"Collect." Fang Yuan hovered in midair, opening the portal to his Immortal Orifice.
Vast numbers of wild Heart-Seizing Gu were drawn upward by an invisible yet gentle force, gathering in the air like a brilliant stream of mist, pouring one by one into Fang Yuan's Immortal Orifice.
This process lasted for the time it took to drink half a cup of tea.
Fang Yuan made a rough estimate: "Over three thousand Fifth Transformation Heart-Seizing Gu, fifty thousand Fourth Transformation ones, and below Third Transformation, the Heart-Seizing Gu numbered in the millions."
Heart-Seizing Gu resembled rainflower stones, with differing colors and forms across their transformation levels. They were Wisdom Path Gu — once activated, they could seize the target's mind, leaving them dazed and temporarily stripping them of their ability to perceive and think. Combined with other Gu, they could be developed further into killer moves. Heart-Seizing Gu had tremendous practical value in battle, most commonly paired with the Enslavement Path to enhance subjugation effects. Of course, Wisdom Path Gu Masters also used this Gu, though the Wisdom Path had always been a rare and mysterious school.
For Gu Masters, raising Gu was difficult, and they typically only carried single-digit Mortal Gu on their person. But at the Gu Immortal level, Mortal Gu numbered in the tens of thousands — only Immortal Gu were truly hard to come by.
Fang Yuan's situation was an exception among exceptions.
"The Heart-Seizing River Beach was a mid-tier resource point. In this fierce assault, the Gu formation was broken, and the Gu Immortal guarding this place fled directly — so they didn't lay a hand on these Heart-Seizing Gu, allowing me to claim such a rich haul."
If the Gu Immortal stationed here had collected some of the Heart-Seizing Gu before retreating, or simply destroyed them, Fang Yuan's spoils of war would undoubtedly have been greatly diminished.
It seemed the Gu Immortal had poured all their effort into manipulating the Immortal formation to resist Fang Yuan, leaving them no capacity to simultaneously collect the Heart-Seizing Gu. And at the moment of retreat, they lacked either the means or the decisiveness and ruthlessness to destroy them.
After collecting the Heart-Seizing Gu, Fang Yuan's gaze lingered on the river beach once more.
Sixth Transformation Strength Path Immortal Gu — Wan Lan.
He secretly activated this Immortal Gu, causing the river water to be lifted like a bolt of silk plucked by an invisible giant hand, then poured into Fang Yuan's Immortal Orifice.
The Heart-Seizing River Beach had a special environment, saturated with Wisdom Path Dao marks. Naturally, it also had Earth Path, Water Path, Wood Path and other Dao marks serving as a foundation — just at a scale far smaller than the Wisdom Path marks.
The river water Fang Yuan collected also carried dense Wisdom Path Dao marks.
"Unfortunately, most of the Wisdom Path Dao marks are still in this earth." Fang Yuan silently lamented.
There was nothing to be done about it.
Though he possessed a Mountain-Lifting Immortal Gu, it targeted mountains, not land itself.
"Might as well take these stones too." The stones of various sizes scattered across the Heart-Seizing River Beach also contained Wisdom Path Dao marks — excellent Gu materials. Fang Yuan packed them all up and took them along.
In short, everything that could be taken, he took.
Moments later, he activated the Seventh Transformation Fixed Immortal Travel and departed, leaving behind a hollowed-out, stripped-bare basin.
Fang Yuan was currently wanted and absolutely could not linger in one place for too long — it would only give other enemies the chance to surround and scheme against him.
That was why he had just launched a forceful assault on Shadow Raid Gully, and after being stalled by the great formation for a time, had wisely pulled back — not because he had uncovered Chi Qu You's hidden machinations and ambushes.
With his mind settling, Fang Yuan used Fixed Immortal Travel to leap over a hundred thousand li in a single bound, arriving above a mountain range.
The range stretched east to west, magnificent and imposing, its peaks rolling in an unbroken chain. No trees grew on these mountains — instead, they were blanketed with bamboo. This bamboo was extraordinarily thick, each stalk rivaling the girth of an ancient towering tree. The leaves were mostly triangular, thick at the base and tapering to a sharp tip, their texture both keen and hard. Many common folk would harvest these bamboo leaves, bind them to wooden poles, and fashion crude wooden spears. Because of this, the bamboo came to be known as Spear Tip Bamboo.
The Spear Tip Bamboo forest was vast beyond measure, blanketing the entire mountain range. Many creatures dwelled within, thriving with life. Most carried Cloud Path Dao marks, and the most numerous among them were Cloud Civets — these snow-white-furred civet cats could briefly float in the air. As Fang Yuan gazed down from above, he saw a group of Cloud Civets drifting up and down through the verdant bamboo grove, frolicking with one another — a picture brimming with vitality, serene and peaceful.
A sharp gleam flashed through Fang Yuan's eyes: "This is the Cloud Bamboo Mountain Range — the large resource point controlled by the Chi family."
The resource points held by Super Forces across the Five Regions were generally categorized into five tiers: micro, small, medium, large, and colossal.
The Dragon Fish Sea Zone within Fang Yuan's Sovereign Immortal Orifice was a colossal resource point, capable of producing immense quantities of Dragon Fish in gold, silver, copper, and iron variants. It was Fang Yuan's single most important economic pillar — bar none.
"Oh no — oh no, that devil Fang Yuan has come to our place!"
"Shadow Raid Gully was assaulted by him, the Heart-Seizing River Beach has fallen — never would have guessed he'd make his way here to Cloud Bamboo Mountain Range. And at such a critical moment, too. Sigh."
The two Chi family Sixth Transformation Gu Immortals stationed here were thrown into a panic at the sight of Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan's use of Fixed Immortal Travel to teleport here had already created considerable commotion, and he made no effort to conceal himself — his figure stood fully exposed, immediately drawing the attention of the two Chi family Gu Immortals.
These two were currently deep within the mountain range. Before them stood a single colossal Spear Tip Bamboo, its trunk soaring seven zhang high, so thick that ten grown men linking arm to arm might not have been able to encircle it.