Chapter 1153

Arriving by Omni-directional Travel, Ying Wu Xie’s group finds their view completely blocked by blue water regional wall. The turbulent flow sea area lies very close to that wall. Hei Lou Lan sighs, asking if they are leaving again. Tai Bai Yun Sheng asks who chased them. Ying Wu Xie names him a strong, irreconcilable enemy: only rank six cultivation, but rank eight battle strength. Tai Bai Yun Sheng repeats the figure, and Hei Lou Lan feigns shock. ^{ch. 1153}

Tai Bai Yun Sheng laments that Liu Qing Yu, left facing such strength, is finished, though Shi Nu calls dying for Shadow Sect his greatest honor. Hei Lou Lan secretly warns that the eagle roams the nine heavens and travels the five regional walls freely, urging distance. Ying Wu Xie answers that Fang Yuan’s eagle came from Hei Fan, whose own upper extreme heavenly eagle was raised in Northern Plains. It would face the same suppression entering the walls, so they are safe here. Relieved, Hei Lou Lan asks whether they go to Southern Border for the rescue. ^{ch. 1153}

Instead of entering the wall, Ying Wu Xie floats in place, telling the others only to wait, for the enemy. Confused, the three do not understand why they would wait to be found. Hei Lou Lan suddenly asks how the enemy tracked their exact location so precisely. Tai Bai Yun Sheng wonders aloud whether a traitor, perhaps Liu Qing Yu as a spy, sits among them. Ying Wu Xie judges a traitor unlikely, since Tai Bai Yun Sheng too is bound by the alliance agreement. He concludes the enemy most probably holds an investigative method able to track them. Shi Nu sees the point of holding outside the wall: they are waiting for the enemy to use that investigative killer move. ^{ch. 1153}

Privately, Ying Wu Xie reasons it through. He considers heaven’s will, but the answer does not satisfy him. Then he recalls Connect Luck Immortal Gu, sold once and reclaimed since, whose effect on the soul lets their luck remain truly connected even through Fang Yuan’s new body. He had learned from Shadow Sect that luck can be exploited against heaven’s will, and he had used Connect Luck to bind his own luck to Hei Lou Lan’s. ^{ch. 1153}

Using luck inspection Immortal Gu, he confirms it. The luck above his and Hei Lou Lan’s heads is shaking slightly. Lacking break luck Immortal Gu, he cannot sever the link, and his soul path methods interfere with the luck to poor effect, leaving it still shaking. He briefly considers abandoning Hei Lou Lan, whose huge value costs them Omni-directional Travel entirely if lost, but drops the thought. Entering Shi Nu’s immortal aperture instead stops the shaking, combined with his soul methods, and he orders Hei Lou Lan inside as well. Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Shi Nu cross into the regional wall and vanish from sight. ^{ch. 1153}

Fresh from Qing Yu blessed land, Fang Yuan activates Qi Luck Sensation. He senses several locations across Eastern Sea, Western Desert and Southern Border, with Eastern Sea clearest and busiest. The range is huge but not very precise; only Connect Luck lets him reach across regions at all. He vows to keep pursuing and weakening them regardless of outright victory. Stopping Ying Wu Xie from saving Spectral Soul’s main body would itself count as victory. ^{ch. 1153}

His expression changes at once: two of them vanish from his senses. His heart sinks, since Ying Wu Xie sensed the method too quickly for him to keep pursuing. As long as the luck connection holds, Ying Wu Xie stays threatened by this killer move whenever Fang Yuan chooses to use it. If Ying Wu Xie ever breaks the link instead, that is exactly what he wants. Setting that aside, he decides to claim the good things inside the turbulent flow sea area first. ^{ch. 1153}