Supreme Immortal Aperture.
Small Eastern Sea.
Jade-green currents, massive as dragons, surged rapidly across the sea surface.
Several Sixth Transformation Gu Immortals gave chase, attempting to cut it off.
"Quick, the current is heading your way!"
"Watch this!"
Boom. The current surged, whipping up waves ten zhang high.
"Stopped it! No, watch out—"
Two Sixth Transformation Gu Immortals were swallowed whole by the waves.
"Damn it!" The remaining Gu Immortals desperately deployed their techniques.
They barely managed to keep the jade-green current from escaping this stretch of sea.
When the time came, a pure white radiance enveloped the sea surface for a radius of ten li.
He Chunqiu revealed himself, letting out a low shout as he raised his hand in an empty grasping motion.
Immediately the sea surface began to churn, waves rising and falling, and after a dozen or so breaths, a Water Grand Formation had been constructed.
At its core sat a Seventh Transformation Water Path Immortal Gu, built upon a batch of Water Path immortal materials that had already been consumed.
The jade-green current within the Water Grand Formation transformed into a constantly spinning vortex, producing a ceaseless rushing sound.
The Sixth Transformation Gu Immortals present flew into the air, and upon seeing this scene, could not help but cheer.
He Chunqiu, however, conducted another inspection. Only after confirming everything was in order did he let out a soft breath of relief.
With this, this resource node of Flowing Jade-Green Water had been successfully settled here.
Flowing Jade-Green Water was a Seventh Transformation immortal material, famous for one particular trait — it was perpetually in motion, never resting still.
Fang Yuan had established the Alliance of Love Between Heaven and Earth, annexed the Righteous Qi Alliance, and ordered the Righteous Path factions of the Eastern Sea to hand over a batch of Water Path resource nodes. This Flowing Jade-Green Water was among them.
He Chunqiu had been tasked with settling the Flowing Jade-Green Water. He set up an immortal formation and ordered the other Sixth Transformation Gu Immortals to corral the green current, preventing it from escaping to other areas. It had taken several days of effort to complete the construction.
From now on, this resource node would not only produce Flowing Jade-Green Water but also serve as one of the Water Vein nodes!
With further development, it might even form an entire Flowing Jade-Green Water territory.
"The Rift Soul Vortex, Seven Treasures Sea Spring, Millennium Dark Ice Island, Purest Water Domain, Rolling Pearl Reservoir… Over these past few days, the Small Eastern Sea has gained more than a dozen Water Vein nodes. Only three more are needed to form a complete water vein ring."
He Chunqiu was still mulling this over when one of the Sixth Transformation Gu Immortals respectfully inquired, "Master, do you have any further instructions?"
He Chunqiu waved his hand at them, and immediately a Time Path killer move was activated, fully healing the injuries on all of their bodies.
"Go," He Chunqiu said.
The Gu Immortals departed, deeply grateful.
They were terribly busy — they needed to venture out in all directions, resolve abnormal incidents, and stabilize the environment within the Supreme Immortal Aperture.
The tasks piling up in the Starry Hall were truly mountainous.
Watching their retreating figures, He Chunqiu sighed once more.
After the battle at the Demon's Den, the Supreme Immortal Aperture faced two major problems.
The first was that abnormal incidents continued to occur with alarming frequency. The dao marks within the Supreme Immortal Aperture did not repel each other — this was the root cause. The more dao marks accumulated in the Supreme Immortal Aperture, the worse this trouble became.
When Fang Yuan ascended to Venerable and survived the Minor Chaos Tribulation, his Refinement Path dao marks had surged. At the same time, he had been frantically establishing resource nodes, which were themselves concentrations of dao marks.
The second problem was the severe lack of manpower within the Supreme Immortal Aperture.
During the battle at the Demon's Den, nearly fifty Gu Immortals had perished. Some of them, due to the Minor Chaos Tribulation, could never be revived — the last Beast King of War being among them. The majority of the rest had been revived, but they were only at the Gu Master stage.
The current situation was special; these people could not be quickly elevated to immortal rank.
Thus, surveying the Supreme Immortal Aperture as it stood, the strongest figures present were the Eighth Transformation Gu Immortals — He Chunqiu, Wu Shuai, Miss White Rabbit, and Fairy Wondrous Sound.
Tasks like constructing resource nodes and setting up grand formations all had to be handled personally by He Chunqiu and Wu Shuai.
Though neither had cultivated the Formation Path, they were Fang Yuan's clones and shared his level of formation expertise. Anyone else attempting these tasks simply could not manage them.
He Chunqiu had already entered the Life-Exhaustion Grand Formation multiple times in succession, with absolutely no time to rest.
"Perhaps I should have the main body issue an order to draft a batch of Sharkman Gu Immortals from the Sharkman Royal Court for emergency support?" He Chunqiu could not help but consider.
Compared to humans, the non-human races depended far more heavily on Fang Yuan, and the likelihood of betrayal was considerably lower.