Fang Yuan observed his main body's soul.
After several cultivation sessions over this period, his soul had recovered to sixty million human souls!
His soul no longer looked listless and weak as before, but instead brimmed with vitality, vivid and lifelike. His features were refined, his proportions normal, and from deep within the soul radiated a faint halo that enveloped it entirely, giving it a sense of solidity and mastery.
The Dao Tian True Inheritance — the Ninth Transformation killer move Ghost Not Aware — clung to the surface of his soul like a silk undergarment. Layered atop it was the Ghost Official Garment.
The Ghost Official Garment killer move, centered on the Seventh Transformation Soul Exchange Immortal Gu and the Sixth Transformation Soul Purifying Immortal Gu, had now transformed into a form-fitting combat suit. Armor plating rested atop the uniform, lending him a majestic, imposing air.
With this soul foundation, Fang Yuan finally had the confidence to split his soul.
Immortal Path killer move — Soul Splitting!
In that instant, his soul departed his physical body, relying solely on residual thoughts, willpower, and even emotions to control the various Gu and maintain the Soul Splitting killer move.
As easy and natural as drinking water, nearly half of his soul separated from the main body, after which the main soul returned to the flesh.
This brought his main body's soul crashing down to thirty million human souls.
But the soul he had split off was also thirty million human souls.
Fang Yuan closed his eyes and rested for a while.
Having just returned to his body, he felt a slight dizziness — a normal reaction, since he had split off half his soul this time. The volume was simply too great.
Immortal Essence stopped flowing into his Immortal Orifice, and the various Gu rested without a single one being damaged.
This Soul Splitting was quite successful. Activating this move was actually no easy feat — it carried enormous risk and a high chance of failure.
But Fang Yuan had painstakingly practiced this move before, investing considerable effort and paying substantial costs. Now he succeeded on the first attempt.
Fang Yuan opened his eyes, fully restored, his mind clear and his vision sharp.
He cracked open the gate of his Immortal Orifice by a sliver, and the split soul immediately swept through as a cold wind, burrowing inside.
Entering the Supreme Immortal Orifice, a physical body was already waiting for the split soul.
This body was none other than the Pure Dream True-Seeking Body, formed from dreams!
After the split soul merged into the Pure Dream True-Seeking Body, there were initially some fluctuations in aura, which soon fell completely silent — as though it had died.
Fang Yuan remained calm and composed.
He currently controlled roughly three types of Pure Dream True-Seeking Body.
The first and most powerful type was the one the Inkstone Elder had once condensed — the original Ying Wu Xie. This type had only nine hours of lifespan, growing by one transformation in cultivation per hour, becoming increasingly powerful and utterly terrifying in its later stages.
However, this type demanded a great many Immortal Gu and vast quantities of dreamscape. Fang Yuan could not meet those requirements.
The second type was the Gu Immortal-level Pure Dream True-Seeking Body, which Fang Yuan used most often. He had once deployed it to evade the great pursuit of Southern Border Gu Immortals. Now he used it to secretly trade dreamscapes with Chi Quyou.
The greatest drawback of this type was its time limit. Once the timer expired, it would self-destruct and revert to a mass of dreamscape, unable to persist.
The third type of Pure Dream True-Seeking Body was one Fang Yuan had learned from Feng Jinhuang during battles in his previous life. This was the perfected Pure Dream True-Seeking Body — it consumed fewer dreamscapes, required fewer Immortal Gu, and its components could be substituted, but it was merely mortal flesh with no Gu Immortal cultivation.
The split soul was currently merging into this third type, which possessed an Empty Orifice and only First Transformation cultivation.
A moment later, the Pure Dream True-Seeking Body opened its eyes.
The thirty million human souls had already been restrained, initially integrated into this body. Because the body's cultivation level was too low, it could not bear the full thirty million human souls.
This was a classic case of a weak physical body hosting a soul far too powerful for it.
As a result, Fang Yuan's split soul had to restrain the vast majority of its power — like a giant folding itself up, carefully curling inside a paper house.
But it didn't matter.
Fang Yuan had long since prepared She Li Gu.
She Li Gu were a spherical mortal Gu, no larger than a thumb, ordinary and unremarkable in appearance. But their effect was immense: they could elevate the orifice walls, boost a Gu Master's cultivation, and directly advance one small realm.
For Gu Masters from the First through Fifth Transformations, there were corresponding She Li Gu for each level.
First Transformation Bronze She Li Gu, Second Transformation Red Iron She Li Gu, Third Transformation Silver She Li Gu, Fourth Transformation Gold She Li Gu, Fifth Transformation Purple Crystal She Li Gu.
Regardless of the transformation, every She Li Gu was an extreme rarity of its tier! Its value far exceeded Gu of the same transformation.
A Red Iron She Li Gu, for instance, was worth eight thousand Yuan Stones on the mortal market — a price surpassing even ordinary Third Transformation Gu.
And the Silver She Li Gu, a Third Transformation extreme rarity, saw its price soar to fifty thousand!
Gold She Li Gu were directly regulated. On the mortal market, at most Silver She Li Gu circulated. Gold She Li Gu were exceedingly rare, often clutched tightly in their owners' hands.
This situation improved somewhat in Treasure Yellow Heaven, for it was the Gu Immortal trading marketplace and the largest market in the world.
In Treasure Yellow Heaven, She Li Gu from the First through Third Transformations were sold by the dozen. Fourth Transformation Gold She Li Gu were much fewer, and Fifth Transformation Purple Crystal She Li Gu rarer still.
This wasn't because Gu Immortals hoarded these Gu and restricted their circulation — it was because She Li Gu could currently only form naturally, and no Gu Immortal had yet been able to refine them.
Even the Langya Blessed Land and the Heavenly Court were no different.
Why was this?
Fang Yuan now possessed a quasi-Supreme realm in Refinement Path and a Grandmaster realm in Humanity Path, so he understood the reason.
Because She Li Gu were Humanity Path Gu!
They were fundamentally effective toward non-humans and humans alike. Only in regions where non-human and human populations were numerous would more She Li Gu form.
Fang Yuan's Pure Dream Clone began using Bronze She Li Gu.
His Empty Orifice differed from an ordinary Gu Master's. A normal Empty Orifice was stable, but the Pure Dream Clone's was constantly shattering and reforming, like an illusion or a bubble.
This was a characteristic of dreams.
In his previous life, Feng Jinhuang had once marveled that the reason she had managed to create the perfected Pure Dream True-Seeking Body was largely due to fortunate coincidence — she had pioneered the Dream Shattering killer move ahead of time.