Massive quantities of thoughts surged through Fang Ti Chang's mind like skyscrapers rising one after another, only to collapse in rapid succession. The countless cycles of construction and destruction left him drenched in sweat, his face flushed scarlet.
Clearly, his Wisdom Path calculations had already reached their absolute limit.
"This is bad — catastrophically bad!" Fang Ti Chang muttered, his expression grim. The results of his calculations had already shown him the wretched future awaiting the Fang Clan.
Previously, when the Wan Clan's call to arms had failed and the Fang Clan narrowly escaped disaster, it had primarily been because of the Fang Clan's ambiguous relationship with Fang Yuan.
Furthermore, with the Five Regions' Boundary Walls vanished and the two heavens merged, Gu Immortals everywhere were living in fear, maintaining extreme caution.
Yet Fang Ti Chang knew all too well what the true face of the so-called Great Love Immortal Venerable really was.
If the Fang Clan were besieged by the Western Desert's super forces, Fang Yuan absolutely would not lift a finger.
Fang Yuan cared only about practical gain!
Unless the Fang Clan offered a price steep enough to stir Fang Yuan's heart, he would never come to their aid.
Just like this time — it was the Fang Clan who had first harbored intentions of moving against the Wan Clan, secretly trading with Fang Yuan. Only after paying numerous resource points did they manage to exchange for a batch of Immortal Gu, advance the core Immortal Gu of the "Stripping Tiles from the Roof" killer move, and barely assemble that Earth Path Immortal Gu House.
If Fang Yuan refused to help and the Fang Clan's true relationship with him was exposed, they would face utter annihilation.
Could the Fang Clan produce a sufficient price to move Fang Yuan to action?
Fang Ti Chang had absolutely no confidence in this.
What worried him most was this: if the Fang Clan could pay a premium to secure Fang Yuan's aid, what about other super forces? If they followed suit with equally lucrative offers, how could the Fang Clan possibly compete?
"No matter what the Fang Clan chooses, Fang Yuan is always the biggest winner!" Fang Ti Chang gritted his teeth in secret, resentment churning inside him.
Fang Yuan had destroyed his physical body and captured his soul. In Fang Ti Chang's heart, such enmity could never be forgotten.
"What should we do? That Wan Clan Grand Supreme Elder is truly a disgrace to the Wan Clan — he put up no fight at all. Perhaps we could resurrect him?" Fang Gong furrowed his brow tightly and offered a suggestion.
Fang Ti Chang slowly shook his head.
He had already run this scenario through his calculations countless times. It would not work.
Setting aside the fact that the Fang Clan possessed no method of resurrecting Gu Immortals, reviving the Wan Clan Grand Supreme Elder would likely require seeking outside help.
And even if they succeeded, would that erase the enmity?
Look at Fang Ti Chang himself — he had been killed by Fang Yuan once, his soul captured, and only later released. Had that hatred between them vanished?
How could it!
If anything, the grudge had only deepened.
One could say that the bad blood between the Fang Clan and the Wan Clan was now virtually irreconcilable. The Wan Clan would undoubtedly seek total revenge.
Under such circumstances, the Fang Clan resurrecting the Wan Grand Supreme Elder would mean reviving their own enemy and inviting him to cause them even more trouble.
That would be beyond foolish.
Of course, Gu Immortals had access to all manner of methods beyond counting. Resolving enmity was not impossible.
For example, there was the famous Spring Autumn Cicada — a successful rebirth could allow everything to start over.
There were also Wisdom Path methods that could alter the emotions of the Wan Clan's immortals.
But any method powerful enough to affect the Wan Clan's immortals would necessarily be of an extremely high transformation level, which the Fang Clan did not possess.
"Hah!" Fang Ti Chang exhaled a long, turbid breath, a fierce gleam flickering in his eyes. He spoke in a grave voice, "Right now, we have no choice but to go all the way down this road. Launch a surprise attack on the Wan Clan's headquarters — we must deal them a devastating blow!"
Fang Gong's eyes immediately narrowed, and the other Fang Clan Gu Immortals felt a chill run through them upon hearing these words.
The matter had already escalated beyond control. The Fang Clan was in for enormous trouble regardless.
If that was the case, there was no point waffling. They might as well go all in and cripple the Wan Clan with everything they had.
"Good!" Fang Gong made his decision without hesitation.
The Fang Clan immediately recalled the Chicken Coop and Dog Kennel, and riding their Earth Path Immortal Gu House, charged at full speed underground toward the Wan Clan's headquarters.
However, upon breaching the compound, they found it completely empty.
The Wan Clan's Gu Immortals had evacuated in advance. The sole remaining Immortal Gu House — the Longevity Tower — along with the myriad resources and stockpiles within the headquarters, had all vanished without a trace.
The Fang Clan immortals' faces turned ashen.
This was the worst possible outcome for them!
After a moment of silence, Fang Ti Chang made a suggestion: "Grand Supreme Elder, given the current situation, I must ask you to take the Chicken Coop and Dog Kennel and sweep through the Wan Clan's resource points. As for me, I will lead the main force back to headquarters and devote everything to preparing our defenses!"
Fang Gong nodded slowly. "There is no other way."
Fang Ti Chang's expression was utterly solemn: "If the Fang Clan is to survive this crisis, we must cling to Fang Yuan's thigh at all costs. The more resource points you seize, the more Immortal Gu we can obtain from Fang Yuan, and the greater our hope of survival."
"I understand!" Fang Gong selected two others, entered the Chicken Coop and Dog Kennel, and soon vanished over the horizon.
Fang Ti Chang, meanwhile, led the remaining Fang Clan immortals back to their headquarters aboard the Earth Path Immortal Gu House.
The mountain storm was gathering, thunder was about to strike. Tension gripped every member of the Fang Clan like a tiger in the mountains that had sensed the threat of death — every hair bristling, every eye wide open, bracing with all its might against the swarm of beasts about to descend.
East Sea.
Sea breezes drifted gently, seabirds calling softly.
Fang Yuan presided over Gu refinement with leisurely composure.
Within his Supreme Immortal Aperture, the refinement of the Ninth Transformation Gu was already well into its middle-to-final stage.