Chapter 1067

Shi Nu returns to Ying Wu Xie in Central Continent’s Earth Abyss. Three Gu Immortals from Ancient Soul Sect are investigating a huge cave-in nearby. On Ying Wu Xie’s orders, Shi Nu has lured desolate beasts toward them as a distraction. Wild Immortal Gu seem to be among the beasts, which should keep the Gu Immortals busy. Shi Nu is a rockman born with earth path dao marks, a cultivation extremely useful in Earth Abyss. But heaven’s will, Ying Wu Xie warns, could still turn those same beast groups against them at the crucial moment. ^{ch. 1067}

Ying Wu Xie says his true confidence rests in the super Gu formation, the safest place in Central Continent. Spectral Soul designed it while trapped in the door of life and death. There he devoured souls and absorbed the memories and cultivation experience of countless Gu Immortals, raising his formation path, refinement path and other paths to great grandmaster. The formation hides them from heaven’s will and blocks wisdom path deduction. It also carries incredible offense and defense and can even assist Gu refinement, so any charging beasts become fuel for it rather than a threat. Ying Wu Xie admits he never destroyed Spring Autumn Cicada, so heaven’s will already knows the formation’s location, though he judges Heavenly Court unlikely to reach them with Heaven Overseeing Tower destroyed. Heaven’s will targets Fang Yuan now, not him, so the Gu stays useful, and he means to re-refine it later. ^{ch. 1067}

He moves to begin refining Fixed Immortal Travel. He sends Shi Nu, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, and Hei Lou Lan each to a formation core, and takes the central one himself. Shi Nu answers he will do his best even at the cost of his life. Though only rank six, this Gu refinement is very significant to Shadow Sect’s future and to the five regions. The refinement begins. ^{ch. 1067}

Half a month later at Northern Plains’ Lang Ya blessed land, Fang Yuan and Lang Ya land spirit begin their own attempt to refine change form Immortal Gu. Land spirit’s growl lights dao marks and fills the sky with rainbow light. It draws huge crowds across three continents who take it for an immortal miracle. Fang Yuan recognizes the lights as scattered pieces of the Refinement Cauldron. Land spirit confirms most of its core Gu are gone; an intact Cauldron would have raised their odds to sixty percent. True strength, he says, lies in the Gu Immortal rather than in the Immortal Gu. ^{ch. 1067}

They split the work under a dual Immortal Gu refinement method. Land spirit works the hairy man Gu refinement method on mortal materials while Fang Yuan, using a basin of interior rain, handles the immortal materials as an equal partner. Three days of steady work produce an incomplete Immortal Gu. Land spirit judges the first attempt likely to succeed if the last steps go smoothly. ^{ch. 1067}

Before he finishes speaking, tribulation lightning descends. Its intensity already surpasses the standard for rank six, and even rank seven, by land spirit’s own memory. Fang Yuan offers to handle it himself. Land spirit refuses, since Fang Yuan’s Dog Shit Luck must keep protecting the forming Gu. He calls close to ten hairy man Gu Immortals into the ancient battle formation Heavenly Giant Solor, a huge silver giant, to meet the tribulation instead. ^{ch. 1067}

In Earth Abyss, Ying Wu Xie has already failed eight of ten attempts to refine Fixed Immortal Travel. Only two chances remain. He judges the human isolation style truly lower in success rate than the hairy man heaven and earth style. But he refuses the hairy man style even so, since it would give heaven’s will an opening to attack through tribulations that could destroy the super Gu formation. Fang Yuan, not knowing of heaven’s will, is using that style anyway, and Ying Wu Xie wishes him luck. ^{ch. 1067}