Chapter 1003

Shadow Sect has also come early, differing from Fang Yuan’s previous life. His plan, workable on paper, proves harder to carry out in practice. The ten extreme immortal zombie lifeless formation has already reached ninety percent completion, so he stops rushing to retreat. His Fixed Immortal Travel is useless inside it, and even Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage would need time to break through. Leaving now would make him a target for both sides, so he resolves to suppress the Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie first and wait for a chance to force his way out. ^{ch. 1003}

Shadow Sect’s sudden appearance somewhat helps Fang Yuan. Without it, the Southern Border Gu Immortals would have concentrated on him alone. The immortal zombie still holds real strength, resisting fiercely and briefly putting Fang Yuan on the back foot. Fang Yuan guesses it is an astute schemer that failed once to refine the House, then likely slept from exhaustion while gathering strength for a reversal, a scheme undone only by his interference. The zombie has great strength path talent but abandoned it to cultivate wisdom path, and that wisdom path method is what let him plot a way out of certain defeat. ^{ch. 1003}

Meanwhile the sky around Yi Tian Mountain fills with a succession of ever more violent tribulations, inflicting severe losses on the Southern Border Gu Immortals. They mistake Ying Wu Xie for the formation’s greatest flaw and are struck down by lead soul into dream, forced to halt, then pin their hope on the tribulations destroying it instead. Almost all of them die, either to the extreme immortal zombies’ battle formation or to the tribulations, leaving only two heavily injured rank eights alive. As time passes, the zombie’s resistance grows weaker. Fang Yuan slowly gains hope while the Southern Border Gu Immortals lose theirs. ^{ch. 1003}

Fang Yuan hopes the Southern Border Gu Immortals can stall, but the formation blocks sound across ten thousand li and his warning never reaches them. He gives up and refocuses on the zombie. High above the battlefield the Immortal Gu House Heaven Overseeing Tower hovers, and Bi Chen Tian asks Tower Lord whether to move now that the Southern Border Gu Immortals are almost all dead. Tower Lord remarks that the formation actually relies on the ten extreme physiques’ dao marks, though it lacks the last strength path extreme physique; if all ten were to really gather, he judges, that would be a thorny situation. Lian Jiu Sheng at once understands why Shadow Sect tried every method to capture the Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie. ^{ch. 1003}

Tower Lord decides to wait for Bo Qing and the others, since his party of thirteen Gu Immortals crossed the regional wall without stopping and is not in optimal condition. He lets the enemy exhaust its trump cards first, since the tribulations alone will only grow more terrifying. He adds that a person who refuses to stay dead wants to return, enraging heaven’s will. He is in no hurry now that Fang Yuan has the zombie suppressed and immobile. Even with twelve rank eight companions sharing his goal, he dares no rash move. ^{ch. 1003}

Far away, Bo Qing wonders why Heavenly Court still has not moved. In his previous life he had failed to attack Heavenly Lotus Sect and settled for Combat Immortal Sect instead, wasting Shadow Sect’s arrangements. This life Seven Star Child survived, and with Yu Mu Chun and Song Zi Xing struck Heavenly Lotus Sect as planned before Bo Qing’s group retreats. Tower Lord, not easily deceived, deduces with the Tower that Yi Tian Mountain is the crucial site, then rushes there without resting. ^{ch. 1003}

Song Zi Xing announces that since Tower Lord will not act, they will, and Bo Qing agrees to go first. A majestic Immortal Gu House, Sacred Feather City, bursts into view, having hidden inside the formation undetected even by Tower Lord. Fang Yuan recognizes it as the featherman Gu Immortals’ former House. Only steps from finishing off the near-defeated immortal zombie, he must stop and defend instead. He activates Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage openly; Yi Tian Mountain crumbles as the House pulls him inside, giving him official control of it. Spending rank nine yellow apricot immortal essence, he sends Sacred Feather City flying in one explosive clash: Fang Yuan defeats Bo Qing in one move. ^{ch. 1003}