Chapter 126: New Inheritance
A month had already passed since Sun Cu successfully advanced to Rank 6.
Lin Yan had returned to the city early because the disturbance caused by the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity had simply been too great, eventually attracting nearby Gu Immortals to investigate. Sun Cu personally stepped forward to handle the situation.
During this past month, Sun Cu often sent his granddaughter, Sun Yue to maintain contact and exchange information with Lin Yan.
Through these conversations, Lin Yan learned that the Gu Immortals who had approached Sun Cu came from the Wan Family, one of Western Desert’s super forces.
After discovering that Sun Cu possessed Transformation Stone Immortal Gu, the Wan Family immediately became extremely enthusiastic and invited him as an honored guest to their oasis. They were even willing to spend immortal essence stones to hire him to reshape terrain and construct large-scale Earth Path resource points.
Sun Cu was naturally overjoyed. In just a short period of time, he had already successfully established connections within Western Desert’s righteous path and earned a considerable amount of immortal essence stones.
Then, after another month spent adjusting and familiarizing himself with the Gu Immortal world, Sun Cu gradually gained a complete understanding of his new situation. During this period, he refined Connecting Heaven Gu, Divine Sense Gu, and Hole Earth Gu one after another, finally establishing contact with Treasure Yellow Heaven. At the same time, he also began purchasing large amounts of vegetation and resource materials to slowly develop his Blessed Land.
The once barren blessed land gradually began showing the early signs of life and growth.
Of course, Sun Cu did not forget their alliance. He spent the expensive price of three immortal essence stones to purchase a top-tier Mortal-grade Flame Path true inheritance for Lin Yan. Considering how common the Five Elements paths were, such a price was already extremely high.
Lin Yan immediately immersed himself in studying the Flame Path inheritance. The inheritance revolved around a core concept known as the Three Flavors Otherworldly Flame. It had originally been created by a Flame Path Gu Immortal before later being sold away once it was no longer useful to its original owner.
Inside were dozens of Gu recipes, several killer moves, methods for nurturing Gu materials, and many other valuable records.
Most importantly, Lin Yan unexpectedly discovered the Rank 5 Gu Recipe for Scarlet Dragon Flame Armor Gu and Fallen Heart Flame Gu within the inheritance.
What did "Three Flavors" mean?
This Flame Path Gu Immortal believed that the world was formed from the three qi of heaven, earth, and human, while the human body itself was built upon the three foundations of essence, energy, and spirit.
If all three could be ignited simultaneously, then one’s offensive power would undergo a terrifying transformation, becoming extremely difficult to defend against head-on.
Based on this concept, he created three major Rank 5 Otherworldly Flame Gu: Heart Fire Gu, Essence Fire Gu, and Spirit Fire Gu. Alongside them, he also developed a supporting Gu called Replenishing Fire Gu.
These four Gu formed the true core of the entire inheritance. Among them, Heart Fire Gu was the advanced Rank 5 version of Fallen Heart Flame Gu.
As for Replenishing Fire Gu, even Lin Yan could not help feeling impressed by its design. Its ability was to absorb different kinds of flames and produce completely different effects depending on the nature of the flame itself.
For example, if it absorbed Spirit Fire that normally burned flesh and blood, it could instead transform that destructive power into vitality capable of restoring bodily injuries.
In simple terms, it was equivalent to using an enemy’s essence, energy, and spirit to replenish one’s own.
If the three major Otherworldly Flame Gu were focused purely on killing enemies, possessing fierce and overbearing destructive power through unusual methods, then Replenishing Fire Gu completely elevated the entire Three Flavors Flame inheritance to another level.
With its existence, the inheritance no longer consisted of only destructive methods. Instead, it formed a complete combat system with offense, recovery, endurance, and support all combined together.
Naturally, Lin Yan was extremely tempted and immediately decided to refine all four of them.
If Fallen Heart Flame Gu could successfully advance into Heart Fire Gu, then his self-created killer move, Fury Heart, would directly reach the peak among mortal killer moves.
Likewise, if Rebirth Through Fire was combined with Spirit Fire Gu and Replenishing Fire Gu, its power would also rise to the peak grade of mortal killer moves.
Right now, Lin Yan was still a mortal Gu Master. The more foundation he accumulated before Immortal Ascension, the greater his future potential would become.
One should not think that possessing one of the Ten Extreme Physiques meant foundation no longer mattered. Every Extreme Physique was different. If one’s foundation was weak, then even after becoming a Gu Immortal, the resulting blessed land might only barely exceed six thousand square kilometers.
But if the foundation was deep enough, the upper limit could approach thirteen thousand square kilometers, nearly a full twofold difference.
"This inheritance arrived at the perfect time."
Lin Yan carefully studied the recipe for Replenishing Fire Gu along with the ideas behind its development. As he read further, countless thoughts rapidly surfaced in his mind.
"Fusion Fire... Replenishing Fire... both revolve around absorbing flames."
At that moment, he suddenly sensed a connection. Some of the concepts behind Replenishing Fire Gu were surprisingly similar to the direction he had been pursuing with Fusion Fire Gu. The two could likely be merged together completely.
With the support of dream realm deductions, he was confident he could complete the Rank 5 recipe for Fusion Fire Gu in the shortest possible time.
After that, Lin Yan carefully examined the feeding requirements of the four Gu worms. To his surprise, they were all relatively easy to raise, immediately increasing his interest even further.
