Chapter 1139

Fang Yuan reflects that he had not practiced luck whirlwind enough. Maintaining several killer moves at once already draws enormous mental energy. In a life or death fight, a mind burdened past its limit may fail to answer a sudden attack in time, which has killed Gu Immortals before. To fix this, Fang Yuan resolves to raise his battle strength through more practice, simpler killer moves, and progress on wisdom path. Wisdom path Gu Immortals can often handle greater numbers of more complex killer moves than other paths, and he means to build on Dong Fang Chang Fan’s Wisdom Star true inheritance. That inheritance is specialized in deducing, not in controlling Gu worms, but he is now a wisdom path grandmaster. ^{ch. 1139}

Descending to the ground, Fang Yuan opens his immortal aperture’s entrance. Sixth Hair, unable to see properly from outside, makes out only the desolate icy plain of Mini Northern Plains of Sovereign blessed land, and assumes the aperture’s management has fallen behind. He has no idea Fang Yuan has completely plundered Hei Fan grotto-heaven, and still thinks him a pauper, when the rest of Sovereign blessed land in fact holds vast resources. Eyeing the chicken year beast, Sixth Hair counts a second rank seven battle strength beside the rank seven Fang Yuan holds at rank six. He definitely needs to report this to Lord Ying Wu Xie. ^{ch. 1139}

The chicken year beast clucks with happiness as Fang Yuan feeds it year Gu. Once satisfied, it flaps its wings and jumps into the River of Time, disappearing from sight. Fang Yuan takes the eagle hounds and the falling star hound into his aperture and asks the hairy men whether the mission is done; they nod, reluctant and embarrassed. Twelfth Hair, ashamed of his meager performance, stays silent, while Sixth Hair praises Fang Yuan as truly amazing but needles that he should have moved sooner. Fang Yuan brushes it off, and they return to Lang Ya blessed land with the teleportation Gu formation. ^{ch. 1139}

Lang Ya land spirit’s attitude softens considerably on hearing the report, and he is not very shocked at Fang Yuan’s battle strength, since he already knows of Fang Yuan’s rebirth with Spring Autumn Cicada. The falling star hound mission earns him the thousand contribution points. With them, Fang Yuan gains use of borrowed Gu worms for immortal tribulation tempering aperture, and in the days that follow he cultivates in peace, training his soul and secretly practicing luck whirlwind. He places most of Hei Fan grotto-heaven’s resources in Mini Southern Border, though weaker dao marks cut many resources’ production and leave some on the verge of dying. Selling what he cannot grow, he accumulates so many immortal essence stones that his once slightly insufficient reserve becomes his strong point, leaving him confident for his fourth earthly calamity. ^{ch. 1139}

When the day comes, Fang Yuan sets his immortal aperture at the northern icy plain; the qi absorption now takes tens of times longer, since his resources have grown by hundreds of times. He arranges immortal tribulation tempering aperture with ease. The fourth earthly calamity proves to be the profound white flying salt calamity, a mild type that falls silently and kills the plants beneath it. Fang Yuan judges he can completely bear the losses, and watches as snowmen rise from the salt, each granting Reckless Savage’s true meaning to whoever kills it. Unlike before, he shares none of this gain with Chu Du, racing heaven’s will to strike the snowmen before the falling salt melts them. He destroys almost all of them, and waves of the true meaning raise his transformation path and strength path attainment. ^{ch. 1139}

His first three earthly calamities together are not a tenth of this one, and only after three days does the flying salt begin to slightly decrease, stopping days later. This proves easier than expected. Somewhat puzzled, Fang Yuan credits the mild result to his time path test of heaven’s will’s deduction earlier at Tai Qiu. The fourth earthly calamity ends without even a small injury, and he decides to keep the salted land as a special environment once he cleanses it. He retrieves his immortal aperture and starts back toward Lang Ya blessed land. ^{ch. 1139}

But right at that moment, everything changes. Fang Yuan is pulled into a battlefield killer move, with nine Gu Immortals and an enormous dragon shaped immemorial desolate beast surrounding him, its aura majestic and boundless, staring at him with open hostility. He understands at once: this is a human calamity, heaven’s will deliberately dragging out his tribulation to set this deadly trap. In an instant, he has fallen into a deep predicament. ^{ch. 1139}