Northern Plains.
An ordinary, barren grassland, completely devoid of life.
Suddenly, a strange light flashed across the sky, revealing four Gu Immortals.
They were Fang Yuan, Ying Wuxie, Fairy Miao Yin, and White Rabbit Girl.
Having been reborn to this point in time, Fairy Miao Yin, White Rabbit Girl, and the spy Mao Liu hidden within the Langya Sect had not yet perished — they were all still alive.
"All right, go back and continue your cultivation." Fang Yuan opened the portal to his Supreme Immortal Aperture, letting the three Gu Immortals enter.
Currently, the remaining Gu Immortals of Shadow Sect were all holed up inside Fang Yuan's Supreme Immortal Aperture, cultivating.
Fang Yuan intended to use them to form the ancient battle formation — Myriad Connections. It was precisely this method that allowed him to teleport rapidly and traverse long distances.
The Myriad Connections kill move was exceptionally important to Fang Yuan, compensating for his weakness in mobility.
In his previous life, after losing the Fixed Travel Gu, this move had perfectly filled the gap, helping Fang Yuan overcome many difficult situations.
"But when truly compared, the Fixed Travel Immortal Gu is still far more convenient." Fang Yuan sighed inwardly.
This time, he had departed from the ruins of Divine Needle Valley, crossing nearly half of the Northern Plains before arriving here.
When the Myriad Connections kill move was activated, its aura could not be concealed, drawing considerable attention. In order to maintain secrecy, Fang Yuan deliberately took several detours along the way, managing to bypass several super forces.
Had he possessed the Fixed Travel Gu, there would naturally have been no need for such trouble.
Fang Yuan added another thought: "Of course, the Fixed Travel Gu would need to be at least at the Seventh Transformation level to be suitable for me."
"At this point in time, the Seventh Transformation Fixed Travel Gu should be with Feng Jiuge, right?"
In his previous life, it was during the defense of Langya that Fang Yuan had used the Great Thief Ghost Hand to steal the Seventh Transformation Fixed Travel Gu from Feng Jiuge.
This Gu had provided Fang Yuan with considerable assistance.
Even after Fang Yuan's cultivation later rose to the Eighth Transformation, the Seventh Transformation Fixed Travel Gu served as the core component for assembling a Space Path Immortal-level kill move. The move's power increased enormously, and it continued to help Fang Yuan teleport all across the world.
The Fixed Travel Gu was truly convenient — a top-grade Immortal Gu of the Space Path. With it, one could roam freely across the entire world.
Myriad Connections was quite good as well, but it fell slightly short when compared to the Fixed Travel Gu. Whether crossing the domain barriers between the Five Regions, penetrating the Heavenly Essence walls, or the number of participants required for the formation, it was inferior in every respect.
"In my previous life, I was lucky enough to use the Great Thief Ghost Hand to steal the Fixed Travel Immortal Gu. But this method was neither stable nor reliable — it depended entirely on luck. In this life, how should I plan in order to obtain the Fixed Travel Immortal Gu?"
Fang Yuan had relied on the Spring Autumn Cicada to be reborn, bringing with him invaluable intelligence, realm comprehension, and kill moves — but it had also caused his fortune to plummet drastically.
Over these past days, Fang Yuan had been getting by with only minor fortune-related tricks.
But in terms of fortune, truth be told, even though he had ventured into the King's Court Blessed Land and destroyed the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, his gains in fortune were far below what outsiders would estimate.
As Fang Yuan's cultivation continued to rise, these fortune-related methods were starting to fall behind the pace.
"Fortunately, in the recent battles, both Meng Tu and Sleeping Maiden were far weaker than me in combat strength. Even with poor fortune, it hardly mattered."
Fang Yuan was quite satisfied with the two previous battles.
The entire situation was within his control.
This feeling of having everything under control was undoubtedly wonderful!
In his previous life, he had lacked a powerful offensive method like the Soul-Losing Seal to deliver the finishing blow, so he could only rely on the Great Thief Ghost Hand for surprise victories, or deploy Ten Thousand Flood Dragons and Yama's Child in wars of attrition — a rather awkward position.
This awkwardness had led to a chain of consequences — Meng Tu's self-detonation, Fang Yuan's defeat and escape during the defense of Langya, and so on.
In his previous life, in order to develop the Soul-Losing Seal kill move, Fang Yuan had pushed forward despite all hardships and dangers, burying himself in calculations, expending vast amounts of effort and several years of time. It was not until the great battle at the Five Realms Mountain Range that he had finally completed the calculation. Once deployed, it immediately captured the Eighth Transformation Gu Immortal Jun Shenguang alive, shocking even Wu Yong.
In this life, Fang Yuan could deploy the Soul-Losing Seal directly, and the results were naturally immediate.
With Meng Tu and Sleeping Maiden killed, Fang Yuan had collected three of the main immortal materials needed to refine the Ten Thousand Self Immortal Gu — only the last ingredient, Floating Life Fire, remained.
According to his previous life's experience, Fang Yuan did not need to go out and search for Floating Life Fire himself. At the appropriate time, a Central Continent Gu Immortal named Zhang Ji would sell this immortal material in the Treasure Yellow Heaven. When that happened, Fang Yuan could simply purchase some.
Fang Yuan had come to this seemingly unremarkable plain for another purpose.
He drifted down to the ground, hesitated for a moment, then activated an Immortal-level kill move.
Soul-Burning Fortune Burst!
"My current soul foundation is not abundant — I still need to use Soul-Burning Fortune Burst with caution. But this time I'm entering the River of Time, so for the sake of certainty, I'll use it once." Fang Yuan sighed inwardly.
In his previous life, many Gu Immortals had been divining about him, and these intermittent divinations had continued right up until Fang Yuan's rebirth.
Each divination attempt had failed because Fang Yuan possessed the Yama Emperor kill move. But defending against divination with the Yama Emperor kill move also consumed Fang Yuan's soul foundation.
Currently, although Fang Yuan had a stockpile of Courage Gu, his soul cultivation had already been halted. The Soul-Quaking Mountain had just been self-detonated in Fairy Zi Wei's hands, and relying on the fragments of the Soul-Quaking Mountain in his possession, it would still take a long time to restore it.
After using Soul-Burning Fortune Burst, Fang Yuan's fortune surged dramatically, but it still could not compare to his luck at the same point in his previous life.
The drawbacks of the Spring Autumn Cicada were immense — as one's cultivation rose, the drop in fortune grew even more severe. He truly did not know how Red Lotus Demon Venerable had overcome this in the past.
As Fang Yuan walked, he activated his Gu. After circling around the grassland in a loop of moderate size, he lightly stamped his foot, activating the natural Immortal Formation here.