However, methods like the Universe Expansion Immortal Gu merely served as icing on the cake. Setting aside the tremendous cost of employing such techniques, the primary factor determining the size of a blessed land was still its own grade.
Now, turning back to Fang Yuan's immortal aperture.
Each layer of his current immortal aperture had an area exceeding fifty million mu!
Fifty million mu already far surpassed the special-grade immortal aperture of any ten-extreme Gu Immortal. And this was only a single layer.
Fang Yuan discovered that his immortal aperture consisted of ten layers in total.
Each layer had an area slightly exceeding fifty million mu.
Doing the math, all ten layers together amounted to five hundred million mu!
What kind of scale was that?
Fang Yuan had no frame of reference.
He had never heard of, let alone imagined, an immortal aperture this monstrously large in all the world!
The sheer vastness of space was only the first point.
Fang Yuan's immortal aperture was divided into ten layers.
This phenomenon was extremely unusual.
A normal immortal aperture blessed land typically had no internal structure — just a single unified space. The Fox Fairy's blessed land, for instance, or the Celestial Phenomena blessed land.
When did an immortal aperture develop internal divisions?
When it became a Cave Heaven.
At that point, the immortal aperture would often undergo specific changes based on the individual Gu Immortal's circumstances, dividing into distinct internal sections.
The Myriad Star Cave Heaven was a prime example.
"My blessed land has developed features normally exclusive to Cave Heavens? Even the most elite blessed land in the world, the Lang Ya blessed land, has a unified space. And the Lang Ya blessed land fell from the Cave Heaven level. My blessed land is merely at the initial stage of the Sixth Transformation. Furthermore, on this first layer alone, there are five subdivisions."
Fang Yuan's immortal aperture comprised ten layers.
The first layer consisted of vast land, divided into five sections.
The second through tenth layers were barren, devoid of soil — completely empty.
What concerned Fang Yuan even more was the fact that the five sections of the first layer were divided with remarkable precision.
The central section seemed to have the most fertile soil and the greatest variety of terrain.
The southern section consisted mostly of hills and mountains, humid and misty.
The northern section was primarily grasslands, swept by strong winds.
The eastern section was an ocean dotted with countless archipelagos.
The western section was rather desolate, with high temperatures, dominated by gobi deserts and sandy wastelands.
"Such a layout... doesn't it correspond to the Five Regions of the current world? Southern Border, Eastern Sea, Central Land, Northern Plains, Western Desert..." Fang Yuan muttered to himself.
What truly shocked him were the second through tenth layers.
These nine levels had no soil and were completely empty. Yet each bore a color: red, orange, yellow, green, azure, blue, violet, white, and black.
"Weren't the Nine Heavens of the Primordial Era exactly these nine colors? It was only later, because of the Human Ancestor and his ten sons, that seven of the heavens collapsed and the fragments of those seven Primordial Heavens scattered across the vast earth. Now only the White Heaven and Black Heaven remain."
"Nine heavens. Five great regions. Nine and five — Supreme. So that's why it's called the Supreme Immortal Embryo Gu?"
In truth, Fang Yuan had long suspected that his immortal aperture would be different, that it would be exceptional. But he had never anticipated it would be this extraordinary.
So extraordinary that it actually made Fang Yuan feel... panicked.
Panicked?
The emotion seemed hard to understand.
But consider an analogy.
Someone like Tai Bai Yunsheng was already among the elite. A ten-extreme Gu Immortal like Hei Loulan was a genius among them.
So what did that make Fang Yuan now?
He had far transcended the category of "genius." If one word was needed to describe him, it would be: monster!
People envy and resent geniuses. But when it comes to monsters — beings that vastly exceed all reason — people panic, and they seek to... eliminate them!
In his previous life spanning five hundred years, Fang Yuan's immortal aperture had been merely high-grade. After his rebirth, after achieving immortality through the Path of Strength, it became mid-grade.
He had strived to reach special-grade.
Yet as if in an instant, he had obtained this immortal aperture.
In the blink of an eye, he went from an ordinary Gu Immortal to an aberrant monster. Naturally, a trace of panic rose in his heart.
"I absolutely cannot let this immortal aperture be exposed. Once it is, I'll likely face suppression and pursuit."
"Although, truthfully, even if I told someone about an immortal aperture like this, they probably wouldn't believe me. Ah — well, the Ghostly Beast Demon Venerable would believe it."
At this thought, Fang Yuan's expression darkened inevitably.
The more extraordinary the Nine-Five Supreme Immortal Aperture proved to be, the deeper his enmity with the Ghostly Beast Demon Venerable and Shadow Sect became!
Though Fang Yuan had yet to fully unlock the mysteries of the Supreme Immortal Aperture, based on its surface characteristics alone, his feud with Shadow Sect and the Ghostly Beast Demon Venerable was already beyond reconciliation.
Even if the opponent lacked Ninth Transformation cultivation, he was a quasi-Ninth Transformation powerhouse. Against such an enemy, Fang Yuan naturally felt tremendous pressure.
"For now, the Ghostly Beast Demon Venerable's main body remains trapped within the Dream Realm."