"Exchange for what?" Fang Yuan smiled faintly. "Naturally, the True Meaning of Refinement."
"Ah! You actually know that my sect possesses the True Meaning of Refinement?!" The Langya Earth Spirit was so shocked it nearly jumped up. This was the Langya Sect's greatest secret — the deepest and most valuable treasure among all its holdings!
What was True Meaning?
True Meaning was essentially a form of will. The Wisdom Path had three core elements: thought, intent, and emotion. True Meaning corresponded to the "intent" among the three. Of course, it wasn't just True Meaning — there was also False Meaning, Special Intent, Deliberate Intent, Purposeful Intent, Hostile Intent, Battle Intent, and countless others beyond enumeration.
Intent was infinite, but True Meaning was the most valuable among them all. It was the most captivating, something that could make Gu Immortal Venerables chase after it endlessly!
The Great Northern Ice Field of the Northern Plains had been single-handedly created by the Desolate Ancient Refinement Demon. It contained the True Meaning of Desolate Ancients. When a Gu Master ascended to Immortal in the Great Northern Ice Field with the Strength Path, it would stir the True Meaning of Desolate Ancients. A Gu Immortal who obtained this True Meaning could elevate their Transformation Path or Strength Path realm by several levels in one stroke.
Dream realms also contained True Meaning. The reason the several dream realms Fang Yuan had explored could cause sky-rocketing advancement across various paths was, in essence, because he had absorbed the True Meaning within them.
Therefore, True Meaning generally meant a dramatic surge in one's realm.
Why was the Great Era of the Five Regions' chaos unprecedented and the most magnificent in all of history? The root cause was the dream realms emerging all across heaven and earth. Many who successfully explored them obtained the True Meaning within, resulting in explosive realm growth.
Accumulating realm typically required a very long period of time. But because of True Meaning, this process was greatly shortened. It was precisely this that allowed talented elites to erupt across the world, colliding and clashing with one another, chasing and slaughtering — creating an era of chaos unlike anything seen before!
The importance of True Meaning went without saying, and the True Meaning stored deepest within the Langya Sect had an even greater origin.
Because this True Meaning came from Ancestor Long Mao himself.
Who was Ancestor Long Mao?
An Eighth Transformation Refinement Path powerhouse, known as the greatest Refinement Path Immortal in all of history!
In the vast span of human history, crossing over ten million years, three peaks of the Refinement Path stood supreme: Old Monster Tian Nan, Old Immortal Kong Jue, and Ancestor Long Mao.
Ancestor Long Mao's talent in the Refinement Path was such that even the Thieving Heaven Demon and the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable deferred to him. Both Venerables had personally invited Ancestor Long Mao to assist them in refining Gu.
Later historians had calculated that Ancestor Long Mao had refined at least thirty-eight Immortal Gu during his lifetime. This was only from confirmed historical events — it didn't include legends and stories. If unverified accounts and rumors were factored in, the number of Immortal Gu could easily surpass one hundred!
Even more terrifying was that most of these Immortal Gu were not Sixth Transformation — they were Seventh Transformation, Eighth Transformation, of the highest caliber!
The Langya Sect's True Meaning of Refinement was the True Meaning left behind after Ancestor Long Mao's death. It had been preserved with exceptional completeness and thoroughness. If Fang Yuan obtained it and absorbed it all, his Refinement Path realm would instantly soar to the quasi-Supreme Grandmaster level!
This was tantamount to reaching the heavens in a single bound — an ant instantly growing into a prehistoric behemoth. It was like a starving beggar suddenly becoming the wealthiest person in the nation.
That was the magnitude of the concept!
The reason "quasi" was added was because the Supreme Grandmaster realm required surpassing the entire foundation of heaven and earth within a given path — creating something entirely from nothing, complete innovation.
This, Fang Yuan obviously could not achieve.
If he obtained this Refinement Path True Meaning, he would only completely inherit all of Ancestor Long Mao's realm, without taking it a step further to surpass the entire heaven and earth's accumulated Refinement Path foundation.
Fang Yuan harbored no fantasies about becoming a Supreme Grandmaster. In his eyes, that title was more of a supreme honor. Quasi-Supreme was already more than enough for Fang Yuan to look down upon every Refinement Path Gu Immortal across all Five Regions and Two Heavens. Once he obtained this True Meaning, he would rise from a small hillock to become the greatest peak among them all!
Gu were the true essence of heaven and earth, and humans were the most spiritual of all living things. In this world, there were no strongest Gu insects — only strongest Gu Immortals.
And what made a Gu Immortal the strongest?
Realm was absolutely one of the most critical benchmarks.
With a quasi-Supreme Refinement Path realm, one would possess a transcendent vantage point and the most solid foundation. Everything else could naturally follow from that.
Exchanging seven copies of the Soul Waving Mountain as compensation for only a single form of will?
Was Fang Yuan getting the short end of the stick?
Of course not.
No matter how many Soul Waving Mountains there were, they merely represented an abundance of cultivation resources. And among all the various types of cultivation resources, which was the most precious?
Realm — that answer would unquestionably be the most common response!
"You want the True Meaning of Refinement left behind after my original body's death? Impossible!" The Langya Earth Spirit refused outright.
Fang Yuan had long been mentally prepared for the Langya Earth Spirit's attitude. He smiled: "Supreme Elder, our Langya Sect has stored this form of will for over three hundred thousand years. This True Meaning has sat in storage the entire time, completely unused. How is that any different from keeping it as a lifeless object? Are you planning to leave this Refinement Path True Meaning to the current generation of hairy-man Gu Immortals?"
The Langya Earth Spirit quickly shook its head. "Ever since the Langya Blessed Land was established, the previous Earth Spirit has been conducting assessments, but those hairy-man Gu Immortals are still not qualified."
"Then give it to me," Fang Yuan said immediately.