Chapter 286: Refining Immortal Gu II

"I also have Nine Dragons Lightning Tribulation Fire from Fire Thunder Divine Lord’s true inheritance, along with Thunder Pool Barrier. With all these defensive Immortal Killer Move combined, I should be able to withstand attacks from Rank Eight Gu Immortals."

Lin Yan carefully checked the feeding requirements of the newly obtained Thunder Path Immortal Gu and found that none posed much difficulty. The giant resource points he had established within Flame Sovereign Blessed Land could already provide most of the feeding requirement, so he would not need to rely heavily on Treasure Yellow Heaven to feed them.

With the first batch completed, Lin Yan began preparing for the second round of Immortal Gu refinement. He did not immediately deduce a Rank Seven recipe for his vital Gu, Fire Control Immortal Gu. Instead, he chose to first raise the two Rank Six Information Path Immortal Gu, Perceivable Dao Immortal Gu and Unperceivable Dao Immortal Gu, to Rank Seven.

These two Immortal Gu were the cores of Immortal Killer Move Dao Without Conflict, this killer move Lin Yan had developed during his previous life to reduce the mutual repulsion between different dao marks. After combining those previous experiences with his current Information Path Grandmaster attainment, he had already improved the killer move considerably.

The previous version could only allow several specific types of foreign dao marks to coexist. The improved version was far more comprehensive, allowing dao marks of almost any path to be added to his body or immortal aperture without immediately conflicting with his existing dao marks.

However, the rank of the killer move still imposed a strict limit. At Rank Six, Dao Without Conflict could maintain only around nine thousand foreign dao marks before its suppression began to weaken and mutual repulsion slowly returned. Once the killer move reached Rank Seven, this limit would increase to approximately fifty thousand dao marks, roughly corresponding to the normal dao mark accumulation of a Rank Seven Gu Immortal.

For Lin Yan, the Rank Six version had already become useless. His own dao mark accumulation had long surpassed what an ordinary Rank Six Gu Immortal could possess, and any path he intended to develop seriously in the future would eventually exceed the nine thousand dao mark limit. Raising Dao Without Conflict to Rank Seven was therefore essential, and once his cultivation and resources allow it, he would naturally attempt to push the killer move to Rank Eight as well.

Fortunately, the complete recipes for Perceivable Dao Immortal Gu and Unperceivable Dao Immortal Gu were preserved within the Information Path true inheritance. Their feeding requirements were also relatively easy for Lin Yan to satisfy, making them ideal choices for his next refinements.

After that, Lin Yan immersed himself in Dream Derivation and repeatedly simulated the Immortal Gu refinement process. Throughout the past year, whenever he was not exploring Dream Realms, he had spent his time practicing the Immortal Gu recipes contained within the various true inheritances. This time, he was simply reviewing what he had already learned before beginning the actual refinement.

Raising Perceivable Dao Immortal Gu and Unperceivable Dao Immortal Gu to Rank Seven required large quantities of Information Path immortal materials, most of which Lin Yan could only acquire through Treasure Yellow Heaven.

Unfortunately, the higher the rank of immortal materials, the scarce they became. Some might not appear for long periods, while others could only be obtained through barter. Even with sufficient wealth, gathering everything he needed would take time.

Lin Yan sighed. As his cultivation increased, the feeling that Treasure Yellow Heaven could provide almost anything he needed at Rank seven was disappearing.

Naturally, he would not simply wait. While gathering the necessary Information Path immortal materials, Lin Yan turned his attention toward Scorching Heat Immortal Gu and Lead Fire Immortal Gu. He already possessed their Rank Seven recipes from his previous life, while the required Flame Path immortal materials were readily available.

Since Dao Without Conflict needed to be raised to Rank Seven, the two important Immortal killer moves Autumn Before Winter and Body Forged in Flame also needed to be strengthened. Otherwise, as Lin Yan’s cultivation continued rising, their effects would gradually fall behind.

As for the three Dream Path killer moves, Lin Yan hesitated over Dream Seeking, Dream Interpretation, and Awakening from a Dream. Advancing all their core Immortal Gu to Rank Seven would place an enormous burden on his limited supply of Dream Path immortal materials.

Even Dream Derivation Immortal Gu remained at Rank Six. He needed to deduce its complete Rank Seven recipe before attempting refinement. Only after that would he consider advancing Dream Revelation Immortal Gu and Dream Awakening Immortal Gu.

Fortunately, Rank Six Dream Derivation Immortal Gu could still simulate the refinement of Rank Seven Immortal Gu. Unlike when it had been a Rank Five mortal Gu, its rank no longer prevented him from simulating higher-ranked refinements.

"These Dream Path Immortal Gu will have to be raised eventually. Once they reach Rank Seven, whether I’m exploring Dream Realms or confronting Rank Eight Gu Immortals, they’ll become another major trump card. By then, the Immortal Gu formations, the mecha killer move, and my Dream Path killer moves will form a complete combat system."

Lin Yan silently calculated his future development. Once he perfected his Killer Move for Dao Without Conflict, he could begin accumulating large quantities of Dream Path dao marks and establish proper Dream Path resource points within Flame Sovereign Blessed Land.

After settling these plans, Lin Yan devoted himself entirely to refinement. Over the following month, he experienced firsthand how sharply the difficulty of Immortal Gu refinement increased at Rank Seven. Despite repeatedly practicing the process through Dream Derivation beforehand, he still failed dozens of times. Scorching Heat Immortal Gu and Lead Fire Immortal Gu were damaged several times during these attempts and were even completely destroyed more than once, forcing him to refine them again from the beginning.

His quasi-Grandmaster Refinement Path attainment was clearly beginning to show its limitations. Lin Yan even considered searching for the Dream Realms connected to Ni Ren and Ni Xiang. Exploring them could greatly improve his attainment before he attempted further Rank Seven refinements.

Unfortunately, the current Ni Family descendants were separated from Ni Ren and Ni Xiang by countless generations. Using Dream Seeking to trace such a distant connection was extremely difficult. Unless Lin Yan obtained a suitable Blood Path Immortal Gu, such as Bloodline Immortal Gu, to strengthen that connection, locating those Dream Realms would remain troublesome.

Still, the repeated failures were not without value. Every failed refinement, combined with the countless simulations Lin Yan had already performed within Dream Derivation, deepened his understanding of the Refinement Path. By the time he painstakingly completed the refinement of Scorching Heat Immortal Gu and Lead Fire Immortal Gu, all that accumulated experience finally brought about a qualitative change, pushing his Refinement Path attainment from quasi-Grandmaster to Grandmaster.

The price had been enormous. Refining the two Rank Seven Immortal Gu consumed approximately five hundred thousand immortal essence stones’ worth of immortal materials. Refining a Rank Six Immortal Gu generally cost only several thousand immortal essence stones, and Lin Yan had originally estimated that raising both to Rank Seven would cost at most around two hundred thousand. The actual expenditure had greatly exceeded his expectations.

Lin Yan did not dwell on the loss. He had spent years deducing Immortal Gu recipes and repeatedly practicing refinement within Dream Derivation, so his Refinement Path accumulation had already become extremely deep. These repeated Rank Seven refinement attempts had simply provided the final push needed to transform that accumulation into Grandmaster attainment.

More importantly, Refinement Path had become the first path in which Lin Yan reached Grandmaster entirely through his own cultivation rather than relying upon the True Meaning contained within Dream Realms.