Supreme Immortal Aperture.
Little White Day.
The dragonman clone smiled and extended his palm.
Before him, a young deer hovered in the air.
The young deer obediently lowered its head before Fang Yuan's dragonman clone, extending its tender pink tongue to gently lick the clone's palm.
"Master." The young deer spoke, in a human voice.
It was, of course, no ordinary deer. It was the obsession that Qi Xiang had harbored back in the day, merged with the mighty power of heaven and earth within the Qi Sea Cave Heaven, giving rise to the Qi Sea Heavenly Spirit.
The Qi Sea Heavenly Spirit took the form of a young deer, its body snow-white, with large eyes that gleamed with a golden radiance, dazzling and brilliant.
However, on the right rear side of the young deer's body, there was a horrifying wound deep enough to expose bone. The wound extended all the way down to its abdomen, with dense Dao Marks still lingering upon it.
The dragonman clone sighed: "This wound of yours is extremely severe. My methods may not be sufficient."
This injury had been sustained when the young deer manipulated the Boundless Qi Sea killer move during the myriad tribulations of the Qi Sea Cave Heaven's passage.
In the previous life, when Bai Ningbing had invaded the Qi Sea Cave Heaven, the Heavenly Spirit had fallen into a deep slumber because of this wound, only to awaken later.
The young deer was a Heavenly Spirit—an inherently peculiar existence, born from obsession fused with the power of heaven and earth.
To heal the young deer, the Wisdom Path was clearly one of the most fitting approaches.
However, Fang Yuan had tried without any notable success.
Fang Yuan's Refinement Path methods were even more formidable, but he didn't dare apply them carelessly.
It wasn't that he had no way to deal with such a wound—these methods were powerful enough, but they lacked the delicacy and precision needed for a Heavenly Spirit as fragile as the young deer. There was a very real chance that attempting treatment would simply destroy the Qi Sea Heavenly Spirit outright.
If the result of treatment was murdering the Qi Sea Heavenly Spirit, then what would be the point of Fang Yuan going to all that trouble in the first place?
For the time being, Fang Yuan was at his wit's end regarding the young deer's injuries.
Yet this Heavenly Spirit was remarkably composed. It appeared rather happy—because even after the Qi Sea Cave Heaven had been absorbed, it still existed. It had not been destroyed.
All life possessed an instinct for survival, and Land Spirits were no exception. They were inclined to acknowledge a master, to protect their Blessed Land and protect themselves.
Of course, the prerequisite was meeting the conditions of acknowledgment before they would submit. Alternatively, one could employ methods like the Blood Light Spirit Suppression killer move.
Fang Yuan contemplated the mystery behind the existence of Land Spirits and Heavenly Spirits.
The secrets of the Gu World were so vast. The more Fang Yuan encountered, the less he realized he knew.
When ordinary Gu Immortals absorbed an aperture, even if a Land Spirit existed, it would vanish and perish once the absorption was complete. But the Supreme Immortal Aperture had broken this convention—there had to be some reason behind it.
Unfortunately, the Shadow Sect True Inheritance contained no records of this.
Perhaps Demon Venerable Yin Soul had held something back—the contents of the Shadow Sect True Inheritance were not everything he had mastered.
Or perhaps this transformation within the Supreme Immortal Aperture was something even Demon Venerable Yin Soul had not foreseen.
Just as Fang Yuan possessed such formidable attainment in the Refinement Path, for newly refined Immortal Gu he was unfamiliar with, he could only consult the Gu Recipe for a general understanding—never a complete, thorough comprehension. Especially when a brand-new, unprecedented Immortal Gu was forged, a Gu Immortal would frequently make new discoveries upon attempting to use it.
Right now, Fang Yuan's Supreme Immortal Aperture contained many Land Spirits and Heavenly Spirits.
Land Spirits were the most numerous. Chief among them was the Langya Land Spirit, who was unique—composed of two obsessions united into one being.
There were also those shaped like spirit snakes, those with the appearance of star cores, those resembling black dogs—all manner of varieties, scattered casually throughout the Supreme Immortal Aperture along with the absorbed apertures.
These were all excellent helpers for Fang Yuan in managing the Supreme Immortal Aperture, each presiding over their own territory.
Fang Yuan had not destroyed any of these Heavenly Spirits or Land Spirits. He had preserved them all.
The timing was not yet right. He planned to unravel the mystery of their existence in the future.
This was also the reason he wanted to heal the Qi Sea Heavenly Spirit.
The Qi Sea Cave Heaven, once absorbed, had been settled within Little White Day.
This brought some very noticeable changes to the Supreme Immortal Aperture.
Various qi currents gradually increased and circulated among themselves. Within Little White Day the changes were most striking—countless white clouds were slowly forming, spreading rapidly.
The other eight Small Days were the same, each developing their own clouds.
These clouds were still merely thin mist, not yet matured into the various colored cloud earth.
But this was only the beginning.
According to Fang Yuan's calculations, in the coming period, qi currents would arise in every corner of the Supreme Immortal Aperture.
These qi currents were of all different kinds and categories, the majority being mortal-grade Gu materials.
However, after a while, as many of these mortal-grade qi currents accumulated sufficiently, Immortal-grade material currents would emerge among them.
Given a longer stretch of time, some of these Immortal-grade qi currents would stabilize and form a close bond with their surrounding environment—these would be the first miniature resource points.
If development went well, these miniature resource points would grow into small-scale, medium-scale, and eventually large-scale ones.
Of course, without active human intervention, the probability of large-scale resource points naturally forming within the Supreme Immortal Aperture was extremely small—practically negligible.
All of this was the influence brought about by the millions of Qi Path Dao Marks.