Tai Bai Yun Sheng, relying on his own strength, had actually silently gathered all the ingredients for the Roaming the World Gu!
This was a bit beyond Fang Yuan's expectations.
"After I revealed the Fixed Rivers and Mountains Immortal Gu, I received a warm welcome from many Gu Immortals. They actively sought my friendship. Currently, there is already a Gu Immortal inviting me to join the Sea Market Blessed Land. However, for this to pass, I need the approval of over half of the Sea Market Blessed Land's elders," Tai Bai Yun Sheng said.
Fang Yuan nodded. The Sea Market Blessed Land was the number one force for lone cultivators in the Eastern Sea.
Gu cultivators who joined the Sea Market Blessed Land were mostly lone cultivators, but it was different from the Great Snowy Mountain Blessed Land in the Northern Plains.
The Great Snowy Mountain Blessed Land was a stronghold of the demonic path, subtly opposing the forces of the righteous path. The Sea Market Blessed Land, on the other hand, was a mix of righteous and demonic. It had an even greater number of Gu Immortals than the Great Snowy Mountain, with numerous factions, jointly managing the largest market in the Eastern Sea. Because of this, the Sea Market Blessed Land had also become the best place for Gu Immortals to dispose of their stolen goods.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a lone cultivator, but crucially, he possessed the Fixed Rivers and Mountains Immortal Gu, which was highly sought after by many Gu Immortals.
However, Gu worms were difficult to snatch. With a single thought from Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he could make Fixed Rivers and Mountains self-destruct. It was perfectly understandable why Gu Immortals wanted to recruit Tai Bai Yun Sheng as one of their own.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng continued, "I bought a sufficient quantity of Netherworld Jellyfish at the Sea Market Blessed Land. After receiving your letter, Junior Brother, I left the Sea Market Blessed Land to find a secluded barren island to use the Star Door Gu. As luck would have it, I ran into an Immortal Corpse on the way. He called himself Shark Demon, a member of the Zombie Alliance, and he was just rushing a large shipment of goods to the Sea Market Blessed Land to sell."
"He happened to have a large batch of Deep-Sea Lightning Eels. If these eels arrived at the Sea Market Blessed Land, there would certainly be many buyers. I stopped him, wanting to purchase them in advance. Shark Demon was unwilling at first and had a bad attitude, but after he found out I was Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he immediately changed his mind. He was willing to sell all the Deep-Sea Lightning Eels to me, but he wanted me to help him repair a secret Blessed Land. I agreed. Without spending any Immortal Essence Stones, I obtained all these Deep-Sea Lightning Eels."
"This Shark Demon, he actually trusts you this much?" Fang Yuan frowned upon hearing this.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng chuckled lightly and said calmly, "Oh, he has a Law Path Immortal Gu in his possession named 'Death Looms'. I cooperated willingly and accepted the irradiation of Death Looms. That's how I earned his trust."
"'Death Looms' is a rank seven Immortal Gu, a Law Path Gu. It can set a deadline for someone's death. Once the deadline arrives, even a Gu Immortal will meet their end." Fang Yuan's frown deepened.
"That's right, this Shark Demon is a rank seven Immortal Corpse." Tai Bai Yun Sheng said cheerfully.
"Old Bai, you are giving someone a handle against you. Actually, it is not a huge problem to go without ingredients to feed the Immortal Gu for a while." Fang Yuan looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng and sighed.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed heartily and patted Fang Yuan's thigh. His height prevented him from reaching Fang Yuan's shoulder.
He deliberately tried to reassure him, "Do you think I did this just for you? No. That secret Blessed Land does not belong to Shark Demon. It is the Jade Dew Blessed Land. Jade Dew Immortal was the second disciple of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable. Unfortunately, the entrance to the Jade Dew Blessed Land has been destroyed. Shark Demon needs my Fixed Rivers and Mountains Gu to repair the entrance. By earning his trust this time, I also gained the qualification to explore the Jade Dew Blessed Land."
Fang Yuan gave Tai Bai Yun Sheng a deep look and did not dwell further on the topic.
Two days later, the six-headed great serpent's skeleton in the Blood Pond completely dissolved, and Fang Yuan obtained a large amount of Black Blood.
He used this Black Blood to feed the Calamity Beckoning Immortal Gu. Then, he used the jellyfish and eels Tai Bai Yun Sheng brought back to feed the Roaming the World Immortal Gu.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng had indeed done Fang Yuan a huge favor.
In a fierce battle, the Roaming the World Immortal Gu was absolutely indispensable. By fully feeding this Gu, Fang Yuan had effectively eliminated a potential worry.
Checking his assets, Fang Yuan had twenty-nine and a half Immortal Essence Stones and seventeen Green Grape Immortal Essences.
Without any hesitation, he refined almost all of his Immortal Essence Stones into Green Grape Immortal Essence, obtaining forty-six Green Grape Immortal Essences. He only left behind a half-empty Immortal Essence Stone.
"Forty-six... still not enough." Fang Yuan then sought to borrow some from Fairy Li Shan and Lang Ya land spirit.
Fairy Li Shan, without any hesitation, lent Fang Yuan thirty Immortal Essence Stones.
As for Lang Ya land spirit, he hemmed and hawed for a long time, and in the end Fang Yuan only got fifteen.
Having traded with Lang Ya land spirit three times, their relationship was ultimately not very deep. Fang Yuan originally had a slight extravagant hope of borrowing an Immortal Gu, but seeing this situation, he no longer entertained such fantasies.
He then refined all the forty-five Immortal Essence Stones he obtained into Green Grape Immortal Essence. In this way, his Green Grape Immortal Essence reached an unprecedented ninety-one.
No one could stop the mighty power of the River of Time.
Time flowed on, and finally, the day of Hei Lou Lan's tribulation and ascension to immortality arrived.
Following their agreement, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng passed through a Star Door and arrived at the Northern Plains.
Looking around, a stretch of frost extended everywhere, utterly silent. Amidst the snowy wasteland, Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan were already waiting.
"This place is..." Fang Yuan's gaze was hesitant.
Tai Bai Yun Sheng had already answered: "This is the Frozen Extinction Battlefield, the northernmost point of the Northern Plains. Legend has it that the Rude and Brute Demon Venerable fought a powerful enemy here, breaking the place and creating a stretch of nothingness. After the battle ended, he transformed into the ancient desolate beast Ice Phoenix, spewing out extreme-cold profound ice, freezing the place over once more."