Seven days had passed since the beast tide on Tian Ti Mountain. The beasts were almost completely calm and recovering their numbers. It was their instinct to reproduce and keep their kind from going extinct on the mountain. The beast groups divided the large step-like cliffs and plains on the mountain into several territories. Clouds descended during the night time and fog thickened around the mountain, making it dangerous for others to explore Tian Ti Mountain. Unfortunately, there were nobody around the mountain to explore it. Ju Lin survived the beast tide because of Lo Jik but others were not blessed with the protection of a gu immortal. It would take another one and a half month for the gu masters and mortals already on their way to Tian Ti Mountain to arrive but even that was questionable after the beast tide.
Nobody wanted to throw their lives away unnecessarily. Most mortals would not dare getting close to Tian Ti Mountain after the recent disasters and losses.
Lo Jik had to appear by tomorrow, which gave him five more days inside Hu Immortal Blessed Land and thirty days within his human path blessed land.
The benefits of high attainment only snowballed with more time. These days, most of Lo Jik's issues were resolved within a few hours itself. His accumulation of clones had also reached a qualitative change as he finally allowed them to manage his blessed lands on a larger scale.
Ironically, Lo Jik spent greater time and effort concealing his tracks than cultivation itself. But the stronger he grew, the lesser the inherent need to hide in the shadows. Lo Jik didn't necessarily chase after glory and reputation and did not feel any impatience at gathering strength in silence.
Thirty/Fifty days in his blessed lands was similar to another qualitative transformation.
These days were well-spent with his lovers and he accumulated a few bronze rewards. He didn't wait for silver rewards and summoned all the rewards as he acquired them, acquiring the corpses of several dead desolate beasts and other immortal materials.
Naturally, his strength path dao marks rose by a significant margin.
He used Fickle Body Strength immortal killer move on the corpses and remains of Grand Illusion Oak, Hidden Essence Turtle, Star Line Shark, Bronze Boar, and Yin-Yang Panda.
An increase of whopping 2000 strength path dao marks!
His soul foundation also grew from 130,000-man soul to 440,000-man soul, his cultivation improving immensely since Accumulation Immortal Gu.
He acquired more materials than just these corpses but they were necessary for refining immortal gu.
Similarly, Lo Jik spent more time adjusting the polishing the formation for refining pills and increased the efficacy of the pills from five human path dao marks to eight and the number of pills refined increased from 20 to 24. This was an improvement of 92%!
His increase in human path foundation was even larger.
He refined 24 pills everyday and increased the number of his human path dao marks from a humble 576 to 4224! This was an increase of 3648 dao marks. Unfortunately, Lo Jik's wealth could not account for everything. A grotto-heaven's foundation could not be underestimated but two crucial materials meant to refine the pills went out of stock!
It was truly a laughable situation.
Lo Jik was restricted by his surroundings itself or his growth would have been even more terrifying.
And all this happened when most of Lo Jik's attainment for various paths remained at the realm of a grandmaster.
Lo Jik's greatest restriction was his lack of immortal materials itself.
He could generate any number of mortal gu materials and found a viable but taxing solution.
He could refine his own materials.
Lo Jik modified and refined Bandit Giants from Bandit Monkeys. It was an aspect of refinement path. One didn't just refine the gu but also the materials. Lo Jik could combine several mortal materials with the right formation and setting to acquire the right variety of immortal material.
But he didn't dare do this even with his clones.
The intensity of deductions necessary to refine every single necessary immortal material was truly too straining. He would rather have his clones carefully manage the two blessed lands and the grotto-heaven. Just because he could do something didn't necessarily mean it was a step in the right direction.
So, Lo Jik still couldn't refine more immortal gu worm. Not that he currently needed to.
Currently, the number of his strength path and human path dao marks each rivaled veteran rank 6 gu immortals. He had a host of immortal gu worms and immortal killer moves, and his strength as a food path and dream path far surpassed his strength and human path foundation. The issue of mobility was solved and Love Gu did not show any negative reactions towards the fake aperture. The addition of human path dao marks also fortified his second blessed land, easing the burden of Disguise Immortal Gu a fair bit while simultaneously increasing the production of several human path materials. The same was the case with his first strength path blessed land.
His clones also spent countless hours working tirelessly to develop every inch of the blessed lands. They transplanted grass and soil, dug out wells, and created several immortal formations using immortal materials alone.
The current Lo Jik could kick Bai La's ass.
Well, he didn't plan on kicking that ripe ass but some payback was due, right?
Furthermore, using Accumulation Immortal Gu, Lo Jik could use a slew of luck path immortal killer moves. His luck had been at its best.
He promptly exploited every avenue of growth as the noise related to False Transformation Immortal only continued to grow.
Seeing that he was nearing an eventual bottleneck due to the lack of necessary materials, Lo Jik thoughtfully diverted his attention to Core Beast Formation.
Lo Jik did not pin all his hope for acquiring immortal materials on Lang Ya Blessed Land. His greatest priority in Lang Ya Blessed Land was not even any immortal material or an immortal gu worm. He wanted to plunder something far more enticing!
Besides, when it came to acquiring immortal materials, Sea of Wealth was simply too convenient to let go and not develop any further.
He was already number one individual in terms of building gu houses. Imagine the kind of leverage he would have on the gu world if he could solve the issue of Wealth Gu at the immortal level and start the cycle of acquiring any and every rank 6 immortal materials.
Materials and 100% refinement success rate—he could actually develop a mind-boggling and never-to-seen-before business of trading immortal gu worms!
So, plundering Lang Ya Blessed Land could not compare to the potential of this path.
And to achieve this dream, Lo Jik needed to research Core Beast Formation and improve upon it using his own foundation.
Leylin had the assistance of A.I. chip, but it was similar to using one's accumulated information to deduce more things in Pool of Wisdom gu house. Meanwhile, Lo Jik's attainment generated countless ideas that even an A.I. chip couldn't rival.
Leylin's memories were also extremely valuable. Back then, the A.I. chip communicated with Heaven's Will during Leylin's ascension and recorded information about several paths. Lo Jik still spent a long time studying these before realizing that this information was even more general and vague than his own acquisition of knowledge during his breakthrough. This wasn't weird. Back then, Leylin himself was busy enjoying the benefits from heaven and earth. The A.I. chip ran on its own and did not have any specific order to extract precise information from this union of human with heaven and earth.
Time, unfortunately, finally ran out. Lo Jik stepped out of Hu Immortal Blessed Land without Ju Lin this time around.
A total of eight days changed Lo Jik's position from one of the mid-tiered rank 6 gu immortals to someone boasting great strength among rank 7 gu immortals!
But what was there to feel arrogant about?
Feng Jiu Ge existed like a lone star shining upon the entire Central Continent. There was none other like him at this moment! Furthermore, for all of Lo Jik's growth, he still hadn't completed his research on immortal aperture origin cores and solving the issue of Divine Concealment capping his cultivation. If things progressed like this, Lo Jik might have dao marks no worse than rank 8 gu immortals while still being stuck as a rank 6 gu immortal. It meant that his blessed land would continue producing beads of green grape immortal essence and nothing else.
How could Lo Jik feel satisfied with this?
His luck was truly solid, right?
But he still did not compare to Feng Jin Huang's natural luck.
There were still several areas he failed to develop.
'Damn it!' He frowned and thoughts shamelessly. 'I should have fought for more time!'
All his methods could already revolutionize the many aspects of gu cultivation, each one capable of causing storm and widespread bloodshed.
'Sigh…' He floated midair and observed Tian Ti Mountain.
'I'll have to push other tasks back and focus on maintaining pretenses. Being part of righteous path is still advantageous enough for me to bear such limitations. But I should keep up with the daily fuck routine with Hu Mei Er and see what rewards get summoned as platinum achievements.'
His trait accumulated rewards based on his social rank, which was determined by his cultivation rank. Despite gaining unholy strength, the earlier accumulated rewards did not simply vanish and reset for Hu Mei Er due to the change in strength because the trait did not count dao marks. His immortal aperture origin core had also yet to experience any tribulation and was similar to a recently advanced gu immortal. All this allowed Lo Jik to maintain the same progress with Hu Mei Er.
'About 149 days before I accumulate enough rewards to combine platinum rewards.' Lo Jik thinned his lips. This was the time based on time flow of the main continent. As such, he would need to make multiple trips to his second blessed land within a single day. Anywhere Door also cost Lo Jik immortal essence every time he used it.
'I also need to let down my blessed land and mediate qi. It has been sufficient time and the resources inside the blessed land are causing slight strain on the aperture.'
Lo Jik planned while flying towards a certain cliff on Tian Ti Mountain.
It was an ordinary cliff with a dried piece of flat land untouched by flying beasts. This piece of land did not grow any vegetation and had tough rocks under the thin layer of dried soil. The beasts on Tian Ti Mountain did not consume such rocks while the beasts that did feed on these reserves of minerals could not travel to this point because of the obstructing beast groups spread across Tian Ti Mountain's surface.
Several gu immortals appeared from their hiding spots as Lo Jik approached this cliff. They were all rank 6 gu immortals at a glance, each sporting cautious gazes as they dared not underestimate Lo Jik after his earlier performance of surviving a detonation of a rank 6 strength path immortal gu.
Lo Jik was a tough character, that much was already known by these lone gu immortals.
"Ah, everyone is here." Lo Jik smiled mockingly, his eyes narrowed and gaze piercing. "Did you find something interesting? Could it be that everyone forgot that Tian Ti Mountain is off limits?"
His words were like pouring a glass of water in smoking hot oil. Others erupted around him, speaking with moving indignation.
"How can you say something so heartless, Fickle Consort Immortal? Tian Ti Mountain belongs to everyone in Central Continent!" One of the gu immortals hissed. The other pointed at Lo Jik's nose, sneering. "You have the galls to claim Tian Ti Mountain is a restricted location after damaging it? What is Spirit Affinity House planning? Do you think you can oppress all of us without reasons?"
Others spoke one after another.
They accused him and his sect. They spoke of some mysterious conspiracy with such a tone that even Lo Jik wished to believe them. Why? Because it would be right up Lo Jik's alley to conspire against the world for a shred of entertainment. It was honest fun is all.
However, Lo Jik's mind was ice-cold. He did not interrupt them at all and activated several killer moves to observe the inheritance hidden in the region.
The sudden beast tide might intimidate mortals and destroy several meticulously planned inheritance grounds, but it was a wave of opportunity for gu immortals. The beast tide itself revealed clues for several inheritances and these gu immortals hoped to encounter a gu immortal's inheritance. Who knows, they might get lucky and acquire an immortal gu worm.
Lo Jik was clear about their thoughts and also knew they were probably all contacted by the remaining nine great ancient sects to cause trouble for Lo Jik. The mountain no longer had any desolate or ancient desolate beast. It was the perfect time for these gu immortals to investigate and explore Tian Ti Mountain. Not just them, more gu immortals would arrive soon enough.
Part of the reason Lo Jik emerged from Hu Immortal Blessed Land was due to Spirit Affinity House's mission.
Lo Jik could not let a single demonic gu immortal climb and explore Tian Ti Mountain. That was the sect's bottom line. But these lone gu immortals might just trouble him later on.
'Should I kill them all?' Lo Jik considered the quickest solution to the current dilemma. Battling on Tian Ti Mountain was forbidden. But he could lead them elsewhere and simply slaughter them all.
But that was just a small portion of his thoughts. A majority of Lo Jik's thoughts quickly deduced several plans and their short-term and long-term effects.
"You are right."
Lo Jik suddenly smiled and turned around.
"I feared all of you might cause more troubles, but you are all sincere and only wish to explore Tian Ti Mountain. Tian Ti Mountain is Central Continent's public wealth! Forgive my intrusion. I hope all of you compete harmoniously for the inheritance you found on this cliff."
Of course, Lo Jik would have driven them off in case of an immortal true inheritance.
"He actually left?"
"Could he be secretly injured?"
"Let's contact those scheming elders and let them deal with this."
The seven rank 6 gu immortals had the same thought before they glared at each other cautiously.
They temporarily allied with each other to present a strong front against Lo Jik, but this coalition dissolved the second he retreated. These gu immortals were also competing with each other for this inheritance.
Of course, they wouldn't escalate things to a damaging level for a mortal inheritance and thought about a few competitions.
None of them were demonic path gu immortal and did not instantly resort to killing for such a meager thing.
Their lives were simply too valuable compared to a mortal inheritance.
'What kind of timing is this?'
Lo Jik secretly furrowed his brows.
'Things in Lang Ya Blessed Land change the moment I plan on dealing with these goons.' Lo Jik observed his luck and noticed how the black thorns growing from Chen Jiu's blossom luck thickened.
'Chen Jiu never left Southern Border so her background should be limited to the same region. I'm planning to leave for Northern Plains but my luck shows such a reaction. How can Chen Jiu's background be also present in Northern Plains? And why is there this instinctive aggression towards me?'
Lo Jik observed before smiling instead.
'Isn't this interesting?'
He created a small cave to prepare for his departure. But he didn't immediately leave. He arranged a formation around the cave before creating three layers of immortal formation around the cave.
Immortal killer move: Anywhere Door.
Lang Ya Blessed Land won't be destroyed so quickly. It could wait.
As planned before, Lo Jik prioritized his starved pinkette. It helped that Chen Jiu felt more relaxed ever since she healed completely. She was not as insatiable as Hu Mei Er but often joined in, because why not?
She had spent nearly her entire life oppressed by other individuals.
Lo Jik might be strong, but he did not commit any malicious actions against Chen Jiu. That was more than enough to steal her heart, then her kisses, and then the rest of her body.
Chen Jiu and Xin Cheng both experienced watching Lo Jik sleeping with his lovers without a break, and now she joined the crucial human path rituals with great intrigue and desire.
It also helped Lo Jik designed fun outfits every now and then.
So, as the seven gu immortals competed for the mortal inheritance, the many supreme elders of the ten great ancient sects schemed against Lo Jik and Faceless Transformation Immortal, and Lang Ya Blessed Land experienced another siege, Lo Jik spent hours inside his human path blessed land, blissfully cultivating his relationship with Hu Mei Er and Chen Jiu.
Being strong…
Being capable enough to become carefree…
It was truly a blessing!
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Alternate Title: So… a human path ritual is what we're calling it now?; Qualitative growth by the day; Eight days; Explosive growth; Polishing pill formation; Human path foundation increased; Need for qi mediation; Lacking materials; Option A: Kick Bai La's ass; Option B: Kiss Bai La's ass; Option F?; Dedication for platinum achievements; Lo Jik putting in time and work every minute of the day *Blissful Hu Mei Er noises*; Lang Ya siege; The interrupting gu immortals; A true blessing; Slight limitations; Monsters surrounding the hidden threat; Uncovered inheritance; Lo Jik backs off for the greater good *Said greater good attracting siege from Shadow Sect*; Banging Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's will after all!; The Fucker Demon Venerable
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