Chapter 1070

In Central Continent, Ying Wu Xie’s first guess for who is deducing him is Heavenly Court. It is the world’s foremost Gu Immortal force, one three Demon Venerables could not take down. Even Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, invincible in his day, never attacked it. ^{ch. 1070}

The unmanned super Gu formation cracks under the deduction’s pressure. Ying Wu Xie judges only a Heavenly Court wisdom path expert capable of overworking it so fast. With Spectral Soul stuck in the dream realm and Shadow Sect’s forces gutted, he alone is its last hope. Without Fixed Immortal Travel to escape, Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals would definitely assault and kill him if he were found. ^{ch. 1070}

Refusing to let Spectral Soul become history through his own death, he forces himself up. He pours his attention and immortal essence into the formation, stabilizing it. A Gu Immortal actively controlling it displays far more power, more than tenfold its unmanned strength. ^{ch. 1070}

His soul, already severely injured by the trump card, gets no time to heal as he controls the formation without rest. He nearly faints again before handing the secret method to Shi Nu and Hei Lou Lan and passing out. The very loyal Shi Nu finds Ying Wu Xie’s condition bad and uses the formation to heal him. Hei Lou Lan holds off the deduction, and the situation stabilizes. Ying Wu Xie wakes after two days and three nights of unbroken deduction. ^{ch. 1070}

Shadow Sect, despite its huge force, runs far shallower than Heavenly Court’s. The traitor Lian Jiu Sheng, planted there at heavy cost, learned little, since most of Heavenly Court sleeps. Even that little terrifies Shadow Sect: a rank nine fate Gu powered Heaven Overseeing Tower’s detection, and any rank eight who joins must fuse their own aperture into the grotto-heaven, by the secret method of Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable. Outside Heavenly Court such a member is given a mystical phantom aperture for immortal essence and Gu worms. In exchange they gain freedom from tribulation and a lifespan-slowing sleep whose price nobody has learned. Grown over three million years, that grotto-heaven is now unbelievably vast, its true membership unknown. Under Shadow Sect’s visible Zombie Alliance sit Old Man Yan Shi, Bo Qing and Purple Mountain True Monarch. ^{ch. 1070}

Ying Wu Xie reasons that merely blocking Fairy Zi Wei’s deduction leaves him pinned, bound to lose eventually however well the formation holds. Heavenly Court, he realizes, is pursuing him partly to reach Fang Yuan, since his own body is originally Fang Yuan’s. He also finds it very strange that ten chances and extremely high luck on his final attempt still failed him, while Fang Yuan, in worse conditions, succeeded. He suspects Fixed Immortal Travel has already been refined, most likely by Heavenly Court. The traitor Sixth Hair had already sent a letter of apology, so Ying Wu Xie knows Fang Yuan’s situation. ^{ch. 1070}

Resolute, Ying Wu Xie decides to sacrifice a rook to save the king. He will let the super Gu formation hold Fairy Zi Wei’s deduction while he slips through the regional walls. Central Continent is a tiger’s den with too few Shadow Sect remnants, so he means to gather his forces across the other four regions. As only a rank six bottom-tier immortal zombie, he can cross the walls more easily than a rank seven or eight. Even if Heavenly Court holds the rank six Fixed Immortal Travel, its rank eights cannot use it, and with Heaven Overseeing Tower destroyed they cannot locate him either. ^{ch. 1070}

Controlling the formation as a decoy needs at least two rank sixes, or Shi Nu alone at rank seven. But passing the regional walls favors lower cultivation, where Shi Nu’s rank seven would only be a burden. So Ying Wu Xie leaves Shi Nu to hold the formation. He brings Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Hei Lou Lan through the walls instead. Shi Nu, utterly loyal, raises no objection and hands over all his Gu worms and his rockman tribe. Ying Wu Xie, whose own aperture is a dead land, keeps the worms and passes the rockman tribe to live inside Hei Lou Lan’s aperture. Leaving Shi Nu behind to draw attention, he retreats with Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng toward the nearest regional wall. ^{ch. 1070}