Heaven and earth were gloomy, dark clouds loomed overhead, endless thunder roared and resonated.
Scarlet lightning flashed countless times in the dark rolling clouds of smoke, black clouds swirled like vortexes, lightning balls descended from the center of the swirling vortexes one by one.
These lightning balls were strangely shaped, resembling porcelain products, as large as a water tank, and glowing with red light.
Grand tribulation — Red Porcelain Lightning Ball Tribulation!
The lightning balls smashed down and erupted with crisp explosions.
On the ground, an Immortal Gu House silently suffered from the damage caused by the explosions of the lightning balls, large pieces of debris continued to fly into the air, before turning back into the corpses of countless Gu worms.
Inside the Immortal Gu House, Wu Shuai endured the sound of rumbling thunder in his ears and inspected himself first.
He found that he had turned into an earth path rank eight Gu Immortal, he had wide fingers and a large stature, his battle robe was already covered in damage.
And not far from him, there was a female immortal standing on the ground, her face was pale and her aura was not only weak but also a little strange.
She was using a certain light path healing killer move, and thus was covered in a layer of holy white light. But on her face, exposed arms, legs and feet, dark path dao marks that resembled ink lines appeared.
These dark path dao marks were so dense that they reached the extent of a rank nine immortal material, creating dao mark light, Gu Immortals could see it with their naked eyes.
The female immortal had clear rank eight cultivation level.
A light path rank eight Gu Immortal who had such a quantity of dark path dao marks, it made Wu Shuai very surprised.
And more peculiarly, the female immortal's dark path dao marks were still transforming. Not only did they increase in quantity, their arrangements and positions were rapidly changing too.
The female immortal grunted, the killer move activation was successful, the halo around her stabilized while the dark path dao marks were also temporarily suppressed.
The female immortal was sweating profusely, she opened her weak eyes to look at Wu Shuai, smiling bitterly: "I can't be saved. This is my strongest healing method, but it can only temporarily suppress the injury. When the time limit of the killer move is up, the injury will explode with terrifying power."
"Oh Zheng Yang, my most beloved, I can no longer accompany you. You have to live well." The female immortal said, tears flowing down her cheeks.
"No, there must be some way, there must be! You must never give up hope, this Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress of mine is made up of all the Immortal Gu I have, it can be considered to be number one in defensive power in all of history. We still have time, you have to keep working hard, I will always be there for you!" Wu Shuai shouted with tears in his eyes.
This was the natural development of the dream realm, he could not control it.
But after this conversation, Wu Shuai gained control of the body.
"Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress? Never heard of it..." Wu Shuai's eyes shined with bright light, using the conversation earlier, he analyzed and searched for clues.
He inspected his own immortal aperture.
There was quite a bit of white litchi immortal essence in his immortal aperture, there were also a large amount of mortal Gu, but no Immortal Gu.
Like what Zheng Yang had said, he had used all of his Immortal Gu to construct this rank eight Immortal Gu House, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
"Which means to say, my biggest reliance is on this damaged Immortal Gu House?" Wu Shuai had a realization.
He started to try controlling this Immortal Gu House.
Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress had a complex structure, it used a hundred million Gu worms, among which there were more than twenty Immortal Gu.
Even Wu Shuai could not tell what the core Immortal Gu were at a glance! These Immortal Gu were cleverly positioned and had a mysterious relationship with each other, the design of the Gu House was as profound as a towering mountain range spreading across the entire countryside for ten thousand li, connecting heaven and earth, the mountain range had overlapping layers of intertwined mineral veins.
Wu Shuai was like a mortal Gu Master mining the mountain range, he had to excavate it layer by layer to uncover the minerals he wanted and figure out the connection between the ore veins.
"Just analyzing this Immortal Gu House itself is a huge difficulty! Furthermore, I need to rely on this Immortal Gu House to defend against the red porcelain lightning ball tribulation!"
Wu Shuai's heart sank, he knew that this exploration was going to fail.
As expected, the following developments went as he had predicted.
Red porcelain lightning balls continued to explode as Wu Shuai tried to use his Immortal Gu House and slowly fix it.
But it was useless.
His understanding towards this Immortal Gu House was too low, even if he wanted to fix it, he had no idea where to start.
Eventually, the red porcelain lightning balls destroyed the Immortal Gu House, Wu Shuai and the female immortal became the sacrifices of the tribulation's fury.
After leaving the dream realm, Wu Shuai started to heal himself.
This time, Fang Yuan's main body was exploring Dragon Whale Paradise, before leaving, he had made ample preparations and arrangements. Not only did he pass the dream path Gu worms to Wu Shuai, he even gave a large number of guts Gu.
With guts Gu in his hands, Wu Shuai's injuries were not a problem.
This dream realm exploration was different from the Dragon Palace dream realm, Wu Shuai could explore it multiple times until he succeeded.
Second failure, third failure, fourth, fifth...
After eight tries, Wu Shuai finally gained a clearer understanding of this Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
Even though he could not completely fix this Immortal Gu House, Wu Shuai was already able to repair it sufficiently to negate the red porcelain lightning balls' damage.
Black clouds swirled in the sky, the red porcelain lightning balls gradually thinned out until they completely stopped.
But within the black clouds, a second grand tribulation was starting to brew.
The female immortal sighed: "Sigh... it was my fault for not listening to you, I went to search for the location where Reckless Savage Demon Venerable died, in the end, I caused this curse to occur and lead to an unceasing wave of calamities and tribulations."
"This is my just desserts. Zheng Yang, leave, I do not want to implicate you!"
On the female immortal's body, the halo had noticeably dimmed. The dark path dao marks were tightly arranged, like pieces of black thread sewing up wounds, covering the female immortal's skin and face.
Compared to before, the female immortal's aura had weakened a lot, and at the same time, it became more peculiar, not only were the light and dark path dao marks intertwined, an adam's apple was also growing in her throat!
Wu Shuai had yet to analyze the situation of the female immortal when a drizzle started to occur in the sky.
Even though it was a small rain, it was bone-chilling, there was a cold feeling that could freeze the soul.
The heat and smoke caused from the lightning balls earlier vanished entirely without a trace.
Howl howl howl...
The ghostly cries became louder and louder, before it resounded throughout the entire area.
Grey threads fell from the black clouds in the sky, extending towards Wu Shuai.
Wu Shuai's heart sank, he recognized this tribulation: "This is the grand tribulation — Ghost Spirit Ice Silkworm Tribulation! A grand tribulation occurring right after the previous one, it seems this will not end."
Wu Shuai had to resist these silky threads forcefully.
The red porcelain lightning balls were powerful and destructive, while these ghost spirit silk threads were soft and troublesome.
Wu Shuai had no offensive methods, the Immortal Gu House Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress that he was relying on was also unfamiliar to him, he could not find any offensive methods that could be used.
Thus, Wu Shuai watched as these threads extended towards him and slipped in through the cracks and holes of the Immortal Gu House.
Wu Shuai tried to defend against them but Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress was already completely infiltrated, it broke apart after resisting for some time.
The silky threads wrapped around the female immortal while also attacking Wu Shuai, turning the two of them into solid cocoons.
At the next moment, Wu Shuai was chased out of the dream realm.
This time, he suffered heavy injuries, he saw darkness in front of him, he gulped and felt that his throat was dry, he almost fainted.
"Failing at the ghost spirit silk thread tribulation stage has caused tens of times the damage as before!" Wu Shuai smiled bitterly, in this situation, he had to recuperate first before trying again.
This injury would only be mild if it happened on Fang Yuan, it would not be severe, he could definitely explore it again.
But Wu Shuai was not the same.
Wu Shuai's soul foundation was only at thirty million man soul, even though it rose later as he cultivated in Eastern Sea, he could not compare to the main body.
Wu Shuai was a dragonman who cultivated enslavement path, soul path cultivation was just a supplementary method. The stronger his soul foundation, the more soul path dao marks he would have, and the more it would restrict his enslavement path development.
But Fang Yuan's main body was the sovereign immortal body, it had non-conflicting dao marks, so he could cultivate soul path alongside all his other paths.
After resting sufficiently, he went in again.
Failing time and again, challenging it continuously even after failure, Wu Shuai was in a difficult position.
He did not have the time path clone's deduction abilities, even though he had Dragon Palace, dreamy light smoke was not useful for exploring dream realms.
The most reliable method, other than unravel dream, was the ability to recover rapidly using guts Gu.
As he slowly explored it, Wu Shuai finally had some breakthroughs and gains.
After learning the general information of Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress, Wu Shuai gained the three killer moves of this Immortal Gu House.
The first was called accumulated soil mountain, the second was called peaceful burial, and the third was called heavy soil comeback.
The one that was an eyeopener to Wu Shuai was the first killer move, accumulated soil mountain.
This killer move was very special, it did not have offense, movement, healing or other aspects. It was an earth path killer move that had formation path effect, using this killer move, the Gu Immortal could stack earth path Gu worms to allow them to form an Immortal Gu House! This could be done even if the Gu Immortal using the killer move had zero attainment in formation path itself!
Because of this killer move, there was this Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
Gaining this killer move was also the same as gaining the foundation of the Immortal Gu House, Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress!
It was no wonder Wu Shuai could not find any core Immortal Gu, this Immortal Gu House's core was not an Immortal Gu but the immortal killer move accumulated soil mountain!
"Thus, I only need to activate this killer move and add earth path Gu worms into this Immortal Gu House to rapidly fix it."
After understanding this, Wu Shuai started to repair Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress while enduring the onslaught of the ghost spirit silk thread tribulation.
Boom!
The moment he repaired it, the female immortal self-detonated, the force of the explosion was greater than the grand tribulation, not only was Wu Shuai killed instantly, the entire Immortal Gu House was torn to shreds.
"I see, I still have to take care of this female immortal." After understanding this point, Wu Shuai entered the dream realm once again.
Immortal killer move — Peaceful Burial!
Using this method, the female immortal was temporarily sealed, her injuries were suppressed, she was receiving treatment from the Immortal Gu House.
After Wu Shuai fixed this Immortal Gu House completely, the third grand tribulation appeared.
Purple stars fell from the sky, this was a tribulation that fused poison path and star path — Rotten Poison Purple Star Tribulation.
Purple stars continued to descend and land on the Immortal Gu House, causing holes to form due to corrosion.
Wu Shuai did his best to endure it but even as he failed many times, this grand tribulation never stopped.
"The third grand tribulation seems to be unceasing, this is not normal. Don't tell me?" After many failures, Wu Shuai had a flash of inspiration.
He tried to unseal the female immortal, without peaceful burial's suppression, the female immortal went into a state of nearing death again.
"Zheng Yang, if a next life exists, I want to meet you again. Goodbye, my love."
While Wu Shuai defended against the grand tribulation with difficulty, she flew out of the Immortal Gu House through a hole that had formed on top.
Boom!
She self-detonated instantly, turning into a lump of pitch-black flames, burning intensely with a terrifying aura.
Heaven seemed to be enraged, at once, billions of purple stars shot down. The black flame was not large, but was incomparably tough when faced with the attack of the purple stars, although its size was shrinking, the extent of its loss was minuscule.
Seeing that this grand tribulation was ineffective, the black clouds in the sky transformed again, countless lightning bolts rained down like snakes, the black flame was instantly assaulted by countless bolts.
The black flame seemed to be nourished from this, it quickly expanded and grew to a mountain-like size.
The black flame's appearance had changed already, it became a white-gold colored mist.
The grand tribulation in the sky continued to transform and attack the white-gold mist, the mist also transformed, turning into wind, ore, flower, grass, bird, or beast at times.
"What in the world is lurking in this female immortal's body, so many grand tribulations are unable to do anything to it!" Wu Shuai was internally shook.
He acutely sensed that this realistic dream realm contained a certain deep secret in history.
This secret might be the reason behind the deaths of venerables, it involved the most profound secret of heaven and earth.
The female immortal died, but Wu Shuai's dream realm continued.
He had to survive from the aftermath of this terrifying fight, he could only rely on Peaceful Soil Heavy Mountain Fortress.
Eventually, after countless rounds of grand tribulations, that mysterious black flame was slowly extinguished bit by bit.
Even when just a tiny bit was left, the grand tribulation still targeted it and the battle lasted for over an hour.
"What in the world is this thing?" After the dream realm dissipated, Wu Shuai was still filled with deep shock.
He had put in so much effort, the rewards were similarly shocking.
At almost the same time as when the dream realm faded, the eyes of Fang Yuan's main body, which was in Dragon Whale Paradise, shined.
"Oh, I advanced to earth path grandmaster."
-x-X-x-
Sea island, Golden Jade House.
"What is the purpose of inviting us here, little girl?"
"Quickly tell us, I've got things to do."
"That's right, this is the only time each year that the sea market opens. We are wasting our time and money by being delayed here!"
Many Gu Masters gathered in Golden Jade House, staring at the blue scaled mermaid girl, Xia Lin, and spoke.
They were already a bit impatient from waiting.
Xia Lin looked around with a slight smile: "Everyone here is a respectable figure, so I'll make it short. From now on, this island is my territory and under my control. If you all want to come here and make transactions, I'd welcome you with open arms, but you need to pay taxes, and you can't stay on the island for a long time."
"As for the way to stay and live here for a long time? That is to join me and become my subordinate."
There was a sudden silence in the house.
Immediately, the Gu Masters went into an uproar. Was this a joke?
The few rank three Gu Master leaders all looked unhappy.
"Little girl, you're too bold."
"Juniors these days, hehe, they really don't know what fear is."
"Do you really think you can act so arrogantly after killing a rank three Gu Master? Don't forget, you are just a rank two Gu Master."
Faced with many questions, Xia Lin felt apprehensive, but remembering that this was Master Chu's order, she could only force a smile as she answered as instructed: "No need to doubt my words, now, you will know what I am relying on."
"What is it?" Immediately, someone asked.
Xia Lin was still smiling, because even if she said so, she had no idea what it was.
But at that moment, the ground began to shake.
"What's going on?" Someone screamed as the ground shook more and more.
"Is it an earthquake?!" The Gu Masters were in a state of shock and panic.
Fortunately, this Golden Jade House was a Gu House and had some defensive effects.
But the outside world was already in chaos, with screams and shouts everywhere.
"No, I need to rush back to guard my shop."
"I'm leaving too!"
The Gu Masters tried to run out, but suddenly, a thick yellow light suddenly emerged from the ground.
The yellow light enveloped the entire island and blocked the entrance of the Gu House.
No matter what they tried, the Gu Masters could not break through the yellow light and were horrified: "What in the world is going on?"
"This is no ordinary earthquake."
"Xia Lin! You must know something!!!"
Someone saw that Xia Lin was still smiling, he had a flash of inspiration and screamed loudly.
As a result, all the Gu Masters in the room focused their attention on Xia Lin.
Xia Lin was also shocked, but at this moment, Fang Yuan's voice was transmitted, instructing her on how to deal with the situation: "Everyone, there is no need to panic, this change is only beneficial for everyone. I will not say more, just watch it quietly, this change will not last long."
Xia Lin was keeping this a secret but the Gu Masters did not dare to look down on her.
This was clearly not a natural disaster but a man-made situation.
But who could do something of this magnitude?
Not mortals at least!
A word suddenly emerged in the minds of all the Gu Masters — Immortal!
This was indeed a method of an immortal.
Or more accurately, Fang Yuan was repairing the immortal formation at the bottom of the sea.
He took out portions of immortal materials from his immortal aperture and put them into the formation, before activating many killer moves to repair it.
Yellow light surged around the island, spreading around.
A brand new piece of land around the island condensed and appeared in the yellow light. Those ships that were originally around the edge of the island ran aground. The people on the boats were shouting and screaming, fixed in place by the yellow light, unable to move.
The yellow light gradually dissipated, the entire island had more than doubled in size.
At the edge of the new sea island, tides surged up, causing huge waves, countless fish and sea beasts revealed themselves.
Fang Yuan had started to fix the water path aspect after repairing the earth path side of the formation.
Finally, when he had completely mended the immortal formation, the huge waves on the surface of the sea gradually calmed down.
However, Fang Yuan did not stop yet.
He added a small subsidiary immortal formation on top of the foundation of this great formation.
After the small formation was built, he waved his hand again and gave the small formation to Xia Lin.
Thus, a white light descended from the sky and enveloped Xia Lin, before it merged entirely into Xia Lin's body.
Xia Lin did not have any attainment in formation path, but this small formation designed by Fang Yuan was very friendly, Xia Lin suddenly felt that she had many new abilities instinctively.
This instinct was as natural as breathing, or like moving legs and feet, it allowed her to move the island's land and the surrounding seawater using her thoughts.
Rumble...
Amidst muffled sounds, the entirety of Golden Jade House began to expand, growing larger and larger, quickly transforming from a small building to a beautifully ornate palace.
This was naturally also Fang Yuan's doing, he had expanded Golden Jade House and created a formation core here, which was secretly connected to the formation deep under the sea.
This series of astonishing changes made the entire crowd of Gu Masters gawk and stand dumbfounded.
Xia Lin was showing a smile but she was also immensely shocked internally.
Fang Yuan's words rang in her ears once again.
She read out the script: "Everyone, you witnessed it with your own eyes. I am fortunate to be accepted as a disciple of the great immortal. My immortal master has just laid out the immortal formation and ordered me to guard this place, I will be in charge of mortal affairs."
Saying so, Xia Lin willed as yellow light surged up, enveloping all of the Gu Masters present.
Xia Lin willed again as these Gu Masters gasped in shock, they were suppressed by this yellow light and could not move, they were all raised into the air, unable to retaliate.
Xia Lin smiled, the yellow light dissipated and these Gu Masters were released.
"This, this, this..."
"Immortal miracle, this is an immortal miracle. So there really are immortals in the world!"
"I reverently ask Lady Xia Lin, why did your immortal master set up an immortal formation here, I wonder what lord immortal has planned?"
Xia Lin just smiled, she had also just learned that Master Chu was actually an immortal! Her shock was no less than the others.
"Now, does everyone have anything you wish to say about my previous proposal?" Xia Lin looked around and asked in a warm voice once again.
The Gu Masters did not dare to question her again, they bowed their heads together, some even fell to their knees on the spot, saying that they wanted to follow Xia Lin, while some wanted to go under Fang Yuan as his disciple.
Xia Lin could only appease them one by one.
Fang Yuan's divine sense went around Xia Lin, in the end, he only said a few words of advice to her before he left her to her own devices.
Although there were signs of immortals in Dragon Whale Paradise, be it his previous life or present life, Fang Yuan had never seen any native immortals.
Legends about immortals had been circulating within the mortal world, but they were only rumors.
This time, Fang Yuan displayed an immortal miracle and set up the immortal formation, leaving many things within the formation to Xia Lin. Soon, countless people arrived after hearing the news, some of them wanted to see the miracle, while others simply wanted to join Xia Lin as a subordinate.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan helped Xia Lin become the mermaid saintess. In this life, he had simply made an early move to support the growth of Xia Lin's forces first.
In the following period of time, Xia Lin would maneuver between various forces and Gu Master experts, she would follow Fang Yuan's instructions to establish her own force.
Even if there were things she could not do right, there was still a will left behind by Fang Yuan within the formation to tutor her and help her to make up for any flaws.
His investment in Xia Lin was actually not even a drop in a bucket.
Repairing the underwater formation was the most costly thing that Fang Yuan did.
Fang Yuan's earth path attainment level rose, his weakness was eliminated as he rapidly found a useful method to fix this formation.
He had grandmaster formation path attainment level, he could not use natural dao marks, he had to use immortal materials. The immortal materials that he expended here were his greatest spending.
Not only was the difficulty of a mid-sized mission higher, the Gu Immortal also had to make investments sometimes.
Merit points were not so easy to earn.
Fang Yuan returned to the Merit Obelisk.
This mission gave him a hundred merit points, this was the limit of a mid-sized mission, his action of repairing the formation was perfect.
Thus, he became the undeniable number one person on the merit board, the gain of a hundred points made everyone else feel a strong sense of dejection.
This time, Fang Yuan did not leave in a hurry.
He started to research on the merit board.
His earth path attainment rose to grandmaster level, could he comprehend this Immortal Gu House?
If he could comprehend it and use some methods, would he be able to make loopholes in the Merit Obelisk and refine this entire Immortal Gu House?
Earlier, Fang Yuan could not do it and had to follow the rules.
But all along, he had not given up on the idea of getting this Merit Obelisk.
After looking at it for some time, deep disappointment flashed in Fang Yuan's eyes.
The Merit Obelisk contained the profundity of earth path, but also sound path, human path, and heaven path.
And looking at the foundation, earth path and sound path were just supplementary, the true cores were human path and heaven path.
"To have hopes of comprehending this completely, I will need to be a great grandmaster in all four paths." Fang Yuan realized this and smiled bitterly to himself.
It was unrealistic to try to refine this Merit Obelisk now.
That was only natural.
Before Fang Yuan, who knows how many Gu Immortals had come here. Among these predecessors, there were definitely outstanding people, but they were unable to do anything to this rank eight Immortal Gu House.
Fang Yuan's foundation in this aspect was not deep, how could he possibly refine this rank eight Immortal Gu House easily?
There was no breakthrough in this area, so Fang Yuan had no choice but to continue to follow the rules, he continued to receive and complete missions.
When he reached nine hundred merit points, Shen Xiao finally screamed at the Merit Obelisk: "I finally found it, this is the one, this good person title!"
At this moment, Shen Xiao almost wanted to tear up from joy.
He quickly told Shen Cong Sheng about this discovery.
Soon, Shen clan's Gu Immortals started to show signs of rising merit points.
Followed by Ren Xiu Ping, Tong Hua and the rest.
There were four groups on the merit board now.
The first group was a single person, Fang Yuan, he was way ahead.
The second group was the Shen clan Gu Immortals led by Sheng Cong Sheng, they were trying to catch up.
The third group was Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua, as they were attached to Shen clan, they had been informed of this secret after some time.
And the last group was Miao Ming Shen and the others, they had not learned about this.
After completing another mission, Fang Yuan's merit points rose to over a thousand.
He looked at the merit board, laughing in his mind: "They finally found the good person title? These people are truly unlucky, maybe this is the result of my luck suppressing them."
He came to the board and started exchanging for a reward.
He spent a thousand merit points in exchange for the 'really good person' title.
With this title, he could finally accept large sized missions.
-x-X-x-
Beehive island was a sea island that had a peculiar shape.
The entire island resembled a voluminous dark yellow beehive, with countless pits and holes on the surface of the hive, and a precise structure and countless tunnels inside.
A rank six Gu Immortal with broad shoulders and a thin waist, wearing jade green battle armor, was inside the beehive.
This man was one of the followers of Miao Ming Shen — Feng Jiang.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
The densely grouped red thread earthworms were shooting violently at Feng Jiang from all directions.
The red thread earthworms could shoot themselves out like the flicking of a zither, so fast that Feng Jiang could only see a red light.
The attack of the red thread earthworms was very sharp, and the swarms of red thread earthworms were able to make desolate beasts back away from them.
Feng Jiang fought as he retreated.
He was facing immense pressure, after a while, he was already covered in sweat.
Even though his battle strength surpassed desolate beasts and he had many killer moves, he received this mission to quell the red thread earthworm calamity near the beehive island, to allow its ecology to return to normal.
If Feng Jiang used his methods without holding back and unleashed his attacks, he could easily kill all of these red thread earthworms.
But in that case, beehive island would be heavily damaged, Feng Jiang would receive few merit points.
"Damn it." Feng Jiang had no choice but to retreat and fly out of the hive, floating in the sky.
The red thread earthworms were still in hot pursuit, shooting themselves into the sky and pursuing Feng Jiang.
From countless holes, large amounts of red threads were shot out, Feng Jiang sighed and pulled away from the hive, these red thread earthworms could not hit their target.
The red thread earthworms did not die from a fall of this height, their bodies were soft but tough, after they loitered around for some time, they went back into the hive again.
They did not follow the existing holes within the hive, but dug their own way through the hive's walls.
This was very damaging to beehive island.
"There are too many red thread earthworms, and I'm afraid there are still desolate beasts inside. After all, I'm taking on a mid-sized mission."
"There is one more difficulty, the more the passage inside this hive extends inside, the narrower it becomes, it is very disadvantageous to me."
Beehive island was already covered in holes due to the red thread earthworms, if Feng Jiang fought inside, he might cause the destruction of the entire island.
Feng Jiang was silent for a moment before making up his mind.
He opened his immortal aperture's entrance as he summoned a large group of wild bees. These bees were all elites that had rank five battle strength, their leader was even more powerful, it was a desolate beast bee.
The abdomen of this wild bee was of peculiar form, being gyroscopic instead of ellipsoidal, it was most broad at the waist, extending out to the tail while becoming increasingly thinner.
The surface of the gyroscopic belly had a black spiral pattern that was quite striking.
All the wild bees were covered with dense fluffy hair and had large, broad wings.
This was the yellow gyro bee.
Feng Jiang's immortal aperture raised a large number of bees, yellow gyro bee was one of them with a unique status.
Even though ordinary bees formed into groups, they consisted of members from the same species. Different ones could not live together.
But not only could yellow gyro bees live with other wild bees, they could reproduce and even help to increase the numbers of the other species of bees.
The yellow gyro bees were the core bee group of Feng Jiang's immortal aperture.
Feng Jiang was an Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, he was rich in cultivation resources, keeping a variety of bees in his immortal aperture and having more than ten desolate beast wild bees. The yellow gyro bees had always been his main focus, but there were only three of them that were desolate beast level.
This time, Feng Jiang mobilized a large group of yellow gyro bees, he was taking a huge risk in this situation.
Under the command of Feng Jiang, the yellow gyro bees buzzed as if they were a yellow cloud that quickly burrowed into the hive.
There were still swarms of bees in beehive island, but they were completely at a disadvantage compared to the red thread earthworms in terms of size.
With the help of the yellow gyro bees, the bee group was confused for a moment before retaliating against the red thread earthworms entrenched in the lower part of the beehive island with a fierce attack.
This was a fight for survival between their respective groups, it was a tragic battle.
Beehive island continued to shake as cracks appeared on its surface, rapidly expanding in size.
Feng Jiang was prepared to take action, he immediately used methods to repair the island.
He let his bee group fight while he took on a support role.
He was quite lucky, when the red thread earthworms lost enough numbers, the sole desolate beast red thread earthworm retreated instead of fighting, leading its members away from the beehive.
Feng Jiang looked as millions of red thread earthworms gathered in the sea like a huge red current, swimming away. He sighed as the weight in his heart was lifted.
He hesitated for a moment, should he chase after the red thread earthworms or ignore them now?
While he hesitated, the red thread earthworms swam into the sea.
Feng Jiang gave up the thought of chasing them.
If he fought in the sea, he would have to give it his all, but there were many different sea beasts hidden within this sea area.
"I should not cause more uncertainty, let's repair this beehive island first."
He spent a day and night repairing it.
Not only did he repair beehive island completely, he even reinforced many of its weaknesses. At the same time, he let out many bees in his immortal aperture and planted many special flowers to complete the ecology of this place.
After all this, beehive island became completely revitalized. Not only did it regain balance, it even had more potential for future development.
"This is a mid-sized resource point now." Feng Jiang sighed.
If possible, he wanted to take this beehive island for himself. But this was a merit mission, he was restricted by Paradise Earth, Feng Jiang had to give up on that idea.
After returning to the Merit Obelisk, Feng Jiang looked at his merit points and found that he gained over eighty points from this mission.
Feng Jiang stared blankly before regretting it: "I did not get a hundred points, it seems that my actions were not perfect. Back then, I should have eliminated the red thread earthworms, letting them leave means that they are likely to attack beehive island again."
"That might not be it. The mission wanted me to balance the ecology of beehive island, did I achieve that? I did not."
"This so-called ecology's core was beehive island but the surrounding sea areas are also a part of it. I only modified beehive island but did not target the surrounding sea areas, that was my mistake."
Thinking so, Feng Jiang sighed.
A few days ago, after Fang Yuan returned to the Merit Obelisk, he saw the board and understood the situation, he explained the secret of the 'good person' title to Miao Ming Shen and his allies.
Thus, Feng Jiang exchanged for the 'good person' title and could receive mid-sized missions.
Now, he completed his first mid-sized mission but he was not happy at all.
Not only was it because he did not understand the mission's requirements fully, he had also spent a lot for this mission.
In order to get the merit points, his yellow gyro bees could not be retrieved.
Of course, this exchange was not unfavorable.
Merit points were related to Paradise Earth's true inheritance, Feng Jiang gave up his bee group but gained points that could be exchanged for Immortal Gu if he had ten thousand or more!
This trade was definitely worth it.
Because in the outside world, Feng Jiang did not have any way to get these Immortal Gu. No matter how many desolate beast bees he had, he could not exchange for an Immortal Gu using them.
"But mid-sized missions are quite tough, I am specialized in raising bees, this mission suited me well but I only got around eighty merit points."
"What about other missions?"
Feng Jiang looked at the board.
Many missions were listed but he could not take them.
For example, the mission to repair an immortal formation, Feng Jiang did not have any methods to repair immortal formations.
Or the one that required the healing of an ancient desolate beast's injuries, Feng Jiang's healing methods were not good enough.
Feng Jiang suddenly understood why Fang Yuan kept this 'good person' title as a secret.
As long as he had a head start, Fang Yuan could choose missions that suited him, he could accumulate merit points rapidly.
But Feng Jiang thought about it and felt something strange: "No, even so, Chu Ying's merit points are rising too quickly. He is almost perfectly completing every mission. Is transformation path really this useful?"
At this moment, Feng Jiang was stunned.
Because white light flashed as Fang Yuan appeared beside him.
"Lord Chu Ying." Feng Jiang greeted.
Fang Yuan nodded at him, his gaze was directed at the obelisk.
His merit points went from the bottom position and surpassed everyone to reach the top three again.
"He gained five hundred merit points at once?!" Feng Jiang saw this as his heart shook.
"I spent a thousand merit points to get the 'really good person' title, it allowed me to receive even better missions." Fang Yuan smiled and explained.
Feng Jiang was stunned before bowing deeply: "Lord, thank you for the guidance!"
Fang Yuan nodded as he went to the other side of the obelisk, exchanging for his third title 'super good person'. His merit points instantly fell by five hundred, becoming the last position again.
Feng Jiang opened his mouth, he was curious about Fang Yuan's action but he was astute, he did not ask when he saw that Fang Yuan was not going to talk about it.
Feng Jiang was certain that Fang Yuan had exchanged for something extremely useful.
"Looking at the time, they should be back already." Fang Yuan walked towards Feng Jiang, he did not receive a mission immediately.
Feng Jiang nodded, he knew that Fang Yuan was referring to Miao Ming Shen and others, he replied: "They should be here soon."
Feng Jiang did not have outstanding strength among Miao Ming Shen's allies, yet he had already returned, the others were soon to arrive as well.
Fang Yuan did not mind the wait.
As expected, Miao Ming Shen and the rest returned quickly, they met with Fang Yuan.
Feng Jiang quickly told the secret of the 'really good person' title to Miao Ming Shen and others.
Miao Ming Shen had a thought: "This title of 'good person' can exchange for mid-sized missions, while 'really good person' can exchange for large sized missions. This is a series of titles, if one can find out about the 'good person' title, the 'really good person' title is no secret as well, they can easily connect the dots."
But even so, Miao Ming Shen felt very grateful to Fang Yuan.
Because Fang Yuan had told them about the 'good person' title. Meanwhile, Shen clan and Ren Xiu Ping kept it from them.
The ranking on the merit board was very important, many rewards could only be exchanged once, the first person to get them would be the sole beneficiary.
"Brother Miao, you do not need to fear Shen Cong Sheng. I have a way to get far away from Shen Cong Sheng when we teleport outside, the distance is enough for us to stay safe." Fang Yuan lied but Miao Ming Shen and the rest felt deeply shocked.
Gui Qi Ye's brows rose: "It is a reward on the Merit Obelisk?"
"Indeed." Fang Yuan nodded, but he had no idea if that existed.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest could not help but believe him.
Why?
Because Chu Ying's attitude towards Shen Cong Sheng was simply courting death! The fact that he remained so fearless meant that he had some sort of assurance.
Fang Yuan continued: "I can receive large sized missions but I cannot complete them alone. I need all of your help."
Saying so, he received the large sized mission on the obelisk and shared the details with Miao Ming Shen and others.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest felt shocked, after receiving information of the mission, their expressions changed.
He could actually do that?!
The truth was, Miao Ming Shen had discovered this secret personally in the previous life.
The 'super good person' title allowed one to share missions.
For Gu Immortals, mid-sized missions were difficult to do alone, having other people's help made it easier. Even though they would share the merit points, if their efficiency at solving missions increased, the benefits far outweighed the costs.
Miao Ming Shen could choose to accept it or not. Fang Yuan could share missions but he could not force them to take it.
Miao Ming Shen only thought about it for a while before accepting the mission.
He had just completed a mid-sized mission, he had the same feelings as Feng Jiang.
Fang Yuan had an easy time because he cultivated every path, Miao Ming Shen and the rest were ordinary Gu Immortals, they cultivated one path and most of the time, only certain missions suited them.
Since completing mid-sized missions was not easy, and they had to put in a lot of investment, Miao Ming Shen was more willing to work with Fang Yuan and attempt something new.
-x-X-x-
Five lumps of white light, flashing abruptly in the sky, brought Fang Yuan, Miao Ming Shen and the others from the Merit Obelisk to here.
All five of them were familiar with the mission and headed down to get a bird's-eye view, each of them activating their investigative killer moves.
Fang Yuan was the first to observe the area and take a closer look.
His investigative methods had always been his shortcoming, but that was only relative to his enemies. When compared to Miao Ming Shen and the others, even his weaker aspects were still far superior to them.
This was a vast sea area.
The sea was raging, creating thousands of fierce waves, they were so powerful that countless sea beasts could be seen within the reflections of these ripples.
In this sea, there were five small islands.
First was jade shaking island with countless jade pillars, chiming and tinkling due to powerful winds.
Second was white bone island, it was pale white and had the corpses of beasts scattered around.
Third was hidden space island, it seemed illusory as if it did not exist.
Fourth was sword wind island, there were three tornadoes on the island that would never stop moving.
And fifth was treasure moon island, it was crescent shaped and was shrouded by the night sky at all times, every inch of sand on this island shined with faint moonlight.
Three of these five islands had begun to drift slowly with the current. Among them, sword wind island had the fastest flow and confusing direction of movement.
For the remaining two islands, jade shaking island was in danger, the pillars underneath the island were broken, and in a little while, just like the three islands, it would start to drift away on the sea surface.
As for hidden space island, however, it was very stable and remained firmly entrenched in the distance. This was because this island was filled with phantom path dao marks.
The main cause of the islands' drifting was the impact currents that ran deep under the sea.
These currents had become so large that they endangered the sea itself. Suppressing the currents, restructuring the ecology of the sea, and restoring the former five-islands chain were the contents of this large-sized mission.
Fang Yuan started to make calculations and deductions in his mind.
There were indications that this sea area had originally formed an intrinsic ecology with the five-islands chain as its core. Impact currents did not exist before, but now they were like a shark in a calm pond, causing severe destruction to the habitat and ecology of this sea area.
While Fang Yuan made his deductions, Miao Ming Shen and the rest also explored this entire sea area with their investigative methods.
They frowned and had serious expressions.
"This is a large sized mission? The difficulty is several times higher than a mid-sized mission!" Hua Die's heart sank steeply.
Feng Jiang had an ugly expression as he thought: "I tried my best earlier to improve the ecology of beehive island but it was still imperfect. This large sized mission is not about balancing the ecology, but restructuring it. Each island is in greater danger than beehive island itself. And the five islands are only part of the mission, there's still a large sea area and the underwater impact currents to resolve."
"This is very complex, to restructure the habitat of the sea area, we would need to change everything and meticulously alter the details. Without a wisdom path Gu Immortal, we will need to make many experiments and attempt the restructuring step by step. During this process, we would make many mistakes." Gui Qi Ye sighed in his heart.
Miao Ming Shen was calculating the gains and losses: "The mid-sized mission I just completed expended a large amount of my rank seven immortal materials. To restructure the ecology of this place, the resources invested, the immortal essence consumed and the energy spent will be an extremely large sum!"
The more Miao Ming Shen and the rest observed, the faster their morale slipped away.
The difficulty of the large sized mission made them feel like giving up.
The truth was, they started to regret it, following Fang Yuan blindly to accept this mission was not a wise decision.
"Brother Chu, let's plan together." At this point, Miao Ming Shen could only smile bitterly and find Fang Yuan to discuss their actions.
He was not going to give up on it, just because they took the mission did not mean they could abandon it. In fact, in order to give up the mission, they needed to exchange for another title.
Bright light flashed in Fang Yuan's eyes, with both time path clone and Fang Yuan making deductions at the same time, he had already arrived at a perfect plan.
He cupped his fists at Miao Ming Shen: "Brother Miao, I have already planned something, follow my instructions and we will definitely complete the mission."
Miao Ming Shen was stunned, although he did not believe it in his heart, he nodded without rebuking: "Please give the instructions Brother Chu, we will do our best!"
Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "Brother Miao is too polite, it will be good for both of us if we work together to complete this mission. The better we complete a large sized mission, the greater the returns compared to a mid-sized mission!"
"I'm only afraid we can't complete it well." Miao Ming Shen sighed internally but did not say anything, he had already lost confidence in himself, he could only place his hopes on Fang Yuan now.
But Fang Yuan's words were comfortable for him to hear.
Fang Yuan was not high and mighty, but rather he had an attitude of equal cooperation. This was different from Shen Cong Sheng.
"Brother Miao, I want you to occupy jade shaking island to guard against the impact currents. Please ask Gui Qi Ye to station at sword wind island and make sure that it doesn't wander off. Ask Feng Jiang and Fairy Hua Die to guard treasure moon island island and white bone island respectively. I'm going to deal with hidden space island first."
Fang Yuan made the arrangements, Miao Ming Shen's group was clueless to begin with, they followed Fang Yuan's instructions.
With the four immortals in action, the islands were quickly suppressed, no longer drifting with the current, their speed of movement fell to a level that could be controlled.
Watching Fang Yuan descend on hidden space island, the four immortals had doubts in their hearts.
"Hidden space island is a phantom path island, it is the most stable place in the entire sea area, it is also the easiest part of the mission."
"Why is Chu Ying trying to deal with this island first? He should fix the other islands before trying to fix this hidden space island. After all, this island is almost non-existent, by dealing with it first, he will cause some obstruction when handling the other islands later."
"In my opinion, he should deal with the impact currents first. It is the cause behind the collapse of the five-islands chain. To restructure the ecology here, one has to deal with the root cause at the start."
Fang Yuan landed on hidden space island, quickly flying out afterwards, his speed was shocking to Miao Ming Shen and the rest.
Fang Yuan went to white bone island.
Under Hua Die's observation, Fang Yuan took out immortal materials from his immortal aperture and threw them around at will.
"He is setting up a formation!" Hua Die was seeing Fang Yuan create a formation for the first time.
Fang Yuan was skillful and experienced, the process was very fluid, Hua Die watched with a sense of appreciation and amazement.
Soon, Fang Yuan finished setting up the formation.
Hua Die's mouth opened with deep shock, she could not close it.
"Chu Ying actually used immortal materials to set up a formation! Doesn't this mean he has grandmaster attainment in formation path?"
"So he is not a transformation path Gu Immortal but a formation path Gu Immortal."
"No, not true, when he defeated Ge Wen and saved us, he clearly used transformation path methods."
"Don't tell me, he cultivates two paths?"
It was not that rare for Gu Immortals to cultivate two paths. But for Fang Yuan to be so proficient in both paths, with such high attainment, it was very rare.
White bone island's arrangements were done, Fang Yuan activated this sub-formation and connected it to the main formation on hidden space island.
Due to the effect of the immortal formation, white bone island shook intensely, it anchored itself to the sea and showed no signs of movement anymore.
Hua Die finally understood Fang Yuan's intentions: "So he was using hidden space island as the base to stabilize the other islands around it."
"Amazing, hidden space island is the best foundation for this chain, because the impact currents are useless against it. But..."
Hua Die soon realized a flaw: "But the other islands are using hidden space island as the anchor, this is the power of a formation, these impact currents will still hit these islands over time, as the formation continues to get damaged, it would break eventually, these islands will still float away in the end."
Fang Yuan did not show any inclination to dispel her doubts, soon after, he landed on the three remaining islands and set up his formation, stabilizing them all.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest looked at Fang Yuan with complex gazes.
Fang Yuan's formation path attainment was too shocking to them.
Formation path grandmasters were very rare!
And earlier, Fang Yuan's transformation path attainment was also exemplary.
With such strength, the mysteriousness of Fang Yuan intensified in the immortals' hearts.
"However, stabilizing the five sea islands is just a good start."
"The real problem are the impact currents around the sea islands."
"Without water path methods, how can we deal with the sea currents?"
Miao Ming Shen and the rest talked among themselves. They could not transmit their voices in Dragon Whale Paradise, but they could still use information path mortal Gu like letter pigeon Gu.
The impact currents that rampaged in this sea area were too huge, Miao Ming Shen and the rest could only think of using immortal methods to attack the impact currents and destroy them bit by bit.
This method was crude and wasted a lot of time and immortal essence, the biggest flaw was that attacking these currents would cause tremendous damage to the surrounding sea area.
But other than that, Miao Ming Shen and the rest did not have any good ideas.
Boom!
Right at this time, Fang Yuan rose to the sky and activated the entire Gu formation.
Each of the five islands blossomed with rushing pillars of light of various colors, the power of the Gu formation soared upwards, breaking through its original limit.
"So this is the true power of the formation!" Miao Ming Shen and the rest had changes of expressions, they were dumbfounded.
These five islands' dao marks were so dense that they could also be seen as a single gigantic immortal material. The immortal formation that Fang Yuan had set up naturally included them within the range that could be utilized.
"I am going to draw in the impact currents now. Everyone, continue to defend your islands, if any beasts attack or if any waves approach that would endanger the islands, I need you to stop them." Fang Yuan called out as his voice resounded in the sea area.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest quickly responded, saying they would do their best.
The formation buzzed and the five pillars of light gradually dissipated, turning into white light that scattered in the sky.
The light went into the seawater, staining the water around the island with a beautiful illusion of white light.
In this illusory white light, the impact currents were like a blue whale that had been stirred up by fish and shrimps, slowly moving its body, then swimming faster and faster and crashing towards jade shaking island, which was the closest.
Miao Ming Shen, who was on jade shaking island, gritted his teeth, he felt tremendous pressure, tensing up and going on full alert.
If the immortal formation's defense was not enough, such a sea current could completely crush jade shaking island if it hit directly!
Boom!
The impact currents touched the formation and created a startling explosion.
A huge wave, up to ten feet high, pounded at jade shaking island.
Miao Ming Shen immediately flew up with a cry, using his killer move to resist it.
The impact currents were slowly turned around by this and moved to the left of jade shaking island. But before they could move away, they were drawn back by white bone island's immortal formation.
The one guarding white bone island was Hua Die, and she almost groaned when she saw the sea current coming towards her.
In the discussions of Miao Ming Shen's group, the impact current was to be repelled and slowly weakened, the best outcome was to break it up and scatter it completely.
But Fang Yuan was actually attracting the impact currents actively to hit the sea islands.
This was something that Miao Ming Shen and the rest wanted to avoid at all costs.
"Chu Ying is too crazy!" Hua Die soon had no time to think as the impact currents crashed into white bone island, the entire formation resounded with a scary creaking sound, before a huge wave was created.
There were also many sea beasts caught in the waves, Hua Die put up her best effort to resist them.
Like this, the impact currents, under the constant manipulation of Fang Yuan, hit the five islands one after another.
With each impact, the power of the currents was reduced by one level, they then circled around the island and became drawn to the next point.
After the impact currents crashed into the last island, they had less than half the power and momentum as before.
At this time, Fang Yuan activated the immortal formation once again, actually making the impact currents turn around and crash into the second last island.
Thus, the Gu Immortals defending the sea islands felt great fear again.
After the impact currents struck five times and returned to jade shaking island, the power of the currents hitting the island was almost nonexistent, they had almost turned to being ordinary currents.
The five islands shook lightly as the immortal formation stabilized completely. The impact currents quickly calmed down and began to flow at an even rate consistently.
In contrast, the hearts of the four Gu Immortals stirred with huge waves of disbelief and shock!
They did not expect that Fang Yuan would resolve the impact currents using such a method.
The impact currents, while still present, had become a protective layer that surrounded the island. Around the five islands, the impact currents flowed rapidly, faster than ordinary seawater, protecting the five islands while at the same time, helping the immortal formation to stabilize the five islands' location.
If they had followed the plan of Miao Ming Shen and the others to destroy the impact currents, this sea area would surely be destroyed beyond recognition.
Fang Yuan's move, however, cleverly avoided this drawback and instead made full use of the impact currents, turning the original calamity into a blessing and greatly enhancing the natural foundation of this sea area.
This was truly an incredible achievement!
Miao Ming Shen and the others were all impressed.
It was really difficult to do this.
Not to mention the arrangement of the immortal formation, just the matter of manipulating impact currents alone, even water path Gu Immortals were not even capable of doing that. To perfectly weaken the impact currents to a certain level, one needed to make precise calculations and deductions. When the impact currents return to jade shaking island, their power must be reduced to almost nothing. A bit more or a bit less would have greatly affected the overall situation and would not have gotten the incredible near-perfect balance it had now.
"The biggest problem has been resolved, the next step will be for you to repair the immortal formation, as well as restructuring the ecology of the island, as for the things beyond the impact currents, you can ignore them." Fang Yuan smiled.
He was quite satisfied with this result.
If new impact currents formed, these existing currents would engulf them and protect the islands under the effect of the immortal formation.
Fang Yuan would leave his will and a large amount of immortal essence here, as long as they remained, the five-islands chain would be very safe.
-x-X-x-
The impact currents were like hungry tigers at first, but after Fang Yuan's arrangements, they became the pet cats that defended the five-islands chain.
After Fang Yuan completed this set up, the situation was already resolved.
What followed were some finishing touches.
These were not hard to do, but they were quite strenuous and required time and effort.
Fang Yuan was not going to bother himself with them.
Thus, Fang Yuan discussed with Miao Ming Shen, they left Feng Jiang and Fairy Hua Die here while the rest returned with him.
White light shined, Fang Yuan, Miao Ming Shen, and Gui Qi Ye returned to the starting island.
Ren Xiu Ping was currently looking at the missions on this merit point.
He was an enslavement path Gu Immortal, he had many desolate beasts and a few ancient desolate beasts in his hands. These beasts all had various abilities, his methods were quite wide-ranging.
However, even Ren Xiu Ping still felt the difficulty of mid-sized missions.
Fang Yuan and the others appeared beside him, causing his heart to jump as he secretly thought: "How could these three suddenly appear at the same time? Is it a coincidence?"
Fang Yuan nodded at Ren Xiu Ping and smiled slightly.
Ren Xiu Ping was stunned, this unexpected attitude of Fang Yuan made him not know how to respond for a moment.
Fang Yuan walked towards him as the obelisk's words transformed, showing all of its large sized missions.
Fang Yuan swept his gaze around it and quickly received one of the missions.
Next, he shared this with Miao Ming Shen and Gui Qi Ye.
With another flash of light, the three of them vanished on the spot.
Ren Xiu Ping watched the entire process, his expression turned grim: "Chu Ying received a different level of mission from me, it is one tier higher. It seems that his merit points fell earlier because he was exchanging for another title to receive higher tier missions. This is very likely to be the title — really good person!"
The title of 'good person' could exchange for mid-sized missions, while 'really good person' could exchange for large sized missions.
This was a simple relationship, the Gu Immortals could easily guess it just by seeing the names.
But the problem was, so what if they realized it?
"Mid-sized missions are already so hard, large sized missions must be even harder!" Ren Xiu Ping felt gloomy internally: "And why were Miao Ming Shen and Gui Qi Ye able to move together with Chu Ying? Did they receive the same mission?"
This discovery was quite alluring to Ren Xiu Ping.
Mid-sized missions were difficult but if they had help, the difficulty would be shifted.
"Even though the merit points would be divided if many people receive the same missions, as long as we control it well, our efficiency at completing missions will increase, our overall gains will increase instead. Isn't Chu Ying doing the exact same thing now?"
Ren Xiu Ping was a savvy person, after thinking about it, he understood Fang Yuan's intentions.
Fang Yuan did not plan to hide it, in fact, he had purposely released the information.
Miao Ming Shen's group could be roped in as allies, why couldn't Ren Xiu Ping?
Their hatred earlier?
Hehe.
How could hatred compare to the benefits in front of them?
Ren Xiu Ping was not crazy, he was astute, thus, there was a chance of cooperation.
Ren Xiu Ping definitely had an alliance agreement with Shen clan.
But it did not matter.
The Merit Obelisk had such rewards that could eliminate the agreement restraints on a Gu Immortal.
Even without Fang Yuan's reminder, Ren Xiu Ping must have seen that himself already.
The second large sized mission was naturally harder than mid-sized missions, but it was no problem for Fang Yuan.
After spending some effort, Fang Yuan resolved the big issues and left Miao Ming Shen and Gui Qi Ye to settle the minor problems.
When he returned to the Merit Obelisk again, he waited a little while before Hua Die and Feng Jiang returned.
Their return meant that the first large sized mission was completed.
Fang Yuan gained five hundred merit points, while Miao Ming Shen and the rest each gained around eighty points.
Fang Yuan looked at the numbers on the merit board as he calculated, this large sized mission gave a total of nine hundred and seventy-three points.
Fang Yuan and Miao Ming Shen's group split up these points, Fang Yuan gained the bulk of them, getting five hundred points was about the same as completing a large sized mission alone.
Except that he spent way less time and effort on it.
Hua Die and Feng Jiang looked at each other, seeing the joy in each other's eyes.
In this mission, they helped Fang Yuan resist the waves and settle the minor problems at the end. They only spent some immortal essence, time, and effort, but they gained more than eighty merit points from it.
Feng Jiang thought about the beehive island mission he completed alone, he spent a group of bees, including his desolate beast yellow gyro bee, but only got eighty points in the end.
Comparing the two, helping Fang Yuan complete a large sized mission was much easier and reaped greater rewards.
"Go and join with Miao Ming Shen to complete the second mission. I'd advise that we should all exchange for a group title. With a group title, we will be able to communicate with each other." Fang Yuan suggested.
A group title was not cheap, it required a hundred merit points.
But Feng Jiang and Hua Die did not hesitate, they listened to Fang Yuan and exchanged for this title.
Fang Yuan shared the second mission with them as Feng Jiang and Hua Die teleported to where Miao Ming Shen and Gui Qi Ye were.
Fang Yuan received the third large sized mission and went ahead to deal with it.
After Miao Ming Shen and the rest completed the second mission and returned to the starting island, the four immortals gained a sum of merit points listed on the merit board.
Miao Ming Shen and Gui Qi Ye also spent merit points to exchange for a group title, it allowed the four immortals to communicate with Fang Yuan constantly.
At this point, Fang Yuan already completed his arrangements in the new mission, he shared it with Miao Ming Shen and group.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest touched the obelisk and accepted the mission Fang Yuan shared with them.
They were transported to Fang Yuan, he gave them some instructions before returning to look at the next mission on the Merit Obelisk.
Fang Yuan had an advantage in cultivating every path, his value was fully displayed here.
Even for Shen Cong Sheng, many of the missions here were impossible to complete, but Fang Yuan, from his perspective, had methods to solve most missions. What he had to do was to choose those that would give him the most benefits and complete them first.
With the help of Miao Ming Shen and the others, Fang Yuan saved a lot of time and effort, while they were also gaining much more merit points now due to the help of Fang Yuan.
The cooperation between them was of mutual benefit, but it was a problem for Ren Xiu Ping and Shen Cong Sheng.
These people watched as Miao Ming Shen's group rose in position on the merit board, surpassing them and becoming part of the top rankers, it was truly infuriating but there was nothing they could do.
Looking at Fang Yuan's merit points, he had reached several thousand! He was truly ahead, far surpassing any other immortal.
Because of their huge difference, the immortals lost all desire to catch up to him.
"Immortal Gu need at least ten thousand merit points to exchange, Chu Ying is not far away already." Many people saw this and felt complex emotions, they were in admiration but also felt dejection.
"This is so strange, how can Chu Ying successfully complete so many different types of missions?"
"He must know many secrets about this place, it is a pity that we cannot fight inside here!"
"Miao Ming Shen and his group have truly dog shit luck, how could they gain the help of Chu Ying like this?"
The immortals were extremely jealous.
Shen Cong Sheng sighed, the number of times he had sighed in the last ten days was more than the sum of the previous few years.
The ranking on the merit board was very glaring, Shen Cong Sheng's position was even lower than Hua Die and Feng Jiang.
He was a great rank eight Gu Immortal, he actually was losing to two rank six Gu Immortals, how could he allow this? It was too embarrassing.
"If I can receive a large sized mission, my rank eight strength will be fully utilized, I will definitely gain a lot of merit points. But how can I let others receive the same mission as me?
The 'really good person' title was obvious, but what was the title to share missions?
They needed to test this.
And these experiments would test Shen Cong Sheng's luck, their merit points would also be wasted.
This would aggravate their situation from the already terrible situation now.
"I can make my Shen clan Gu Immortals use their merit points, but what about Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua? If I do that, will I just push them towards Chu Ying's side?"
Shen Cong Sheng had some reservations.
He knew that his influence was continuously falling now.
After learning that Gu Immortal agreements could be removed using the rewards on the Merit Obelisk, Shen Cong Sheng became more cautious regarding his attitude towards Ren Xiu Ping and others.
Fang Yuan and Miao Ming Shen could cooperate to do missions together, he had a good lead.
Shen Cong Sheng wanted to copy him, he had to unite Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua, these two people cultivated paths that Shen clan lacked.
Shen Cong Sheng was already regretting it, he should not have forced Miao Ming Shen and the rest to spend their merit points to exchange for different rewards.
This action made the immortals go against him mentally, it was a wise action back then, but now it was a terrible idea.
This was not Shen Cong Sheng's fault, after all, he did not know anything about the Merit Obelisk earlier.
The decisions he made back then was very appropriate due to the circumstances.
There were many types of missions on the merit obelisk, mid-sized missions started to become difficult.
Thus, the more paths one cultivated, the more advantage they would have in completing missions.
Fang Yuan had already united Miao Ming Shen and the rest, Shen Cong Sheng started to learn from his mistake, he became more gentle in his approach towards Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua.
His rank eight reputation was still around, while Ren Xiu Ping's alliance agreement was not removed yet, and most importantly, Ren Xiu Ping had a grudge against Chu Ying and Miao Ming Shen.
All these reasons ensured that Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua were still on Shen clan's side.
When Fang Yuan returned to the Merit Obelisk, a new large sized mission appeared — the demonic immortal in regret crying sea has lost his senses, please cooperate with the formation and kill him!
"Regret crying sea appeared?" Fang Yuan was slightly stunned before accepting this mission.
At this point, four missions regarding the merman city had appeared, but the merman saintess selection competition had not started yet.
The influence of Fang Yuan's rebirth had greatly altered the missions on the Merit Obelisk.
With this mission, Fang Yuan would be able to retrieve regret Gu earlier.
This was a great thing!
Once he gets regret Gu, he would be able to advance his Immortal Gu to a higher rank, his progress would be faster than in his previous life.
-x-X-x-
The sky was cloudy, there were vicious winds and choppy waves.
This was regret crying sea area, Fang Yuan and Miao Ming Shen's group had already been here for some time.
"I regret it! I should not have killed so many people."
"I painfully regret it! I should not have chased after power, it would have been much better if I had stayed behind to look after my parents as a filial son!"
"I truly repent! I deceived everyone and concealed Immortal Gu, I let a friend, who trusted me the most, carry the blame so I could get benefits!"
Waves of crying sounds resounded in the immortals' ears like immortal killer moves that messed with their emotions.
This was the center of the regret crying sea area.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest stayed in the sky while watching Fang Yuan who was in deep contemplation, they waited patiently.
Even though they did not have much formation path foundation, they also found the grand formation at the bottom of the sea.
This was clearly the work of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, Miao Ming Shen and the rest looked at it and felt how minuscule they were.
Fang Yuan was like this in his previous life, he sighed that this formation was as vast as the sky, he would need at least dozens of years to comprehend all the profundities of this large formation.
But now, this time needed decreased drastically.
"I need about eight years to fully comprehend and gain complete understanding of this formation." Fang Yuan thought.
The reason for such an improvement was none other than Fang Yuan's earth path attainment level.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan did not have grandmaster attainment level in earth path, but this formation was a super immortal formation that was primarily earth path.
"There are no actions from regret Gu." Fang Yuan stared at a certain area at the bottom of the sea.
Fang Yuan was not surprised by this situation.
In order to stay in Dragon Whale Paradise, Fang Yuan destroyed the stone lotus island in advance. Without the stone lotus island, the venerable method used on regret Gu could not find its location, how could it activate?
According to the memories that Fang Yuan obtained on the stone lotus island, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had entered the stone lotus island and borrowed regret Gu.
Even though the stone lotus island had Red Lotus' will and his lingering methods, how could it resist a living venerable?
Red Lotus' will gave in, allowing Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable to borrow regret Gu, he even wanted to snatch Red Lotus' inheritor.
This inheritor was naturally Fang Yuan.
In the previous life, Fang Yuan chose the stone lotus island but this time, he took everything from the stone lotus island in advance, he came to the Dragon Whale Paradise because he wanted to inherit this Paradise Earth true inheritance.
"In the previous life, regret Gu flew out and transported me away. Right now, it is showing no signs of movement, it seems that I need to take action myself." Fang Yuan gained some realization.
Venerable methods were grand and powerful, Fang Yuan was teleported by regret Gu to the stone lotus island without putting up resistance.
Seeing that regret Gu did not activate, Fang Yuan was quite happy about it.
After comprehending it for several hours, Fang Yuan recollected his scattered thoughts.
He thought about it for a moment before saying to Miao Ming Shen: "We need to use the formation to get rid of this demonic immortal. However, when Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable set up this formation, even though it has unparalleled power, it can only suppress and seal, it has no offensive power. My idea is, we will set up a supplementary formation outside and activate it to kill the demonic immortal trapped within the formation."
Miao Ming Shen and the rest nodded upon hearing this idea, they agreed with it.
If they tried to break the formation and release the demonic immortal, it would be extremely dangerous.
It was obvious that this mysterious demonic immortal was someone of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's generation. Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had died already but this demonic immortal was still alive.
In terms of lifespan, he had already lived for more than a hundred thousand years.
Who could live for so long?
Even Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable, who had the longest lifespan among venerables, only lived for twenty five thousand years.
Having a longer lifespan than a venerable, just this point alone made the demonic immortal extremely terrifying.
"Everyone, no need to overestimate the demonic immortal." Fang Yuan smiled: "This formation has a lifespan extension method in addition to its sealing ability, this demonic immortal is in constant hibernation to extend his lifespan, this is the reason he is still alive."
Miao Ming Shen and the rest showed a more relaxed expression after he said that.
"Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable is truly merciful, not only did he not kill the person, after suppressing this demonic immortal, he even extended his lifespan!"
"Does Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable have Heavenly Court's lifespan extension method? According to Heavenly Court's method, not only a hundred thousand years, they can hibernate for millions of years."
"Sigh, how can we possibly try to understand the method of a venerable?"
Fang Yuan turned his gaze to Miao Ming Shen and said: "But for me to set up the supplementary formation, I need a Gu Immortal to suppress each formation core. When the supplementary formation is activated, the more Gu Immortals there are and the more formation cores there are, the greater the power of the supplementary formation will be. And in my plan, I need at least eight Gu Immortals to suppress the formation cores."
The good feelings of Miao Ming Shen and the rest faded away.
Including Fang Yuan, there were only five Gu Immortals here. Fang Yuan's words meant that they had to invite at least three more people.
That was an interesting situation.
Because with the addition of Zeng Luo Zi and Tu Tou Tuo, they still needed one person.
And other than Shen clan's Gu Immortals, there were only Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua left.
This was not acceptable to Miao Ming Shen's group. Shen clan had suppressed them, while Ren Xiu Ping was their enemy and Tong Hua was a traitor.
Who do they invite?
Gui Qi Ye, Hua Die, and Feng Jiang showed difficult expressions.
However, Miao Ming Shen smiled and responded sincerely: "Brother Chu, the most important thing right now is the Paradise Earth true inheritance, it is a rare opportunity, so we should seize it! This is such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! What hatred do we have that we can't put aside for a while? If we want to settle the score, we can do it after we leave. In my opinion, Zeng Luo Zi and Tu Tou Tuo can be invited, Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua can also be invited, and it will be even better if Shen clan's Gu Immortals can also come."
After saying that, Miao Ming Shen added an additional sentence: "Of course, everything is up to you, Brother Chu."
Gui Qi Ye and the other immortals' expressions changed, they wanted to say something but after Miao Ming Shen's statement, they could not say anything.
Fang Yuan laughed loudly, Miao Ming Shen was truly Miao Ming Shen after all!
Fang Yuan said warmly: "Brother Miao is truly magnanimous, I am in deep admiration. Let's do that, I will set up a few supplementary formations first, the four of you will guard a formation core each and activate the formations to infiltrate the underwater formation. After that, I will invite the other Gu Immortals in."
Miao Ming Shen said again: "I am friends with Tu Tou Tuo and Zeng Luo Zi, I can write them a letter to make sure they know what decision to make."
Fang Yuan nodded: "That would be good."
Eventually, Fang Yuan obtained a few information path mortal Gu from Miao Ming Shen.
Miao Ming Shen not only wrote letters to Zeng Luo Zi and Tu Tou Tuo, he even wrote to Ren Xiu Ping, Tong Hua, and Shen clan, inviting them on behalf of Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan took a few glances at the content, there were no issues. Miao Ming Shen expressed his intention to work together in the letter, he said that their grudges could be put aside for a while, he also praised Fang Yuan's methods and urged them to cooperate with him.
Fang Yuan could not help but reassess Miao Ming Shen.
The truth was, Miao Ming Shen's letter was only the icing on the cake, this letter was not going to change anything.
Fang Yuan had a lot of confidence in successfully recruiting these people to begin with.
Even if Miao Ming Shen objected, Fang Yuan would still invite the other Gu Immortals. Miao Ming Shen knew that he was not someone crucial to Fang Yuan, he could be replaced, in order to gain more benefits in the future, he relented. If this is not a talented person, who is?
The process of recruiting Tu Tou Tuo and Zeng Luo Zi went very smoothly.
Fang Yuan only said a sentence and they quickly joined him, they even showed deep excitement.
After all, Fang Yuan was bringing Miao Ming Shen's group to rise in ranking on the merit board, everyone could see how they suppressed Shen Cong Sheng.
Fang Yuan invited Tong Hua next, she hesitated and said she needed to think about it.
After that, Fang Yuan invited Ren Xiu Ping, he agreed to it without even thinking, he was even faster than Tu Tou Tuo and Zeng Luo Zi.
Ren Xiu Ping also brought slightly surprising news to Fang Yuan, Shen clan's Gu Immortals wanted to join as well.
Shen Cong Sheng was the leader of the Shen clan Gu Immortals, without his consent, none of them would dare to defect over to Fang Yuan.
Thus Fang Yuan met with Shen Cong Sheng soon after.
"Chu Ying." This time, Shen Cong Sheng had a warm attitude, he also treated the rank seven Chu Ying as a rank eight equal.
"The reason why I came here is because of Heavenly Court's information. Not long ago, Duke Long and Qi Sea Ancestor had a battle, I'm sure you have heard of it. In this battle, I captured Gu Yue Fang Zheng, in order to get him back, Heavenly Court gave me some important information."
"It turns out that this Dragon Whale Paradise has a rank eight response Immortal Gu, this Gu is extremely important to me and my Shen clan, I have been looking for it for many years."
"Shen clan is willing to cooperate with you, Chu Ying. If you see this Gu on the Merit Obelisk's reward list, I hope you can pass it. If you encounter this Gu in a mission, my Shen clan would like you to capture it for us. We will offer you a huge reward!"
Fang Yuan's expression changed: "Response Gu? This Gu worm is among the top ten of the List of Mystical Gu, it can emit a voice and anyone who hears this voice and responds to it will become enslaved. A rank eight response Gu can enslave rank eight Gu Immortals, this is such a precious Gu that your clan is unable to obtain, if you want to work with me, what rewards are you offering me? After all, within this Dragon Whale Paradise, we cannot set an agreement."
Shen Cong Sheng laughed loudly: "I have already prepared it. This cooperation will use the reputation of my Shen clan, you can record the entire process. Furthermore, I have something for you, this is a portion of our sincerity, please do accept it."
Saying so, Shen Cong Sheng took out a set of immortal materials and handed them to Fang Yuan.
The immortal materials had a lot of value, even Fang Yuan felt a little excited upon receiving them.
Regret Gu was right in front of him, he needed quite a bit of resources to advance all of his Immortal Gu, this set of immortal materials from Shen Cong Sheng had fixed this problem, it was something Fang Yuan really needed.
Fang Yuan nodded as he accepted the immortal materials.
Shen Cong Sheng added: "I hear that your current mission has a super immortal formation set by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable himself. I would like to go there, response Gu might be in it, even if it is not there, my Shen clan Gu Immortals can lend a hand to help you with this mission."
Fang Yuan pondered for a while before nodding: "It is my honor to receive the help of Lord Shen Cong Sheng."