Fang Yuan returned to Eastern Sea.
Under the setting sun, the sea surface was dyed red. Seabirds were chirping, the sea breeze was gentle.
This place was still some distance away from Eastern Sea's Xia clan headquarters, but it was not far.
"This is good." Fang Yuan quickly descended, landing on a small uninhabited island.
Several investigative killer moves were used, Fang Yuan knew the entire island like the back of his hand, he did not find any threats or mysteries.
Fang Yuan directly used the five regional limit formation.
Soon, five colored smoke mixed together and enveloped the entire island, before spreading from the sky, the sea surface, and the bottom of the sea.
If he was still rank eight now, after escaping from Crazed Demon Cave, he would choose to go to Eastern Sea's Xia clan headquarters, or go to a place like immemorial white heaven to hide and recuperate.
But Fang Yuan had rank nine cultivation level now, he was a venerable, he could act openly.
If Star Constellation Immortal Venerable or Giant Sun Immortal chased after him now, Fang Yuan would be more than happy to see it.
Fang Yuan slowly closed his eyes, his divine sense surged as he entered the sovereign immortal aperture.
He had several beads of rank nine immortal essence.
Rank eight immortal essence was called white litchi immortal essence, rank nine immortal essence was slightly larger, it was like an apricot and had an orange-yellow color.
It was yellow apricot immortal essence!
Fang Yuan was already familiar with the characteristics of rank nine immortal essence, after all, he had obtained some immortal essence left behind by Giant Sun Immortal and Spectral Soul Demon Venerable long ago.
But at this moment, he was still slightly agitated.
After all, this was yellow apricot immortal essence that belonged to him!
Using yellow apricot immortal essence, Fang Yuan activated a method.
Refinement path killer move — Refine Self!
A pale yellow light the size of a fist flowed out of Fang Yuan's dantian. Next, the pale yellow light slowly flowed and covered Fang Yuan's entire body.
The focus was on the injuries on Fang Yuan's body.
Fang Yuan had hundreds of injuries on his body, most of them were only treated roughly before he returned.
Even now, there were still many wounds that were bleeding. Specks of starlight or golden light shone on the bones or in the mangled flesh.
The pale yellow radiance flowed in, and wherever it went, the starlight would dissipate and the golden clouds would vanish. This meant that the dao marks that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Giant Sun Immortal left on Fang Yuan were all refined by Fang Yuan.
However, the process of refinement was not pleasant. Intense pain kept coming.
Fang Yuan's entire body trembled, and his face turned pale. Soon, his forehead was covered in cold sweat.
Finally, the pale yellow light stopped on Fang Yuan's severed arm. This lasted for an hour before the pale yellow radiance dissipated.
Fang Yuan exhaled a mouthful of turbid air and slowly relaxed.
After resting for a while, he immediately activated the compound killer move Man as Before.
In the next moment, all the injuries on his body disappeared, and his severed arm was completely restored.
However, when Fang Yuan held the new hand, he still felt a little weak.
But this was already enough to satisfy him.
Fang Yuan's injuries were severe, but Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Giant Sun Immortal were also not in a good state.
Fang Yuan was almost certain that their healing efficiency was lower than his.
Because Fang Yuan had the killer move refine self, this killer move could rapidly refine the dao marks on a Gu cultivator's body and turn them into his own. This method originated from Fang Yuan's previous killer move — Self Cleansing.
Fang Yuan used this to refine all the dao marks left behind by the flying star killer move during the battle in Crazed Demon Cave, directly breaking Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's flying star killer move.
His physical injuries were healed, and his soul was also at its peak state, Fang Yuan started to deal with the sovereign immortal aperture.
The sovereign immortal aperture was first struck by Giant Sun Immortal's killer move, causing calamities and tribulations. Almost at the same time, under Fang Yuan's secret manipulation, it attacked the Heavenly Dao's blockade and suffered the chaotic calamity.
The entire sovereign immortal aperture suffered heavy losses, its foundation fell sharply, compared to before Crazed Demon Cave, it had less than twenty percent of its original foundation left.
It was simply a scene of devastation, it was a tragic sight.
"However, even before the battle in Crazed Demon Cave, I had already expected this situation and made preparations for it!"
Fang Yuan focused his mind, thoughts surged as he activated the compound immortal killer move — Landscape as Before.
The sovereign immortal aperture's middle year essence pool, as well as the various year essence branch pools, were completely opened.
The accumulated water of the River of Time formed a vast phantom river under the effect of Landscape as Before, it quickly engulfed the mini five regions and the mini nine heavens.
The phantom water of the River of Time quickly disappeared, but what was left behind were many resource points, mountains, and rivers that were restored to their original state.
The Gu Immortals in the sovereign immortal aperture saw this and cheered, their morale was greatly boosted.
Fang Yuan let out a breath of air.
Back then, when he created the year essence pool and created the time path zones, he had already planned to coordinate with Landscape as Before.
With this method, the water of the River of Time in the year essence pool almost dried up, many of the time path zones only existed in name, the sovereign immortal aperture's time difference with the outside world was greatly reduced.
It would take a long time for the year essence pool to accumulate enough water of the River of Time to increase the sovereign immortal aperture's time speed again.
The sovereign immortal aperture thus recovered forty percent of its foundation.
This way, the sovereign immortal aperture only lost forty percent of its foundation, it greatly reduced the amount of time, effort, and resources that Fang Yuan needed to rebuild it.
Forty percent of the losses were caused by the chaotic calamity.
Landscape as Before was not an effective killer move. The Gu Immortals who died in the chaotic calamity could not revive through Human Sea.
There were many other losses.
The immortal essence losses were huge, the vast amount of rank eight immortal essence reserves was now left with only ten percent, it had fallen below the danger line and was in a dangerous situation.
This was one of the reasons why Fang Yuan stopped and did not make things difficult for Giant Sun Immortal and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable.
The good news was that Fang Yuan was a venerable now, the rank nine yellow apricot immortal essence that he produced was far more durable than white litchi immortal essence.
The bad news was that the rank eight Immortal Gu Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus that had once given Fang Yuan a huge amount of help to his immortal reserves was now sharply decreasing.
At the same time, the sovereign immortal aperture's time flow was close to the outside world, Fang Yuan's immortal essence storage efficiency was not high.
And in the near future, Fang Yuan needed to rest and manage his immortal aperture while refining the natural dao marks of the outside world, he needed a lot of immortal essence.
"The immortal essence shortage is huge, Immortal Yuan stone is already of little use to me."
"If I increase the sovereign immortal aperture's time flow regardless of the consequences, it is not appropriate either!" Fang Yuan frowned slightly.
Venerables faced a grand tribulation every ten years, a myriad tribulation every fifty years, and a chaotic disaster every one hundred years.
Grand tribulations and myriad tribulations, unless they were dream path or pill path, did not pose much of a threat to Fang Yuan. What Fang Yuan was wary of was the chaotic disaster that occurred every one hundred years.
Even though he had already survived a chaotic disaster in Crazed Demon Cave.
But this was only a Heavenly Dao blockade, the scale of the chaotic disaster was far smaller than the chaotic disaster that occurred every one hundred years!
If the sovereign immortal aperture's time flow increased too quickly, Fang Yuan would quickly attract a chaotic disaster. If he did not handle it well, he would be heavily injured or even die, other venerables would take advantage of him.
Immortal essence replenishment was a problem, other than this loss, Fang Yuan also lost a large number of Immortal Gu.
During the battle in Crazed Demon Cave, after the Gu Immortals died, Fang Yuan did not take back their Immortal Gu or immortal apertures.
Moreover, the seven Immortal Gu Houses that Fang Yuan took out, including Rising Cloud City, were all lost in the battle in Crazed Demon Cave.
Fang Yuan's Immortal Gu losses this time, other than Celestial Court and Longevity Heaven, none of the other super forces could afford it.
Thankfully, during the middle and later stages of Crazed Demon Cave, Fang Yuan consciously reduced his losses in this aspect. For example, when Zhan Budu died, his will sent many precious transformation path Immortal Gu into Jewel Yellow Skies.
Other than immortal essence and Immortal Gu, many Gu Immortals also died.
Steel Rush Warrior, Frost Butterfly Eternal Life, Xiao He Jian, Ice Crystal Immortal Monarch, and even Fang Yuan's clone, Zhan Budu, died in the battle in Crazed Demon Cave. Some died in the sovereign immortal aperture while resisting the calamities and tribulations.
Most of them were revived through Human Sea, they needed to cultivate to become immortals again.
The other group of people could not be revived. Among these people was the rank eight Gu Immortal, Last Combat Beast King.
His death made Fang Yuan feel a trace of regret.
This old man was a hardworking person, he was of great help to the sovereign immortal aperture. Unfortunately, he was burned to death by the black fire, Fang Yuan could not revive.
Other than these material losses, Fang Yuan also suffered a large number of hidden losses.
The most important thing was that his killer moves were exposed.
In the battle in Crazed Demon Cave, Fang Yuan had no choice but to expose a large number of compound killer moves and trump cards. For example, refine self, totem killer moves, and so on.
As time passed, these killer moves could not be used anymore, they needed to be modified.
If he fought against other venerables in the future, using the same killer moves would bring huge risks to Fang Yuan.
Compared to these losses, Fang Yuan gained much more!
In the battle in Crazed Demon Cave, Fang Yuan had huge gains, he was the undisputed number one winner!!
Firstly, Fang Yuan plundered the first seven layers, he obtained a vast number of chaotic dao mark immortal materials.
In the eighth layer of Crazed Demon Cave, he used Thieves Den to obtain a vast number of rank nine immortal materials. These rank nine immortal materials were enough for him to advance to rank nine Immortal Gu refinement.
Second was Primordial Domain.
Fang Yuan's Primordial Domain was about the same as Giant Sun Immortal's, it was slightly inferior to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's.
Primordial Domain's value was huge, especially to Fang Yuan.
Third was Paradise Earth's Northern Plains Paradise Earth true inheritance, as well as his heaven path cultivation results. These included how to digest the truthful floating ice and raise his heaven path cultivation level.
Fourth was information.
After the battle in Crazed Demon Cave, Fang Yuan gained a detailed understanding of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, Giant Sun Immortal, Celestial Court, and Longevity Heaven!
He was no longer as confused as before.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Giant Sun Immortal's methods, their combat system, Celestial Court's Door of Life and Death immortal graveyard, White Clouds Suppressing City painting path formation, Ruan Dan's pill path, Longevity Heaven's Eight Extremes Formation, Calamity Luck Altar's luck changing golden light path, and so on.
The fifth gain was also Fang Yuan's greatest gain.
His cultivation level rose, he became a venerable.
This was a qualitative change at the peak!
From today onwards, he had turned from a chess piece to a chess player, he could openly make arrangements in the world and rule over the five regions.
In the history of humanity and variant humans, his name had to be recorded.
At this point, he stood side by side with the previous ten sages, he was like the sun that illuminated the world. The other Gu Immortals, no matter how heroic they were, were like stars in the sky.
Guyue Fang Yuan!
The eleventh venerable of the Gu cultivation world.
A demonic cultivator who became a venerable through refinement path.
According to the title promoted by Celestial Court and Longevity Heaven —
Heaven Refining Demon Venerable!
Author's note: Summarize the past, look forward to the future. I wish all my readers the best, in the upcoming new year, I hope that they will be like Fang Yuan, with a brand new appearance, striding into a blissful life!
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