Within the True Inheritance Secret Realm, Fang Yuan was shrouded by dense, massive clusters of tri-colored qi, his figure completely concealed.
"Junior Brother, you must hold on tight. I'm not worried about you handling the emotional fluctuations — I'm just afraid that your youthful ambition and desire for the profound mysteries of the Great Dao will cause you to forget your limits and fuse too much heaven and earth energy." Tai Bai Yun Sheng's gaze was heavy with concern.
The heaven and earth energy had already spread to his vicinity, forcing him to slowly fly away from Fang Yuan.
The Giant Sun Will competing with him over the ownership of the Supreme True Inheritance, however, seemed to have slowed its pace.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's pressure eased slightly, his situation gradually improving.
"Damn little thief, to actually have so much human qi! How hateful — why hasn't it gone out of balance yet?" The Chang He Giant Sun Will gnashed its teeth in cursing.
It was not the only one harboring such hopes. Hei Lou Lan and the others were equally eager.
"This fellow isn't old at all, yet he's been able to balance the three qis for so long!"
"He and Tai Bai Yun Sheng call each other senior and junior brother — his background must be extraordinary. Could it be that he too will become a Gu Immortal?"
"No way! Becoming a Gu Immortal isn't that easy! Do you think the Giant Sun Ancestor is just for show?"
The group exchanged silent glances, not daring to act rashly. Such dense heaven and earth energy — if it backfired, the consequences would be no joke.
Yet Fang Yuan, standing within the qi clusters, wore a composed smile on his face.
"Wonderful, truly wonderful..." He murmured with both eyes shut tight, muttering softly. Various profound insights into the Great Dao flowed through his heart like streams of clear spring water.
Fang Yuan had ascended to immortality in his previous life, becoming a Blood Dao Gu Immortal. This was already his second time.
With such precious experience and insight, he was more composed and serene than perhaps any other Gu Master in the world. And he understood the true meaning of this process far better than ordinary Gu Masters ever could.
Humans are the spirit of all living beings, possessing the highest spiritual awareness. Gu Insects are the true essence of heaven and earth, the carriers of the Great Dao's laws.
All paths toward longevity are paths of transcendence.
To transcend, one must accumulate.
And the most fundamental means of accumulation is learning.
When Gu Masters use, raise, and refine Gu, they are indirectly learning the mysteries of heaven and earth through the Gu Insects.
But when a Gu Master ascends to immortality, it is a direct communion with heaven and nature.
Such opportunities for communion were infinitely precious — often, one would have only a single chance in an entire lifetime.
Fang Yuan cherished this opportunity with everything he had, seizing it with all his might to extract every last drop of insight.
The mysteries of heaven and earth were vaster and more profound than any ocean. Fang Yuan knew his own limits and did not engage in aimless, reckless exploration. Instead, he focused on the single point of strength power, deepening his comprehension continuously, distilling its very essence.
In his previous life, he had only practiced the strength path as a secondary pursuit. Though he cultivated it in this life as well, the time he had spent on it was still far too short.
By strict standards, his original attainment in the strength path could only be considered quasi-Grandmaster level.
But seizing this rare opportunity, his understanding of the strength path soared skyward, rocketing to new heights! Very quickly, he crossed the threshold of a Grandmaster, broke through that tier, and began advancing toward the Sovereign level.
Fang Yuan had no choice but to do this.
The second Empty Orifice he shattered contained a Fourth Transformation All-Out Gu as his Life Gu. This Gu belonged to the strength path, and it would be the first to be placed during the third step, helping Fang Yuan achieve ascension as a strength-path Gu Immortal.
But this Gu had not reached the Fifth Transformation — its tier was rather low. Fang Yuan could only compensate with a superior attainment in the strength path; otherwise, when placing the Gu during the third step, the risk would be enormous. If he failed to produce the Immortal Orifice, this ascension would end in complete failure.
Outside the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Wild winds surged, tribulation lightning flew in every direction!
The heavenly disaster and earthly tribulation merged into a massive cocoon-like cloud, so vast and boundless that it shrouded the entire Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
After Fang Yuan shattered his orifice, the heavenly tribulation and earthly disaster underwent terrifying new changes.
Giant Sun's Will, determined to protect the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, had no room to retreat and fought back with everything it had — it had reached the critical moment!
Boom…
A savage howl accompanied the snow-white Tangled Fangs as they shot downward like lightning.
The speed was so extreme that it left a streak of lightning-like light across the sky.
Giant Sun's Will had long prepared itself mentally, having waited for this moment.
The will-armor enveloping the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building thickened several times over, reaching a thickness of three zhang.
At the same time, Giant Sun's Will split off dozens of giant will-hands, palms spread wide, positioning them as barriers in midair.
The eighteen Tangled Fangs shot downward, colliding with one another mid-flight, causing their trajectories to shift wildly — darting left, then right, arriving unpredictably from all directions.
The giant will-hands flew about frantically, struggling to block them.
The Tangled Fangs pierced through the giant will-hands one by one, then shot straight toward Giant Sun's Will's main body, boring several deep holes into the will-armor that was a thousand times harder than steel.
Giant Sun's Will let out a muffled grunt as its main body wavered into brief chaos before stabilizing once more.
Surveying the wounds, even Giant Sun's Will couldn't help but feel a chill run through it.
The five wounds varied in depth, two of them reaching more than two zhang deep — barely avoiding catastrophic damage to the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. It had been extremely close.
"Thank heavens I paid the devastating price of destroying half the Tangled Fangs in advance. If all eighteen had flown out at once, their trajectories would have been impossible to predict — how could I have weakened them in midair?"
After that moment of relief, Giant Sun's Will's fury and hatred toward Fang Yuan deepened another layer: "That little thief Fang Yuan deserves to be sliced to pieces! He ascends to immortality, and I'm left holding the bag! The moment I catch my breath, I'll—ugh!"