Chapter 1043

The Five Regional Mountain Range’s five colored areas each imitate one of the five regional walls. Dark purple is Southern Border’s miasma wall, green is Northern Plains’ licorice wall, and red is Western Desert’s raging flame wall. Deep blue is Eastern Sea’s blue water wall, and white-gold is Central Continent’s saint wall. In the white-gold area, the rank seven qi path Gu Immortal Qi Zai lies dead. Fang Yuan lets out a breath and pulls the flying sword Immortal Gu from his opponent’s forehead. Once silvery, it is dim now, its aura gone. ^{ch. 1043}

The immortal killer move dark assassination caused Qi Zai’s death. It gives Fang Yuan extraordinary concealment: none of its aura leaks once used, and the strike lands too fast to react to. Its only weakness is range. The user must stay under a hundred steps, far shorter than ordinary immortal killer moves. So Fang Yuan used familiar face, fighting Qi Zai and taking deliberate wounds to close the gap and lower his guard. ^{ch. 1043}

Fang Yuan only sighs in relief. Qi Zai had stayed vigilant, hard to find an opening on, so Fang Yuan’s scheming found the weakness in Qi He instead, killing a rank seven expert at rank six cultivation through her. He pulls Qi Zai’s soul from the corpse and sets soul path Gu worms loose on it inside his own immortal aperture. He activates familiar face, becoming Qi Zai’s likeness to use the same trick on Qi He. ^{ch. 1043}

Fang Yuan finds Qi He already dead when he flies out. The qi grand lion she rode killed her, freed the instant Qi Zai died and hungry. A qi path Gu Immortal newly advanced, she was easy prey, eaten after brief resistance. Fang Yuan chases the lion down and kills it by piercing its brain with flying sword Immortal Gu. He cuts open its stomach, retrieves Qi He’s minced corpse, and places the fragment holding her immortal aperture into his own, letting hers self-detonate there, the same method he used on Qi Zai. ^{ch. 1043}

Fang Yuan expects his qi path dao marks to grow sharply from this, though his own qi path attainment stays ordinary. Qi Zai’s soul alone is a huge asset, its value still unexplored. The greater discovery came earlier: inside the mountain range his body passed through unaffected, when a Southern Border Gu Immortal should answer to whichever wall each area copies. He guesses that moving freely through this imitation might mean crossing the true walls just as freely, and had faked heavy obstruction to hide it. ^{ch. 1043}

His new body has no parents and no origin in another person, formed instead from the rank nine sovereign immortal fetus Gu. If that counts as an Immortal Gu itself, it explains his free passage, since the walls target Gu Immortals, not Immortal Gu. If his guess holds, Fang Yuan wonders why he should still rush to refine Fixed Immortal Travel. He means to test it soon. ^{ch. 1043}

He cannot confirm whether Fixed Immortal Travel has already been destroyed, only that it is very likely, since the special will marked it as the first target. Questioning the current generation’s Ni Xiang, his aim was confirming Ying Wu Xie’s situation. His second aim was refining Fixed Immortal Travel to cross the walls back to Lang Ya blessed land. That land is safe, surviving seven waves of attack across the five hundred years of his previous life and falling to Heavenly Court only after Feng Jiu Ge died, and it holds a large number of his resources. ^{ch. 1043}

Refining it also needs the light of the immemorial era, an immortal material Fang Yuan has only a few clues to, so his hope is small. His greater worry is the calamity closing in, less than two months from his first earthly calamity, and his blessed land’s deep foundation, in aptitude far past the ten extreme physiques, means those calamities will surely strike with extraordinary power. If his guess about the walls is right, he decides, he should abandon Fixed Immortal Travel and rush back to Lang Ya blessed land to prepare instead. He is no longer an immortal zombie, his immortal aperture is out of this world, and the calamities and tribulations hang over him like swords at his neck. Fang Yuan looks at the vast clouds, feeling a strong sense of urgency. ^{ch. 1043}