Langya Blessed Land. Long Hair's Refinement Grand Formation.
The blood-red glow gradually dissipated as the small blood path formation slowly opened, and Fang Yuan and the Langya Land Spirit walked out one after the other.
Fang Yuan's scheme had succeeded!
In his previous life, the Langya Land Spirit had caught even Fairy Ziwei off guard. She had slain the Black Hair Land Spirit, but then the White Hair Land Spirit took its place.
The Black Hair Land Spirit was ambitious. Despite knowing about the agreement between Langya Blessed Land and Eternal Heaven for reinforcements, it had been reluctant to call for help.
The White Hair Land Spirit, however, was decisive—directly pleading with Eternal Heaven for aid.
In the end, this move by the White Hair Land Spirit had led to Fang Yuan's escape, the Heavenly Court's defeat, and Eternal Heaven absorbing the Langya Sect, becoming the fisherman who reaped the greatest rewards.
"Now that I've successfully subdued the Land Spirit, Eternal Heaven has no part to play anymore." Fang Yuan glanced at the Langya Land Spirit beside him.
The current Langya Land Spirit had already been switched to the Black Hair Land Spirit under Fang Yuan's orders.
To prevent the other Hairmen Gu Immortals from growing suspicious, the Black Hair Land Spirit put on an act, maintaining the appearance of the same relationship with Fang Yuan as before.
Fang Yuan deliberately let out a breath of turbid qi. "This time, thanks to your personal intervention, Grand Elder, we were able to turn the situation around."
The Black Hair Land Spirit chuckled. "M-Mainly because of the Refinement Grand Formation. Let us enter quickly and continue refining Gu."
The Black Hair Land Spirit's laughter was somewhat servile, but aside from Mao Liu, none of the other Hairmen Gu Immortals suspected a thing.
Who could have imagined that a seismic upheaval had already occurred right under their noses?
Fang Yuan entered Long Hair's Refinement Grand Formation and continued participating in the refinement of the Ten Thousand Self Immortal Gu.
Several hours later, a blinding flash of mysterious light erupted from within the grand formation.
The light faded, revealing an Immortal Gu.
The Gu was elongated, several zhang in length, resembling a centipede. It looked as though cast from red copper, its entire body gleaming with a metallic luster. Its head bore fearsome mandibles, and a pair of long antennae before its forehead swayed like smoke. Five thousand legs lined its left side, and another five thousand on the right, giving it ten thousand legs in total.
Seventh Transformation Immortal Gu—Ten Thousand Self!
Although Fang Yuan had come primarily to scheme against the Langya Land Spirit, he hadn't abandoned the refinement of the Ten Thousand Self Immortal Gu.
In his previous life, the success rate of the Ten Thousand Self Immortal Gu recipe had been as high as fifty percent. In this life, in order to entrap the Langya Land Spirit, Fang Yuan had done his utmost to modify the recipe, reducing the success rate from fifty percent to forty percent.
He had never intended to give up on refining the Ten Thousand Self Immortal Gu this time.
The Ten Thousand Self Immortal Gu was simply too important to abandon.
While it didn't seem to provide an obvious boost to Fang Yuan's power, it was actually quite significant.
The Ten Thousand Self Killing Move was a fusion of the enslavement and power paths, combining the strengths of two great paths. But it was extremely complex, required lengthy preparation, and consumed a massive amount of a Gu Immortal's thoughts.
Now, condensed into a single Gu, Fang Yuan could replicate the full effect and power of the original killing move with just a few simple steps.
Beyond the Ten Thousand Self Killing Move itself, Fang Yuan's Reverse Flow Shield, Ten Thousand Flood Dragons, Ten Thousand Sword Ghost Dragons, and other techniques all benefited to varying degrees.
The Ten Thousand Sword Ghost Dragons killing move, in particular, was one Fang Yuan had only created in his previous life, shortly before the Central Continent Gu Refinement Conference. Without the Ten Thousand Self Immortal Gu, it required far too many individual Gu, took too long to prepare, and had absolutely no practical combat value!
While the Ten Thousand Self Immortal Gu couldn't raise Fang Yuan's upper limit of power, it could consolidate his foundations and enhance his potential across many aspects.
The Gu refinement was temporarily concluded, and Fang Yuan proceeded to survey the entirety of the Langya Blessed Land, tallying his gains.
The Langya Blessed Land had an impressive pedigree. Its original owner was the Long Hair Old Ancestor, one of the three great masters of the Refinement Path in history.
The Long Hair Old Ancestor was a legendary figure who had refined countless Immortal Gu throughout history. Even the Demon Venerable Dao Tian and Immortal Venerable Ju Yang had each sought him out for collaboration in Gu refinement.
The Long Hair Old Ancestor also held a unique status—he was not of the human race, but a Hairman. Though the Hairmen enjoyed exceptionally long lifespans, they too would eventually reach the end of their days.
The Long Hair Old Ancestor left behind an Eighth Transformation Langya Cave Heaven. But over countless years of development, under the White Hair Land Spirit's management, it had been deliberately lowered in grade, step by step falling back to the Blessed Land level.
The tribulations of a Blessed Land were far milder than those of a Cave Heaven, and thanks to the White Hair Land Spirit's diligent governance, the Langya Blessed Land had developed remarkably well.
Its territory was vast, far exceeding the normal size of a Blessed Land, and in terms of spatial volume, it surpassed many Cave Heavens.
In terms of the Time Path, its flow rate relative to the outside world was roughly one to thirty-six. Notably, the Langya Blessed Land's branch of the River of Time possessed an Immortal Path killing move that could adjust the time flow within the Immortal Aperture. This was the work of a great Time Path expert whom the Long Hair Old Ancestor had personally invited during his lifetime.
Regarding Dao Marks, the Langya Blessed Land's primary Dao Marks were Refinement Path marks, numbering over three hundred thousand! Among the other paths, the Water Path was dominant, followed by the Earth Path.
The layout of the Langya Blessed Land consisted of four continents: the Black Hair, Yellow Hair, and White Hair continents on the sea, and the Cloud Canopy Continent in the sky. The Blessed Land was rich in resources, had a large population, and boasted no small number of Gu Immortals—it was a veritable superpower!
The massive population guaranteed that this was the birthplace of Life Span Gu.
Undoubtedly, this was the foremost Blessed Land under heaven!
With the Langya Land Spirit subdued by Fang Yuan, everything here now belonged to him.
Beyond the land's resources and population, the cultivation materials included a vast collection of Gu recipes, killing moves, and Gu worms.
The Langya Blessed Land had a substantial stockpile of Immortal Gu. For instance, the Primordial Treasure Emperor Lotus, which had fallen to the Seventh Transformation level—the Wood Bud Immortal Gu that Fang Yuan had once borrowed as one of the cores for his Fungal Light Illumination killing move. There were also Beast Slave Immortal Gu, Formation Disk Immortal Gu, and many others (many of which had already been entrusted to the Hairmen Gu Immortals for use).
The Langya Blessed Land contained three major Gu formations. The first was Long Hair's Refinement Grand Formation. The second was the Nine Children Mother Teleportation Gu Formation. The third was the ancient battle formation—the Tianpo Suoluo Formation. Of these, the mother formation of the Nine Children Mother Teleportation Gu Formation was located on the Cloud Canopy Continent, while several of the nine child formations were distributed across the Northern Plains outside—places such as Taiqiu, the Dragon Elephant Plains, and Feng Bo Cliff.