Yu Zi was headed towards a newly installed Water Path Resource Point.
Ever since she and two other Mermaids had brought the Merman Imperial Court into the Immortal Sovereign Aperture life has been…
Well, it's good for the Merman race, there was conflicts nor arguments, sure there were friendly competitions and of course, politics still ran in the Sovereign Immortal Aperture but with a clear Supreme Leader, a nice harmony was maintained as everyone worked for the good of the Sovereign Immortal Aperture.
In fact, her original intentions were to seduce one of Fang Yuan's clones and she took many Dao Vein creation missions to meet as many of them as possible.
She dolled herself up to meet Wu Shuai, but a Shit Exploding Cave ruined that encounter.
On one of her missions to blow off steam, she met Meng Qiu Zhen, who was kind of hands-on with her, but it turned out that he had detected a problem with her body.
Since then, she had her liver explode and replaced with Fang Yuan's new Salt-water liver.
And because of the sudden influx of Resource Points from the Central Continent, all hands were required to stabilize them and safely place them in the Sovereign Immortal Aperture.
Yu Zi had no time to meet or try seducing the other clones as she had been so busy with all the Resource Points.
"Thankfully the Resource Points included some Water Path ones, and I could finally showcase my talents," Yu Zu was relived, joyous even to see Water Path resource points.
"Wait! Am I feeling joy over working on Resource points!" she felt a little bit of despair.
She had worked nearly non-stop since her new liver was acquired.
Sleep? What was that?
She had frequented Liver Hall so many times that even her salt-water liver exploded!
Luckily the amount of work offset the cost and was still worth it.
Each of these missions was rewarded quite generously and there were so many to do that no one had time to argue about the specifics and just went along to the next one.
"It's been nearly 3 months since I've done a Dao Vein mission, fortunately, this time there are Water Path Veins so I can display my true might to Lord Fang Yuan!"
Yu Zu had finally recomposed herself and was in top form, she even managed to sneak in some sleep prior to this mission.
"Hopefully, this time I will be able to…" her thoughts trailed off as she soon saw a beautiful woman flying towards her.
"You must be Yu Zu, yes? I've inspected the formation you've done an excellent job in implementing the Dao Vein leave the rest to me."
Yu Zu was shocked.
It wasn't that shocking if Fang Yuan had a female clone, but one this clone was far too beautiful and two she had never heard of her.
Though that wasn't accurate as she had seen this person before…
"Uhm," Yu Zu nervously asked: "a…aren't you uhm Star Constellation Immortal Venerable?"
!!!
Yes, the woman before her bore a near-identical resemblance to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable!
"Huh? Oh, right how could I forget?" the woman's form began to shift and morphed, she grew taller, her face became sharper, her nose bridge rose and her eyes that reflected stars became cold and detached like black pearls.
Star Constellation became Fang Yuan!
"L..L...Lord Fang Yuan! Greetings your subordinate greets you!" Yu Zu immediately fell to her knees.
"Mhm, you've done a great job here let me handle the rest." 'Fang Yuan' waved his hands and began setting up the formation.
All the while Yu Zu kept her head down while keeping her kneeling position:
"I didn't expect to run into Lord Fang Yuan here!" her heart was racing as wild thoughts ran across her mind: "So Star Constellation is the type of woman Lord Fang Yuan is into? Wait no why was Lord Fang Yuan transformed into her? Could it be that he has…"
Her mind went loose with speculations, but then a thought formed in her mind.
"I need to be careful if word gets out Lord Fang Yuan might come after me," just as she was already determined not to let the info slip 'Fang Yuan' turned around.
"Phew, it is done I'll report your contributions to Starlight Hall," he prepared to fly off: "Oh, and keep what you saw a secret," he said before heading to the next Dao Vein.
Sweat dripped from the forehead of Yu Zu: "That was master warning me! I better keep this a secret for the rest of my life!"
Yu Zu was so distraught about knowing such a 'secret' that she couldn't concentrate the whole day, she went back home to rest.
Meanwhile, above the skies of the Sovereign Immortal Aperture
'Fang Yuan' was flying to the next Dao Vein: "Phew, thankfully she didn't sound any alarms of an enemy attack, master warned me that Star Constellation's appearance might cause a panic in the Sovereign Immortal Aperture."
Who else was it other than Reputation Gu!
After, helping Fang Yuan with a certain 'project' she was then tasked with facilitating the creation of Dao Veins, since she could mimic the methods that had made a name for themselves, she was able to easily use Formation Path methods.
Reputation Gu was truly a unique Rank 9 Gu, it still had its thoughts and emotions and was able to communicate with people.
But its true ability was to replicate those with outstanding Reputations!
She could replicate Killer Moves even without their Immortal Gu!
The more renowned and known something is, the easier it was for Reputation Gu to mimic, but this also meant that if something was lost to time, Reputation Gu would not be able to mimic it.
For example, there were plenty of strong well-known cultivators with famous moves, but in the Great Era, these people were all side characters and thus, greatly forgotten by the people of the world who instead choose to focus on the main characters, the Venerables.
But most of the Venerables methods are secrets, after all, they wouldn't want their moves to be easily countered.
So, Reputation Gu could easily mimic the aura and cultivation of Venerables, especially the ones alive but ironically, she had few moves at her disposal.
"Luckily Master is a master at just about everything leaving more flexibility."
Fang Yuan after learning this had basically planned for Reputation Gu to fill in for him.
Since she could mimic his attainment and Dao Marks [1], she was able to learn and use his Formation Path methods.
Of course, as a Gu she had no Aperture, and thus, no Immortal Essence, she needed the Immortal Essence of her master to activate any of her abilities.
That time when she was birthed through Giant Sun's Blood Sea, she had absorbed almost half of it and turned it into energy to use.
This was why she resurrected through a Rank 6 Immortal, to maximize the amount of Energy going to her and not her temporary vessel.
"It's a good thing Master has Rank 9 Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus, I've never had so much Essence in my life!"
Reputation Gu was overjoyed.
For the first time in eons Reputation Gu felt like…a person!
She was even introduced to some interesting 'hobby' her master had.
"Ah, master said I need to go for my next what was it called… 'photoshoot'? Anyway, I need to pick up the pace."
The Immortal Sovereign Aperture was slowly but surely becoming more and more stable.
"I'm almost at 100% but I still feel somewhat empty?"
Fang Yuan was beginning to deduce other matters since the Pink Fog was not clearing up anytime soon.
He already had a plan based on what he knew and didn't want to waste time.
"According to Limitless Rank 10 Gu are essentially a direct piece of the Heavenly Dao itself! The Heavenly Dao would never allow mortals to take a part of it away. For every path, there is only 1 Rank 10 Gu of it."
It was highly likely that in Ren Zhu's days the Gus he was talking to be all Rank 10! They were all pieces of the Heavenly Dao!
Once a Gu reached Rank 10 it would be the supreme of the Path. No other Gu from that Path could resist it.
"Then since Refinement Path is already my Main Path could I refine a Rank 10 Immortal Gu?"
Fang Yuan was considering the option.
But there were still things holding him back,
Firstly, the number of resources required for even one attempt was monstrous, one only needs to look at Spectral Soul to see how long it took to attempt to make Rank 10 Sovereign Immortal Fetus Gu and he still failed!
To be fair Spectral Soul was too ambitious, the Heavenly Dao had already tolerated the creation of something that went against Fate but to want to create a Rank 10 Gu was too far!
And a Rank 10 Heaven Gu at that!
"If even after creating Shadow Sect and planning for hundreds of thousands of years, the Heavenly Dao still overpowered Spectral Soul Demon Venerable!"
To create a Rank 10 Heaven Path Gu would be to become like the Heavenly Dao itself!
"But what about other paths?"
Fang Yuan was thinking about creating a Rank 10 Refine Gu, claiming the entire Refinement Dao for himself!
But thinking further it was unlikely to succeed as well, just the Heavenly Dao alone provided some much trouble, needless to say, that the other 3 Venerables would stop him, and to make matters worse Heaven now occupied Spectral Soul's body!
How could Heaven be oblivious to the creation of a Rank 10 Gu?
Fang Yuan decided to shelve the project of creating a Rank 10 Gu for now, which only left one other thing:
"Well since the Sovereign Immortal Aperture can soon annex Blessed Lands and Grotto Heavens, might as well use it now…"
In Treasure Yellow Heaven,
Shang Yan Fei was searching for news or clues of the whereabouts of his daughter, he asked around for any info on Bai Ning Bing or Tie Ruo Nan but came up empty-handed.
He remembered that Fang Yuan had once journeyed together with Bai Ning Bing and decided to check his store, of course, he did not dare offend Fang Yuan he was still sane.
"If Fang Yuan is really still working with Bai Ning Bing…forget it I am just observing from afar there's no harm."
Suddenly, the whole Treasure Yellow Heaven began to shake many Gu Immortals were terrified.
"What's happening???"
"Is Treasure Yellow Heaven under attack?"
"Impossible! Even the Venerables don't know where Treasure Yellow Heaven is."
"Look!"
Everyone turned their attention to where that Gu Immortal pointed to.
And the scene shocked them, the giant mass of Primordial Domain started to shake, at first barely moving but as time went on it slowly displaced itself from Treasure Yellow Heaven and then,
*Poof*
Vanished!
"Oh my, Fang Yuan has finally taken out Primordial Domain!"
"Oh no, that Demon is going to gain a huge boost in attainments for all paths!"
"Is he planning on personally looting the world?!"
Shang Yan Fei stood there in shock as he witnessed the whole thing.
Back in the Pink Fog,
Within the Pink Bubble that Fang Yuan had created, blinding white light was shining forth!
Primordial Domain!
The legendary Secluded Domain of Heaven and Earth that contained true meaning!
"Finally,"
Fang Yuan had acquired lots of Primordial Domain from transactions with Star Constellation and Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
Of course, he didn't trust them and began using methods to find flaws, and sure enough…
"Tsk tsk, I expected this from Star Constellation but you too Giant Sun, tsk tsk," Fang Yuan had spotted two methods, one Blood Path and one Wisdom Path hidden within the Primordial Domain.
"Hmm, it's only a small portion so for now let's keep it." Fang Yuan decided to separate that portion of Primordial Domain and leave it aside.
He didn't want to accidentally awaken the other 3 Venerables because of his methods, besides with so much Primordial Domain it will take a while before those 2 pieces would be needed.
Fang Yuan began to slowly absorb the true meaning within Primordial Domain.
[1] I mean the type of Dao Marks, not the quantity.