Fang Yuan's divine sense spread rapidly through his Supreme Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
"Perhaps I need to construct some Wisdom Path mini-arrays to help my divine sense spread around here more easily?" Fang Yuan thought.
His divine sense was actually quite fast, but the Supreme Immortal Grotto-Heaven was simply too vast. Every time Fang Yuan extended his divine sense to inspect the state of his own immortal aperture, it was never very convenient.
Ordinary Gu Immortals did not have this kind of trouble — their immortal apertures were also called minor worlds, but they were completely incomparable to Fang Yuan's Supreme Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
Before long, Fang Yuan's divine sense reached its destination.
Small Western Desert, Ink Man City.
In an unremarkable corner of the city, there lived a household.
The male head of the household, an Ink Man Gu Master, was a young man of limited aptitude — only at the Second Transformation. At this moment, his expression was fraught with anxiety and worry as he paced back and forth outside the bedroom.
Wah—!
A baby's cry suddenly rang out from inside the bedroom.
The man's face instantly lit up with joy.
He hurriedly burst into the bedroom and saw his wife, as well as the female physician they had paid a hefty sum to bring in for this occasion.
The female physician held a newborn Ink Man boy in her hands.
He was very small, somewhat ugly in appearance, but perfectly healthy.
"Everything is completely normal. Except..." The female physician smiled at the male head of the household, then turned her gaze to the infant's hands.
In his palms, there was a pair of Gu insects.
They were precisely Bone and Flesh Reunion Gu!
The female physician's eyes were filled with astonishment, for she had personally attended the delivery and witnessed with her own eyes that these two Gu insects had been born alongside the baby.
"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed it. This... must be the effect of the Birthing Temple?" the female physician asked the Ink Man patriarch.
It was the first time the Ink Man patriarch had seen such a thing as well.
He stared at the pair of Gu insects, and his eyes reddened quickly.
With his level and financial means, obtaining Gu insects like these would have required who knew how much cost and time.
But now, these rare and precious Gu insects had been born together with his son!
What an incredible surprise.
The Ink Man patriarch nodded, his voice choked with emotion: "Yes. After the Birthing Temple was established in the city, my wife and I discussed it and decided we might as well give it a try. We never expected it would actually work!"
The female physician exclaimed: "You certainly aren't the only ones. This Birthing Temple really does live up to its claims — it can help couples have children quickly, and with good luck, Gu insects may even be born alongside the child!"
The Ink Man patriarch then seemed to want to say something but hesitated.
The female physician cast him a questioning look.
On the bed, the Ink Man wife — still very weak — spoke up of her own accord, asking the female physician to test the bloodline of their family of three.
The female physician realized — it turned out the family was worried that the infant might not be their own biological child.
A moment later, the test was complete.
The results left everyone present overjoyed.
"This is my son. I finally have a son. Heavens, I finally have a son!" The Ink Man patriarch had no more reservations. He cradled the infant and wept with joy.
After Fang Yuan's divine sense witnessed the entire scene, he quietly withdrew.
The Birthing Temple was one of his arrangements.
There were many of these mortal Gu structures. After Fang Yuan ordered them built, they were distributed throughout the Supreme Immortal Grotto-Heaven for people to use.
The Birthing Temple was a Human Path Immortal Gu house, and its core components were Human Path Gu insects — Conception Gu, Triplet Gu, Dead Fetus Gu, Multi-Fetus Gu, and Pregnancy-Sustaining Gu.
It also utilized large numbers of Time Path and Refinement Path Gu insects as supplementary elements.
The actual function of the Birthing Temple was to first extract the Yin and Yang qi of the man and woman, then use Conception Gu to impregnate the woman.
Then Triplet Gu was used to form triplets.
Two of the fetuses were subjected to Dead Fetus Gu's effect and used as Gu refinement materials. The remaining single fetus was protected by Pregnancy-Sustaining Gu.
The two fetuses were refined into Bone and Flesh Reunion Gu, then born simultaneously alongside the single remaining fetus.
The entire process from conception to birth took no more than seven days — all thanks to the Time Path Gu insects.
In this way, the population of the various races within the Supreme Immortal Grotto-Heaven could grow rapidly. As the population base expanded and formed family units, with the "Dream Path methods" in play, aptitude could be broadly improved, and there would be more and more Gu Immortal seeds.
Moreover, throughout this entire process, everyone in the Supreme Immortal Grotto-Heaven would become even more reverent toward Fang Yuan, even more adoring, even more grateful!
It was foreseeable that their loyalty to Fang Yuan would only grow stronger.
"The accompanying Bone and Flesh Reunion Gu serves as the newborn's Life Gu, naturally refined by them. So these people, the moment they are born, already possess a Fifth Transformation Life Gu. Once Bone and Flesh Reunion Gu reaches the required threshold, they can convert it into another Gu insect. This way, their growth can be accelerated even further!"
Fang Yuan planned silently.
For him, achieving this was not difficult at all. It was effortless.
He was employing the Human Body Gu Refinement method, which was itself one of the supreme arts of the Refinement Path. The higher-tier version of this was the Ni Clan.
When the Ni Clan bloodline propagated to a certain stage, a generation's Mud Phantasm would appear, directly producing Immortal Gu within the body.
This time, Fang Yuan was only producing mortal Gu.
"The essence of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's Yin-Yang Path lies in Abortion Gu, Pregnancy-Sustaining Gu, Multi-Fetus Gu, and the like. Nearly every Venerable throughout history had comprehended Human Path killer moves from the Legends of the Human Ancestor, but those methods were far too lofty and inaccessible to the common folk. That was why Heavenly Court deployed Divine Emperor City to develop the foundations of the Human Path."
"But in truth, among the Venerables there was one particular man who had actually developed many basic Human Path mortal Gu long ago. He simply kept them to himself and never disseminated them widely."