Why did this mysterious Gu Immortal go to all this trouble, risking so much, to exploit and utilize Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's scheme to set up his own inheritance?
"Putting myself in his shoes, if I were this Gu Immortal. I want to set up an inheritance, why must I go and exploit the loopholes of the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building? I could just set one up myself, with a bit of effort, I could arrange it perfectly well!"
"The Eighty-Eight True Yang Building is a Rank 8 Immortal Gu House, personally arranged by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. Exploiting its loopholes is far too risky. If I were intent on leaving an inheritance, I would never go the long way around and deliberately court danger. Unless…"
Fang Yuan's eyelids drooped slightly, a flash of cold lightning darting through his pitch-black pupils.
"Unless — the inheritance *had* to be arranged this way!"
Thinking of this, the fog in Fang Yuan's mind seemed to be violently parted by a pair of large hands.
Everyone has motives for their actions.
Only a huge motive would compel a Gu Immortal to take such a huge risk!
Maybe this Gu Immortal had a grudge against Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. But Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had already passed away for countless ages. This possibility was extremely small.
Thus, setting aside the factor of emotions, only benefits were left.
"What benefit made this mysterious Gu Immortal willing to risk death by defying an Immortal Venerable's scheme? What exactly are they taking advantage of in the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building?"
Thinking of this, Fang Yuan's mind involuntarily recalled the materials the Lang Ya earth spirit had given him.
He had studied these materials hundreds and thousands of times. Even on the eve of the great battle for the Royal Court, he never stopped perusing them.
Even after reading it so many times, every time he looked at it again, or recalled it, a feeling of admiration would well up in his chest.
The Eighty-Eight True Yang Building could be said to be a work of surpassing skill, its design so bizarre it shocked the world.
It was a fantasy, and making it a reality was nothing short of a miracle!
In essence, the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was an Immortal Gu House.
Back then, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable wanted to make plans for his descendants. He personally sought out Long Hair Ancestor and requested him to refine a lasting and undying heirloom treasure for inheritance.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's demands were too high. Long Hair Ancestor racked his brains to meet his standards, thinking painfully for hundreds of days without result.
Then, one day, inspiration struck, and he found a different path, coming up with a unique method.
An Immortal Gu House of that size was simply too massive. Long Hair Ancestor had to settle for the next best thing, dispersing it into countless sub-bodies, small towers.
These small towers, numbering in the tens of thousands, used a ten-year cycle to attract wild Gu worms to inhabit them.
Every time the ten-year period came, they would sink one after another, sacrificing the wild Gu inside. At the same time, they resonated with the snow disasters of the Northern Plains outside, obtaining a wondrous, mighty power.
These wondrous powers, strand by strand, fused together, quantity turning into quality, solidifying into a single floor of the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
Floor upon floor stacked up, eventually forming the complete Eighty-Eight True Yang Building!
Looking at it from another perspective: every time the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building is formed, it is a process of refining Gu anew.
Long Hair Ancestor truly deserved to be recognized as the number one immortal of the Refinement Path throughout history; his attainments in Gu refinement had long surpassed the mundane and reached the saintly. For ordinary people, successfully refining a Gu is extremely difficult. For Gu Immortals to refine an Immortal Gu, it is even more so.
But Long Hair Ancestor had already transcended the realm of ordinary Gu refinement; he could be called ingenious and miraculous.
Was the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building successfully refined?
Actually, it wasn't completely refined.
If judged by normal standards, a truly complete Eighty-Eight True Yang Building would be a fully formed tower, existing eternally in a blessed land, standing at the peak of the Holy Palace.
But this standard was too difficult.
When Giant Sun Immortal Venerable originally proposed it, Long Hair Ancestor heavily frowned and immediately said: "If we truly refine it completely, this Immortal Gu House would certainly reach the Rank 9 grade!"
What does a Rank 9 Immortal Gu mean?
The legendary Strength Gu, Wisdom Gu, Fate Gu, and so on, are all Rank 9 Immortal Gu. These Immortal Gu are the rarest of the rare, already extinct for ages. One can only gaze upon their glory in the *Legend of Ren Zu*.
It is similar to a Rank 9 Gu Immortal, who is called a "Venerable" by the world. In the vastness of history, only ten have appeared.
There had never been an Immortal Gu House of the Rank 9 level, but Giant Sun Immortal Venerable stubbornly demanded it and wouldn't let go.
Long Hair Ancestor, intimidated by the Venerable's might, had no choice but to agree.
In the end, he thought of a last resort, obtaining a "Rank 9 Immortal Gu House that could only exist for a limited time" — and thus, the current Eighty-Eight True Yang Building is of the Rank 8 level.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was initially not satisfied, but after investigating, he completely changed his attitude, praised it highly, and bluntly stated: "The Eighty-Eight True Yang Building itself is the secret to mortals achieving Gu Immortality!"
Why did he say this?
It is because the difficulty for mortals to achieve Gu Immortality requires navigating the Three Auras.
One aura is Heaven. Heaven is above, its majesty unfathomable, vast and profound.
One aura is Earth. Earth is below, bearing all things with great virtue, deep and weighty.
One aura is Man. Man is in the middle, the spirit of all living things, striving and fierce.
Mortals are like ants; only by communicating with Heaven and Earth can they transcend the mundane and achieve an essential evolution of life.