Chapter 1060

At Pot River in Central Continent, controlled by Wind Cloud Manor, Ying Wu Xie waits on the bank for Feng Chan Zi while Hei Lou Lan, Shi Nu and Tai Bai Yun Sheng guard him from hiding. He needs the light of the immemorial era. Heaven’s will watches him while Spring Autumn Cicada stays sealed, so he cannot linger, and he has decided to give up if Feng Chan Zi does not appear. Feng Chan Zi’s grass puppet avatar arrives and demands another thirty percent on top of an already high price, and though Shadow Sect’s immortals are furious, Ying Wu Xie has no alternative and agrees. The transaction goes through. The avatar then reveals that Feng Chan Zi had actually lost a bet to Lang Zi Qiu and sold only to recoup the loss, and insists Ying Wu Xie remember that Feng Chan Zi never handed the material over. ^{ch. 1060}

Concealing their traces, the group lands in a nameless forest. Shi Nu notes they still need other materials to refine Fixed Immortal Travel, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng suggests using Defy. Hei Lou Lan asks how many refinement attempts their portion of the light allows. Looking only at human isolation style and disregarding hairy man heaven and earth style, the chance of refining a rank six Immortal Gu succeeding often runs under one percent. Ying Wu Xie answers nine attempts. He secretly checks his luck with the rank six luck inspection Immortal Gu, originally Qin Bai Sheng’s, held briefly by Shi Nu before passing to Ying Wu Xie after the battle of Yi Tian Mountain. His luck has improved sharply, even though Spring Autumn Cicada’s drawback should be steadily lowering it. ^{ch. 1060}

Ying Wu Xie suspects Fang Yuan is the cause, since Lang Ya land spirit recently finished re-refining Dog Shit Luck Immortal Gu after Shadow Sect had destroyed the previous one, and may have lent it to Fang Yuan. He had learned days earlier that Fang Yuan passed his tribulation, since Shadow Sect still keeps one hairy man Gu Immortal traitor inside Lang Ya blessed land. Fang Yuan’s luck is split among himself, Ye Fan, Han Li, Hong Yi and Hei Lou Lan, and since Fang Yuan currently uses Ying Wu Xie’s own body, their connected luck reaches Ying Wu Xie too. Raising his luck with Dog Shit Luck therefore sends the benefit flowing down to Ying Wu Xie as well. Ying Wu Xie now sees Fang Yuan’s immense value: as long as Fang Yuan keeps surviving his own tribulations with Dog Shit Luck’s help, Ying Wu Xie benefits without needing to seek Longevity Heaven’s aid in Northern Plains. He judges Fang Yuan’s choice of the northern icy plain wise, since heaven’s will would surely strengthen that earthly calamity, and Reckless Savage’s true meaning replaces part of it and greatly reduces the danger. He resolves to reclaim that body eventually. ^{ch. 1060}

Pressed for time because his true body’s remnant soul remains in danger inside the dream realm, Ying Wu Xie moves the group onward, eager to use this stroke of luck for refining Fixed Immortal Travel while the odds are better. On the northern icy plain, Chu Du stands looking at his own handprint in the ice. His disciple, newly advanced to a strength path rank six Gu Immortal, meekly asks how long they must stay, and Chu Du gives no answer. He regrets attacking Fang Yuan so rashly, since the method he wants sits with Fang Yuan and will not come easily, and Fang Yuan has fixed the gap and hides inside an aperture Chu Du cannot break into. He also worries that killing Fang Yuan outright could trigger a soul self-detonation that would waste this immense opportunity to gain strength. He decides to try negotiating instead. He still holds Fang Yuan’s flying sword Immortal Gu, seized during the attack, and means to use it as a bargaining chip. ^{ch. 1060}