Reverend Insanity: Dream Gu

Lin Yan had also completed the designs for two grand formations, one built around Sunflame Valley and the other around Thunder Pool.

Neither formation existed solely for battle. Once completed, each would transform the surrounding region into a giant resource point capable of continuously producing vast quantities of immortal materials.

Lin Yan had managed Flame Sovereign Blessed Land for several years, yet the largest resource points he had personally constructed were only medium-sized. Beyond them stood large, giant, and super resource points, each requiring increasingly complex methods to establish.

Constructing a resource point on that scale involved much more than gathering immortal materials in one place. The terrain, environment, dao marks, circulation of resources, and the relationships between different plants and beasts all had to work together.

Without the proper methods, blindly piling up resources would only disrupt their growth, create conflicts between dao marks, and eventually destroy the entire region.

Zhen Yuanzi’s True Inheritance provided exactly what Lin Yan lacked. It contained complete formation methods for more than a dozen large resource points belonging to different paths, along with detailed records of how Zhen Yuanzi had modified and maintained them.

Such knowledge was common among powerful Formation Path Gu Immortals. Formation Path borrowed Gu worms, immortal materials, and natural environments from countless paths. Anyone who wished to advance far along this path had to understand how those different elements interacted.

This also revealed the difference between Zhen Yuanzi and Mo Si. Although both had been Rank Seven Gu Immortals, the inheritance left behind by Mo Si could not compare with Zhen Yuanzi’s lifelong accumulation.

To create Formation Spirit Immortal Gu, Zhen Yuanzi had traveled across Western Desert, studied numerous blessed lands, examined countless resource points, and even seized several for his experiments. Lin Yan had personally experienced part of that journey inside Zhen Yuanzi’s Dream Realm.

After another round of deduction with Raging Fire, Lin Yan combined Zhen Yuanzi’s methods with his Grandmaster attainments in Formation Path and Flame Path. Rather than copying one of the existing designs, he created a new giant resource point specifically suited to Flame Sovereign Blessed Land.

Lin Yan soon arrived at the western reaches of the Molten Flame Mountains. At their center stood the majestic crimson-gold Sunflame Valley. Dozens of miniature suns floated above its vast basin, surrounded by thirty-six volcanoes that continuously poured crimson magma into the valley.

Two years had passed within Flame Sovereign Blessed Land since Lin Yan used Sunflame Valley against Mo Si. More than half of the Rank Seven immortal materials consumed during that battle had recovered, yet Sunflame Valley remained only a small resource point.

Its true value had never come from its size, but from the extraordinary quality of the resources it produced.

Lin Yan immediately began transforming the surrounding region. With a wave of his sleeve, large quantities of Flame Path Gu and immortal materials scattered across the Molten Flame Mountains, each falling into its designated place.

Formation patterns stretched between the thirty-six volcanoes and Sunflame Valley. Magma, heat, and Flame Path dao marks that had once remained separated began flowing across the entire region, linking the mountains together.

Sunflame Valley already produced several rare Flame Path immortal materials, and the power stored within it could temporarily replace nearly half the effect of a Rank Seven Flame Path Immortal Gu. Lin Yan naturally would not sacrifice such a valuable ability.

He instead placed Sunflame Valley at the heart of the grand formation, drawing upon its accumulated power to nourish several new resource points throughout the surrounding mountains. Once stabilized, they would support one another and gradually develop into a complete Flame Path ecosystem.

The first resource point he added was the Fusang Tree.

Lin Yan transplanted an ancient desolate Fusang Tree into one of the most important positions within the formation. However, a single tree could not support the structure he had designed, so he purchased another eight living Fusang Trees from Treasure Yellow Heaven for sixteen hundred immortal essence stones.

Fusang Trees were exceptionally valuable Flame Path desolate plants. Their branches, leaves, sap, and even the soil surrounding their roots could nurture numerous Flame Path Gu materials. Mature trees also changed their surroundings, attracting other Flame Path plants and beasts.

Given enough time, a grove of Fusang Trees could support an entire chain of Flame Path resources. Living specimens were especially expensive because they grew naturally within Immemorial White Heaven and rarely survived transplantation without suffering serious damage.

Sixteen hundred immortal essence stones was no longer a sum Lin Yan needed to hesitate over. Flame Sovereign Blessed Land already produced nearly ten thousand immortal essence stones each year. With all his management methods operating together, that income could approach twenty thousand.

Immortal essence stones were no longer the greatest obstacle to the blessed land’s growth. The true problem was earth qi.