Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a Wang Family in Southern Border. Due to their lack of strength, they were wiped out by other families; life was devastated, not even chickens or dogs were left, and the place turned into a living hell on earth.
The three Wang siblings luckily escaped the pursuit of their enemies and unexpectedly obtained a Gu Immortal Legacy on Three Fork Mountain. Years later, all three siblings cultivated to become Rank Five Gu Masters, specializing in Servitude Path, Flame Path, and Information Path respectively:
The Servitude Path male was called Dog King, the Flame Path male was called Blast King, and the Information Path female was called Letter King.
The three were collectively known as the Three Kings. They slaughtered all their enemies, and from then on, their names shook the Southern Border.
In their later years, the Three Kings failed to charge into rank six, finally leaving their Legacy in the Three Fork Mountain Blessed Land to wait for a fated person of future generations—this Three Fork Mountain is Three Kings Mountain.
And within this Legacy, there was also hidden the Strength Path Legacy of a Gu Immortal. After this Gu Immortal passed away, he transformed into the Hegemon Turtle Earth Spirit. Only those who pass the Legacy's test can become the Master of the Hegemon Turtle Earth Spirit and the Three Kings Blessed Land.
The test required refining a rank six second aperture gu, and the participant must be in a near-death state while also being a Strength Path Gu Master. This was the reason why Fang Yuan switched to cultivating Strength Path.
After Fang Yuan left Shang Family City, he first returned to White Bone Mountain. Several years later, he returned to Shang Family City and bought up large quantities of Dog Control Gu, paper crane gu, and Exploding Egg Gu.
These three Gu were the prerequisites for entering the Three Kings Legacy. Once the Legacy opened, he sold the three Gu at high prices, making a net profit of three hundred thousand primeval stones.
In these few years, the strength of Gu Yue Village rose sharply:
Fang Yuan took the lead in advancing to Rank Five middle stage. Although Fang Zheng and the Clan Leader still remained at Rank Five initial stage, they had also obtained many new Gu worms. Fang Zheng even obtained his first Rank Five Gu—treasure moonlight king gu.
Fang Zheng refined and nurtured his vital Gu all the way up. The process could be described as arduous, but because of it, he created several new Killer Moves. Therefore, Fang Zheng truly possessed Rank Five battle strength, rather than just being at the Realm of a quasi-Rank Five.
During these years, the Gu Yue Clan continued to develop White Bone Mountain, eventually taking the entire mountain range as their territory. The Clan Chief also newly trained three Servitude Path Gu Masters:
Gu Yue Jiao Man (formerly known as Xiong Jiao Man), formerly Ding Hao (formerly known as Ding Hao), and Gu Yue Yao Le.
Gu Yue Jiao Man has a Rank Three Peak cultivation, commanding a bear group with three thousand bears under her command;
formerly Ding Hao is at Rank Four initial stage, in charge of a zombie army, possessing twenty thousand zombies;
Gu Yue Yao Le is at Rank Three initial stage, commanding ten thousand beasts of White Bone Mountain. At the same time, she cultivates both Poison Path and Bone Path, managing the Family's Medicine Hall and becoming the Medicine Hall Elder.
In these years, the Gu Yue Clan continuously campaigned and annexed, expanding its territory and occupying six large mountains in one go.
The mountains in Southern Border are by no means comparable to ordinary small hills. Those mounds only a few hundred meters high are simply not worthy of being called "mountains." The mountains of Southern Border are all majestic Peaks spanning thousands of miles.
During the wars of annexation, the population of Gu Yue Village exploded:
Mortals reached seven hundred thousand, there were one thousand eight hundred and twenty Rank One Gu Masters, thirty-nine thousand six hundred and seventy-two Rank Two Gu Masters, six hundred and eleven Rank Three Gu Masters, thirty-seven Rank Four Gu Masters, and four Rank Five Gu Masters.
The newly added Rank Five Gu Master was Gu Yue Qing Shu. It is unknown what kind of Opportunity he obtained, but his vital Gu wood charm gu actually advanced to Rank Four.
Although Gu Yue Qing Shu had no Rank Five Gu, he possessed solid Rank Five battle strength—his Rank Four wood charm gu was far more powerful than most Rank Five Gu. His battle strength surpassed Fang Zheng and was on par with the Clan Leader.
The bright moon still water tower also completed its modification. The heavenly origin treasure lotus inside was refined into a heavenly origin precious lord lotus. New Space Path, Bone Path, and Wind Path methods were added, and two Killer Moves, "White Bone Wind" and "Black Wind Battle Flag," were created.
The number of Gu worms increased to over eight million, making it a true mortal gu house.
This Gu house already had Rank Five Peak battle strength. If controlled by the four Rank Five Gu Masters of Gu Yue Village simultaneously, it could even erupt with fake immortal battle strength.
Of course, it is a fake immortal battle strength without the boost of an immortal gu, unlike the kind Fang Yuan had in his previous life.
In addition, Fang Yuan refined several new Strength Path Gu worms, such as Accumulate Strength Gu, Laborious Gu, and strength gu, all of which were refined by him into Rank Four Gu worms.
The current Gu Yue Village only lacked a Gu Immortal to join the ranks of the lower-tier super families in Southern Border. Although Fang Yuan was only at Rank Five middle stage, he possessed Rank Five high stage battle strength.
And the bright moon still water tower had become a true mortal gu house. He could store this nine-story high Clan Leader Pavilion, the bright moon still water tower, into his aperture and release it during battle.
Because the bright moon still water tower added Space Path methods, storing people inside did not affect Fang Yuan taking it into his aperture.
The bright moon still water tower itself was very large; it could easily hold several thousand people normally, and ten thousand people if squeezed. Therefore, as long as he was willing, he could even lead an army of ten thousand to fly through the sky.
At this time, Fang Yuan already possessed half the battle strength of his Northern Plains period, yet he was still not satisfied.
He took the bright moon still water tower and the Gu Yue Clan higher-ups, broke into the Wu family overnight, stole the Rank Five all-out effort gu recipe, and spent another three months refining this Gu to Rank Five.
(This is entirely possible because Gu Immortals simply do not care about such matters.)
Subsequently, Fang Yuan used Strength Path Gu worms to add six great beast strengths: an eagle, a dog, a goat, a fox, a crane, and a leopard.
Due to the Bitter strength gu, when Fang Yuan was in a heavily injured state, he could even strike out sixteen great beast strength phantoms. Moreover, it consumed almost no primeval essence, and every move he made at will possessed great power.
After doing all this, Fang Yuan still felt it was not enough, likely due to a lack of a sense of security. He refined the Rank Four golden steel gu into Rank Five and also refined a Rank Five Metal Path defense Gu. This Gu was in the shape of a scarab and was named Gold Armor Gu.
With everything ready, Fang Yuan led the crowd to Three Fork Mountain.
The Three Kings Legacy is divided into the Blast King Legacy, the Dog King Legacy, and the Letter King Legacy. To prevent other Strength Path Gu Masters from inheriting the Tyrant Turtle Legacy first, Fang Yuan challenged Demonic Path Strength Path Gu Masters everywhere and killed his opponents every single time. His reason was even more blunt:
"So weak, yet you dare to be a Strength Path Gu Master? Just die."
"The world says the Strength Path is declining, but I, Fang Yuan, insist on reviving the glory of the Strength Path."
"Hmph! What Hundred Year Boy? You're already two hundred years old and still so weak. Die!"
In this way, as a Righteous Path Rank Five expert, Fang Yuan hunted down Demonic Path Gu Masters who specialized in Strength Path everywhere.
From initial one-on-one duels to fighting many alone, and finally to mass slaughter—the already scarce Demonic Path Strength Path Gu Masters were almost driven to extinction by his meddling.
"Fang Yuan! What kind of Righteous Path are you? Slaughtering innocent people everywhere, is this worthy of being called Righteous Path behavior?!"
A Rank Four Strength Path Demonic Path Gu Master was knocked to the ground by a few of Fang Yuan's punches. His body was a bloody mess, several bones were broken, and he cursed angrily.
"How bold! You dare to slander me? You deserve to die!"
Fang Yuan kicked out, and the Demonic Path Gu Master's head flew straight into the air, leaving only a headless corpse as a mist of blood splashed everywhere.
"Fang Yuan, oh Fang Yuan! You insidious and cunning villain! You will die a horrible death!"
A Rank Three Demonic Path Gu Master cursed Fang Yuan. Just now, Fang Yuan had directly killed his Master, and his Master was beaten into Chaoshan beef balls before he could even react.
"Yo, there are always demonic little thieves ruining my reputation. I only regret that my heart is too kind... But for you to actually slander me to my face, you deserve to die!"
With a sharp'slap', Fang Yuan raised his hand and delivered a vicious slap, sending the person's head flying. It spun rapidly in mid-air like a top.
Despite Fang Yuan running amok like this, no one from the Righteous Path dared to interfere.
Firstly, Fang Yuan was killing Demonic Path Gu Masters; although his methods were cruel, it could be considered eliminating demons and defending the Dao. Secondly, he himself was a Righteous Path Gu Master; such behavior would at most be called "eager to eliminate demons" or "hating evil as an enemy." Thirdly, Fang Yuan was a Rank Five Gu Master, the Peak battle strength among Mortals. Even if he slapped someone in public, the other party would have to smile and say the slap was loud and clear.
In fact, in the Gu World, there has never been a true distinction between Righteous and Demonic; only strength is supreme. Except for Paradise Earth and Giant Sun, those who do not join Heavenly Court are all called Demon Venerables. Only by joining Heavenly Court can one be called an Immortal Venerable.
Demonic Venerable Dao Tian and Red Lotus Demon Venerable could both be considered good people in terms of character. Only because they were enemies of Heavenly Court were they crowned with the title of "Demon Venerable."
Why can Heavenly Court and eternal heaven decide who is immortal or demonic? There is only one answer: strength.
Heavenly Court has three generations of Immortal Venerables, and eternal heaven represents the entire Northern Plains and also produced a generation of Immortal Venerable; they are all existences that cannot be provoked.
Throughout the ages, only a figure like Limitless Demon Venerable was enough to single-handedly slaughter Heavenly Court Gu Immortals and play a million-year game of chess with the second generation Immortal Venerable of Heavenly Court, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, in the Pavilion of Regret, known as the Duel of Two Venerables.
On the way to Three Fork Mountain with the bright moon still water tower, Fang Yuan sent out a large number of informants and killed hundreds more Demonic Path Strength Path Gu Masters.
Some Gu Masters heard about this and intentionally delayed their time to go to Three Fork Mountain, but they never expected that Fang Yuan would lead thousands of people to directly block the entrance of Three Fork Mountain.
This time, the Gu Masters truly fell into a desperate situation where "there was no road to heaven and no gate to the earth."
"Brothers! Fang Yuan is nothing to fear, follow me and kill him!"
A Demonic Path Gu Master shouted and charged towards Fang Yuan, but not a single person behind him responded—clearly, everyone was terrified of Fang Yuan, this madman and freak who killed without blinking.
The next moment, Fang Yuan directly transformed into the Four-Armed Wind King. The two extra giant bronze hands clamped onto the Demonic Path Gu Master's shoulders like iron pincers. The Gu Master was so scared that he hurriedly activated his defense Gu, but it was already in vain.
The corners of Fang Yuan's lips curled slightly as two beast strength phantoms suddenly appeared behind him. With a violent tug of the giant bronze hands, the Demonic Path Gu Master was instantly torn in half, dying a most miserable death.
"Oh my god, Little Beast King Fang Yuan is too brutal, too terrifying..."
The crowd whispered; "Little Beast King" was precisely the nickname they had privately given Fang Yuan.
"Fang Yuan! What are you doing!"
A Righteous Path Strength Path Gu Master wanted to step into the Dog King Legacy land but was blocked by the people of the Gu Yue Clan. He glared angrily at Fang Yuan, but Fang Yuan spoke slowly:
"I heard that you, little friend, are also a Strength Path Gu Master. I also cultivate Strength Path, so why not have a battle with me?"
The Gu Master's face turned ashen: "You are a Rank Five Gu Master, and I am only Rank Four. How can we fight?"
Upon hearing this, Fang Yuan's aura suddenly suppressed down to Rank Three initial stage:
"No matter, I will suppress my cultivation to Rank Three initial stage. You use your Rank Four initial stage cultivation; surely you won't be unable to beat a Rank Three initial stage?"
Naked provocation, blatant mockery, and even more undisguised suppression and exclusion!
In the end, the Gu Master could not swallow this insult and jumped onto the stage. Fang Yuan immediately activated his strength gu, and sixteen beast strength phantoms crashed down, killing him on the spot!
"Oh my, I only touched him lightly, how did he die like this? My apologies, I really didn't do it on purpose. Really, mhm."
(Not on purpose, but intentionally 'accidental'. Mhm, that's right.)
Too brutal! Too overbearing!
After Fang Yuan's ruckus, no other Strength Path Gu Master dared to step into the Three Kings Legacy land.