Chapter 1098

A wind flower hits Fang Yuan’s back despite dozens of his phantoms around him, tearing his defense and drawing blood. He reads it as bad luck. Dog Shit Luck’s protection is weakening with time, raising the risk heaven’s will finds him, and Dark Limit’s concealment is weakening too. Familiar face still holds, though myriad self is now only a distraction that heaven’s will sees through faster each time. His worsening injuries force him onto Man as Before, burning through immortal essence he did not have much of. ^{ch. 1098}

The number of snow moons keeps rising and Fang Yuan’s situation looks dire, his robe soaked in frozen blood and his hair snapped to uneven lengths. He does not give up. Eventually the wind flower tribulation reaches its limit and fades, since even heaven’s will cannot push a calamity past its hard cap. The wind flowers do not kill Fang Yuan, and the snow moons stop forming, but many remain in the sky and it is still a tough battle. ^{ch. 1098}

Extremely weak, Fang Yuan keeps using myriad self, strength path giant hand, triple layered sword wave and familiar face, and several fail outright, each failure costing him blood in backlash. The earthly calamity itself is nearing its own limit alongside him. He cannot flee, since the calamity is unresolved and heaven and earth qi stays unbalanced, leaving him unable to retrieve his immortal aperture. Heaven’s will had long been shaping the tribulation best suited to killing him, unable to stop Reckless Savage’s true meaning but turning that meaning into the snow moon tribulation and making this calamity far harder. An hour later he collapses on Dang Hun Mountain, his immortal essence spent and familiar face lost, having destroyed most of the snow moons but one still hanging in the sky. With nothing left to cast, he manages only a faint smile of a victor, telling himself he has survived. A desolate beast, the spinefin star dragonfish under beast enslavement Gu, then destroys the final snow moon. ^{ch. 1098}

Heaven and earth qi settles and Fang Yuan quickly leaves Northern Plains. After he is gone, two concealed figures surface from beneath the ice and confirm a tribulation’s traces, its heaven and earth qi not yet completely dissipated. They are snowman Gu Immortals discussing the northern icy plain, made singlehandedly by Reckless Savage Demon Venerable with thinner heaven and earth qi than elsewhere, the last refuge for snowmen who avoid the wider world’s conflicts. Too many tribulations there risk shattering the glaciers. The younger presses to kill the intruding human Gu Immortals while sparing only Chu Du, whom even he admits is very strong. The elder warns that fighting Chu Du risks exposing them to all of Northern Plains, and the two agree to report to the tribe. ^{ch. 1098}

Fang Yuan, still wounded, hurries back toward Lang Ya blessed land. He recalls that heaven’s will’s best chance against him comes during a tribulation, when it can raise a calamity to its limit and steer it directly. It can even turn other people into a human tribulation, as it once did against Spectral Soul at Yi Tian Mountain, who fell despite a hundred thousand years of Shadow Sect and Zombie Alliance support. Fang Yuan had been part of that human tribulation himself, and the experience keeps him wary of them. He reaches Lang Ya blessed land without incident, healing in his cloud city and returning the Immortal Gu he had borrowed. ^{ch. 1098}

Days later, healed, Fang Yuan restores Dang Hun Mountain to its former size with Landscape as Before. Countless wind flowers had cut it from a huge mountain to a tiny mound. Only in this state can it produce guts Gu at its best, so he hands it to Lang Ya blessed land. But treasure yellow heaven remains closed, leaving Lang Ya Sect’s huge stock of guts Gu unsellable and Fang Yuan anxious. His third earthly calamity, stronger than the last, arrives in two months, and without some breakthrough he judges he will likely die. ^{ch. 1098}