A small Food Path Immortal Gu rested in the center of Fang Yuan's palm.
It was tender green throughout, no longer than an adult's finger, and its body was divided into six segments, like a caterpillar. The only difference was a thin, silvery horn protruding from its forehead.
At the moment it lay in Fang Yuan's palm, wriggling continuously, obedient to his will — it had already been refined by Fang Yuan.
Once a Refinement Path Gu Immortal succeeded in refining an Immortal Gu, in the vast majority of cases that Immortal Gu was already under the refiner's control. In other words, Mao Liu was the original master of this Food Path Immortal Gu.
However, with Mao Liu's willing transfer, refining this Food Path Immortal Gu was far easier for Fang Yuan than subduing a wild one.
Sixth Transformation Food Path Immortal Gu — Snack.
This was one of the Immortal Gu that Fang Yuan had commissioned the Lang Ya Sect to refine for him.
After inheriting the legacy of Purple Mountain True Monarch, he had asked the entire Lang Ya Sect to work on crafting three Immortal Gu for him.
Now all three were complete: the Seventh Transformation Immortal Gu Self-Love, the Sixth Transformation Immortal Gu Pure Soul, and the Sixth Transformation Immortal Gu Snack.
All three were things Fang Yuan urgently needed.
The Self-Love Immortal Gu was extremely useful — the core component of the "Keeping Oneself Clean" killer move, indispensable. Fang Yuan had relied on it entirely to evade the Heavenly Court's detection.
The Pure Soul Immortal Gu, though only Sixth Transformation, had the highest difficulty and longest crafting time of the three. But once completed, it had helped Fang Yuan remove the Soul Path trap embedded in his Force Path Eight-Arms Immortal Zombie body, allowing him to once again utilize the Wisdom Halo. Its contribution was equally immense.
As for the Snack Immortal Gu, it was a Food Path Gu. Fang Yuan had great need of it to solve the feeding problem for his Immortal Gu.
The recipe for the Snack Immortal Gu came from the Shadow Sect's inheritance. Its origin traced back to the Spectral Soul Demon Lord, who in his lifetime had risked death to inherit the true Food Path transmission from a Beastman Gu Immortal.
And that Beastman Gu Immortal was none other than the legendary founder of the Food Path.
The predecessors planted trees so the successors could enjoy their shade. The Food Path transmission in Fang Yuan's hands was the most authentic version in the entire world.
He tried pouring in red date True Essence. The Snack Immortal Gu's caterpillar-like body shuddered, and then, as if drunk, its rear half sagged against Fang Yuan's palm while its front half reared upright, swaying and nodding its head ceaselessly.
As it swayed, its originally tender green body flushed redder and redder, eventually turning the color of molten magma.
At the same time, its once slender body, thin as a finger, gradually thickened and hardened.
Pfft.
Finally, it spat a thick spurt of orange-yellow slurry from its mouth, then rapidly wilted, its body shrinking to even smaller than its original size. Its color shifted from magma red to a sickly pale white, giving the impression of utter weakness and exhaustion.
Having the Food Path transmission, Fang Yuan understood clearly: the Snack Immortal Gu had a usage restriction — after being activated once, it had to rest and recover before it could be used again. If forced to operate continuously, it would be unable to cope, vomiting large quantities of orange-yellow slurry before rapidly dying.
Only after it recovered — once its entire body returned to its original tender green — could it be activated again.
Fang Yuan stored the Snack Immortal Gu in his Immortal aperture, then turned his gaze to the orange-yellow slurry it had spat out.
This slurry was truly wondrous. It floated on its own in midair without falling, and had already contracted into a small sphere.
If one had to draw a comparison, it was like taking a fresh egg and thoroughly mixing the white and yolk together.
This thick, orange-yellow slurry was precisely what Fang Yuan wanted.
With it, he could replace a portion of the raw ingredients needed to feed his Immortal Gu.
For the other Sixth Transformation Immortal Gu, this batch of orange-yellow slurry could substitute for six percent of their ingredients (for Seventh Transformation and above, the effect was diminished). Six percent might seem meager, but in a few days the Snack Immortal Gu could be activated again, producing a second batch of orange-yellow slurry.
Accumulated over time, the help it provided for feeding Immortal Gu was enormous.