Chapter 27: Stargate Gu
"Young lad, please have some tea. This is a high-grade cloud smoke tea, have a taste of it." Lang Ya land spirit sat at the edge of the bed as he brewed a cup of tea for Fang Yuan personally.
Fang Yuan sat at the spot the land spirit was sitting at previously.
"Handsome young lad, is the tea not nice? Are you happy? For the sake of this tea, exchange that human skin recipe with me please." Lang Ya land spirit showed a smiling expression as he tried to please Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan drank his tea silently.
"Young lad, do me a favor, pity this old man! I live alone here, I am so lonely, so bored, so thirsty. I can only look at these recipes daily to pass time. Are you so cruel, to reject the request of such a pitiful old man like me?" The land spirit had a grandpa appearance, having white beard, white hair, and white eyebrows, staring at Fang Yuan pitifully.
"Hey, have some self awareness, you are a land spirit, not a human.
"Young lad, whatever you say, as long as you will give the recipe to me, you can do anything to me!" The 'grandpa' winked at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan controlled his urge to kick this creep, as he shouted: "No means no."
"Lang Ya land spirit's body shuddered, as it started crying, rolling on the ground: "No, I want to exchange. I want the recipe, I want the recipe, young lad, you are too cruel, too ruthless, you lack compassion. Why are you not exchanging the recipe with me, will it kill you? Please just exchange it."
The land spirit grandpa rolled on the ground and cried for a long time, but Fang Yuan did not relent.
"Young lad, what's wrong with your conscience? You are simply too cruel, as expected of the inheritor of a Demon Venerable…" The grandpa complained as he looked at Fang Yuan, like a wife who had just been cheated on.
Fang Yuan could not stand this gaze, he shuddered as he sighed: "Nevermind, nevermind, I can give you the human skin Gu's recipe. But you have to wait until the time is right."
"Young lad, you are awesome, you are the kindest person ever. So when will the time be right?" Land spirit was extremely overjoyed.
"Hehehe, five hundred years later."
Land spirit grandpa frowned, and immediately slumped: "That's so long away…"
"Hmph, this is the best I am willing to offer, why, you don't want to exchange anymore?"
"Of course I want to exchange. It's just five hundred years, I can wait. Young lad, I will be waiting for you, this is our agreement for a lifetime." The old grandpa said affectionately.
Fang Yuan held his face, sighing deeply: "I have a recipe here, I want to exchange it for connecting heaven Gu."
He spoke slowly and casually: "To tell you the truth young lad, I have an uncountable number of recipes here. If the recipe you produce is already owned by me, I will not take it."
Fang Yuan laughed confidently: "Old man, your era is long over. Bring me a brush and paper, I will write a portion of it for you."
Just after he wrote half of the content, Fang Yuan stopped.
"Write, write it, what else is there?" Land spirit stood at the side, scratching his ears as his eyes shone. He had already confirmed that this was a new recipe, he had never seen it before.
"This is a rank five recipe, where is your connecting heaven Gu?"
"Here, here." Land spirit waved his hand and a connecting heaven Gu appeared on the table.
Fang Yuan finished writing this recipe and refined the connecting heaven Gu, keeping it in his aperture.
"Do you have divine sense Gu?" Fang Yuan kept connecting heaven Gu and asked.
"Yes."
"Exchange?"
"You still have recipes?" Land spirit grandpa was shocked and overjoyed.
Fang Yuan smiled as he took the brush and paper, writing once again.
"Land spirit, look at this recipe." Fang Yuan thought, and wrote the stargate Gu's recipe.
Land spirit took a look and was interested. The more Fang Yuan wrote, the more its interest grew.
"I've never seen these recipes before, they are rather peculiar, very peculiar." The old grandpa muttered as he rubbed his chin.
"Young lad, this stargate Gu is interesting, it has the effect to cross the five regions. The five regions have their respective barriers at the boundaries, but this can actually make use of the power of black heaven. This type of Gu worm, usually only hole earth Gu and connecting heaven Gu are popular classics. But this stargate Gu can compete with the two of them, and is not inferior in any way!
Did you create this Gu's recipe?" Land spirit asked.
"Of course!" Fang Yuan admitted it without hesitation.
Next, he started to brag shamelessly: "The few recipes earlier were also devised by me, although I also used some current recipes as the base for my research."
This act undoubtedly deepened his relationship with Lang Ya land spirit.
"Little friend, you have talent for refinement path, I am truly amazed!" Land spirit grandpa stopped calling Fang Yuan young lad, but started calling him little friend.
Then Fang Yuan gave him some rank 5 Gu recipe's in exchange of some Aptitude increasing Gu's.
After doing this Fang Yuan told Lang Ya land spirit to refine stargate Gu for him using one of his three chances to refine Gu while keeping the other chances for later.
After the stargate Gu was refined he was teleported back to crescent lake.
Fang Yuan sat cross-legged at the grassy land and began writing a letter.
The letter was soon finished, he then activated moving perspective cup Gu. After a moment, the moving perspective cup exchanged with the other one through the space cave; and Fang Yuan took out a rank four Gu and a letter from it.
Fang Yuan browsed through the letter and nodded in satisfaction: "During these days when I was not at the blessed land, it seems little Hu Immortal had been extremely diligent and did not forget the task I gave before I left, refining twenty dried pond Gu. Great!"
After a good while, moving perspective cup Gu leisurely flew up and entered space cave, exchanging with the other moving perspective cup and appearing before Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan immediately took out the dried pond Gu and glanced at the letter. Then he absorbed primeval stones to recover his primeval essence before activating moving perspective cup Gu again.
After repeating this over and over, he received a total of eight dried pond Gu.
"If I use the eight dried pond Gu together, their effects should stack up and match a rank four level."
Fang Yuan crushed these dried pond Gu on the spot; the dried pond Gu turned into eight halos which twisted around moving perspective cup Gu. At the same time, on Hu Immortal blessed land, Little Hu Immortal also crushed eight dried pond Gu and overlaid them on moving perspective cup Gu.
Fang Yuan waited for a while before taking out connecting heaven Gu and gravely put it in moving perspective cup Gu, then transferred his primeval essence.
After successful activation, the two moving perspective cup completed their exchange in space cave and the cup with connecting heaven Gu appeared in Hu Immortal blessed land.
Tiny cracks appeared on moving perspective cup Gu.
Although dried pond Gu could amplify a Gu worm's ability, it was like draining the pond to get the fish or burning the forest to hunt. Although it greatly raised the power, the Gu worm would perish because of the excessively forced power-up.
Next, Fang Yuan sent divine sense Gu to Hu Immortal blessed land, and the cracks on moving perspective cup Gu intensified.
He then sent one blue gemstone of the stargate Gu to Hu Immortal blessed land.
After the stargate Gu was sent to the blessed land, moving perspective cup Gu had already become deformed with cracks all over it and was on the verge of collapse.
At this point, it could still be used for one last time.
Fang Yuan stored the moving perspective cup Gu in his aperture and did not use it again.
"Puff… it is up to little Hu Immortal now. If she fails, she will have to send another moving perspective cup Gu for the final use. Hopefully, she can succeed."
Whether it was connecting heaven Gu or divine sense Gu, they were both rank five Gu and had an extremely huge demand for primeval essence. Even a rank five peak stage Gu Master might only be able to last for several breaths. Thus, usually only Gu Immortals or land spirits would consume immortal essence to use them.
As for why Fang Yuan did not activate moving perspective cup Gu at Lang Ya blessed land, it was because he did not want to expose them. If it was exposed, the Lang Ya land spirit would definitely demand for its recipe.
The stargate Gu in his hand slightly shook at this moment and the shaking intensified.
Fang Yuan opened his hand.
The blue gemstone-like stargate Gu leisurely flew in the air, large amounts of starlight gathered and condensed towards it. The scene was beautiful and dreamy.
In an instant, the starlight formed into an enormous oval door.
Stargate Gu had succeeded!
Fang Yuan calmly watched it; the corner of his lips slightly curled up into a smile, but his eyes were still calm as water.
He unhurriedly stepped into the stargate, the starlight in front of him turned into a whirlpool and flew away with his body.
After a dozen or so breaths of time, he walked out of the stargate and appeared in Hu Immortal blessed land.
"Master, you are back!" Little Hu Immortal was extremely happy as she leapt into Fang Yuan's chest.
Fang Yuan chuckled and rubbed the land spirit's tiny head.
"Yes, I am back." He gently said.