Among the Gu Immortals who had come to purchase the Fang family's slaves, it was entirely possible that some were Fang family Gu Immortals themselves — but there was no way to verify identities within Treasure Yellow Heaven.
Xiao Yehu couldn't care less.
He recited the prices in an expressionless tone — perfectly ordinary prices, neither high nor low.
Several transactions were concluded immediately.
"With this batch of Fang family clansmen, I've filled the last gap in my materials. I can attempt to refine Wealth Gu again." Shi Kang was quite delighted.
"Please, don't let any Fang family Gu Immortal buy me!" Wang Xiao'er prayed desperately in his heart.
"Just this batch will do. They look like they're of decent quality," one Gu Immortal communicated with Xiao Yehu and made a specific selection.
Human slaves, too, were graded by quality.
Among them, Fifth Transformation Gu Masters sold best, followed by those who were young and displayed promising talent.
In an instant, wailing and crying erupted.
The Fang family clansmen were being bought and sold — wives separated from husbands, children torn from parents, forced to part ways here, almost certainly for the last time. It was nothing short of a human tragedy.
Here, the fates of the Fang family clansmen would undergo drastic upheaval, splitting them into vastly different destinies — heaven and earth apart.
The most wretched would be taken by Shi Kang as refinement ingredients and die immediately.
Those slightly better off would be carefully selected to serve as Gu Immortal seeds, then recruited into sects or families. If they eventually succeeded in ascending to immortality, the investment would pay off enormously.
Of course, the number deemed worthy of being considered Gu Immortal seeds was vanishingly small.
"The Fang family has been defeated, but they haven't lost. It seems this contest still has a follow-up." Over the course of two days, Fairy Ziwei had drawn a portion of her consciousness into Treasure Yellow Heaven.
She was perpetually monitoring the great trends of the world.
At this point, several days had passed since she and Ying Wuxie had entered.
During this time, the two had been struggling through a perilous journey fraught with danger.
The primordial Two Heavens had always been treacherous — even an ordinary Eighth Transformation Gu Immortal would need to exercise extreme caution upon arriving.
Now, with the Two Heavens overlapping, the environment had become chaotic and volatile. The Five Regions had long since been affected, but within the Two Heavens, the turmoil was far more intense.
From time to time, they would encounter rampaging primordial beasts, or massive armies composed of ancient beasts, desolate beasts, and even primordial beasts.
Encountering wild beasts was actually the lesser problem. Far more terrifying were the dangerous grounds saturated with dao marks — because the Two Heavens had shattered and mixed together, these hazardous areas and forbidden zones were constantly shifting and drifting.
Once trapped inside, it was like a mortal caught in quicksand while crossing a desert — all one could do was wait in despair for death.
Even for a powerhouse like Fairy Ziwei, the danger was very real.
"Ying Wuxie, how much farther is it?" Fairy Ziwei asked.
At this moment, both of them were concealed within a horde of soul beasts.
The horde contained multiple ancient soul beasts, all under Ying Wuxie's control.
Ying Wuxie replied, "Based on my sensing, we'll need three more days to reach the main body. If the main body shifts during that time, the journey could be shorter — or longer."
Ying Wuxie could use his soul path killer moves to faintly sense his own original body.
But the Ghostly Reverend's speed was something the two of them could never match.
Fortunately, the Ghostly Reverend had now lost his consciousness, failing to guard against detection, and was wandering aimlessly causing destruction everywhere without deliberately evading the two pursuers.
Because of this, over the past few days, Fairy Ziwei and Ying Wuxie had been steadily closing in on the Ghostly Reverend.
Awooo!
A soul beast charging at the front suddenly halted, as though it had slammed into an invisible massive wall, letting out a pained howl.
"What's going on?" Fairy Ziwei immediately raised her guard.
"Careful — everyone, stop!" Ying Wuxie also commanded the soul beast horde to slow their advance, hovering in midair.
Over the past stretch of time, they had used the soul beasts to probe out many dangerous grounds and treacherous zones.
As a result, the horde had sacrificed fully thirty percent of its numbers.
"This is… a Celestial Chasm?" After some scrutiny, Fairy Ziwei blurted out in surprise.
A Celestial Chasm was a Ninth Transformation Heavenly Path immortal material — formless and shapeless, yet always colossal. It was invisible and intangible, appearing as transparent air, yet completely impassable.
"What terrible luck, to run into one of these!" Ying Wuxie was greatly disappointed.
The Celestial Chasm was not particularly dangerous, but for the two of them, it posed an enormous obstacle.
They had to go around the Celestial Chasm, but its shape and how it was distributed across the sky — neither of them had the slightest clue.
The detection range of both Fairy Ziwei and Ying Wuxie was far smaller than the scale of the Celestial Chasm.
In other words, they could only rely on luck — pick a direction and attempt to detour around it.
How much time that would cost was impossible to estimate.
Left with no alternative, Fairy Ziwei and Ying Wuxie had to take the long way around.
After traveling a great distance, the Celestial Chasm still loomed before them like a titanic wall stretching from the earth to the heavens.
Suddenly, a sound drifted into Fairy Ziwei and Ying Wuxie's ears.
At first, neither paid it much mind, assuming it was ordinary wind.
But shortly after, the sound grew increasingly melodious.
When the two immortals found themselves naturally drawn in, their movements slowed without their awareness.
After a dozen or so breaths, the entire soul beast horde had also come to a complete standstill in the sky, entirely immersed in that supremely beautiful sound.