"Solve Mysteries Gu... Solve Mysteries Gu..." Fang Yuan murmured ceaselessly, his fingers tapping against the armrest with a steady thud.
Inside the hall, bidding cries rang out without pause. At the very last moment of the entire auction, a supreme treasure like the Red Fiend Divine Ship had made a dramatic entrance — an unexpected and delightful surprise.
Ordinary rogue cultivators and lone wanderers need not even think about it. Only Seventh Transformation Gu Immortals from super forces and Eighth Transformation powerhouses had any real chance of competing.
The super forces, in particular, found Immortal Gu Houses irresistible. The temptation was simply too great.
The price surged with frightening speed. Though this was technically a free-trading segment, the participants had unconsciously slipped into fierce competition, adopting the rules of an auction — all to fight for this treasure.
Qin Bai Sheng smiled bitterly.
He had set the rules himself, but seeing so many powerhouses roaring and shouting their bids, he wisely chose to stand aside and watch. Insisting on trade rules now would offend every single one of these giants.
"See that? This is the allure of the Red Fiend Divine Ship. You people in the Zombie Alliance are way too stingy!" The seller, riding high on the momentum, sent a message to the two leaders of the Zombie Alliance.
Yaksha Dragon Commander's entire face darkened.
Yin Liu Gong could only sigh. The current price had already far exceeded the Zombie Alliance's offer, and the bidding was still climbing. Even Yin Liu Gong, a sharp man, knew deep down that the Red Fiend Divine Ship was already out of their reach. He dreaded to think how the leader would berate him for his incompetence upon return.
As Fang Yuan listened to the bids, his mind was quietly calculating.
"The immortal Gu captives I have on hand number only four. One is Wu Hao, known as the Thunder Sprint Hand — the only Seventh Transformation Gu Immortal among the captives. The other three are the Three Sea Immortals, all of the Wood Path."
Obviously, the chances of using these four Gu Immortal captives to trade for the Solve Mysteries Gu in Hundred Feet Heavenly Lord's hands were not high.
Hundred Feet Heavenly Lord was a Space Path Gu Immortal. Since their paths were incompatible, the attractiveness of these four captives dropped sharply.
There was one more crucial point: Immortal Gu were unique, and the Solve Mysteries Gu was extremely practical. If not for the Red Fiend Divine Ship luring him out, Hundred Feet Heavenly Lord would never have revealed such a valuable Gu.
"If I force a trade, I'm afraid it won't work. The Strength Path Immortal Gu I just acquired — Hundred Feet Heavenly Lord won't have any use for it. If I offer the Invite Misfortune Gu, trading a Seventh Transformation one for a Sixth Transformation, that would be a terrible loss. As for the Fixed Immortal Travel Gu and Link Fortune Gu — to me, they're all indispensable. I can't afford to trade those away."
But if he couldn't obtain the Solve Mysteries Gu, Fang Yuan was unwilling to give up.
Missing this opportunity, missing this atmosphere — even with sufficient capital in the future, such a trade would be difficult to arrange again. The Solve Mysteries Gu itself was not something Fang Yuan absolutely needed. But in his memories from his previous life, he knew of a method that used this Gu as a core, combined with other rare auxiliary Gu, to brew into a Dream Path killer move!
An Immortal-level Dream Path killer move!
At this point in time, the Three Venerables Theory had spread across the Five Regions. With the involvement of the Great Dream Immortal Venerate, virtually every super force and Eighth Transformation giant was researching Dream Path.
Though their research was shallow, Dream Realm externalization had already appeared.
Two Dream Path Immortal Gu had also emerged in the world.
One was in Feng Jin Huang's hands, and the other was under the control of Poison Scorpion Lady. Speaking of which, the latter was far more formidable. Feng Jin Huang was still just a mortal girl, while Poison Scorpion Lady was entrenched in her Blessed Land, slumbering as she constantly explored the Dream Realm.
Everyone knew that Dream Path was the future trend. So they treasured their findings jealously — even if they had developed many Dream Path mortal Gu, they never released them, treating them as their greatest secrets.
Those who could become Gu Immortals were, without exception, exceptional among mortals — naturally far-sighted and exceedingly shrewd.
Therefore, even at an auction like this, no Dream Path-related treasures had ever appeared for sale.
Fang Yuan certainly knew many Dream Path mortal Gu recipes as well. But mortal Gu were of little help when it came to exploring the Dream Realm. Otherwise, the super forces would have already begun large-scale infiltration of dreams long ago.
What truly made a difference was Dream Path Immortal Gu.
Strangely enough, whether the two current ones or the later Dream Path Immortal Gu from Fang Yuan's memories, they all ended up in the hands of women.
Perhaps this was consistent with the Three Venerables Theory — two males and one female among the three Immortal Venerables. By this deduction, the Great Dream Immortal Venerate was the female Venerable.
In the short term, Fang Yuan could not hope to obtain a Dream Path Immortal Gu. But if he had a Dream Path Immortal-level killer move, it could serve as a substitute for a Dream Path Immortal Gu!
Gu were the true essence of heaven and earth, while humans were the spirit of all living things.
In short — using Gu depended on who wielded them. There were no strongest Gu Insects, only the most powerful Gu Masters. A genius Gu Master could often combine different Gu Insects to create far greater power and wondrous effects.
Take Fang Yuan himself, for example. He previously had no Strength Path Immortal Gu either, yet with only the Soul Path's Purify Soul Immortal Gu as his core — combined with other mortal Gu — he had formed the Immortal-level killer move Myriad Self, pioneering the convergence of Slave and Strength Paths.
This Dream Path killer move worked the same way. The core Immortal Gu was the Wisdom Path's Solve Mysteries Gu, but once deployed, it would be a Dream Path killer move.
"If I could obtain this Gu, I could gather Dream Path Gu materials and refine mortal Gu one by one. Though it would cost time and effort, once the killer move was successfully assembled, the returns would be a thousand or ten thousand fold! It would greatly make up for the regrets of my previous life, make me a pioneer in Dream Realm exploration, and put me ahead of every force — large or small — and most of the giants in the entire world!"
Fang Yuan's racing thoughts left his mouth dry and tongue parched.
He made a rough estimate, appraising this Dream Path killer move's value in his mind — it was by no means inferior to the Zhi Hui Gu. It ranked only below the Spring Autumn Cicada and the Fox Immortal's Blessed Land, and above the Go All Out Gu.