Hei Lou Lan nodded.
This was the expected response. Hei Lou Lan was a heroic figure. Seeing Fang Yuan deliberately display the Strain Immortal Gu, she understood his intention.
It was to avoid a rift and further deepen their cooperation!
Fang Yuan's forceful demand for the My Strength Immortal Gu was like carving a deep, bloody wound into their alliance, revealing the bone beneath.
However, compared to the precious and unique My Strength Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan lending out the Strain Immortal Gu was more like giving Hei Lou Lan a way to back down.
Hei Lou Lan ate the leg bone in her hand, exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, and when she looked at Fang Yuan again, there was no trace of anger on her face.
"Let's go, to the Stone Nest." Hei Lou Lan stood up and proactively offered to help Fang Yuan refine the Air Sac Gu.
Fang Yuan gave a hearty laugh. It seemed Hei Lou Lan's situation was not good either. She had narrowly escaped death during her tribulation, and after Fang Yuan revived her, she must have suffered heavy losses in her blessed land.
Lishan Fairy had been supporting Hei Lou Lan's cultivation without regard to cost. But now, she too was in trouble. All because Snow Hu Ancestor was urgently refining the Supreme Fortune Gu, ordering the demonic Gu Immortals of the Great Snowy Mountain around and making them run all over for refining materials. The task of gathering immortal materials was extremely heavy, and Lishan Fairy could only do her best.
Fang Yuan needed the trade of Courage Gu to continue, and didn't Hei Lou Lan think the same?
Previously, Fang Yuan had been very wise to give concessions to Hei Lou Lan and Lishan Fairy. Now, the effects were finally visible. Interests could also form a shackle. No matter how angry Hei Lou Lan was, forced by the greater situation and her own circumstances, she had to cooperate with Fang Yuan.
That day, Hei Lou Lan expended a great amount of strength to restart the refinement of the Air Sac Gu.
Before leaving, she again proposed a cooperative intention to Fang Yuan.
At present, Fang Yuan had no funds to expand production scale, but Hei Lou Lan was willing to help Fang Yuan by providing capital to build a third Stone Nest and replenish enough Maomen. However, Fang Yuan would also have to give her more concessions.
Fang Yuan agreed immediately.
The resumption of the Courage Gu trade was like a torrent pouring into a nearly dried-up riverbed.
The management of the blessed land, which had been almost at a standstill, finally seemed like a cart. The huge wheels slowly moved forward, rolling on.
A few days later, the third Stone Nest was successfully established in Fang Yuan's Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
Currently, Fang Yuan had several types of Gu insects that needed mass refining: Air Sac Gu, Malice Gu, Memory Gu, and Inch of Time.
Three Stone Nests were far from enough to meet the demand.
This involved a choice problem: how to make the most effective use of limited resources.
In the end, Fang Yuan ordered Stone Nests One and Three to refine Air Sac Gu, and Stone Nest Two to refine Malice Gu.
He had a large number of deduction plans on hand, so he had to refine either Malice Gu or Memory Gu. Malice excelled at scheming against others, while Memory was better at mining content from memories. But when used for thinking and calculation, there was no obvious difference between the two.
As for making Air Sac Gu the main refinement target, it was because Fang Yuan discovered that Courage Gu could definitely be sold more.
Times had changed.
The market for Courage Gu was also slowly growing.
Especially since Fang Yuan had recently stopped the Courage Gu trade to supply it for his own injury treatment. This move suddenly cut off the supply, causing a shortage of Courage Gu on the market, which drove up its price.
This phenomenon made Fang Yuan realize that the Courage Gu market had been stimulated, and he could completely increase both the price and quantity.
That was what he thought and what he did.
Originally, the Courage Gu trade was conducted once a month, with a net profit of forty-eight immortal essence stones.
After increasing the price and quantity, not counting the concessions to Hei Lou Lan and Lishan Fairy, the immortal essence stones that fell into Fang Yuan's hands reached ninety-two. It was almost doubled from the original.
"Monopoly trade makes profit so convenient." Fang Yuan's own situation had thus improved considerably, and as he sighed with emotion, he was also secretly vigilant.
Because the benefits of the Courage Gu were growing, and the prospects were even brighter, the Immortal Crane Sect and other parties would inevitably stir again.
Previously, it was because Fang Yuan had displayed great strength, and the Immortal Crane Sect was constrained by other aspects, unable to spare more power to deal with Fang Yuan.
Now, with the increased benefits of the Courage Gu trade, one day it would cause the Immortal Crane Sect to make a greater determination and allocate more strength to try to "reclaim" the Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
An ordinary person is guilty only because they possess a jade.
Whether righteous or demonic, all are contenders for benefits. The difference, perhaps, is that the righteous have better manners.
And a Gu Master's cultivation, or more essentially, human survival, has always been about maintaining one's own interests while devouring the interests of others.
Fang Yuan understood this clearly and did not deny that he himself was no different from other people and other forces. In terms of interests, they were all jackals of the same lair!
"To deter the Immortal Crane Sect, there is only one fundamental solution. That is to continuously increase one's own combat power, making those who act fail and those who are tempted fear."
With such urgent feelings, Fang Yuan successfully integrated the My Strength Immortal Gu into the immortal killer move Myriad Self a few days later.