Chapter 1076

Sixth Hair, with no choice left, presses on: heaven’s will itself guided Fang Yuan to seize sovereign immortal fetus Gu and to rebirth using Spring Autumn Cicada, sending him back to ruin Shadow Sect’s plan. A sudden thunderstorm interrupts them, which Sixth Hair reads as heaven’s will’s fury, though he notes it cannot reach inside a blessed land. Fang Yuan tells him to continue. ^{ch. 1076}

Sixth Hair continues: Spring Autumn Cicada carries heaven’s will, Ying Wu Xie confirmed. Its leftover will travels the River of Time to force rebirth, letting heaven’s will work unseen. Every fortuitous encounter Fang Yuan credited to luck since rebirth was bait, planted to grow him into the tool that would reach Yi Tian Mountain and ruin Shadow Sect’s plan. ^{ch. 1076}

Before Fang Yuan’s first rebirth, Sixth Hair says, Shadow Sect had already succeeded. Heaven’s will refused to let Sixth Hair’s main body become a venerable again and surpass all others. Bo Qing failed in the past because he too was a split soul of that main body. Unable to eliminate that main body in the future, heaven’s will engineered Fang Yuan’s rebirth as its tool to remake the past. Only an otherworldly demon can do that, and Fang Yuan, though not the only one, fit best at the time. Red Lotus Demon Venerable spent a life trying and only broke fate Gu, never destroying it or harming heaven’s will. ^{ch. 1076}

Silent, Fang Yuan realizes he has been immersed in a huge scheme. He wonders whether his centuries of wandering and the easy Spring Autumn Cicada recipe were heaven’s will’s doing. ^{ch. 1076}

Sixth Hair presses on: why has rank-six Spring Autumn Cicada, prone to failure, succeeded every time? Fang Yuan corrects him and is stunned as he does: he failed the last time, forced into that rebirth only after Heaven Overseeing Tower struck him with no escape. His amnesia never touched this memory, the strongest evidence yet of heaven’s will’s hand. ^{ch. 1076}

The Great Strength True Martial immortal zombie’s destruction left the ten extreme immortal zombie lifeless formation incomplete and unable to refine Gu. Hei Lou Lan, Shadow Sect’s only other option, was absent from Yi Tian Mountain. Heaven’s will no longer needed Fang Yuan and let his activation fail, but Shadow Sect used the Red Lotus true inheritance to force his rebirth anyway and keep its plan alive. ^{ch. 1076}

Sixth Hair, who learned all this only through Ying Wu Xie, grows nervous at the contradiction. He does know that Ying Wu Xie activated Spring Autumn Cicada and reset the situation, and weighs whether to say so. Fang Yuan waves it off and tells him to continue. Heaven’s will’s plan worked partly because everyone, even Sixth Hair’s main body, assumed an otherworldly demon had nothing to do with it. Split soul Old Man Yan Shi later found Fang Yuan’s rebirth after Three Kings blessed land but chose to scheme secretly, redirecting Central Continent Gu Immortals toward Luo Po Valley instead of exposing him. In that battle the Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance immortal zombie escaped only to be captured by Old Ancestor Xue Hu. ^{ch. 1076}

Fang Yuan’s mishaps traveling to Northern Plains after rebirth were heaven’s will’s attempts to eliminate him, Sixth Hair adds. Ying Wu Xie’s plight previews Fang Yuan’s own future. Hunted by the ten great ancient sects and Heavenly Court alike, Fang Yuan would find no safety even hiding in the other four regions. Only Heavenly Court’s own Immortals travel freely, having surrendered their apertures to it, facing no calamities or tribulations and going out in a phantom aperture. ^{ch. 1076}

Sixth Hair argues they are bound despite their enmity: if Ying Wu Xie falls to Heavenly Court, Fang Yuan’s secrets leak and Heavenly Court comes for him too, and if Ying Wu Xie dies, Fang Yuan will follow soon after. Persuaded, Fang Yuan agrees they can have a good transaction. ^{ch. 1076}

Overjoyed with relief, Sixth Hair had been driven by guilt. He blames himself for inadvertently helping Fang Yuan succeed a tribulation and refine change form Immortal Gu. Exposing himself was Ying Wu Xie’s idea, though Sixth Hair acted willingly. He now believes it worth the risk: Fang Yuan is Ying Wu Xie’s only way out, a chance Sixth Hair alone opened. ^{ch. 1076}