Among the Gu Immortals who came to purchase Fang Family slaves, there might have been Fang Family Gu Immortals among them, but in Treasure Yellow Heaven, there was no way to tell them apart.
Xiao Yehu didn't care either way.
He stated the prices expressionlessly — they were all standard prices, neither high nor low.
Several transactions were completed immediately.
"With this batch of Fang Family clansmen, I've made up the last of my shortfall. I can attempt to refine Wealth Mortal Gu again." Shi Kang was delighted.
"Don't let me get bought by a Fang Family Gu Immortal!" Wang Xiaoer prayed desperately in his heart.
"Just this batch, they seem to be of decent quality." After communicating with Xiao Yehu, the Gu Immortal specifically selected a batch.
Even among human slaves, quality mattered.
The Fifth Transformation Gu Masters fetched the highest prices, followed by the younger ones who displayed talent and aptitude.
In an instant, cries and wails erupted.
The Fang Family clansmen were bought and sold, families torn apart, wives separated from husbands, children from parents — this parting here was likely their very last farewell, a truly harrowing human tragedy.
Here, the fates of the Fang Family clansmen would undergo dramatic changes, the outcomes as far apart as heaven and earth.
The wretched ones would be used by Shi Kang as Gu refinement materials, dying on the spot.
Those slightly better off would be carefully selected as Gu Immortal seeds, subsequently joining sects or clans. If they succeeded in ascending to immortality in the future, then this investment would have paid off enormously.
Of course, the number of those deemed worthy as Gu Immortal seeds was extremely small.
"The Fang Family has been defeated, but they haven't lost. It seems this contest will have further developments." Over the past two days, Ziwei Fairy had withdrawn a portion of her mind from Treasure Yellow Heaven.
She was constantly monitoring the grand situation of the world.
At this point, several days had already passed since she and Ying Wuxie entered.
During this time, the two of them had struggled through treacherous terrain, enduring countless dangers.
The primordial Two Heavens were already perilous by nature — even an ordinary Eighth Transformation Gu Immortal who arrived here would need to exercise extreme caution.
Now, with the Two Heavens overlapping, the environment had become chaotic and turbulent. The Five Regions had long been affected, and within the Two Heavens, the turmoil was even more intense.
From time to time, they would encounter rampaging primordial ancient beasts, or massive armies composed of ancient beasts, prehistoric beasts, and even primordial ancient beasts.
Encountering wild beasts was actually considered fortunate — what was truly terrifying were certain locations dense with Dao Marks. Because the Two Heavens had shattered and merged together, these dangerous areas and forbidden zones shifted unpredictably across the landscape.
Once trapped within them, it was like mortals trekking through a desert only to sink into quicksand — one could only wait for death in despair.
Even for a powerhouse like Ziwei Fairy, it was extremely dangerous.
"Ying Wuxie, how much farther is it?" Ziwei Fairy asked.
At present, both of them were hidden within a pack of soul beasts.
This pack contained multiple prehistoric soul beasts, all under Ying Wuxie's control.
Ying Wuxie replied: "Based on my sensing, we'll need three more days of travel to reach our main body. If the main body moves during that time, the duration could shorten — or grow longer."
Ying Wuxie employed a soul path killing move to faintly sense his main body.
But the speed of the Dark Soul Demon Venerable was far beyond what either of them could match.
Fortunately, the Dark Soul Demon Venerable had now lost all reason, was unaware of how to guard against detection, and was wandering about indiscriminately, causing destruction everywhere without deliberately trying to evade the two of them.
Thus, over these past days, Ziwei Fairy and Ying Wuxie had been steadily closing the distance to the Dark Soul Demon Venerable.
Awooo!
A soul beast charging at the forefront suddenly came to a violent halt, as though it had slammed into an invisible wall, letting out a pained howl.
"What happened?" Ziwei Fairy immediately went on alert.
"Careful, everyone stop!" Ying Wuxie also commanded the soul beast pack to gradually halt, hovering in midair.
Over the past period, they had used the soul beasts to probe numerous dangerous and hostile locations.
As a result, this pack of soul beasts had suffered fully thirty percent casualties.
"This is... a Celestial Chasm?" Ziwei Fairy identified it after a moment, exclaiming in surprise.
The Celestial Chasm was a Ninth Transformation Heaven Path immortal material — its form was variable, but it was always enormously vast. It was formless and substanceless, appearing as transparent air, yet impassable.
"What terrible luck, to actually run into this!" Ying Wuxie was deeply disappointed.
The Celestial Chasm was not particularly dangerous, but for the two of them, it was a tremendous obstacle.
Because they had to go around it, and they had no idea of its shape or how it was distributed across the sky.
Neither Ziwei Fairy's nor Ying Wuxie's detection range came anywhere close to the scale of the Celestial Chasm.
In other words, they could only rely on luck, pick a direction, and attempt to go around.
How long this detour would cost — no one could estimate.
There was nothing to be done. Ziwei Fairy and Ying Wuxie could only take the long way around.
After traveling a considerable distance, the Celestial Chasm still stretched before them like a titanic wall connecting earth to sky.
Suddenly, a sound reached their ears.
At first, neither paid it much mind, assuming it was merely the wind.
But soon after, the sound grew increasingly beautiful.
When both immortals were naturally drawn in by it, their movements involuntarily slowed.
After a dozen or so breaths, the entire pack of soul beasts had also frozen in the sky, completely immersed in this exquisite sound.
The sound contained not a single instrument — it was composed entirely of wind, rain, thunder, birdsong, and other natural elements. Yet somehow, it formed a piece of exquisite music that captivated both Ziwei Fairy and Ying Wuxie.