Fang Yuan once again began secretly creating composite killer moves.
His spiritual sense wove through the Supreme Immortal Grotto-Heaven, and beneath its blanket lay an assortment of mortal Gu worms.
He casually drew out two wind path Gu worms from among them.
The First Transformation one was called the Clear Wind Wheel Gu, and the Second Transformation one was the Azure Wind Wheel Gu.
When the former was activated, it would wind a pale green whirlwind around each of the Gu Master's calves, increasing their movement speed.
The latter was one of the refined upgrades of the Clear Wind Wheel Gu, capable of forming a pair of azure-green whirlwinds resembling arm bands that would wrap around the Gu Master's forearms, increasing their striking speed.
"I currently lack means of movement in major battles. Why not use these as a foundation to create one?" Inspiration struck Fang Yuan, and he sank into deep thought.
Ever since his battle with the Qi Sea Clone in the Primordial Era's Two Heavens, he had recognized this need.
Although it had been a scheme orchestrated with the Qi Sea Clone to ensnare the Eastern Sea Righteous Path and the Non-Human Grand Alliance, Fang Yuan and the Qi Sea Clone had truly fought each other.
Otherwise, how could they have produced such terrifying battle conditions? After all, this sparring between the main body and the clone had cracked the very sky open, raining down Heaven-Splitting Powder!
In this friendly sparring session, most of the killer moves Fang Yuan unleashed performed excellently. The worst were average, at least performing adequately — while they brought no pleasant surprises, neither did they bring disappointment.
This sparring session also made Fang Yuan aware of his deficiencies. Although he had already created numerous composite killer moves, most of them were offensive or defensive in nature, and he still lacked in mobility.
The two wind path Gu worms gave Fang Yuan an inspiration.
In his conception, when he activated the wind path Gu worms, two rings of wind would condense beneath his feet, spinning ceaselessly like a pair of wheels. As long as he kept them active for a period of time, the wind wheels would spin faster and faster, propelling his body at ever-increasing speeds.
"Let me see — how many wind path Immortal Gu do I have?"
Fang Yuan had very few wind path Immortal Gu in his possession, but the recent major battle had allowed him to capture quite a number of them.
The members of the Non-Human Grand Alliance had also held some.
As a last resort, Fang Yuan could extort the entire Eastern Sea Righteous Path to obtain wind path Immortal Gu.
Fang Yuan's options were simply too abundant!
Before long, Fang Yuan obtained multiple wind path Immortal Gu from his subordinates, all of which had reached the Seventh Transformation level.
After much deliberation and referencing numerous wind path Immortal Gu recipes and wind path killer moves, Fang Yuan's wind path killer move was successfully drafted.
Upon its initial activation, two rings of wind indeed formed beneath his feet, capable of propelling the Gu Immortal's body.
After testing the killer move, Fang Yuan's brow furrowed slightly as he noticed its greatest deficiency.
Although this killer move would grow progressively faster, its initial speed was too slow — it required a sustained period before the speed enhancement showed any improvement.
How could he improve it?
This was actually a common problem with wind path killer moves. Whether it was a gentle breeze or a fierce gale, both needed time to build up to their maximum power.
But there were naturally many ways to reach maximum power from the start. If one's wind path realm was profound, one could modify the killer move's structure to be exquisitely refined. Or one could sacrifice a great deal of time for preliminary buildup, then unleash it in a single explosive burst. Alternatively, one could expend more Immortal Essence to gain a boost in power.
However, Fang Yuan dismissed all of these methods!
Because those were all conventional approaches.
Fang Yuan had set his sights on the fire path.
In terms of explosive power, the fire path far outstripped the wind path. In explosive capability alone, the fire path was absolutely among the top of all paths.
After selecting several suitable fire path Immortal Gu, the composite killer move was successfully improved!
"I'll just call it the Wind Fire Wheel." Fang Yuan casually named it.
The Wind Fire Wheel killer move offered explosive initial acceleration, could grow progressively faster, and its key advantage was that its Immortal Essence consumption was modest, while the mental load it demanded was also minimal.
Fang Yuan tested it once more and felt reasonably satisfied. By comprehensive evaluation, the Wind Fire Wheel killer move was already in the excellent tier among Seventh Transformation moves, surpassing seventy percent of existing killer moves!
However, if this killer move fell into the hands of other Gu Immortals, the situation would be entirely different.
Virtually no Gu Immortal would be foolish enough to use it, because the internal friction between the wind path and fire path alone would reduce the killer move's actual effectiveness to the Sixth Transformation level.
Expend Seventh Transformation-level Immortal Essence for only Sixth Transformation power? In the eyes of other Gu Immortals, such a killer move would be ranked at the very bottom!
This was the marvelous benefit of having over three thousand Heavenly Dao marks.
The drastically reduced internal friction between different-type Dao marks allowed many killer moves to find new life in Fang Yuan's hands.
Most importantly, the difficulty of calculating composite killer moves was greatly reduced for Fang Yuan!
For an ordinary Gu Immortal who primarily cultivated the wind path, devising a killer move like the Wind Fire Wheel, they would certainly not be foolish enough to use fire path Immortal Gu as a dual core. At most, they might adopt some low-transformation Immortal Gu from other paths as auxiliary support, and even then in limited numbers.
The most common approach was to employ a massive number of fire path mortal Gu to minimize internal friction as much as possible. But this would cause the number of Gu worms in the killer move to skyrocket, the difficulty of activation to soar, the mental burden to increase dramatically, and the overall evaluation of the killer move to plummet.
For a killer move to be practical, the number of Gu worms couldn't be too high, the Immortal Essence burden couldn't be too heavy, the effects had to be good, and it couldn't have any obvious flaws.
Therefore, creating killer moves was always an incredibly difficult undertaking!
But in Fang Yuan's hands, designing composite killer moves not only allowed for dual cores, but also triple cores, quadruple cores, and other multi-core configurations. If the wind path lacked explosive power, he simply turned to the fire path — a casual choice.
The creative space for devising and improving killer moves within a single path was limited.
This was even more true for composite killer moves, because the consideration of internal friction had historically resulted in composite killer moves being far fewer in number than single-path killer moves in the history of Gu cultivation.