Chapter 1071

Ying Wu Xie stuns three Central Continent Gu Immortals from Ancient Soul Sect with an inaudible soul path killer move. He flees at once with Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Hei Lou Lan. The three scramble to defend themselves. By the time they recover, the group is gone. ^{ch. 1071}

Judging by aura, they guess the fleeing trio comes from Northern Plains. One reports the sighting to the sect and calls for reinforcements. The three give chase on their leader’s own tracking killer move, only for the sensation to vanish after a while. ^{ch. 1071}

Their leader is troubled that a rare tracking move made years earlier failed so easily. He judges it more likely only suppressed through concealment than truly dispelled. ^{ch. 1071}

He suspects the trio entered someone else’s immortal aperture, evading even Heaven Overseeing Tower’s detection and his own tracking move alike. Dao marks normally clash and consume each other inside another Gu Immortal’s aperture, while an immortal zombie’s dead aperture only crumbles faster from the visit. Anticipating this, the leader had already struck all three with his tracking move. Whichever aperture they entered, he reasoned, one would stay outside to be detected. ^{ch. 1071}

Unable to determine exactly how they vanished, he decides against an endless chase, choosing instead to stay and investigate while the sect’s own wisdom path Gu Immortals deduce further. The other two agree without objection. ^{ch. 1071}

Inside the concealment of the super Gu formation, Tai Bai Yun Sheng notes that the three are not leaving. Shi Nu explains they are rank seven Gu Immortals from Ancient Soul Sect investigating the huge cave-in, and urges Ying Wu Xie to heal his injuries. Hei Lou Lan stays silent. Ying Wu Xie, shaken, says these three were waiting for him. His plan to sacrifice his subordinates and escape met them at once, forcing his group back into the formation. The formation’s concealment now blocks the tracking move struck on them earlier. ^{ch. 1071}

The three fly above the formation itself but detect nothing. Its extraordinary concealment hides Ying Wu Xie’s group entirely, their aura undetectable, its own form phantom and physically traceless. Hei Lou Lan wonders what they should do now. Ying Wu Xie hesitates, then grits his teeth and decides. ^{ch. 1071}

In treasure yellow heaven, a pillar of treasure light shoots up, causing a huge commotion and drawing countless gazes. It recalls Lang Ya land spirit sending Fang Yuan his sword path Immortal Gu. A will announces this Immortal Gu is for open sale, tradeable for another Immortal Gu or for immortal materials from a posted list. Immortal Gu had been traded almost only for other Immortal Gu, so the materials option shakes treasure yellow heaven. Gu Immortals across all five regions take interest, since the listed materials guarantee a profit, and the price is judged very fair. ^{ch. 1071}

Ying Wu Xie is the seller. Immortal Gu are rarely sold, since refining even one is hard and uncertain. But with his own cultivation resources already spent refining Fixed Immortal Travel, selling is his only choice left. He keeps the immortal killer moves and Immortal Gu recipes that Spectral Soul’s will chose to give him, too precious and revealing to sell. Instead he sells from his own stock of Immortal Gu, mostly taken from Fang Yuan. He chooses first the iron crown eagle strength Gu, cheap enough for many rank six Gu Immortals though strength path Gu Immortals are rare, hoping to raise prices on what he sells next. ^{ch. 1071}

At Heavenly Court, Granny Sha alerts Fairy Zi Wei to the sale. Fairy Zi Wei had been deducing Fang Yuan’s location, not knowing his soul and body are separated, so most of her effort fell on the nearer Ying Wu Xie. Her deductions toward the real Fang Yuan, two regional walls away in Lang Ya blessed land, had stayed weak. She reads the sale, aimed at a space path Immortal Gu like Fixed Immortal Travel in exchange, as a sign Fang Yuan has been pushed into a corner. She judges only Heavenly Court could disrupt treasure yellow heaven, whose extremely proud heavenly spirit ignores even Heavenly Court and once chose death over yielding to a venerable’s threat. Even Heavenly Court cannot force it to stop the transaction outright. Confident even so, she orders the treasury opened so that she can trade with the heavenly spirit herself. ^{ch. 1071}