Chapter 1057

Known as Domination Immortal, Chu Du rose from a poor family outside the Huang Jin bloodline with no teacher, awakening his aperture by chance and cultivating strength path alone. On his own he invented jin strength Gu, strength of ten jin Gu, jun strength Gu and strength of ten jun Gu among others, after becoming a Gu Immortal he founded the human jun strength branch that revived a fading strength path. As a new rank six he beat an experienced lone immortal to a pulp, and when that immortal called in three more, he chased them an enormous distance and killed all three. A century later he beat and killed a Liu tribe Gu Immortal without mercy, and when Liu tribe sent several Gu Immortals against him in return, he went into decades of seclusion. Returning at rank seven, he destroyed eighteen of Liu tribe’s resource points in three days and forced three Gu Immortals to retreat, then encircled their blessed land until the first supreme elder fought him, failed, and let him go. No Gu Immortal dared look down on him from then on. ^{ch. 1057}

After that he stayed secluded in the northern icy plain excavating Reckless Savage’s true meaning, appearing rarely except at a recent Northern Plains auction. His strength surge and the Liu tribe win seemed to come from that meaning. He gathered it as he raised a few Gu Masters to immortality and reached grandmaster in strength path. ^{ch. 1057}

Undergoing his own tribulation, Fang Yuan has his immortal aperture’s walls shattered by an ancient ruin bat’s power, opening a link to the outside world. Chu Du stands nearby at that same moment, helping his own disciple through an immortal ascension tribulation and absorbing the same true meaning. Their eyes meet across the icy plain, and Chu Du realizes the ruin bat inside Fang Yuan’s tribulation is manifesting Reckless Savage’s true meaning. He sees a method that could let him draw the true meaning out through his own tribulations instead of only through disciples. That method is the killer move immortal tribulation tempering aperture, which Fang Yuan had obtained from the land spirit. Fang Yuan recognizes him as Domination Immortal Chu Du and guesses at once that Chu Du will definitely come after him for the method. Chu Du then attacks Fang Yuan. ^{ch. 1057}

Fang Yuan strikes first with sword marks targeting death, firing flying sword Immortal Gu at Chu Du. Chu Du’s strength path phantom hand grabs and seals the Gu, taking only a small wound from the move’s effect that heals at once. He demands the method to draw out the true meaning and offers to spare Fang Yuan’s life. At that moment Fang Yuan severs his own lower body with a blood path killer move and fuses it into the aperture’s gap, sealing the crack an instant before Chu Du’s giant hand can strike. The hand crashes into empty ground instead, gouging a crater dozens of meters wide. Chu Du finds no way to break into the sealed aperture. ^{ch. 1057}

Fang Yuan stays composed under intense pain thanks to his Gu worms, though he is trapped inside with only his upper body left. He casts triple layered sword wave at the two ancient ruin bats and blocks their every attack to keep the aperture walls whole. The strain spurts blood from his own seven orifices and nearly makes him faint. He kills one bat and turns to face the other alone, finding the fight far easier. As the heaven and earth qi finally calms he kills the third ancient ruin bat as well, ending the calamity with no more bats forming and Chu Du gone. The aperture has become an icy field ringed with snarling snow monsters that cannot break its walls, and Fang Yuan must now heal and prepare in case Chu Du finds a way to invade. ^{ch. 1057}