Chapter 1079

In a dark pool of soul water, Ying Wu Xie watches Sixth Hair’s remorseful report. Their soul path method carries an information path effect, crossing two regional walls in real time and evading Lang Ya land spirit’s senses. Ying Wu Xie answers that the fault is not Sixth Hair’s, since he himself had used a trump card to raise his luck, which Fang Yuan exploited. Ying Wu Xie no longer wears Fang Yuan’s face. He has moved into another zombie body whose aperture had broken apart, leaving a body ill-suited to Gu worms. ^{ch. 1079}

The transaction can be counted a huge loss for Ying Wu Xie. Yet he stays tranquil, praising Sixth Hair for showing weakness throughout and for the closing faint, which secured the materials he needed. Sixth Hair admits the faint was meant to probe Fang Yuan, who never took the bait. Facing an absolute plight, Ying Wu Xie had inflated the materials list to hide what he truly wanted. He judges the goal achieved, hope bought, prospects extremely promising once this hurdle passes. ^{ch. 1079}

Sixth Hair is still uneasy, since Fang Yuan now holds his own body and Spring Autumn Cicada, but Ying Wu Xie dismisses it: sealed, starving, unusable for a long time. Sixth Hair’s worry eases. Ying Wu Xie sets the plan: watch Fang Yuan and let him grow, until Ying Wu Xie gathers strength, saves their main body, and settles the score. ^{ch. 1079}

Some time later, Fang Yuan gazes at the recovered zombie body, sighing that he dares not use it. Careful inspection found no problem, though Fang Yuan judges it more likely that a split soul of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable hid a trap beyond his skill to find. The transaction carried no information path restriction, and Fang Yuan’s own methods in that path sit below Ying Wu Xie’s. He cannot guarantee this body’s safety. ^{ch. 1079}

He wants the body mainly to win wisdom Gu’s acknowledgment, needing his soul inside it, very dangerous given Shadow Sect’s skill with the soul. He warns himself against even the slightest carelessness, and will use the body only once certain of safety, or perhaps risk it with no option left. Even without wisdom Gu, Fang Yuan judges this a great success. ^{ch. 1079}

Spring Autumn Cicada has always been his greatest trump card, naturally his again with his body back, since it remained in the first aperture as his vital Gu. Sixth Hair first denied that Ying Wu Xie held it, and with no restriction, Fang Yuan could not tell truth from lies. Eventually he regained both his body and the cicada. The cicada carries its own trouble: sealed by Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals, starving, with heaven’s will still hidden inside, his single greatest threat. Neither can be used yet, but Fang Yuan is happy, since even unused, holding them counts as a huge victory. ^{ch. 1079}

In the second transaction Fang Yuan also demanded Fixed Immortal Travel; Sixth Hair could not produce it, and Fang Yuan guesses it may truly be destroyed. He gives up the demand. The completed transaction betrays Lang Ya Sect and hands Sixth Hair a hold over him. He still walks away with a large haul: Hei Lou Lan’s strength qi, self strength, and flying bear strength Immortal Gu, Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s Landscape as Before and Man as Before, and his own recovered pulling mountain, pulling water, star eyes, and calamity beckoning. Ying Wu Xie had placed two more of Fang Yuan’s Immortal Gu, iron crown eagle strength and connect luck, in treasure yellow heaven, and its closure traps them there. Six others, Starlight, Star Mark, Star Shoot, Fixed Immortal Travel, Cleanse Soul and Eat Strength, self-detonated under Fang Yuan’s own special will, and Ying Wu Xie could not save them. ^{ch. 1079}

This account could be false, since nothing binds either side to honesty. Each transaction betrays Lang Ya Sect once more and weakens Fang Yuan’s tough stance by some degree, while Shadow Sect’s weak stance gradually strengthens, though he keeps the firm upper hand, since Ying Wu Xie is the desperate one. He does not want Ying Wu Xie to die too soon, since that death could leave Heavenly Court a trail to Fang Yuan. ^{ch. 1079}

Fang Yuan knows Shadow Sect would try to kill him for stealing sovereign immortal fetus Gu, but that same want is also why they protect him in secret. Ma Hong Yun’s fate is his warning: Shadow Sect definitely wants to re-refine the Gu from him, held back only by circumstance. Since Ying Wu Xie had looked to Fang Yuan for these transactions, Ying Wu Xie was truly out of options, and Fang Yuan means to leave him hope rather than drag them down. What Sixth Hair argued at the start had done its work in the end. ^{ch. 1079}