Chapter 1150

Liu Qing Yu’s description of his opponent’s Immortal Gu convinces Ying Wu Xie that the stranger was very likely Fang Yuan, since familiar face can hide an appearance but never an Immortal Gu’s effects or a killer move. Beneath the sea area’s clouds, Ying Wu Xie senses heaven’s will watching closely, since both Fang Yuan and the reviving Spectral Soul Demon Venerable are its targets, though Fang Yuan now draws its attention most. He reads heaven’s will as maneuvering to lure himself and Fang Yuan into fighting each other, a plan that costs it little for two birds at once. He shares this secretly with Hei Lou Lan. She is startled he would confide something so significant in her, though she reasons she would do the same in his place, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng is still kept in the dark. Bound to him by Shadow Sect’s own alliance agreement, she has no choice but to plot alongside him regardless. ^{ch. 1150}

Hei Lou Lan doubts Fang Yuan would come here for an information path inheritance. Ying Wu Xie answers that Fang Yuan, now grown immensely strong and in need of information path methods, is likely chasing its clue. An earlier heaven’s will trap using that same inheritance had failed only because Fang Yuan went straight to Northern Plains instead, though in truth he never sensed the clue at all, concealed as it was inside flying sword Immortal Gu. Ying Wu Xie had learned what Fang Yuan exposed through Sixth Hair, and had passed Hei Lou Lan part of it to stoke her hatred. Hei Lou Lan realizes that Liu Qing Yu is a reminder to them from heaven’s will. Ying Wu Xie agrees, reading Liu Qing Yu’s choice of their island as no coincidence but heaven’s will steering him without his knowing, since its earlier trap can no longer hold a Fang Yuan grown this strong. ^{ch. 1150}

Hei Lou Lan proposes ambushing Fang Yuan to recover Ying Wu Xie’s sovereign immortal body. He leads the group away in huge, silent strides, Liu Qing Yu following, dazed. Privately, Ying Wu Xie promises Hei Lou Lan her freedom if they capture Fang Yuan, an offer she calls transparent since he would never truly give up her battle strength. ^{ch. 1150}

Hei Lou Lan asks how he means to deal with a rank eight Fang Yuan. Ying Wu Xie’s smile fades. He will not fight him at all, he sighs, since Fang Yuan’s immemorial upper extreme heavenly eagle makes him too costly to challenge. Hei Lou Lan suggests using their secluded domain of heaven and earth, and when he asks whether she truly wants Fang Yuan dead after all they went through together, she answers coldly that every man looks after himself. Ying Wu Xie refuses all the same, since that place would only strip the eagle’s threat for a time and he needs Fang Yuan captured alive as fresh material. Fighting Fang Yuan now, with his own memories still limited, would only fall into heaven’s will’s trap, so he decides they will leave Eastern Sea, leaving behind some arrangements as a parting gift for him. ^{ch. 1150}

A day later, Fang Yuan stands on a cloud at the edge of the turbulent flow sea area, named for the undercurrents beneath its calm surface that run with no fixed rhythm. Rumor holds that an intense battle among many rank six and rank seven Gu Immortals, with no rank eight among them, carved the dao marks that remade this place, and the wealth and inheritances left behind still draw seekers to it. Thick clouds there block starlight and blur the sun, so entering Gu Immortals easily lose their bearings, and only a rank eight expert could clear them, at a price not worth paying. Fang Yuan draws a deep breath and unleashes the immortal investigative killer move Qi Luck Sensation, gained from Feng Jun’s inheritance, which senses whoever is closely connected to him by luck. He senses at once that his targets are here, inside the sea area. ^{ch. 1150}