During this period, how many Gu Masters in the Supreme Immortal Orifice had ascended to immortality?
Golden Hair Immortal King, Fur Monster Cave Lord, Dou Lei Warrior, Duo Luo Warrior, Jie Shi Warrior, Gang Ben Warrior, Frost Butterfly Warrior, An Chong, Ye Zhi, Guan Tian Divine Lord, Chen Huai Zi, Colored Stone Immortal Consort, Great Wisdom Immortal Mother, Bing Yuan, Bing Zhuo, Ice Crystal Immortal King, Shi Zong, Ke Xin Hong, the Six Chou Dan Immortals, Xiao He Jian, Qing Sen Great Sage… all the way to the current Gu Yue Fang Xiang!
Most of the Gu Immortals Fang Yuan had sacrificed in the Frenzy Demon Den had been resurrected. All except those who had perished in the great chaos calamity.
But Fang Yuan hadn't revived them directly as Gu Immortals — only at the Gu Master cultivation level.
On one hand, this was to conserve resources and prevent excessive drain from the sheer number of people. On the other hand, it was for this very timing!
Fang Yuan had always been far-sighted and skilled at crafting plans.
It was just that in the past, his plans often couldn't keep up with reality's changes.
But now, his cultivation had reached the Ninth Transformation, he had become a Refinement Path Venerable, and the Fate Gu had been destroyed. In all the world, the beings who could interfere with his plans could be counted on one hand!
Fang Yuan's deliberate accumulation beforehand had yielded him an immense return during the great wave of ascensions.
In just a few short months, within the Supreme Immortal Orifice alone, over thirty Gu Masters had ascended to immortality — and that didn't even count the super forces under Fang Yuan's command in the Eastern Sea, the Two Heavens, and elsewhere.
The Wu Family, which had been basking in all the glory, couldn't possibly compare with such results.
But Fang Yuan had concealed everything, not letting a single whisper slip.
And the gains from Gu cultivators ascending to immortality — only a small portion came from those who became Sixth Transformation Gu Immortals. The vast majority of the benefits came from Stealing Heavenly Secrets!
This was something even Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Great Sun Immortal Venerable couldn't have anticipated.
In fact, even Fang Yuan himself hadn't expected the harvest to be this enormous!!
He obtained a massive number of killing moves, Gu recipes, Immortal Gu Houses, Immortal Formations, construction methods for battlefield killing moves, the optimal cultivation methods for countless resources, the most detailed topographical maps of the Five Regions at present, the locations of numerous wild Immortal Gu, and more.
After satisfying his immediate needs, he then delved into the Humanity Path, Medicine Path, Painting Path, Star Path, Fortune Path, and others.
The results left Fang Yuan greatly surprised and delighted!
He had only tried it out, yet he obtained the Music Master Immortal Gu Recipe, the Thief Immortal Gu Recipe, the Soldier Immortal Gu Recipe, the Sergeant Immortal Gu Recipe, and many more — along with a massive quantity of Medicine Path and Painting Path Immortal Gu Recipes.
He gained countless profound insights from the Fortune Path, Star Path, and Soul Path, all of which were of great help to him.
Looking back now, it was the Humanity Path gains that surprised him the most: "I never expected that the development of the Humanity Path in this world had already progressed so far."
Fang Yuan hadn't known about the existence of the Derivation Grand Formation — Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had concealed it too well.
However, the root of the problem lay in the Derivation Grand Formation.
The formation's core, the Derivation Immortal Gu, was at the Ninth Transformation and hadn't been refined by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, so it remained a wild Immortal Gu.
But it wasn't that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable didn't want to refine it — it was that the Derivation Immortal Gu could only be employed under these specific circumstances.
Once the Derivation Immortal Gu was refined by someone else, it became a useless object.
Wuji Demon Venerable had attempted this, which was why the Frenzy Demon Formation had still used the wild Derivation Immortal Gu as its core.
However, the two deepest levels of the Frenzy Demon Den were isolated from the outside world. So even in its wild state, the Derivation Immortal Gu posed no problem.
Heavenly Court was different.
Heavenly Court had absorbed too many fragments of the Primordial Nine Heavens. It was filled with Heavenly Will and was the largest Heavenly Vein Node among the Two Heavens.
Previously, when the Two Heavens were in chaos, Heavenly Court had mobilized countless Eighth Transformation powerhouses and deployed all its Immortal Gu Houses in a desperate defense. In the end, it was only after Star Constellation Immortal Venerable refined the Wisdom Path Dao Marks of Heavenly Court and made an emergency intervention — turning the tide and stabilizing the overall situation — that she prevented the Spectral Soul Demon Venerable from finding his way there.
But the Derivation Grand Formation was situated within Heavenly Court, and it drew the attention of Heavenly Will.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable couldn't block all of this Heavenly Will.
As long as one was within Heavenly Court, Heavenly Will was one of its fundamental pillars.
But aside from Heavenly Court, where else could she place the Derivation Grand Formation?
Nowhere.
At least, nowhere in the Central Continent.
Therefore, everything within the Derivation Grand Formation occurred between Heaven and Earth.
This critical flaw was not something Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had failed to notice — she had long been aware of it.
But it didn't matter.
At least, in her view, it didn't matter.
Why?
Because Heavenly Will didn't favor any of the current Venerables.
Great Sun Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had both been resurrected from death — how could Heavenly Will permit the dead to rise again?
As for Fang Yuan, he needed no further explanation. He was an Otherworldly Demon, a complete Otherworldly Demon at that, and one of the culprits who had destroyed the Fate Gu.
Only the Spectral Soul Demon Venerable enjoyed some measure of Heavenly Will's favor.
But his mind was in disarray — even if he wanted to deal with Heavenly Court, with its gates sealed shut, he couldn't find it, nor could he get in!
And if he did get in, with the amplification from Heavenly Court's Wisdom Path Dao Marks, need she fear him? She could seize the opportunity to eliminate him!
Just as Fang Yuan hadn't anticipated the Derivation Grand Formation, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable didn't know that this fellow actually possessed a Ninth Transformation Heavenly Secret Gu.
The key was that Fang Yuan had also developed the Steal Heavenly Secrets Killing Move!
Regardless of whether Heavenly Will was willing, as long as Fang Yuan utilized Following the Laws of Nature, he could brazenly steal Heavenly Secrets.
Three streams of Qi enveloped Gu Yue Fang Xiang as he formally began Following the Laws of Nature at this moment.
Seeing this, Fang Yuan cleared his mind of distractions: "This time, what Heavenly Secrets should I steal?"
He considered for a moment: "Perhaps directly querying information about Heavenly Court wouldn't be bad. No matter how Star Constellation Immortal Venerable conceals things, my Steal Heavenly Secrets Killing Move is at the Ninth Transformation level. For her to resist it, she would need a Ninth Transformation Wisdom Path Immortal Gu that had undergone a qualitative transformation!"
No matter how many Wisdom Path Dao Marks Heavenly Court possessed, it was still merely a quantitative change.
When Gu Yue Fang Xiang's Immortal Orifice detonated and he became a Sixth Transformation Gu Immortal, Fang Yuan's body and mind trembled with excitement.