Chapter 1039

Lang Ya land spirit hesitates, since Immortal Gu are unique, but Fang Yuan is now mostly sure Fixed Immortal Travel no longer exists. He had already used yes or no Immortal Gu on the current generation Ni Xiang to ask whether Fixed Immortal Travel, Spring Autumn Cicada and his other Immortal Gu were all destroyed or preserved, and the answer was no. That single use cost the clan leader fifty years of lifespan. The old clan leader died on the spot. The no answer tells Fang Yuan some of his Immortal Gu remain and some are destroyed, and that Ying Wu Xie has likely broken Fang Yuan’s arrangements. He guesses Fixed Immortal Travel was destroyed first, by his own design to self-detonate before the rest, and that Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng have either turned to Ying Wu Xie or been killed by him. ^{ch. 1039}

Lang Ya land spirit will honor the agreement and holds divine travel Gu and the supplementary materials, but every recipe needs the light of the immemorial era, from the age when Ren Zu and his ten children were the world’s only humans. Light is hard to capture and store, and recipes differ only in the amount of it they need. Fang Yuan recalls that the light he used the first time came from extreme light Gu in Xiao Mang’s hands. Xiao Mang and Xiao Shan, both mortal pawns of Xiao clan’s supreme elder who died without learning Yi Tian Mountain’s truth, are already dead, and extreme light Gu died with Xiao Mang. Fang Yuan asks whether the light of wisdom could deduce a recipe needing no light of the immemorial era, but the land spirit is unsure of wisdom Gu and Fang Yuan drops it, no longer being an immortal zombie. Fang Yuan decides to search Xiao clan’s graveyard, where that Gu was found. Before leaving, he passes the souls from Ni clan’s slaughter to Lang Ya land spirit and asks for a list of the sect’s sword path killer moves. ^{ch. 1039}

Reviewing the list on his way to Xiao clan, Fang Yuan finds most of the sect’s sword path moves are mortal ones, with only three immortal killer moves. One is an incomplete remnant, worth study but not use. Of the two complete ones, sword flash thunder sound is a movement move built on flash sword Gu and rumbling thunder Gu, and dark assassination is the offensive one, built on flying sword Immortal Gu and dark limit Immortal Gu. Fang Yuan once sought dark limit Immortal Gu, but it was destroyed when Fairy Jiang Yu died, so he cannot pair it with his own flying sword Immortal Gu for dark assassination. A voice calls out from afar, and Fang Yuan turns to find a desolate beast qi grand lion approaching, carrying two Gu Immortals seated in a huge red chair on its back. ^{ch. 1039}

In Central Continent’s Earth Abyss, a soul beast’s wild rank seven soul howl Immortal Gu activates again as Ying Wu Xie, Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng press it into danger, and its sound wave forces all three to retreat. Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s seven orifices bleed and the other two take heavy soul injury as well. Ying Wu Xie judges the Gu feeds on the soul’s foundation rather than immortal essence, and that the beast escaped an intense battle and fell from ancient desolate to desolate when the Gu activated. He senses heaven’s will now hunts him because his Shadow Sect’s plan failed and he defied that will, not going to perish alongside Fang Yuan after his rebirth. He recalls that heaven’s will once sent Fang Yuan the light of the immemorial era for Fixed Immortal Travel and now moves against Ying Wu Xie, luring this soul beast to a Shadow Sect no longer hidden. He wonders whether he must destroy the Spring Autumn Cicada in his body. Hei Lou Lan urges him to stop concealing his strength and use the Gu formation, since they cannot approach this soul beast. ^{ch. 1039}