Chapter 1044

In Central Continent’s Earth Abyss, Ying Wu Xie stares at rubble, expression ugly. With him stand Shi Nu, a rank seven variant human Gu Immortal completely loyal to him and the group’s strongest; Hei Lou Lan, surrendered and now serving him; and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, kept deceived by the two of them. Ying Wu Xie, still an immortal zombie who has not subdued Fang Yuan’s remaining Immortal Gu, ranks weakest of the four. ^{ch. 1044}

Shi Nu explains that Earth Abyss tremors sometimes trigger a great cave-in like this one, killing countless life forms. Its rubble, mixed with grudge, death energy and blood, breeds desolate level blood beasts, bone beasts, and even blood path and earth path wild Immortal Gu. He asks Ying Wu Xie what they should do now. ^{ch. 1044}

Ying Wu Xie judges the cave-in, blocking Shadow Sect’s safest route from Earth Abyss, to be heaven’s will at work. Fang Yuan remains ignorant of heaven’s will, unlike him. Ying Wu Xie’s main body expended heaven’s will greatly by defying it to refine Gu, but its foundation is the five regions, so it cannot be destroyed entirely and seems mostly recovered. Ying Wu Xie’s own body is ordinary, so he needs Fixed Immortal Travel to cross the five regions. ^{ch. 1044}

Intense hatred rises in Ying Wu Xie. His main body had already accounted for the five regional walls in sovereign immortal fetus Gu’s design, so Fang Yuan can cross them and take on any region’s aura. Heaven’s will cannot reach a complete otherworldly demon’s thoughts, but it can move others against Fang Yuan and make situations to eliminate him, and each tribulation is its best chance, Ying Wu Xie reckons. Saving his own main body’s remnant soul, worn down in the dream realm, matters more, and Fang Yuan is a minor concern beside it. The priority is refining Fixed Immortal Travel, gathering their forces, and returning to Southern Border to break the encirclement of the giant dream realm and save Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. ^{ch. 1044}

In Southern Border, Fang Yuan flees on sword escape Immortal Gu, his injuries severe enough to show bone, cloud path dao marks gathered there spilling clouds constantly. He is pale and frowning. About ten li behind him, a large group of ancient cloud beasts gives chase, the cause of those injuries. ^{ch. 1044}

Even with rank seven flying sword Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan cannot deal with cloud beasts, since like mud monsters they hold no fixed body. Having learned his new body’s secret, he had changed plan, choosing to cross the regional walls back to Lang Ya blessed land, and soon strayed into this rare group’s attack range. It even included beasts with rank seven battle strength. ^{ch. 1044}

Stationary, cloud beasts look like ordinary clouds and are hard to detect, and lacking investigative Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan strayed in using only mortal methods. After an intense battle he escaped, but the beasts refused to let him go. Sighting Southern Border’s miasma wall ahead, he conserves sword escape, already having spent every contribution point, using it again only when the beasts close to under a li. He enters the wall without hesitation. ^{ch. 1044}

There is zero obstruction. His guess confirmed, the sovereign immortal fetus Gu lets him cross the five regions freely even without Fixed Immortal Travel. The cloud beasts behind him have crossed the wall too, still chasing. ^{ch. 1044}

Cloud beasts are nearly extinct across all five regions, and groups of ancient ones like this exist only in white or black heaven. They are a life form of the immemorial nine heavens, storing cloud essence in clouds that turn into cloud beasts after centuries. The infants, desolate level each, fly back toward the sky, obstructed by the heavenly wind qi wall and attacked by fierce beasts and natural phenomena. Very few make it back. ^{ch. 1044}

Fang Yuan calls himself unlucky to meet a group so freshly bred, and wonders if sovereign immortal fetus Gu cost him a huge amount of luck, bringing disaster after such fortune. He had crashed into their cloud essence store, so they want revenge for their offspring and will not stop while he stays injured. The problem is that they too can move freely within the five regional walls. ^{ch. 1044}