Chapter 1068

Loud thunder rolls over Cloud Cover Continent. Land spirit names it the heavenly drum thunder tribulation, a sound and lightning path attack sure to kill an ordinary Gu Immortal. He tells Fang Yuan that the refinement path dao marks around them, and Heavenly Giant Solor itself, will keep him safe. Privately, he fears Fang Yuan will be distracted into failing the refinement. Land spirit privately wants Dang Hun Mountain, a goal Fang Yuan’s failure here would serve. But an old agreement between Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable and Long Hair Ancestor binds land spirit to help Fang Yuan honestly, not scheme against him. ^{ch. 1068}

Fang Yuan floats completely unaffected by the thunder. He is made immune by the five regions chaotic war and the battle of Yi Tian Mountain, and keeps working steadily. Land spirit counters the sound path with his killer move Silent World, silencing the thunder for a time before it returns. He boasts that even tenfold this tribulation could not interrupt the refinement. But the dark clouds then loose a second tribulation at twenty times the usual size, twenty blue charm lightning shadows, lightning fiends each matching a rank six Gu Immortal. One such shadow once killed Hu Immortal during her own tribulation. Even land spirit, with his long life, is visibly fazed by the number. ^{ch. 1068}

Fang Yuan judges the moment akin to his first earthly calamity, which was larger in size and which he barely passed. He realizes twenty shadows at that time would have killed him outright. His high-offense, low-defense fighting style, and his rank seven and eight Immortal Gu built for attack rather than defense, leave him poorly matched against the fast shadows. It is a weakness from his too-rapid growth, one he has had no time to address since Yi Tian Mountain. As the shadows converge on him together, land spirit enlarges the silver giant more than tenfold and shields Fang Yuan bodily within its arms. He warns that the interruption could still ruin the refinement if Fang Yuan does not hold firm. ^{ch. 1068}

The shadows swarm the giant’s arms. The other hairy man Gu Immortals, unskilled at controlling it, kill only one by luck. The giant, expanded and thinly defended, grows transparent and fades under the beating. Fang Yuan’s own pace slows drastically from the disturbance. Land spirit judges the situation really bad: the refinement is bound to fail without outside help, since he is already occupied and Fang Yuan cannot leave the refinement. Fang Yuan stays calm even so, since this is only his first attempt and he can afford to try again. ^{ch. 1068}

In Earth Abyss, Ying Wu Xie is on his last set of immortal materials and his final chance. Another batch would be extremely difficult to gather if he fails again. He activates his trump card killer move, drawing on a rank seven soul howl Gu he obtained earlier together with some mortal Gu. It burns his own soul as fuel to raise a huge amount of luck. His main body created that move after exploring Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Determined, he is certain he will succeed this time. ^{ch. 1068}

Back at Lang Ya blessed land the giant grows extremely weak and near collapse. Its hairy man Gu Immortals are badly injured, with eleven shadows still alive. Fang Yuan and land spirit both despair. Fang Yuan swears he will definitely never again use the hairy man heaven and earth style, finding the human isolation style wonderful by comparison. Sixth Hair, the last of three spies Shadow Sect placed in the blessed land and Ying Wu Xie’s informant there, has been sabotaging the defense throughout, since Shadow Sect is unwilling to see Fang Yuan refine change form Immortal Gu. He now deliberately triggers the killer move one arm sacrifice, expecting it to greatly weaken the near-collapsing giant and finish its collapse. He hopes killing many hairy man Gu Immortals in the backlash will win him greater responsibility after he survives. ^{ch. 1068}

The severed arm, instead, is struck by an immortal killer move. It erupts with incredible strength and triggers an intense explosion among the shadows, which happen to be gathered together, killing most of them at once. The giant still collapses, and every hairy man Gu Immortal in it is hurt. Only three shadows remain, a fight land spirit alone finishes. He orders the disappointed Sixth Hair to tend the injured rather than attack further. An hour later Fang Yuan holds the newly refined change form Immortal Gu: his first attempt has succeeded. In Earth Abyss, Ying Wu Xie spits blood and faints: his final attempt at refining Fixed Immortal Travel has failed. ^{ch. 1068}