This immortal Gu was only as large as an adult's index finger, its entire body a silvery-white color that gleamed with a dazzling luster. It resembled a centipede, but where a centipede would have a hundred legs, this creature instead had soft, slender bristles.
"This looks like... the Sword Brow Immortal Gu?"
Fang Yuan thought for a moment, and a flash of insight sparked in his mind.
This was one of the pieces of intelligence he had gleaned from the materials Feng Jinhuang had provided.
Sword Immortal Bo Qing had once possessed a seventh transformation immortal Gu called the Sword Brow. It wasn't an offensive Gu, but rather one used for cultivating the Dao of the Sword.
When a Gu Immortal activated it, the Gu itself would reshape the user's eyebrows. Within each fine strand of eyebrow hair, a Sword Dao Dao Mark would be inscribed.
Dao Marks served as powerful amplifiers of an immortal Gu's might.
No matter how thick or thin a person's eyebrows were, if you actually counted each strand, the total number would be quite substantial.
"This immortal Gu holds great value, but for me, it's barely better than useless. After all, I don't follow the Sword Dao as my path." Fang Yuan likewise wrapped this immortal Gu tightly in Mo Yao's breath and carefully stowed it away.
Moments later, a third immortal Gu appeared of its own accord before Fang Yuan.
This one was rather peculiar.
It had no fixed form — it looked like a serpent, yet also resembled a sword. Its entire body seemed to be composed of a pale blue, semi-transparent liquid.
Once drawn out, it circled and danced ceaselessly around Fang Yuan.
The liquid took the shape of a sword blade, vivid and lifelike. But because it was in constant motion, the blade appeared as supple as silk, while simultaneously giving Fang Yuan the sensation of extreme sharpness.
Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body already possessed decent natural defenses. Yet as this Gu circled him, wherever it passed, he felt a cutting sensation on the skin closest to it.
Drawing on his intelligence, Fang Yuan deduced that this immortal Gu was likely the seventh transformation Wave Sword Gu.
According to the historical records in the Spirit Affinity House, Sword Immortal Bo Qing had once attempted to elevate this Wave Sword Gu to the eighth transformation level. But he had failed.
The failed refinement cost Bo Qing dearly — the seventh transformation Wave Sword Gu was utterly destroyed.
But later, Bo Qing had spent enormous time and effort to re-refine a sixth transformation Wave Sword Gu. After that, he painstakingly raised it back up to the seventh transformation level once more.
The fourth immortal Gu was the Flying Sword Gu. Its outward appearance resembled a silver-winged dragonfly.
This seventh transformation immortal Gu was one of the most frequently used combat Gu of Sword Immortal Bo Qing.
He used this Gu as the core, supplemented by other immortal Gu and numerous mortal Gu, to compose many Sword Dao killing moves that had left deep marks in history.
Among them were the Invisible Flying Sword killing move, the Sky-Soaring Flying Sword killing move, the Relentless Pursuit Flying Sword killing move, the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Sword killing move...
The fifth immortal Gu was one designed specifically for movement, called the Sword Escape Gu.
It resembled a golden-needle bee. Once activated, its body would transform into a sharp sword that pierced through space, hurtling forward.
Its speed was so fast it could almost rival qi-escape immortal Gu of the same rank. Among Bo Qing's countless illustrious battle achievements over his lifetime, there was one famous example.
At the seventh transformation level, he had faced off against a fellow Gu Immortal of equal rank. After three rounds, the opponent could not hold his ground and activated a seventh transformation qi-escape immortal Gu to flee.
Bo Qing gave chase on his Sword Escape Immortal Gu.
Though he did not manage to close the kill, neither did the distance between them widen.
Then Bo Qing activated his immortal killing move "One Sword Unbounded." One of the core immortal Gu powering this technique was precisely this Sword Escape Gu.
With a single strike, the enemy's head went flying, life and death decided in an instant.
After collecting the five immortal Gu, Fang Yuan still didn't want to stop. He continued his work on the dormant immortal zombie Bo Qing.
Mo Yao's false intent was limited, and he had already consumed sixty-five percent of it.
"I wonder what the next immortal Gu will be?" Fang Yuan's heart was filled with both anticipation and tension.
He was like a man dancing on the tip of a blade.
If the immortal zombie Bo Qing awakened, things would go very badly for him.
But Fang Yuan already knew that what currently occupied the corpse was Mo Yao's remnant soul — so it wasn't as though he had no means of handling the situation.
With his silver tongue and gift for eloquent words, there was no shortage of chances to bamboozle an immortal zombie and a remnant soul.
The real fear was that the immortal zombie Bo Qing would wake up in a state of shock and fury, leaving Fang Yuan no time at all, and simply cut him down on the spot.
Of course, Fang Yuan would never deliberately awaken the immortal zombie Bo Qing. He would not stake his own life on the reactions of others.
This time, he continued trying to summon the remaining Gu, but there was still no sign of anything.
The longest wait yet.
More than three-quarters of an hour had passed, and still nothing had manifested.
"Could it be that there are no more immortal Gu on the body of the immortal zombie Bo Qing? That shouldn't be possible, right? If he only had this many immortal Gu, how could he have unleashed sword light that covered the entire Central Continent with unparalleled power?"
A full hour passed, and the Mo Yao false intent in Fang Yuan's hand had nearly run dry.
Suddenly, something stirred in his mind.
He had set up a number of mortal Gu and Gu formations for scouting near the bank of the Falling Sky River. Without warning, large clusters of mortal Gu and several formations were being plucked away in rapid succession.
"Another Gu Immortal has arrived!" Fang Yuan's expression darkened.
Previously, Fang Yuan had spent a considerable amount of time collecting immortal materials on the river surface. If he calculated the timing, it wasn't surprising that a Gu Immortal would show up around now.
But if this Gu Immortal discovered the anomaly at the bottom of the river and approached Fang Yuan, then things would get very troublesome.
What Fang Yuan feared wasn't this Gu Immortal — it was the immortal zombie Bo Qing. After all, an outsider wouldn't have Mo Yao's false intent and wouldn't understand the situation. What if they accidentally awakened the immortal zombie Bo Qing, who then saw Fang Yuan in the act of stealing his immortal Gu?
Heh.
The outcome went without saying.