"In comparison to Hei Cheng, although I possess numerous Immortal Gu, my development of them is insufficient." Fang Yuan reflected, examining himself.
Hei Fan's True Inheritance had given him much food for thought, but he did not waver: "Feeding so many Immortal Gu is certainly not wrong either."
Gu Immortals could never take tribulations too lightly. The higher one's cultivation, the more difficult tribulations became.
Hei Fan had few Immortal Gu, so the burden of feeding them was light. But his methods were numerous, more than enough to handle various situations. Most of his resources were accumulated. Even if he sold them for Immortal Essence Stones, they could be converted into substantial Immortal Essence reserves.
Moreover, Hei Fan still had a clan — a super force with the Golden Bloodline. Hei Fan also liked to support the younger generation. In truth, he had many Immortal Gu that were not particularly important. Before arranging his True Inheritance, he had gradually distributed them to the orthodox Gu Immortals of the Hei family, or stored them as the Hei family's treasury for future inheritance.
Hei Fan did not possess Ten Absolute aptitude. His Immortal Orifice's potential was limited, and the resources he could manage had an upper bound.
All things considered, feeding a small number of Immortal Gu and developing a large number of killer moves was absolutely the wise choice.
But Fang Yuan was different.
Specific situations always required specific analysis.
The first and biggest difference was the Supreme Immortal Orifice.
The Supreme Immortal Orifice's potential was immense. Raising Gu was a burden, and feeding Immortal Gu was an even greater burden. But Fang Yuan could afford it, and with room to spare.
The second difference was that Fang Yuan was alone.
He was by himself — one person fed, the whole family had no worries! He didn't need to worry about any clan, nor did he have to care about any descendants or juniors.
This was the advantage of being alone.
A clan's advantage lay in resource sharing and mutual support. But at the level someone like Hei Fan had reached, it meant he put in more effort while the clan benefited more.
However, Hei Fan had never thought about leaving his clan.
He had grown up within the clan's atmosphere. Throughout the entire process, he had received much care from the clan, forming bonds of family affection, friendship, love, and other ties. His heart was connected to the clan, and to his descendants and juniors.
A person's upbringing had an enormous influence on them.
But Fang Yuan was free and unfettered, with virtually zero burden in this regard. Although he had joined some Langya sect, it was purely for utilization.
The third difference was that Fang Yuan faced enormous survival pressure.
He needed to have a large number of Immortal Gu. Immortal Gu were unique — having many of them, categorized separately, each one used individually could handle various situations. For instance, to fight an enemy, he would use the Flying Sword Immortal Gu. To retreat, he would deploy the Sword Escape Immortal Gu.
Even without killer moves, Fang Yuan could manage with Immortal Gu alone.
In fact, having many Immortal Gu also offered tremendous benefits for constructing Immortal Path killer moves.
Immortal Path killer moves used Immortal Gu as the core, with mortal Gu as support. For example, the Immortal Path killer move that Fang Yuan had mastered, Sword Trace Takes Life, used the Flying Sword Immortal Gu as the primary component. A small number of Sword Path and other school mortal Gu served as auxiliary.
But what if Fang Yuan didn't have the Flying Sword Immortal Gu on hand, only the Sword Escape Immortal Gu? If he wanted to substitute Sword Escape for Flying Sword and still use Sword Trace Takes Life, how would he do it?
Substituting Sword Escape for Flying Sword was feasible, because both were Sword Path Immortal Gu and shared a common foundation. Replacement was entirely possible.
But the entire Sword Trace Takes Life killer move would need major changes.
The Flying Sword was an Immortal Gu used for offensive purposes. Using it to construct offensive killer moves was naturally convenient and simple.
The Sword Escape was an Immortal Gu used for movement. If it replaced the Flying Sword, then the mortal Gu required for Sword Trace Takes Life would not only need to be changed, but their numbers would increase dramatically. As a result, activating the Sword Trace killer move would become more complex and difficult, take longer, have a higher chance of failure, and its practicality would greatly decrease.
All things considered, Hei Fan's Gu-raising strategy was very mainstream, but it didn't suit Fang Yuan.
For Fang Yuan, his own Gu-raising strategy was absolutely the most correct. But if other Gu Immortals tried to imitate it, they would likely be courting death.
Fang Yuan continued reading.
In the contents of Hei Fan's True Inheritance, after the Immortal Path killer moves, the next section introduced Mortal Path killer moves.
These killer moves were more numerous. A large portion belonged to the Time Path, but Fang Yuan had virtually no use for them anymore.
The Immortal and Mortal levels were different. Perhaps in the future, when engaging in contact battles with other Gu Immortals, Fang Yuan could use these as a means of probing. But even then, their application would be minimal, since Fang Yuan already possessed many excellent Mortal Path killer moves.
He himself had already mastered countless Blood Path and Strength Path killer moves.
The only use for these Mortal Path killer moves was likely as a foundation for calculation and deduction.
After the Mortal Path killer moves came some killer moves that had not been successfully created — both Immortal Path and Mortal Path.
Their degree of completeness varied. Some were even purely just an inspiration or a hypothesis.
These were the parts that Hei Fan had never completed by the time of his death during his cultivation.
Devising killer moves was also an inevitable and indispensable part of a Gu Immortal's cultivation.
Fang Yuan glanced through them briefly, but felt little resonance.
His Time Path realm was too low, and the Wisdom Gu couldn't be used. Besides, Fang Yuan already had many prior methods, more than enough.
And so, the killer moves section came to a close.
"After returning, I'll need to spend a great deal of time specifically practicing these killer moves." Fang Yuan planned.
Using killer moves also carried the possibility of failure.
If activation failed during an intense battle, the Gu Immortal would suffer a backlash. If it happened at a critical moment in combat, that would be even worse. It was entirely possible that the success or failure of a single killer move could affect the battle's outcome — even the difference between life and death.
Therefore, killer moves absolutely had to be practiced to perfection!
This, in turn, required another sum of funds.