect's phantom aperture was inferior to Heavenly Court's phantom aperture, as it required periodic renewal and possessed several other minor flaws.
However, in his previous life, Fang Yuan had improved this method and intended to use it on his subordinates to gain greater control over them while devouring their immortal apertures to increase his own accumulation. Unfortunately, that endeavor never saw the light of day. Yet in this life, the phantom aperture was of immense importance to his plans inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and his scheme to seize Imperial Court blessed land.
"With the phantom aperture, I possess the true battle strength of a Gu Immortal! Once I retrieve my Immortal Gu from Lang Ya blessed land, my battle strength will surpass most rank seven Gu Immortals. But against experts like Shi Lei and Chu Du, I am still inferior."
Fang Yuan analyzed the increase in his battle strength when using immortal killer moves and discovered that it far exceeded the ordinary standard!
He contacted Lang Ya land spirit.
"Land spirit, transfer the Immortal Gu to me, along with immortal essence stones!"
Fang Yuan ordered Lang Ya land spirit before swiftly constructing an immortal formation of space path. Fang Yuan could already establish immortal formations using natural dao marks even as a mortal Gu Master.
Now that he possessed the strength of a Gu Immortal, his efficiency had improved severalfold. Even so, constructing the immortal formation still required tremendous effort.
"Space path methods are heavily restricted inside Imperial Court blessed land. Even this formation, which can be considered linked to the blessed land itself, is somewhat suppressed."
This was not strange to Fang Yuan. Imperial Court blessed land was the number one blessed land in the world. Without question, many Gu Immortals would attempt to use various methods to infiltrate it. Among those, space path methods were the most common, so it was impossible for Giant Sun Immortal Venerable to overlook such a loophole.
Nevertheless, Fang Yuan still completed the immortal formation despite the difficulty. He activated the formation with his full strength, and with endless primeval essence fueling it, the formation emitted a tremendous rumble.
At the same time, inside Lang Ya blessed land, the main formation activated!
The formation contained numerous Immortal Gu. Fang Yuan had even used Divine Travel Gu as the core of the formation, elevating it into a supreme immortal formation. The power of the main formation was truly immense. Amid deafening noise that echoed throughout Lang Ya blessed land, numerous Immortal Gu were transported into the center of the formation.
"This is truly exhausting… Master never rests. He moves everywhere, refines Gu, cultivates bitterly, and deeply schemes every step. I want to advise him that cultivating like this will harm him, but he probably understands that better than I do."
Lang Ya land spirit grumbled worriedly after transferring the Immortal Gu and immortal essence stones before returning to manage Lang Ya blessed land.
More than ten Immortal Gu were transferred to Fang Yuan, who immediately collected them. Alongside them were over four thousand immortal essence stones and countless mortal Gu!
Fang Yuan gathered all the Gu worms and immortal essence stones before placing them inside his phantom aperture.
"Qi Strength Gu, Before Time Gu, After Time Gu, Months Flow Like Water Gu, Time Needle Gu, Conceal Time Gu, Consecutive Years Gu, Myriad Self Gu, Group Strength Gu, Wave Gu, Earth Renewal Gu, Wood Sprout Gu, along with Self Cleansing Gu and Self Love Gu… all of these are Immortal Gu!"
Fang Yuan could not help but admire his own progress. Although most of these Immortal Gu were merely rank six, with only Time Needle Gu and Conceal Time Gu being rank seven—
They covered most of the paths he would need. And if he required more Immortal Gu, he could simply contact Lang Ya land spirit and obtain whatever he needed.
All of these Immortal Gu had been refined by Fang Yuan himself and were filled with his will, so there was no need to undergo the time-consuming process of refining them again. Instead, he shifted his attention toward the immortal essence stones Lang Ya land spirit had sent him.
The quantity was enormous—around four thousand immortal essence stones. If Fang Yuan converted them into immortal essence, he would possess four thousand beads of green grape immortal essence. With such an amount of immortal essence, dealing with most matters inside the blessed land would become easy.
Fang Yuan spent several hours in place, converting all the immortal essence stones into green grape immortal essence.
Immortal Killer Move — Self Will Deduction!
Fang Yuan activated a wisdom path killer move that used Self Love Gu as its core. Two beads of green grape immortal essence were consumed.
Fang Yuan's mind filled with wills that deduced at dozens of times the efficiency he could achieve while using mortal killer moves.
His deductions advanced smoothly, and Fang Yuan sank into an ocean of thoughts and inspiration. He first focused on determining the best strategy to obtain the greatest benefits while minimizing risk as much as possible.
The wills inside his mind diminished slightly, consuming only a small portion before several practical solutions emerged!
But he continued deducing, achieving several breakthroughs and gaining deeper insight into his situation.
After an hour of deduction, Fang Yuan finished the first phase and turned toward creating and modifying killer moves. He began with wood path killer moves, which he would need to plunder resource points containing vegetation.
Fang Yuan possessed a deep foundation in wood path and countless true inheritances from wood path experts. Thus, he modified and created several basic immortal killer moves. Then he moved to earth path, which was much easier this time and only took minutes to produce valuable results.
Earth path excelled at dealing with mountain-based resource points that possessed mountain roots—or moving entire regions of land without suffering major dao mark losses.
Afterward, Fang Yuan modified his water path killer moves to handle the Water Pavilion and water path resource points.
Then came strength path.
Fang Yuan had to devote greater effort toward strength path.
"I possess an extremely deep foundation in strength path, and my attainment level is great grandmaster in strength path. Furthermore, I already possess several immortal killer moves in strength path that require modification."
Fang Yuan first thought about the immortal killer move Myriad Self. This killer move was extraordinarily profound, capable of creating strength path phantoms resembling the main body itself.
And it should be remembered that the core Immortal Gu of this immortal killer move belonged to human path.
Fang Yuan did not lack attainment. Immediately, countless brilliant ideas and additions flooded his mind.
"If I add Group Strength Immortal Gu, All-Out Effort Immortal Gu, and Qi Strength Immortal Gu, the power of the killer move will undoubtedly increase severalfold… but the number of thoughts required will also rise dramatically."
The more complex a killer move became, the stronger it would be—but the activation time would also increase.
This was not a problem for wisdom path Gu Immortals, nor for Fang Yuan.
Thus, after some consideration, Fang Yuan decided to add the additional Immortal Gu.
Immortal Killer Move — Myriad Self!
Fang Yuan tested the immortal killer move, and tens of thousands of strength path phantoms appeared instantly. These figures resembled Fang Yuan himself, but this time streams of qi were stored inside their bodies.
This immediately drew Fang Yuan's interest, and he controlled one of the strength path phantoms.
The strength path phantom exploded with terrifying power comparable to a rank five Gu Master's self-detonation, causing numerous nearby strength path phantoms to explode alongside it.
"Interesting… this is the effect of adding Qi Strength Immortal Gu. Then what about Group Strength Immortal Gu?"
Group Strength Gu was extremely suitable for the killer move Myriad Self, as it could concentrate the power of the group into a single individual. It was precisely because of this that Fang Yuan had gained the inspiration to create giant strength path hands.
Fang Yuan controlled the strength path phantoms before discovering the role of Group Strength Immortal Gu.
One of the strength path phantoms suddenly swelled like an enormous balloon before exploding with horrifying force.
Fang Yuan was shocked and immediately dodged the blast radius.
Qi spread through the air alongside dense strength path aura. The region, which had once been green rolling hills, transformed into a circular trench five meters deep that stretched for an entire mile.
Fang Yuan arrived to inspect the scene and could not help but praise it.
"The explosive power is truly astonishing. It is practically an immortal killer move by itself. More importantly, Group Strength Immortal Gu can be used either to create explosions or to pour the power of strength path phantoms into selected individuals, increasing the individual combat power of the strength path phantoms."
Fang Yuan became fascinated and continued performing more deductions and modifications.
That was simply how it was—one could never fully comprehend the complete depth of a killer move without practicing it extensively for a long period of time.