Chapter 3: Chapter 3: Dang Hun Formation
"Master, this formation is so beautiful." The little fox fairy flew around the dazzling array in the middle of Hu Immortal blessed land. Just like Dang Hun itself, the formation was also pink and glittery, with incredibly bright and vibrant colors reflecting off of it like it was made of minerals.
"Incredible, how does this work junior brother?"
Fang Yuan smiled at Tai Bai Yun Sheng's delighted elderly face. His "senior" brother had been reluctant to lend him immortal essence stones but he quickly changed his mood apon seeing the large formation doing it's work. Every second, the formation would activate and hundreds of Guts Gu would form and fall off the mountain before being automatically stored in airsac Gu and sent off to yellow heaven.
"It uses my immortal Gu, Cleanse Soul and a bunch of other Gu to increase the conversion power of Dang Hun mountain when it creates Guts Gu from souls."
Aside from that, the entire formation was also automatic. It didn't need anything other than immortal essence and souls to continue producing and extracting Guts Gu. This eliminated all of the manual labor, on their part at least, and reduced the amount and quality of souls needed to produce Guts Gu. With this formation, the production and harvest of Guts Gu increased by four times. While it was costly to purchase all the mortal Gu needed for the formation, Fang Yuan saw an immediate profit from the expenditure.Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed looking at the massive pile of airsac Gu quickly getting filled up. "I'm afraid Hei Lou Lan is furious right now."
"Furious? No. It's more accurate to say that she's intimidated. We've only been Gu immortals for a very short time and both you and I have greatly surpassed her. I'm sure she's debating whether to join us or get rid of us."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng's eyes widened. "You really think that Hei Lou Lan would break the agreement between us?"
"Absolutely. We already know that her aunt has ways to delay the repercussions of breaking agreements. It won't be long until she can break them without consequences. This is why we must split Fairy Li Shan from Old Ancestor Xue Hu. Once Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan get cut off from their base of support, they will scurry to us like rats."
"Then what should we do? We lack the strength to grant them protection and we don't have any way to directly conspire against them."
"For now we must quietly develop. You must advance your time path and cloud path cultivation and form a strong set of Gu immortal killer moves. I've deduced a few mortal killer moves for reference. Hopefully this will serve you well."
Fang Yuan passed over a couple hundred time and cloud path mortal Gu as well their recipes, related killer moves and notes from past predecessors. These, of course, were some of the small gains Fang Yuan made in his last life.
"Wait, I can't accept this. At least let me pay you this is simply too valuable."
Fang Yuan waved his hand nonchalantly. "If you really want to help you should buy me a couple of fox groups. I plan to raise some desolate foxes here. Hopefully they'll come in handy in case anyone tries invading the blessed land. I also need some refinement path mortal Gu."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded and ran off, probably to go practice the killer moves he just obtained. Once he left, Fang Yuan looked over the blessed land once again.
Hu Immortal blessed land was still very barren. Most of it's land was unoccupied and there were almost no resource points. Besides the large stone nests containing his hairy men and Dang Hun mountain and it's formation there was nothing valuable in the blessed land. Looking back on it, Fang Yuan was almost embarrassed at how poorly he'd managed the blessed land.
"Hmm. I need to purchase a couple hundred thousand dragonfish to replace the food that all my mortal Gu need. I also need to make a suitable environment with a strong formation to raise them and turn a massive profit. Let's see, how much would that cost?"
Fang Yuan quickly did the math and looked at the small pile of immortal escense stones he had available.
"I need at least 500 immortal essence stones to fund this project. I'd need even more if I wanted to breed copper dragonfish."
Out of all of the available projects Fang Yuan had in mind, the cheapest one was probably creating small habitats specialized to each kind of wildlife he had, but he wasn't satisfied with that. Fang Yuan wasn't thinking of making small sources of money, he was thinking of starting monopolies. In his past life Fang Yuan's main sources of income were Guts Gu and dragonfish. These were the two monopolies that brought him tens of thousands of immortal escense stones.
Fang Yuan managed to get the Guts Gu business up to speed but dragonfish needed a lot more effort to prosper and Fang Yuan didn't have the money.
"I'll have around 650 immortal essence stones by the end of this month but that isn't fast enough. I have more than just the dragonfish project to start. I need to improve the stone nests and create more of them. I also need to start a production line of thought Gu to use in my deductions..."
Fang Yuan had too many things to do and not enough money to do them. Even the current income he had wasn't as impressive as it seemed. The 650 immortal essence stones was what he calculated before the 60 40 split between him and Hei Lou Lan. Once his current stockpile of airsac Gu was gone Hei Lou Lan would get her fair share again. Then his monthly income would go down to around 400 immortal essence stones.
"Looks like I'll have to wait to complete my projects slowly one by one. I'll start with the dragonfish business while I wait for the Refinement Path Convention."
Fang Yuan's enormous eight armed body shrunk down, turning into a perfect replica of his once young human body.
"The Refinement Path Convention is an opportunity for me to refine an immortal Gu. I wonder whether I can use this chance to get closer to Feng Jin Huang. The future Great Dream Immortal Venerable, should I kill her or bring her to my side?"
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