Chapter 1001

A month passes. Southern Border fixes its attention on Yi Tian Mountain as countless Gu Masters join the fight. ^{ch. 1001}

The seventh righteous and demonic fight concludes. Demonic path members cut off the righteous path’s supply lines, and Shang clan leader Shang Yan Fei personally arrives with his forces and uses gourmet food box Gu to feast the army, foiling the scheme. Clan leaders of Southern Border’s super forces, Yi, Luo, Yao and Xia clans among them, join the battlefield as well. Rank three Gu Masters are cannon fodder, rank four common, rank five the key strength. ^{ch. 1001}

In Life and Death blessed land, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s dream realm has completely dissipated. A cocoon of rainbow light forms and cracks open. Old Man Yan Shi, overjoyed, watches a naked young man emerge from it, floating with his eyes shut. ^{ch. 1001}

Barely able to hold in his excitement, Old Man Yan Shi declares he has succeeded, replicating Ren Zu’s methods to grow a completely new extreme physique from a dream realm, created from nothingness. Using the rule path become real Immortal Gu, he names it the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique. He infuses a lump of dark soul into it. ^{ch. 1001}

The soul does not wake. Yan Shi finds the body truly flawed: its dream path dao marks are very high, giving it a power that puts entering souls to sleep and strips their memories. Its lifespan has begun to decrease, leaving no time for further research. ^{ch. 1001}

Yan Shi tries every method and finally wakes the soul, at the cost of almost all its memories, leaving the body childlike and unlearned. It does not matter, Yan Shi decides: this rank nine body is disposable, their trump card to defend the core. With many of Bo Qing’s Immortal Gu robbed and his battle strength fallen, the new body will replace him as their greatest strength. He names the young man Ying Wu Xie. A wave of Yan Shi’s arm pours countless thoughts into Ying Wu Xie’s mind. ^{ch. 1001}

Yan Shi warns Ying Wu Xie his lifespan is only eighteen hours. His cultivation will rise one rank every two hours. He can impart one immortal killer move: harmless, but the pinnacle of dream path achievement in the five regions. ^{ch. 1001}

Southern Border, Yi Tian Mountain. Fang Yuan recuperates in Yi Tian Village’s medical ward, feigning severe injury. Familiar face could deceive even rank eight Gu Immortals, and the ward lets him refine battle will openly and almost without pause. He finishes converting Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage’s battle will and moves to strip away the other Gu Immortals’ battle will, becoming its sole owner. ^{ch. 1001}

His battle will engulfs the others at once, wiping out every one before they can react. Fang Yuan causes a huge commotion. ^{ch. 1001}

The Southern Border Gu Immortals are furious and shocked. Someone who never joined the contest secretly refined battle will and fooled them all. Their immense anger runs so deep a sea could not douse it. They vow to find and kill whoever dared toy with them, auras surging as they encircle Yi Tian Mountain. ^{ch. 1001}

Below, the Gu Masters panic. Some wonder if these are Gu Immortals, others suspect a rival plot. Fang Yuan, concealed, notes that the forbidden zone keeps them from entering, though not from attacking at a distance. He wears the same fearful look as everyone else. ^{ch. 1001}

Taking over the House still needs time. Fang Yuan is not worried about an all-out attack. Righteous path Immortals must guard their reputations, demonic Immortals like Xiao clan’s ancestor have placed fragile Immortal Gu with their pawns, and lone immortals like Old Man Yue Xia, whose treasured disciple Lu Zuan Feng is on the mountain, cannot risk it. ^{ch. 1001}

More Gu worms come under Fang Yuan’s control. Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage’s secret is exposed: a time path Immortal Gu House that seals any attack aimed at it before sending it back. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, Fang Yuan praises inwardly, calling it incredible. ^{ch. 1001}