Dao Equaling the Heavens
Chapter 276 - 185 Completing the Golden Core_3

[Reduce another hundred years to become an Immortal with the Fate Diagram, requiring Heavenly Marrow for ninety-eight hundred years]

Gu Wen took another step closer to immortality, a single feather reducing the time by a hundred years and adding fifty years of Heavenly Marrow. Just considering the requirements for becoming immortal, that adds up to a hundred and fifty years.

Gu Wen’s eyes blazed as he carefully counted the feathers of the White Feathered Bird, noting that there were still five tail feathers freshly plucked.

That equaled two hundred and fifty years of Heavenly Marrow at his disposal, reducing the time needed to become immortal by five hundred years.

What would happen if he consumed the entire bird?

With that thought, Gu Wen reached out and took hold of the White Feathered Bird.

Crack!

A delicate sound reached his ears, the corpses of the Devil beasts frozen around him were rapidly withering, their vitality being drained away at an alarming rate.

Wisps of blood visible to the naked eye converged upon the White Feathered Bird, and then a new tail feather sprouted forth, quickly shedding itself.

The White Feathered Bird pecked at its feathers, trembling as it stretched out its neck to offer them to Gu Wen, the desire to live could not be more apparent.

"Can they grow back after being plucked?"

Gu Wen’s eyes widened in astonishment, Yu Hua was equally stunned, and others were the same, their breath turning heavy all of a sudden.

If it were just an Immortality Pill, there definitely wouldn’t be a share for them, but if the Immortality Pill could regrow like leeks, that would be another story.

’Can an Immortality Pill that grows back still be effective?’

Doubt surfaced in Gu Wen’s heart. He took a feather and stuffed it into his mouth, adding forty years to his Heavenly Marrow.

[Heavenly Marrow for two hundred and forty years]

[Reduce another eighty years to become an Immortal with the Fate Diagram, requiring nine thousand seven hundred and twenty years of Heavenly Marrow]

"Hiss."

Gu Wen suddenly seemed to comprehend the true essence of the Buddha Sword, murmuring in his heart, "Amitabha Buddha, it is not good for a Daoist like me to take lives."

The regrown Immortality Pill only lost two-tenths of its effectiveness. These corpses, fully refined, might not yield a hundred years of Heavenly Marrow, but giving them to the White Feathered Bird could lead to profits many times over.

This was Buddha Ancestor giving him a reason to spare the life of the White Feathered Bird!

Three two-hour periods later, the sky had faintly brightened. By this time, the corpses within the Grotto Heaven had been swept clean, all turned into mummies.

After some simple observation, Gu Wen found that the White Feathered Bird could devour and absorb anything with Spiritual Energy, transforming it into the properties of the Immortality Pill.

And this property, after the initial regeneration which reduced the effects by about twenty percent, would subsequently decline by one percent with each regrowth. It wasn’t ruled out that the decline was because of continuous regeneration over a short period, but keeping it for gradual harvesting was clearly more beneficial.

And the benefits of a steady stream weren’t small either, each time accounting for several decades of Heavenly Marrow.

After consuming all the Devil clan corpses within the entire Grotto Heaven, Gu Wen plucked eight feathers, leaving three tail feathers for the White Feathered Bird as spare provisions.

The eight white feathers transformed into golden roots, and faces turned towards Gu Wen, who generously said, "Those Devil Clan corpses should have been shared evenly, but now that I have consumed them, I should offer compensation."

"How about you five split these three Immortality Pills?"

It wasn’t possible for each of the five to have one, but making a fair cut was simple.

Everyone agreed without dispute, no one was foolish enough to think they received too little.

It was already extremely generous of Gu Wen to share the roots of the Immortality Pill, especially since he had taken out three in one go. Even Jun Yan, the most rebellious, could not utter a word of disagreement and instead, shamelessly complimented, "Brother Gu possesses a magnanimity that I simply cannot match."

With the remaining five feathers, Gu Wen handed two to Ao Tang, saying, "One for the protector, and please send another back to the Daoist Sect."

Ao Tang, who had previously hesitated to speak, now beamed with joy and said, "The Second Ancestor indeed leaves no stone unturned."

Once the spoils had been divided, Gu Wen consumed the remaining three feathers himself.

[Heavenly Marrow for three hundred and sixty years]

[Reduce another two hundred and forty years to become an Immortal with the Fate Diagram, requiring nine thousand four hundred and eighty years of Heavenly Marrow]

[The Immortality Pill complements the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill]

Gu Wen slowly opened his eyes, a flash of golden light beamed, illuminating the hall in resplendent colours.

Endowed with three major Immortal Skills, he surpassed the third level and became invincible.

Yu Hua said with a smile brimming with meaning, "Just in terms of talent, you have already surpassed the Three Pure Daoist. It took you merely nine months. If you were to stand outside now and reveal your aura, you could kick Chan Xi off the top spot of the Earthly Rankings."

In all of history, no one could achieve completion with the Immortal Skills like Gu Wen just did.