Chapter 1617: Crucial Tribtion


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    Soul cores with the size of a chicken egg, dark blue to the point of being ck, rained down on Dang


    Hun Mountain.


    The soul core contained all of the essence of a soul beast, after the soul beast died, its corpse would


    turn into smoke and scatter, leaving behind only its soul core.


    Soul cores condensed arge amount of soul path dao marks, they were a top tier Gu material.


    Soul cores could be found in all sizes, an ordinary soul beast’s soul core was the size of a rice grain,


    and would only be the size of a chicken egg when they reached rank six. Those of rank seven were


    slightlyrger, while a rank eight immemorial soul beast’s soul core was asrge as a horse carriage.


    After a round of discussion, Fang n finally agreed to Fang Yuan’s request, secretly sending him a


    large amount of soul cores. These soul cores were almost all rank six Gu level, with few being rank


    seven soul cores, and as for rank eight soul core, there was not even one.


    Fang Yuan had two rank eight soul cores but he was storing them, not wanting to use them for


    producing guts Gu on Dang Hun Mountain.


    Rank eight immortal materials were normally used to refine rank eight Immortal Gu or to construct a


    large formation. Using them for producing guts Gu would be somewhat of a waste of their value.


    The radiance of Dang Hun Mountain shook as the soul cores scattered into powder, sprinkling their


    essence into Dang Hun Mountain. Within moments, guts Gu started condensing with rapid speed.


    Fang Yuan nodded inwardly at this scene: “My soul path cultivation can get back on track again and


    progress swiftly.”


    Soul path foundation was extremely important to Fang Yuan.


    Enving immemorial year beasts required it, moreover the deeper the soul foundation, the more


    immemorial year beasts Fang Yuan could enve.


    Emperor yama expended soul foundation, whenever a wisdom path Gu Immortal made deductions


    about Fang Yuan, emperor yama would activate to conceal Fang Yuan while expending a portion of


    Fang Yuan’s soul foundation.


    Burning soul bursting luck also depended on soul foundation. There was also lead soul into dream,


    Fang Yuan had already studied this killer movepletely, it had a chance of failure. But if Fang


    Yuan’s soul foundation was higher than the target, the killer move’s sess rate would be much


    higher.


    Fang Yuan had directly used his name in the letter, abandoning Suan Bu Jin’s name, Fang n’s


    response was not beyond his expectations.


    To a super force, a lone force like Fang Yuan could not seize their territories, at most he could steal


    some resources. But other super forces were different, they could forcibly upy territories and seize


    entire resource points by sending in their manpower.


    The greatest threat to Fang n were the other righteous path forces that were ring at it covetously.


    “Moreover, Western Desert is somewhat special. Western Desert Gu Immortalspromise a little


    more easily than those of the other four regions.”


    This was not because Western Desert Gu Immortals were soft, it was because of the environment.


    Different from other regions, Western Desert was filled with boundless deserts and oases. If an oasis


    was destroyed in a battle between Gu Masters, they would have no foundation for survival and could


    easily perish together. On the other hand, different oases produced different resources, Gu Masters


    would need each other’s help to make up for what theyck in their cultivation. So Gu Masters often


    formed caravans and moved a long distance which was usually quite dangerous and exhausting. Thus,


    there were many coborative rtionships between Gu Masters as well as different forces.


    So, since long ago, Western Desert’s Gu Masters were molded topromise and make concessions


    for the survival of both sides.


    Any Gu Immortal had cultivated step by step from Gu Master stage. This habit had sunk deep into their


    bones and was already a part of the nature of Western Desert Gu Immortals.


    In his first life, Fang Yuan had roamed around Western Desert for some time and was well aware of the


    nature of Western Desert’s people.


    Had Fang Yuan captured Western Desert Gu Immortals, the Western Desert righteous path forces


    would havepromised quicker than Southern Border, their attitude would also be more realistic and


    proper.


    Had Fang Yuan captured Northern ins Gu Immortals, it would be a different situation. Northern


    ins Gu Immortals were often valiant and unafraid of death, they might even think it was a disgrace


    for them to be saved. Fang Yuan would suffer a headache with those captives.


    In the following days, Fang Yuan resumed his soul path cultivation while continuing to extort Southern


    Border’s righteous path forces and soul searching the captives.


    Fang Yuan’s soul search target was Xia Cha.


    Although it was rather difficult to search her soul, he was not without any progress. Fang Yuan’s


    immortal aperture’s time was very fast, under continuous effort over time, he had made many gains.


    Soon, Xia Cha’s immortal killer moves were plundered by Fang Yuan.


    Xia Cha was worthy of being Xia n’s first supreme elder, she had developed two sets of killer moves


    involving Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, these four Immortal Gu, each set had four moves.


    The first set of killer moves was mainly used for battle, spring scissors, summer fan, autumn


    perception, and winter coat.


    Among them, Fang Yuan had already seen spring scissors and summer fan. These two killer moves


    were extremely ferocious, fully disying rank eight might.


    Autumn perception was an investigative killer move which greatly made up for Fang Yuan’s


    shoring in the investigative aspect.


    Winter coat was a defensive killer move with extraordinary effect.


    The second set of killer moves was used for managing the immortal aperture, spring ploughing,


    summer hoeing, autumn harvest, and winter storage.


    Every move was ingenious and profound, the more terrifying part was when these four moves were


    used in unison, their might would be amplified and have extraordinary effect in managing the immortal


    aperture.


    Besides these, there were of course other moves as well, used for healing, movement, or evasive


    maneuvers, they were all exquisite but could notpare to these two sets of killer moves.


    In fact, conceptualizing immortal killer moves was a difficult process, there was a high requirement for


    the ability and talents of Gu Immortals.


    Central Continent’s Vicious Lightning Fiend spent a few years in closed cultivation before he was able


    to deduce the killer move lightning deity. And this was when he had blood deity’s Immortal Gu recipe as


    reference.


    Under a normal situation, without any help of wisdom path methods, a Gu Immortal would on average


    need five to six years of time to deduce and conceptualize a killer move.


    Choosing suitable Gu worms out of myriads of Gu worms was not easy. There were even countless


    choices inbining Gu worms. Even if a killer move was conceptualized, it was useless if it did not


    have practical value, and also could not be used if the side effect was too severe. Afterpleting a


    killer move, it still had to be tested and improved which was even more difficult.


    Naturally, five to six years was not referring to a Gu Immortal whole-heartedly concentrating on


    deducing the killer move without doing anything else.


    If the Gu Immortal had reference materials like Immortal Gu recipes or inheritances of predecessors,


    they could further shorten this time.


    But the time taken was normally measured in years.


    Fang Yuan seemed to be easily deducing and modifying killer moves, the main reason was the light of


    wisdom, after all, rank nine wisdom Gu was nothing to scoff at. There was also another important


    reason, that was his deep attainment level in all kinds of paths.


    The Immortal Gu and immortal killer moves obtained from Xia Cha greatly supplemented Fang Yuan’s


    strength in terms of time path, he could be said to have made huge progress, like the eruption of a


    volcano.


    But Fang Yuan was facing a rather awkward issue.


    “Spring and Summer are both rank eight Immortal Gu, they can only be activated with rank eight


    immortal essence. I am only a rank seven Gu Immortal, I don’t even have the qualifications to refine


    them without using other methods.”


    “So I still need to advance my cultivation to rank eight!”


    “Then, not only can I use Spring and Summer, there is also wisdom sword Immortal Gu.”


    Fang Yuan started deducing matters regarding his advancement to rank eight.


    Several dayster, his deduction was finished.


    Putting aside heavenly tribtions and earthly cmities, rank seven needed to pass through three


    grand tribtions to advance to rank eight, and these three grand tribtions would get increasingly


    powerful.


    Fang Yuan was currently very close to the third and final grand tribtion.


    The threat of the grand tribtion was not high to him.


    Even if heaven’s will strengthened it to the greatest limits, Fang Yuan already held firm initiative with his


    exposing heavenly secret killer move.


    What Fang Yuan was worried about was not the grand tribtion, but a possible human cmity.


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    To face the grand tribtion, he must ce his immortal aperture and connect to the outside world to


    absorb heaven and earth qi.


    At that time, Fang Yuan’s location would be directly exposed to heaven’s will, while also sharply


    increasing the difficulty in defending against others’ deductions.


    Heavenly Court absolutely would not let go of this opportunity, they should already have some


    estimations of Fang Yuan’s cultivation level.


    If Fang Yuan underwent the tribtion in Southern Border, when Southern Border’s Gu Immortals learn


    of the information, they would rush to kill Fang Yuan even if the captives were with him!


    Because if they got rid of Fang Yuan, they would have no more future trouble, and looking at the long


    term, the benefits they could gain would be evenrger.


    Fang Yuan’s dragonfish business was already obstructed by Heavenly Court, his ie falling


    massively. This showed Spectral Soul was unable to hold on and Heavenly Court was making a lot of


    progress in soul searching him. As time passed, Heavenly Court would gain more information while


    Fang Yuan would be put into an increasingly passive situation as all kinds of methods in Spectral


    Soul’s true inheritance continued to lower in value.


    “At present, Heavenly Court is my main enemy. The crucial key in the fight against Heavenly Court is


    fate Gu.”


    “If Heavenly Courtpletely restores fate Gu, I will have no more chance at victory. If I can destroy it,


    I will be able to continue to fight with them.”


    “And the crucial key to destroying fate Gu lies in Red Lotus’ true inheritance.” Fang Yuan had already


    deduced that it was very likely for Red Lotus’ true inheritance to hold the method to destroy fate Gu.


    “And to inherit Red Lotus’ true inheritance, I will have to fight in the River of Time, whether I can break


    through Heavenly Court’s defense line will depend on this third grand tribtion.”


    “If I can pass it, I will be rank eight, and will be able to use Spring, Summer, and wisdom sword


    Immortal Gu. My battle strength will soar rapidly, I will have a chance at the battle in the River of Time.”


    “If I can’t pass it, it will be my death. Even if I survive by chance, the opportunity and timing will be lost.


    After I fall by one step, I will continue to fall behind continuously, unless Heavenly Court makes a


    serious slip up, they won’t give me another chance to make aeback.”


    Fang Yuan’s mind was cool as ice, well aware of his situation.


    The important thing now was to n on how to pass the third grand tribtion and be a rank


    eight.


    In the following days, besides cultivating his soul, soul searching Xia Cha, and managing his immortal


    aperture, Fang Yuan focused on exploring dream realms, practising the new immortal killer moves as


    well as modifying the old killer moves.


    It was necessary to modify the old killer moves, especially his soul path killer moves which needed to


    be greatly improved. Otherwise, if the soul path killer moves were countered or restrained by Heavenly


    Court’s Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan would be in an extremely passive situation.


    As for practising new killer moves, Fang Yuan was mainly practising Xia Cha’s methods. He was only


    rank seven currently, but autumn Gu and winter Gu were also only rank seven, he could practise their


    corresponding immortal killer moves.


    Normally, there were two main difficulties in practising killer moves.


    One was the high chance of getting injured. But Fang Yuan had the sovereign immortal body which had


    non-conflicting dao marks and also had Man as Before, so this was not difficult to ovee.


    Second was the expenditure of immortal essence. If immortal essence was expended quickly, immortal


    essence stones had to be refined into immortal essence. Fang Yuan was low on funds before, but he


    had a lot of businesses now, so he did notck the capital!