Chapter 1090

The Tai Qiu matter ends in success, and Lang Ya land spirit pays the promised reward: six hundred sect contribution points. Fang Yuan does not rush to spend them. What draws him most are the transformation path Immortal Gu recipes in Lang Ya Sect’s huge array. Lang Ya Sect’s three true inheritances come from Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, from Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable and from Long Hair Ancestor, none of them transformation path. After Shadow Sect and Tai Qiu, Fang Yuan feels deeply aware of his situation. ^{ch. 1090}

Fang Yuan can now travel between Lang Ya blessed land and Tai Qiu quickly. Even so he does not want to enter again, since dark limit Immortal Gu needs time to recover and heaven’s will, now aware of the Gu formation, will definitely turn beasts against him there. He reasons Lang Ya land spirit will push hairy man Gu Immortals toward transformation path cultivation, needing materials the treasury lacks at rank six and seven. Lang Ya land spirit will definitely send them into Tai Qiu on missions to kill desolate beasts, gathering materials and training their strength, the land spirit’s greatest concern. Fang Yuan decides to let them serve as his pawns. Better them targeted than him, and since it serves Lang Ya Sect too, he judges it no betrayal. ^{ch. 1090}

His advantage came from Shadow Sect’s intelligence, which it definitely paid a high price to obtain. He resolves to build up his own information path methods. ^{ch. 1090}

In Central Continent’s Earth Abyss, Ancient Soul Sect’s Gu Immortals finally locate Ying Wu Xie after searching more than ten times, remarking how really well hidden he had been. Badly hurt, half his body missing, he kneels, and they want him captured alive to interrogate his very incredible concealment method. He mockingly offers to reveal it at once. It is a trap: he had feigned weakness as bait, and his already-charged super Gu formation activates at once, restraining the three helplessly. Within three breaths their bodies and souls are smashed to bits. ^{ch. 1090}

As he gloats, Earth Abyss trembles with dazzling light: Heavenly Court has found him sooner than expected. He calms and retreats into the super Gu formation, greatly damaged from resisting Heavenly Court’s deductions and destroying the three elites, abandoning the base. Shi Nu, strongest since Ying Wu Xie returned every one of Shi Nu’s Immortal Gu, appears with Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Hei Lou Lan, both without Immortal Gu, their strength at the bottom. Tai Bai Yun Sheng worries over Ying Wu Xie’s injuries. Having transacted with the real Fang Yuan, Ying Wu Xie lost Fang Yuan’s appearance, but still holds absolute control over all three, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng is easily deceived since the destroyed body explains it. ^{ch. 1090}

Reclaiming the formation’s Immortal Gu, Ying Wu Xie and the other three take up the north, south, east and west directions. He vows loudly that they will return with vengeance. They activate freshly refined Immortal Gu together, fusing the effects, and vanish with a loud sound. ^{ch. 1090}

Heavenly Court’s rank eight Gu Immortals arrive behind Fairy Zi Wei, whose few interventions have each left Ying Wu Xie’s group in despair; without Fang Yuan, Ying Wu Xie would already be dead. Surveying the rubble, she deduces four Gu Immortals were present, notes the trail differs from where Fang Yuan seemed, and orders them killed regardless because they are Shadow Sect. A subordinate offers to give chase. It is too late, she answers: the four have reached the regional wall and should already be inside it. She names the method, the ancient battle formation Omni-directional Travel, used when Bo Qing awakened to teleport him, Yu Mu Chun, Seven Star Child and Song Zi Xing from Falling Heavenly River to Heavenly Lotus Sect. It uses people as cores and carries fewer restrictions than Heavenly Court’s Fixed Immortal Travel. She now completely understands how Ying Wu Xie escaped. ^{ch. 1090}