During this period, the continuous consumption from refining gu, condensing bat wings, and so on, further slowed the accumulation.
Two major events, the Auction Convention and the Refinement Path Convention, would follow one after another. Especially the former, which was imminent. Where could he get a huge amount of immortal essence stones at this time? Only from the Gu Immortal blessed lands in the hands of Lang Ya land spirit.
"Unfortunately, my immortal aperture blessed land is dead and cannot annex other blessed lands. Otherwise, the first person to buy a blessed land would be me!" Fang Yuan sighed inwardly.
Immortal apertures are small worlds that can merge and annex each other, but there are rules.
First, a dead aperture cannot annex; it can only continuously disintegrate and scatter until it disappears.
Second, immortal apertures cannot annex larger ones with smaller ones.
Finally, to annex a Rank 6 blessed land, one needs master-level attainment, so as to regulate and integrate two different worlds into one. To annex a Rank 7 blessed land, grandmaster-level attainment is required. To annex a Rank 8 blessed land, great grandmaster-level attainment is needed.
That is to say, if Fang Yuan wanted to annex other immortal apertures, first he would have to reincarnate and have his aperture become a living one. Second, he could only annex the blessed lands of Gu Immortals of Blood Path, Strength Path, Refinement Path, Slave Path, and Transformation Path. Although he had great grandmaster attainment in Blood Path and Strength Path, his cultivation was only at Rank 6, so he could only annex Rank 6 blessed lands.
Even with such limitations, if annexation were possible, Gu Immortals would not hesitate.
It is because the immortal aperture is the foundation of a Gu Immortal's cultivation. Annexing a blessed land is the supreme shortcut to seize another's foundation and skyrocket one's own cultivation.
Any Gu Immortal understands the value of blessed lands. The auction of blessed lands would definitely cause a huge wave in the auction convention.
In the following days, Fang Yuan refined Group Strength Gu and Petty Gu while using the Wisdom Gu halo to try to improve the Transformation Path killer move 'Don't Recognize Each Other'.
Meanwhile, the desolate beast corpses in Treasure Yellow Heaven were still being sold.
After half a month of Fox Immortal Blessed Land time, the only Rank 7 beast corpse in Fang Yuan's hand, the Qi Gang Flying Heaven Pig, was successfully sold.
Fang Yuan obtained a Wisdom Path inheritance that he had longed for a long time.
"Evil Thought Gu..." A few days later, Fang Yuan held a Rank 5 mortal Gu in his hand. His expression was complex.
This Malice Gu was refined by him personally according to the Gu recipe from the Wisdom Path inheritance.
It was quite large, about the size of a basin, shaped like a spider, but its eight legs were all like iron needles, extremely sharp at the tips. Its body was covered with hard barbed fuzz. If not for Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body, an ordinary mortal body would be pricked and bleed upon touching this Gu.
Fang Yuan infused true essence, and instantly, evil thoughts emerged in his mind.
These evil thoughts were like bubbles, but their surface also had barbs. Fang Yuan tried to think with these evil thoughts, and immediately, the evil thoughts collided with each other.
The scene of their collision was also strange.
The barbs on the surface of the bubbles hooked together. Then they either annihilated or merged into larger thoughts.
Soon, these evil thoughts were consumed.
Fang Yuan opened his eyes, and a hint of joy appeared in his gaze.
"So it turns out that even Wisdom Path Gu Immortals primarily use thoughts for deduction. Simply using evil thoughts to scheme and plot against others doubles efficiency. One ordinary evil thought is equivalent to several or even a dozen happy thoughts, star thoughts, empty thoughts."
Previously, Fang Yuan had used Le Shan Le Yi Immortal Gu to generate a massive amount of happy thoughts to assist his thinking. In fact, that was a misconception.
Although will is composed of thoughts, its true purpose is not for thinking, but for acting autonomously after separating from the body.
Gu Immortals produce streams of will and send them into Treasure Yellow Heaven to help sell goods. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable left behind Giant Sun's Will to guard the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. That is the correct use of will.
For example, thoughts are like kitchen knives, while will is like a long-handled broadsword. Thinking is like cutting vegetables. Kitchen knives are more suitable for cutting vegetables. Which chef uses a long-handled broadsword to cut vegetables?
Different paths are like different mountains, and Wisdom Path is the most mysterious. Fang Yuan did not know this before and used happy thoughts to think, which seemed effective but actually incurred much loss, and was even worse than using happy thoughts.
"Now that I have the recipes for Evil Thought Gu and Malice Gu, I can mass-produce these two mortal Gu. I am now an immortal with unlimited true essence. Generating a large number of evil thoughts is cheap and effective. Consuming green grape immortal essence to activate Le Shan Le Yi Immortal Gu is too expensive."
Previously, Fang Yuan only had a small number of Wisdom Path mortal Gu, all bought from Treasure Yellow Heaven.
Using these mortal Gu to generate thoughts, the number of thoughts was too small and of different types, unable to support the intense consumption during the calculation of immortal Gu recipes.
Therefore, he used Le Shan Le Yi Immortal Gu.
Now that Fang Yuan has the recipes for Wisdom Path mortal Gu, his first choice is naturally to mass-produce these mortal Gu. A single mortal Gu produces few thoughts, but when the number of mortal Gu increases, the scale of thoughts becomes substantial.
Using Le Shan Le Yi Immortal Gu is not only costly but also overkill.
"Unfortunately, this Wisdom Path inheritance came a bit late. My transaction with Lang Ya land spirit regarding immortal Gu recipes has already entered another stage. If it had appeared earlier, I would surely have saved a large amount of green grape immortal essence. Saving green grape immortal essence would drastically reduce costs, and each profit made would increase greatly, far more than the previous profit of about twenty-six stones."