Most of Fang Yuan's mind was now submerged within his Immortal Aperture.
Large numbers of Light Path mortal Gu fluttered and spiraled one by one, then carried the Flowing Light Fruits upward, ascending high into the sky.
Passing through layer upon layer of "sky," after a lengthy flight, these Flowing Light Fruits finally arrived at the uppermost layer.
Fang Yuan's Supreme Immortal Aperture was divided into Five Domains and Nine Heavens.
After some consideration, Fang Yuan placed all of the Flowing Light Fruits into the uppermost layer.
"Although there are no shortage of Space Path Dao marks within my Immortal Aperture, I cannot simply utilize them for instantaneous movement the way an Earth Spirit can. After all, there is a vast difference between an Immortal Gu Master and an Earth Spirit. Earth Spirits are unique beings formed from the combined might of Heaven and Earth, fused with an Immortal Gu Master's obsessions."
"My Supreme Immortal Aperture spans a vast territory. It seems I'll need to set up Teleportation Gu formations inside it in the future — to facilitate resource migration, structural adjustments, and overall arrangement."
Fang Yuan's thoughts drifted freely.
Now, all of the Flowing Light Fruits had entered the uppermost sky.
Fang Yuan then mobilized his Gu, directing each Flowing Light Fruit to its designated position.
Pupu pupu...
The next moment, soft explosions rang out without end.
One Flowing Light Fruit after another self-detonated in succession.
Each Flowing Light Fruit was small in size, but upon self-detonation, they rapidly spread across the sky in brilliant auroras — a dazzling kaleidoscope of colors, breathtakingly beautiful.
The essence of these Flowing Light Fruits was a condensation and concentration of auroral light.
The reason Fang Yuan had collected these Flowing Light Fruits was to feed the Attitude Gu. But then why did he self-detonate them?
It turned out that while the quantity of this batch of Flowing Light Fruits was not small, it was still far from enough to feed the Attitude Gu.
The Attitude Gu was an Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu. Although the feeding interval was quite long, each feeding required a staggering number of Flowing Light Fruits.
This was the norm for Gu feeding.
Generally speaking, the higher a Gu's transformation level, the more feed it required — but the longer the interval between feedings as well.
Gu had nine transformations in total. The Eighth Transformation was second only to the Ninth, and the Attitude Gu's feed requirements were a truly enormous number.
And so, Fang Yuan had collected these Flowing Light Fruits — to use fruits to nurture more fruits.
Next, he self-detonated eighty percent of these fruits, leaving behind twenty percent to drift suspended in the high sky, nurtured within the vast auroras.
As for the Light Path mortal Gu that had carried the fruits all the way here, Fang Yuan stored them all away for later use.
"Originally, I didn't have many sect contributions, but who would have thought that a single suggestion would prompt the Lang Ya Earth Spirit to voluntarily award me additional contributions. Using all those contributions to exchange for Flowing Light Fruits brought the total to a satisfactory number in one go."
"Next, I need to bring in large numbers of Dazzling Light mortal Gu to expand this aurora."
Dazzling Light Gu could produce crimson auroras. To sustain them, Fang Yuan would also need to provide their feed here — something called Flame Rain Stone.
However, neither of these were in Lang Ya Sect's stores. Fang Yuan would have to wait until the Treasure Yellow Heaven opened again before he could carry out this plan.
"Moreover, Dazzling Light Gu is only one of the simplest methods to increase the aurora — it's not very efficient."
"There are also Immortal Gu Masters in the Treasure Yellow Heaven who sell Flowing Light Fruits directly. I recall among them are the Cloud-Mist Eccentric, Qing Hui Zi, and the Rainbow Mist Fairy. Perhaps I could even consult them, paying a price to acquire their business insights. Whether this works out or not, of course, will depend on their willingness."
The time until the Attitude Gu's next hunger was still quite far off.
This was Fang Yuan's way of preparing for a rainy day — getting ahead of things.
After all, the Attitude Gu's appetite was far too great. If he scrambled to prepare at the last minute, it would put him at a severe disadvantage.
Given the current situation, Fang Yuan was still relatively at ease.
After all, he had quite a collection of Immortal Gu, but most of them were not due for feeding yet.
Moreover, the first Earth Calamity had only recently passed. He still had plenty of time.
Going forward, Fang Yuan planned to settle down and consolidate his foundations, focusing primarily on developing his own Immortal Aperture.
"The feeding preparations for the Attitude Gu have already begun. But this Attitude Gu is not yet mine — it still contains Hei Lou Lan's will. Now that it's been confirmed that Hei Lou Lan has betrayed the alliance and defected to Ying Wu Xie, the Information Path covenants on my end have automatically dissolved as well."
"With that settled, I can now get to work directly refining this Attitude Gu, making it an Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu that belongs to me alone!"
Speaking of which, the Attitude Gu was one of Fang Yuan's most significant recent gains.
Even when Fang Yuan had originally borrowed the Gu from Hei Lou Lan, he never imagined that a day like this would come — with the Attitude Gu falling into his own hands.
But refining the Attitude Gu was no simple task.
The Attitude Gu was not only a tamed Immortal Gu, but its transformation level reached all the way to the eighth — while Fang Yuan was merely a Sixth Transformation Immortal Gu Master.
For him to forcibly refine someone else's Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu would be not only extraordinarily difficult, but could very well result in the Attitude Gu's destruction.
"But I do have a marvelous technique that can help me refine another person's Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu. That is the Gu formation I once conceptualized. For now, I'll call it the Wisdom Refinement Formation."
Fang Yuan named it on a whim.
He didn't particularly care about such trivial details — he was only getting around to naming this Gu formation now.
Back then, he had stolen numerous Sword Path Immortal Gu from the Immortal Zombie Bo Qing. In order to refine them, he had utilized the Wisdom Halo and Star Thought to calculate and conceptualize the Wisdom Refinement Formation.