Chapter 1101

Fang Yuan weighs whether to step into Hei tribe’s crisis. Though part of the Huang Jin family, Hei tribe is weak among Northern Plains’ super forces, and the whole of that region’s Gu Immortal world now besieges it on all fronts. Its fall looks certain, since it has no rank eight Gu Immortal to defend it. Its top four supreme elders can use Green City Rampage, an ancient battle formation and their one trump card, whose strength matches a rank eight’s to an extent. Fang Yuan grows tempted, since he holds an advantage the rest lack: his Gu Immortal captive Hei Cheng. Hei Cheng, the tribe’s spokesperson, cannot resist Fang Yuan’s soul search, and gives him clearer knowledge of Hei tribe than its hunters have. ^{ch. 1101}

What draws Fang Yuan most is the Hei Fan true inheritance. Hei Fan, a famous rank eight time path Gu Immortal, once made Hei tribe an overlord force; after his death it weakened as rivals rose, and no descendant could inherit what he left behind. A rank eight’s true inheritance could let its heir become rank eight in turn. With one, Hei tribe could have withstood this siege despite Hei Lou Lan’s role, since a rank eight facing pressure from peers pays, at most, a huge price in compensation to protect its tribe. ^{ch. 1101}

Fang Yuan’s core problem is heaven’s will, whose tribulations strike every two months, too short an interval to prepare. His body, born from the Sovereign Immortal Fetus, defies heaven and cannot be let to remain. Predecessors met short intervals mostly through time path methods that slow time inside an immortal aperture, as Lang Ya blessed land’s Long Hair Ancestor once arranged. This left Lang Ya land spirit ample time to prepare. Fang Yuan knows no time path Gu Immortal who could do this for him; even Tai Bai Yun Sheng lacked that specific method. He would not let any time path Gu Immortal learn the secret of his sovereign immortal aperture regardless. ^{ch. 1101}

He reasons the Hei Fan true inheritance is not an ordinary time path legacy. Hei Fan in life had slowed time in many Hei tribe Gu Immortals’ apertures, easing their calamities and once letting Hei tribe exceed rival forces in numbers. Blazing Heaven Demoness knew of it too, and sent her sister Su Xian Er into Hei tribe to obtain it and cure her own time path injury, which made time run fast for her and drove her to become an immortal zombie. Instead, Su Xian Er fell in love with Hei Cheng and bore Hei Lou Lan. Fang Yuan judges that slower time would cost him production and cultivation speed while steadying his position and greatly cutting his pressure. ^{ch. 1101}

Fang Yuan has intel, Dark Limit’s concealment, and familiar face and change form Gu to disguise himself against Hei tribe’s chaos. Among rank six Gu Immortals, bottom tier figures like Old Lu and ordinary ones like Qing Xuan Zi fight beside experts such as Zhuo Zhan, Divine Lord Tian Du and Shi Hou. Rank seven experts include Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han, and vague rumors put Heavenly Lord Bai Zu and Old Ancestor Xue Hu there too. The fighting stays chaotic, with forces still seizing Hei tribe’s resource points and far from its headquarters, so joining now would see Fang Yuan implicated, and Dark Limit’s protection lasts only briefly. He is also wary that heaven’s will, present within Spring Autumn Cicada near him, might learn his plans in advance, its reach spanning the five regions and two heavens. He resolves to wait until the situation clears, then strike fast and withdraw. ^{ch. 1101}

Days pass. The fighting around Hei tribe worsens into an expanding, uncontrollable free-for-all drawing in even secluded cultivators, Fang Yuan among those biding their time. At Myriad Bean Garden, Tian Xia Xin tells Chu Du that his own attempt failed, since the target is hiding inside an immortal aperture. But Tian Xia Xin has made another gain: he returns the flying sword Immortal Gu to Chu Du and points out an insignia on it, which he has already deciphered as the key to an immortal’s true inheritance. Surprised and intrigued, Chu Du asks whether it is Sword Immortal Bo Qing’s own sword path true inheritance. ^{ch. 1101}