Chapter 1019

Heaven Overseeing Tower floats overhead, still phantom, as Spectral Soul’s dark arms shrink and thin, feeding the ten extreme immortal zombie formation. Alarmed, Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord orders the arms cut off, and a beam slices through them. Bo Qing tells Ying Wu Xie to deal with Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals instead. Ying Wu Xie refuses to leave Fang Yuan unfinished. He strikes him first with the rank eight killer move lead soul into dream, dragging him into the dream realm before Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. ^{ch. 1019}

Fang Yuan tries his own rank six unravel dream, but the gap is too wide, and he cannot break free. The final line of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s song suddenly makes sense. It carries new information: only heaven’s will remains vast through the body and mind’s spring and autumn shifts. ^{ch. 1019}

Fang Yuan now understands the mysterious rank seven Immortal Gu he took from Bo Qing’s body. It is change soul Immortal Gu. Mo Yao once used it to swap souls with Bo Qing, fearing he would fail his tribulation, and saved him while deceiving the world. Filled with her will, it was the first of Bo Qing’s Immortal Gu that Fang Yuan managed to refine, while the sword path ones carrying Bo Qing’s own will progress more slowly, still inside Hu Immortal blessed land. ^{ch. 1019}

The song’s hint is clear: swap souls with Ying Wu Xie using change soul Immortal Gu. The information carries an immortal killer move, built around change soul with attitude Gu, unravel mystery Immortal Gu, and other dream and soul path mortal Gu. He hesitates, then follows it, having no other way to touch Spectral Soul. He succeeds: Fang Yuan’s soul slips into Ying Wu Xie’s body. Ying Wu Xie’s soul takes Fang Yuan’s immortal zombie body, but ends up trapped in the dream realm instead. ^{ch. 1019}

Fang Yuan taunts his old body. Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng call out to Fang Yuan, but the sleeping body does not answer. Bo Qing raises a hand against them instead. Fang Yuan, now in Ying Wu Xie’s body, has no Gu worms of his own left and cannot fake Ying Wu Xie’s killer move, so he can only watch. ^{ch. 1019}

Grand tribulation earth collapse strikes without warning. It traps Bo Qing and Fang Yuan in the ground, while Hei Lou Lan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, and Fang Yuan’s sleeping body go unaffected. With the ten extreme formation’s ball finally complete, the restricting force vanishes. Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng flee with that body while Bo Qing can only watch them go. Fang Yuan escapes for now, Bo Qing snorts, but an otherworldly demon is too useful a tool against heaven’s will to release. Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng are now fate escapees Heavenly Court would destroy anyway. ^{ch. 1019}

Listening, Fang Yuan wonders why an otherworldly demon matters so much to Shadow Sect. He resolves to learn his newly acquired Gu worms first, before risking exposure again. Beyond dream path Gu, he finds he also holds change soul, attitude Gu, unravel mystery Immortal Gu, and other mortal Gu that traveled with his soul. The killer move also opens Ying Wu Xie’s own Gu worms to him. Attitude Gu, he realizes, is what lets him disguise himself and deceive Ying Wu Xie’s will inside these worms. ^{ch. 1019}

If Bo Qing learned Ying Wu Xie had been replaced by his attacker, he would likely kill Fang Yuan at once. Even free of the dream realm, Fang Yuan is more fragile than he has ever been. He struggles outwardly, sinking deeper into the earth collapse, while privately relieved: trapped and unable to attack, he cannot be exposed, and the delay lets him learn these unfamiliar Gu worms. Bo Qing, not suspicious, tries to calm him, and Fang Yuan feels some relief. ^{ch. 1019}

Spectral Soul endures his own ordeal. After the first myriad tribulation, wind lightning prison, grey memory descends slowly enough to allow retaliation, yet he does not move. Fang Yuan, anxious, urges their main body to retaliate while the chance lasts. Privately he is torn between hoping Spectral Soul stays restricted and dreading what grey memory might do once it reaches him too. ^{ch. 1019}