The sun had only just risen and had yet to fully reveal itself, leaving the morning permeated with a trace of coldness and mist. Dew dripped across the grassy plains when jade light suddenly flashed and Fang Yuan appeared.
His hair was dark black, his body tall and muscular, and his eyes were as black as the deepest layer of a dark abyss. Around him, a green jade butterfly fluttered while releasing a marvelous aura.
Fang Yuan nodded slightly upon seeing this place.
"The Poisonous Grasslands… exactly like in my previous life. But this time, I arrived a little earlier…"
Fang Yuan surveyed the surroundings before directing his attention inward toward his apertures.
Both of his apertures were suppressed, reducing his cultivation to rank four peak stage. However, this did not matter. Fang Yuan possessed methods to transform his aura into that of the Northern Plains, but using them now would appear suspicious.
At the very least, none of his Gu worms had been suppressed!
Almost all of his Gu worms had been refined personally by him and contained the deepest profundities of refinement path. Even though he could not fully display the abilities of a supreme grandmaster of refinement path, he still possessed remarkable methods that prevented his Gu worms from being suppressed upon entering the five regions.
This was undoubtedly a tremendous advantage, since he no longer needed to perform any additional refinement. All he had to do was use his Gu worms directly.
"I should head deeper into the Poisonous Grasslands. Along the way, I can enslave some poisonous beard wolves and also locate Chang Shan Yin's corpse… But this time, I do not need to deal with that troublesome girl, so I can move much faster."
Mortal killer move — Body Goes After Time.
Fang Yuan activated one of the core killer moves of his time path combat system. His body turned blurry and illusory as he moved with astonishing speed, crossing ten li in a single instant!
In merely a moment, he had already entered deep into the poisonous lands. However, he soon stopped and took out Fixed Immortal Travel Gu.
"I must completely seal the aura of Fixed Immortal Travel Gu. Deep within the Poisonous Grasslands, Poison Scorpion Lady slumbers inside her blessed land while exploring dream realms. It is not impossible for her to detect my presence through the aura of Fixed Immortal Travel Gu."
Poison Scorpion Lady was a poison path immortal Gu Master, but through a fortuitous encounter, she had obtained Dream Travel Immortal Gu. This was an immortal Gu of dream path, and thus Poison Scorpion Lady secluded herself within her blessed land to research dream path.
Fang Yuan had always been extremely interested in Poison Scorpion Lady, both in his previous life and this one.
She possessed one of the immortal Gu of dream path, and during this era, dream path immortal Gu possessed immense value. In his previous life, Fang Yuan had intended to target Poison Scorpion Lady and seize Dream Travel Immortal Gu from her, but due to his lack of dream path methods, he temporarily abandoned that plan.
Dream Travel Gu allowed the user to instantly travel physically into dream realms, and even battlefield killer moves that were not of dream path could not stop it.
By the time Fang Yuan obtained dream path methods, he already possessed numerous dream path immortal Gu, all of them superior to Dream Travel Gu. He had even obtained a rank eight dream path immortal Gu!
Thus, despite his interest in Poison Scorpion Lady, he never attacked her.
"But the truly interesting matter is that Poison Scorpion Lady never emerged from her secluded cultivation, even during the era of the three venerables. There is no doubt her gains in dream path are enormous!… In this life, she is undoubtedly one of my targets!"
Fang Yuan formulated yet another sinister scheme before stopping at a suitable location.
He intended to seal the aura of Fixed Immortal Travel Gu, and he had prepared thoroughly for this, already possessing outstanding and flawless methods for the task.
Mortal killer move — Yang Darkness and Yin Darkness!
A layer of darkness as black as the night and another layer of pale darkness resembling the gloom of a moonlit night enveloped Fixed Immortal Travel Gu and revolved around it while pulling against one another with tremendous force.
A powerful attraction emerged between the two masses as they slowly fused together with Fixed Immortal Travel Gu as the foundation.
After some time, the two masses completely merged and sealed Fixed Immortal Travel Gu like two opposing yet mutually attracting symbols, concealing its aura to the utmost limit.
Fixed Immortal Travel Gu now resembled a black butterfly floating around Fang Yuan.
However, Fang Yuan was still unsatisfied and activated another killer move to seal Fixed Immortal Travel Gu further.
Fixed Immortal Travel Gu trembled several times before its aura became completely sealed, floating slowly as though immersed in oil.
Only then was Fang Yuan satisfied.
"Dark path truly excels at concealing auras. Perhaps if I research it further, I will be able to completely hide my aura when using killer moves, just like Wu Yong."
Fang Yuan contemplated expectantly while moving deeper and deeper into the Poisonous Grasslands until he finally arrived before a sea of sunflowers.
This sunflower sea was extremely strange. Every sunflower possessed a ghost face imprinted upon its surface.
Fang Yuan gazed at this resource point joyfully before taking out several Gu worms and arranging them into a formation.
"Ghost Face Sunflower is a rank four refinement material of soul path. There is an entire sea of them here, and there are also rank three Ghost Cry Gu and rank four Ghost Face Gu. This is an excellent soul path resource point… I will take it with me!"
If anyone heard Fang Yuan saying this, they would probably slap him several times and tell him to wake up. Even ordinary immortal Gu Masters possessed no method of moving such a resource point.
But Fang Yuan did!
Although this resource point was quite large, he could certainly move it and temporarily shrink its size using earth path methods before sending it into Hu Immortal Blessed Land.
Fang Yuan arranged an immortal formation, exhausting nearly all the primeval essence in his first aperture and a portion from his second aperture before the formation finally activated.
However, with Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus Gu, his primeval essence recovered within only a few breaths.
The earth shook violently, and the tremors spread for several kilometers!
Under the crushing power of the formation, the Ghost Face Sunflower field gradually shrank while neither the Gu worms nor the living creatures inside could escape.
In the end, the Ghost Face Sunflower field shrank to the size of a basin and flew into Fang Yuan's arms, causing him to sweat heavily as he carried it.
Fang Yuan observed the Ghost Face Sunflower field as joy flashed across his face.
The field had preserved all of its dao marks, meaning its value remained entirely intact and productivity would not decrease even after relocation.
"Ah… carrying this resource point is truly difficult."
Fang Yuan groaned softly as the pressure from carrying the resource point nearly crushed him.
The Ghost Face Sunflower field was merely a small-scale resource point, roughly equal in value to fox groups and superior to stone ring liquid and star fragment grass fields.
Yet Fang Yuan's ability to carry it was both astonishing and shocking!
Star Gate Gu opened while several hundred starfirefly Gu floated above it. The Ghost Face Sunflower field passed through Star Gate Gu.
The pressure placed upon Star Gate Gu was tremendous, but it endured long enough for the Ghost Face Sunflower field to pass through before Star Gate Gu itself was destroyed.
Within Hu Immortal Blessed Land, Little Hu Immortal had already prepared herself to receive the Ghost Face Sunflower field.
Admiration, appreciation, respect, reverence, and every sort of positive emotion shimmered within her eyes.
"Master is truly omnipotent!.. He only left for a few days, yet he already sent gifts back to me!"
Little Hu Immortal activated the killer move Fang Yuan had given her. From within Star Gate Gu, the Ghost Face Sunflower field emerged, and she easily caught it before relocating it to the eastern region.
"The blessed land develops more and more every single day under Master's management!.. Even my original body could never have dreamed of reaching such a stage of development!"
Hu Immortal Blessed Land had been developed magnificently by Fang Yuan. Even during his absence, there were hundreds of Farmer Gu, Beast Tamer Gu, and Astrologer Gu — those who had transformed into Gu Masters. These individuals created rivers and hills, managed vegetation, and even caused the underground environment to display signs of life.
Likewise, the fox groups, the star fragment grass field, and the starfirefly Gu were all carefully managed by them.
It could be said that Fang Yuan continued developing the blessed land even while absent!
Little Hu Immortal possessed boundless loyalty toward Fang Yuan, the master of this blessed land.
But she could not help finding herself increasingly filled with admiration and respect for him.
"With the Ghost Face Sunflower field placed in the eastern region, a nourishing cycle will form. Foxes will enter the field, die, and their souls will transform into Ghost Face Sunflowers… And as the number of souls increases, the soul path dao marks will increase as well, producing larger quantities of Ghost Cry Gu and Ghost Face Gu!"
Little Hu Immortal's eyes sparkled with admiration as she imagined the glorious future of the blessed land alongside her master.