After the battle at White Bone Blessed Land, the Gu Yue Clan captured a large number of Gu Immortals.
These individuals were all members of super forces with powerful families backing them.
Therefore, as soon as the great battle concluded, the various super forces of Southern Border came knocking, bringing sky-high ransoms, seeking only to redeem their captured Gu Immortals.
In addition, there were gains in terms of war reparations.
For example, the defeated Xia Clan, because their Supreme Elder Xia Cha had been defeated, had to split off their super resource point, Flowing Moon Mountain, and hand it over to the Gu Yue Clan.
The terrain of Flowing Moon Mountain was extremely peculiar; besides the Earth Path and Metal Path dao marks inherent to normal mountains, it also contained special Space Path and Moon Path dao marks.
On Flowing Moon Mountain, there was a wonder called the Moon Falling Waterfall. Every day, thousands of Rank Five Moon Gu would flow down with the waterfall, and the resource output was terrifying.
Moreover, super resource points like Flowing Moon Mountain were not just simple producers of resources; they also had a chance to gestate immortal gu.
For instance, this Flowing Moon Mountain was gestating a Rank Six Moon Gu at the source of the Moon Falling Waterfall, though it was not yet fully formed and remained in a semi-finished state.
Yuan Fang dumped all these matters, such as releasing Gu Immortal captives and receiving war reparations, onto Gu Yue Qing Shu to handle.
After all, when it came to handling Family affairs, Gu Yue Qing Shu had always been extremely talented and efficient, keeping everything in perfect order.
In the battle of White Bone Blessed Land, although Yuan Fang had displayed an Aura of a Rank Eight Gu Immortal sufficient to shock the entire field, he had not actually broken through to Rank Eight; it was merely a facade disguised by a Transformation Path Killer Move.
However, even so, although Yuan Fang was only a Rank Seven Gu Immortal, he already possessed genuine Rank Eight combat strength.
Relying on the geographical advantage and the support of the immortal gu house, he was fully capable of fighting a real Rank Eight Gu Immortal head-on.
As for those Rank Seven powerhouses who could kill a Rank Eight Gu Immortal by their own strength, in the entire history of Gu cultivation, perhaps even Feng Jiu Ge, the first person below Rank Eight, might not be able to do it.
In the battle of White Bone Blessed Land, besides capturing Gu Immortals, Gu Yue Qing Shu and the others also killed a large number of Rank Six and Seven Gu Immortals.
Although these Gu Immortals were dead, their immortal apertures were of great value and could be recycled and utilized to maximize profits.
Some of these immortal apertures were directly crafted into life and death immortal apertures to strengthen the combat power of their own Gu Immortals;
Some were directly annexed by the sovereign immortal aperture, allowing Fang Yuan to skip calamities and tribulations, gain massive amounts of dao marks, and expand the area of his blessed land;
Others, because Fang Yuan's attainment levels in those paths were insufficient to be annexed by the sovereign immortal aperture, were all placed in a location to form ownerless blessed lands.
Ultimately, in Southern Border, the Gu Yue Clan now possessed the Flying Sword Blessed Land of Sword Path, the Letter King Blessed Land of Information Path, the Qinghai Blessed Land and West Sea Blessed Land of Water Path, and the Withered Bone Blessed Land of Bone Path, in addition to the original White Bone Blessed Land.
With a total of six blessed lands, plus the core White Bone Blessed Land, the Gu Yue Clan sat on seven blessed lands in Southern Border.
As for the previous Xiao Qiang Blessed Land, it had long since been integrated into the White Bone Blessed Land by Yuan Fang, leaving no Trace.
Besides these, there were some blessed lands that had to be temporarily abandoned because the conditions for the Earth Spirit to acknowledge a master could not be met for the time being; he would come back to make them acknowledge him when there was an opportunity in the future.
At this moment, inside the Small East Sea of the sovereign immortal aperture, within Xue Chis blessed land, Yuan Fang was directing several Rank Six Gu Immortals of the Gu Yue Clan to construct a large formation while setting it up himself.
It is well known that Gu Immortals can increase their own dao marks by annexing other grotto-heavens and blessed lands, and can even skip calamities and tribulations to directly increase their cultivation.
Generally speaking, when a Gu Immortal annexes other grotto-heavens and blessed lands, not only will the Earth Spirit and Heaven Spirit dissipate, but they can only obtain a portion of the dao marks, space, and resources of that immortal aperture, unable to inherit it completely.
But Fang Yuan's sovereign immortal aperture was completely different; it could not only allow the Earth Spirit and Heaven Spirit to continue existing but could also perfectly inherit everything of the grotto-heaven or blessed land.
At this time, after annexing multiple blessed lands, Fang Yuan's total amount of dao marks had even surpassed that of the previous Xia Cha.
Before the battle of White Bone Blessed Land, after Yuan Fang deduced the Soul Stirring and Soul Losing Killing Formation.
Yuan Fang had let his Rank Seven self gu bite the Heaven Secret Gu, then used the "Everyone is Equal" Killer Move to transfer the obtained Heavenly Dao marks to his sovereign immortal aperture, causing the foundation of the sovereign immortal aperture to skyrocket.
Perhaps due to the particularity of Heavenly Dao, Yuan Fang still remained at the ordinary Realm of Heavenly Dao, and the Heavenly Dao marks he gained were only a dozen or so.
But these dozen or so Heavenly Dao marks were enough to cause a qualitative change in the environment of the sovereign immortal aperture.
The initial version of the sovereign immortal aperture already possessed a vast area of 500 million acres, divided into Five Regions and Nine Heavens.
This almost perfectly replicated the Five Regions and Nine Heavens of the Primordial Era; whether it was the environmental layout or the distribution of dao marks, it could be called a stroke of genius, a work of supernatural craftsmanship.
Most areas of Xue Chis blessed land were almost entirely a sea of blood, which fit the environment of the East Sea the best.
Therefore, after being annexed, Xue Chis blessed land was situated in the Small East Sea of the sovereign immortal aperture.
This sea of blood was previously the place where the Rank Seven Blood Path Gu Immortal Blood Maniac used to refine the Rank Seven Blood Path immortal gu house, Rain Listening Blood Tower.
Therefore, the sea of blood was not only rich in massive amounts of Blood Path dao marks but also had quite a few Refinement Path dao marks, which could be used to build a Refinement Path Gu Formation.
Thus, Yuan Fang planned to build a Gu refinement formation here, which was the—Blood Sea Refining Formation—currently under intense construction at this very moment.
This Blood Sea Refining Formation was built with the Blood Refinement and Blood Capital immortal gu as its core.
Refining Gu in this formation could consume the water of the sea of blood, making Gu refinement more convenient and stable, significantly increasing the fault tolerance rate, and causing the success rate of Gu refinement to rise linearly.
Soon, Yuan Fang completed the construction of the Blood Sea Refining Formation and immediately entered the formation, unable to wait to start Gu refinement.
Yuan Fang first refined a batch of Rank Five My Will Gu to test the effect of the formation.
Rank Five My Will Gu was already extremely difficult to refine; usually, Yuan Fang would fail once after refining an average of thirty-nine batches of My Will Gu.
But this time, Yuan Fang directly used a portion of Wisdom Path immortal materials to replace massive amounts of Wisdom Path mortal materials and threw them into the Blood Sea Refining Formation.
As a quasi-Great Grandmaster of Refinement Path, Yuan Fang's Gu refinement techniques were already brilliant, and his success rate was already very high; now, with the added support of the Blood Sea Refining Formation, he was even more powerful.
He used one mind for multiple tasks, refining over a hundred Rank Five My Will Gu simultaneously.
Before long, a flash of blood light appeared in the formation, and Yuan Fang had actually refined over a hundred Rank Five My Will Gu in one go!
However, refining only one batch could not show the effect of the formation, so Yuan Fang continued to refine Rank Five My Will Gu.
Soon, Yuan Fang refined to the tenth time; this time, Yuan Fang failed the Gu refinement.
This failure was not because Yuan Fang's Gu refinement technique was wrong, nor was it because the Blood Sea Refining Formation was ineffective, but because of the inherent failure probability of Gu refinement, which was an unavoidable rule.
Therefore, Yuan Fang planned to refine My Will Gu one hundred times in one breath; among these one hundred times, Yuan Fang only failed twice, and the success rate far exceeded his usual performance, with the effect being obvious.
Seeing that the effect of the Blood Sea Refining Formation was excellent, Yuan Fang began to refine his real target—the Rank Six Trouble Solving immortal gu.
Yuan Fang used his Rank Seven Differentiation immortal gu to start processing Luck Path immortal materials, and only after processing the immortal materials to perfection did he throw them into the Blood Sea Refining Formation to officially start refining.
Meanwhile, in Heavenly Court of Central Continent, the Refinement Path Great Grandmaster Sha Po Po was also refining the Rank Six Trouble Solving immortal gu.
In the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, the contemporary Heavenly Watchtower Master unfortunately sacrificed himself; his sacrifice also stirred the Heavenly Court Immortal Tomb, causing the Wisdom Path expert Fairy Zi Wei to wake up from the Immortal Tomb.
According to Fairy Zi Wei's calculations, the Rank Eight Trouble Solving immortal gu had been destroyed in the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, and since immortal gu are unique, this meant that Heavenly Court could attempt to snatch the refinement of the Trouble Solving immortal gu.
In the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, Dragon Gong, the head of the three dukes of Heavenly Court, killed the Southern Desolation Immortal of Longevity Heaven.
This also meant that from then on, a death feud was formed with Longevity Heaven.
Longevity Heaven was proficient in Luck Path, but within Heavenly Court, there was only Qin Dingling, a Luck Path expert, who had not yet awakened.
Without Luck Path methods, facing Longevity Heaven, Heavenly Court was always at a disadvantage.
Therefore, Heavenly Court had to snatch the refinement of the Trouble Solving immortal gu and other Luck Path immortal gu to make up for their own shortcomings.
And among the Luck Path immortal gu in Heavenly Court's inventory, only Luck Gu and Gambling Luck immortal gu were decent; the others were not very good.
This was also because of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable; as the founder of Longevity Heaven, he certainly had to maintain Longevity Heaven.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable even wanted it so that only Gu Immortals of Longevity Heaven in the entire Five Regions and Two Heavens possessed Luck Path methods.
Therefore, Heavenly Court's progress in Luck Path had always been severely hindered.
Now that there was a chance to obtain more and better Luck Path immortal gu, how could Heavenly Court not fight for it?
"I don't know what Longevity Heaven is doing..." Fairy Zi Wei frowned, her heart full of worry.
And in Longevity Heaven of Northern Plains, the Supreme Elder of the Yao Family of Northern Plains, the Refinement Path Rank Eight expert known as the "Medicine Emperor"—Yao Sanqiu.
After the previous Southern Desolation Immortal died in battle, he had already succeeded as the new Southern Desolation Immortal.
After the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, the Rank Eight Trouble Solving immortal gu was destroyed.
If Longevity Heaven wanted to recreate the glory of Giant Sun in the future, they must once again build the Rank Eight Luck Path Immortal House, eighty-eight true yang building.
And the Trouble Solving immortal gu was one of the core immortal gu of the eighty-eight true yang building.
Therefore, Longevity Heaven had the Southern Desolation Immortal, the Refinement Path Great Grandmaster, Medicine Emperor, snatch the refinement of the Trouble Solving immortal gu.
For a time, the Gu Yue Clan of Southern Border, Heavenly Court of Central Continent, and Longevity Heaven of Northern Plains were all eyeing the same Rank Six Trouble Solving immortal gu.
Yuan Fang, Sha Po Po, and Medicine Emperor, these three top Refinement Path experts, began to compete from afar, each showing their divine abilities.
"It's about to be done!" Yuan Fang's voice carried a hint of surprise.
"Heh, Longevity Heaven is too slow, I am about to succeed." Sha Po Po smiled slightly, her tone carrying the composure of someone who had the victory in hand.
"It's done! It's about to be refined!" The Medicine Emperor's gaze was fixed tightly on the semi-finished immortal gu, with only fanaticism in his eyes.
Boom—!
With a loud noise, Yuan Fang, Sha Po Po, and the Medicine Emperor all failed their Gu refinement at the same time and suffered the backlash of Gu refinement.
Yuan Fang bled from his seven orifices, Sha Po Po almost lost half her life, and the Medicine Emperor vomited blood and was severely injured.
"How is this possible!? Could it be that someone else got there first?"
Even though they were separated by millions of miles, and even though it was not an intentional arrangement, Yuan Fang, Sha Po Po, and the Medicine Emperor all said this sentence in unison.
"This isn't right? Could the calculation be wrong? But there is clearly sufficient evidence for this!" Inside Heavenly Court, Fairy Zi Wei could not believe it.
"How is this possible! It couldn't be that the Trouble Solving immortal gu still exists in the world, right? It clearly had Luck Path support throughout the entire process; shouldn't it have been refined in one go? Or could it be that Heavenly Court refined the Trouble Solving immortal gu first?"
Longevity Heaven's Wisdom Path Great Grandmaster, Heavenly Lord of Extremity Gai Mei, even if he racked his brains, could not think of who had obtained the Trouble Solving immortal gu.
"It actually failed; what exactly went wrong here?" Yuan Fang was also full of confusion.
At this moment, inside Lang Ya Blessed Land of Northern Plains, Lang Ya Earth Spirit was leisurely sipping tea, as if the earth-shattering Gu refinement battle just now had nothing to do with him.
But on the small wooden table in front of him, that Rank Six Trouble Solving immortal gu was placed there.
It turned out that Lang Ya Earth Spirit had gotten there first!
It turned out that recently, Mao Da, Mao Two, Mao Fourteen, and the others had increased their combat power quite a bit, so they went to Northern Plains Tai Qiu together for training.
They accidentally discovered a large number of Luck Path immortal materials and handed them all over to Lang Ya Earth Spirit.
Lang Ya Earth Spirit saw so many immortal materials, and happened to have the all living beings luck true inheritance, and heard that the Trouble Solving immortal gu was destroyed, so he just refined a Trouble Solving immortal gu to play with.
Who knew, Lang Ya Earth Spirit had actually refined it in one go, which could be said to be effortless.
Just at this moment, Lang Ya Earth Spirit received the message from Yuan Fang, asking if it was Lang Ya Earth Spirit who had refined the Rank Six Trouble Solving immortal gu.
The reason Yuan Fang asked this was because he had once seen with his own eyes that the Rank Seven Golden Hammer immortal gu of Qin Bai Sheng was easily refined by Lang Ya Earth Spirit shortly after Qin Bai Sheng died.
"That's right, it was just refined not long ago. Why? Do you want to exchange it with contribution points? Your current contribution points are already enough to exchange for a Rank Seven immortal gu. And a Rank Six Trouble Solving immortal gu shouldn't be a problem."
Lang Ya Earth Spirit replied remotely using an Information Path Gu worm while sipping tea, his expression leisurely.
"Yes, this Rank Six Trouble Solving immortal gu has an important use for me, I want to use contribution points to exchange for it." Yuan Fang responded immediately.
Subsequently, Yuan Fang used Fixed Immortal Travel to teleport himself to Lang Ya Blessed Land and exchanged for the Rank Six Trouble Solving immortal gu from Lang Ya Earth Spirit.
After obtaining the Rank Six Trouble Solving immortal gu, Yuan Fang did not delay in the slightest, activated Fixed Immortal Travel to teleport again, returned to the sovereign immortal aperture, re-entered the Blood Sea Refining Formation, and continued to refine Luck Path immortal gu.
Countless white lychee immortal essence and Luck Path immortal materials were thrown into the Blood Sea Refining Formation by Yuan Fang; every time he refined Gu, it would attract massive calamities and tribulations.
But for Yuan Fang, these calamities and tribulations were just trivial matters that didn't matter.
Soon, the Luck Path immortal materials in Yuan Fang's inventory were almost exhausted, and he had also obtained several Rank Six Luck Path immortal gu that he needed.
For Yuan Fang, these immortal gu only had one purpose—to build an immortal gu house.
Using these refined Rank Six Luck Path immortal gu, as well as a large number of mortal Gu, Yuan Fang built a Rank Six Luck Path immortal gu house, which he named "Luck Boiling Pot".
As an immortal gu house, the Luck Boiling Pot had a very special form, not at all like a normal immortal gu house.
General immortal gu houses were either tall towers, such as Heaven Overseeing Tower, which was pure white and towered into the clouds;
Or they were palaces, such as Dragon Palace, which was magnificent and grand.
And the Luck Boiling Pot was just the size and shape of a pot, looking completely unremarkable.
But its function was extremely excellent and very practical.
If you were plagued by bad Luck, you could use the Luck Boiling Pot to "cook" the bad Luck that was unfavorable to you into good Luck that was favorable to you.
With the Luck Boiling Pot, Yuan Fang's Luck would definitely rise to a higher level.
Plus the Rank Seven dog shit luck immortal gu, if Yuan Fang refined a rank seven immortal gu house Luck Boiling Pot in the future, perhaps in terms of Luck, he could even surpass Ma Hong Yun, the owner of the heavenly luck gu!
Yuan Fang thought this way, feeling secretly happy in his heart.