"Heavenly Aspect?!" Fang Yuan was surprised, but at the same time everything clicked into place.
Now he understood everything.
Dao Tian Demonic Venerable was an otherworldly demon, a master of Space Path who founded Theft Path and possessed extraordinary talent in Refinement Path as well.
All his life, he had devoted himself to transcending the Gu Master world and returning to his homeland.
Of all the Venerables, he was the wealthiest. He traveled far and wide, gathering immortal materials and refining immortal Gu everywhere he went. He roamed more places than any other, his footprints spanning nearly all of the Five Regions and Two Heavens.
During one of his journeys through the Primordial White Heaven, he stumbled upon a wondrous existence. After studying it, he named it the Natural Heavenly Spirit.
Even with his strength as a Demonic Venerable, he could not refine this Natural Heavenly Spirit.
This was not difficult to understand.
According to the information Dao Tian Demonic Venerable left behind, the Natural Heavenly Spirit could not be taken out of the Primordial White Heaven. Moreover, within the White Heaven, it was constantly replenished by the Heavenly Will in vast quantities. The refinement of immortal Gu by Gu Immortals fundamentally consisted of using one's own will to expel and destroy the wild will within the immortal Gu, ultimately turning it into one's own tool.
Dao Tian Demonic Venerable wanted to refine the Natural Heavenly Spirit. No matter how complex the methods, the underlying principle was the same. Though the Demonic Venerable's will was formidable, when faced with the Heavenly Will inside the Natural Heavenly Spirit—and Heavenly Will that was constantly replenished in full—it was simply impossible to overcome.
Dao Tian Demonic Venerable suffered a setback, but he was not discouraged. Man was the spirit of all creation. He came up with an idea: to combine the Natural Heavenly Spirit with other Gu insects and form a single Ninth Transformation Immortal Path Killer Move.
This reminded Fang Yuan of the Ghost Not Aware Killer Move he possessed—it too was a Ninth Transformation Killer Move. Its counterpart was God Not Knowing. Though Dao Tian Demonic Venerable had activated it ages ago, these two moves had endured through the vast stretches of time.
This seemed to be something of Dao Tian Demonic Venerable's style.
The problem was, even though Dao Tian Demonic Venerable had gone to great lengths to transform the Natural Heavenly Spirit into a Ninth Transformation Immortal Path Killer Move—the Heavenly Aspect—he still could not control or utilize it.
Because he still had not truly refined the Natural Heavenly Spirit.
However, this was all part of Dao Tian Demonic Venerable's plan. Knowing he could not refine the Natural Heavenly Spirit in a short time, he came up with this method—converting the Natural Heavenly Spirit into the Immortal Path Killer Move, the Heavenly Aspect.
By doing so, the degree to which the Natural Heavenly Spirit was replenished by Heavenly Will was drastically reduced.
After Dao Tian Demonic Venerable created the Heavenly Aspect, he never used it again. Before his mysterious disappearance, he left behind multiple Dao Tian True Inheritances and did not forget the Heavenly Aspect either.
"The Heavenly Aspect Killer Move has not yet been truly refined. Relying on my strength alone is not enough. It requires a long period of time, with generation after generation of human will constantly washing over it. One day, it will be successfully refined by a Gu Immortal. When that day comes, it will serve one person."
The message left by Dao Tian Demonic Venerable also stated that although this Killer Move was something he had left behind, it was not controllable and therefore did not count as part of the Dao Tian True Inheritance. It still required the efforts of future generations—at most, it could only be considered half a Dao Tian True Inheritance.
The subsequent development, Fang Yuan could fully deduce for himself.
One day, while the Five Aspects of Patrol Heaven were exploring the Primordial White Heaven, they accidentally discovered this half-portion of the Dao Tian True Inheritance.
The message left by Dao Tian Demonic Venerable had been perfectly clear: this was a Ninth Transformation Killer Move, usable by only one person. Every one of the Five Aspects wanted it. None could agree, and internal strife erupted—the Five Aspects as a group became a name only.
The Five Aspects made their move, but found that even the five of them together could not refine the Killer Move. In the end, the Five Aspects established a thousand-year wager and agreed to determine the ownership of the Immortal Path Killer Move through a gambling contest.
The River of Time flowed on, its waters surging. The winds and rains of time had blown away how many great figures.
Through the shifting tides of ages, the Five Aspects perished, and generation after generation of Gu Immortals from the Five Clans arose and passed away. Finally, in this present era, the Qi Family had gained a decisive advantage, and after the efforts of countless generations, the Immortal Move was finally on the verge of success.
And then Fang Yuan interfered!
One could well imagine the fury and hatred burning in the hearts of the Qi Family Gu Immortals.
Our five families have been at this since the time of our ancestors—generation after generation of effort, one after another stepping forward, their heart's blood poured in. The fruit was nearly ripe, and you come to pluck it!