The Supreme Immortal Aperture.
Fang Yuan was practicing a Qi Path killer move.
Several Immortal Gu circled and danced in the air, while a massive number of Mortal Gu swirled around them like a tornado.
Great surges of Heavenly Force participated in the process.
At the same time, Eighth Transformation-level Immortal Essence was poured in, immediately linking the auras of all these Gu insects together.
But the killer move still failed to activate for a long time.
Cold sweat faintly appeared on Fang Yuan's forehead. Finally, after a dozen breaths or so, he barely managed to salvage the situation. The killer move finally condensed successfully, and it erupted with a sudden burst.
Qi Path Immortal-level Killer Move — Heavenly Gang Cloth Clothes!
A set of grayish-white hemp cloth robes immediately enveloped his dragonman clone's body.
The robes looked ordinary, but upon closer inspection, one would discover that every single thread of this grayish-white cloth was actually a strand of Heavenly Force.
This was only a Seventh Transformation-level killer move, but after being amplified by Fang Yuan's millions of Qi Path Dao Marks, its power had surged over a thousandfold!
Fang Yuan tested it afterward. Despite its thin and flimsy appearance, the robust defensive power was truly impressive.
"Completely Eighth Transformation-level power, far stronger than the Winter Fur killer move," Fang Yuan marveled inwardly.
Of course, it still couldn't compare to the Reverse Flow Protection Sigil.
Millions of Qi Path Dao Marks were no joke.
With a simple amplification, a Seventh Transformation killer move could be used at the Eighth Transformation level. What was more crucial was that the Immortal Essence consumed was still only at the Seventh Transformation level!
"A Gu Immortal who survives one Myriad Tribulation obtains an average of over eighty thousand Dao Marks. The stronger the tribulation, the more Dao Marks they receive beyond that average."
"Theoretically, after a Gu Immortal survives three Myriad Tribulations, they can ascend to Venerable. The average number of Dao Marks would be roughly three hundred thousand!"
"Millions of Qi Path Dao Marks — that's probably something only a Ninth Transformation cultivator could possess."
"The core Immortal Gu of the Heavenly Gang Cloth Clothes killer move is only Seventh Transformation, but amplified by Qi Path Dao Marks, it surges to the peak of Eighth Transformation. If the core Immortal Gu were Eighth Transformation to begin with, and then further amplified by Qi Path Dao Marks, could it reach Ninth Transformation-level power?"
A flicker of thought passed through Fang Yuan's mind, his eyes gleaming repeatedly.
He recalled the great battles of his previous life, the methods that each of the Venerables had displayed. At the same time, his main body was simultaneously helping to calculate.
Soon, Fang Yuan's dragonman clone shook his head.
This possibility was not very likely.
"A Ninth Transformation-level killer move probably requires a Ninth Transformation Immortal Gu to participate. It's not something that can be achieved through Dao Mark amplification alone."
"More precisely, it's not something my millions of Qi Path Dao Marks alone can amplify past that barrier."
"Perhaps, if the Dao Marks were several tens of times greater, a quantitative change could trigger a qualitative leap, reaching the Ninth Transformation level?"
Fang Yuan wasn't entirely sure either.
Although he was already an Eighth Transformation Gu Immortal, when he looked up at the scenery of Ninth Transformation above his head, it was still shrouded in a layer of mysterious fog.
Purely by theoretical calculation, a Venerable's starting point for Dao Marks was three hundred thousand.
However, Fang Yuan had also learned from the Langya Earth Spirit and his own experience that every Venerable in history had been a monster, impossible to measure by ordinary standards.
Not to mention anything else — Limitless Demon Venerable, when he was still merely a Gu Master, already possessed Gu Immortal-level Dao Marks. If that trajectory continued, by the time he became a Venerable, how many Dao Marks would he have?
Fang Yuan couldn't even imagine.
What about the other Venerables?
When they first became Venerables, did they have only around three hundred thousand Dao Marks?
Fang Yuan smiled. That possibility was infinitely close to zero!
There was no invincible Gu in this world, only invincible Gu Immortals.
If these people had only three hundred thousand Dao Marks when they became Venerables, how could they possibly have achieved records of sweeping across the world and reputations of unmatched supremacy?
The current Fang Yuan was already one of the foremost experts under heaven! Standing at the peak, looking down upon the world. Those who could fight him one-on-one could be counted on one hand.
And yet, whenever he raised his head, he could still see above him, towering within the nine layers of clouds, ten colossal mountains!
Those were the ten greatest people of all time, each one a legend among legends, the ten most dazzling suns in the long history of humanity.
Besides them, no matter who it was — anyone at all! — no matter how brilliant and talented, like stars blazing in the night sky, they were all overshadowed by those ten, fading into insignificance beneath their radiance.
Not even Fang Yuan was an exception.
He had been able to reach this point thanks in large part to the legacies of his predecessors, and especially these Venerables.
Setting everything else aside, just consider the Supreme Immortal Aperture.
That was the possession of Soul Demon Venerable.
Throughout his cultivation to this day, Fang Yuan still frequently marveled at the heaven-defying advantages of the Supreme Immortal Aperture.
Take the absorption of the Qi Sea Cave Heaven, for example. Under normal circumstances, who could simply swallow it whole in one gulp?
Almost no one!
Unless it was Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable himself.
Because an Immortal Aperture could only absorb a smaller one through a larger one — and here, "large" and "small" referred to the foundation, the accumulated depth.
Presumably, only Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable possessed the Qi Path foundation to absorb a Qi Sea Cave Heaven with over a million Qi Path Dao Marks.
If one tried to cut the Cave Heaven into pieces and absorb them bit by bit, the loss of Dao Marks would be far too great.
Each act of dividing the Cave Heaven was itself damage to it. The interwoven network of Qi Path Dao Marks would be constantly severed, resulting in enormous losses!
And because Dao Marks repelled each other, the Gu Immortal would actually recover only a pittance.
Once the Qi Sea Cave Heaven was divided past a certain point, the damage would be so severe that it would trigger the Great Unity Wind. At that point, the remaining fragments of the Cave Heaven could only be destroyed.