Chapter 1156

Fang Yuan takes control of the hidden room oyster, patting the young Gu Immortal’s face. Stiff with humiliation, the young man does not move. Fang Yuan jumps into the oyster and leaves in his place, giving his name, Chu Ying. Watching the oyster close its shell and vanish, the young Gu Immortal swears he has already transmitted Chu Ying’s appearance to his grandfather. ^{ch. 1156}

The two crying women ask what to do now. He reassures them: traveling son Gu can still return him to his grandfather’s doting mother Gu. Overjoyed, they believe themselves saved. Instead two shots ring out and both are shot through, silenced for having witnessed everything. He blames Chu Ying for their deaths and throws both corpses into the current, where they are torn apart at once. ^{ch. 1156}

As the space collapses, he escapes with traveling son Immortal Gu instead. Space path methods are unsafe here, but emotion path, not yet created when the sea area formed, is not. Emotion path originates from wisdom path, whose three elements are thoughts, wills, and emotions. Carried by its power, he wakes minutes later inside Ren Xiu Ping’s blessed land. ^{ch. 1156}

He tells his grandfather that a demon stole the oyster and killed his two servants. Ren Xiu Ping mutters the unfamiliar name Chu Ying and memorizes it. He lectures the boy, sentences him to ten years of secluded cultivation inside his aperture, and casts him into a cave. He vows he will deal with Chu Ying himself one day. ^{ch. 1156}

Fang Yuan reasons he might as well offend Ren Xiu Ping, already courting Miao Ming Shen. The oyster proves useful for travel, letting him rest inside it whenever the current is calm. After taking it, his luck falls through bad currents and detours. A day later he reaches the central area, its currents massive. Despite constant change, the area proves surprisingly stable, too large to shift much. ^{ch. 1156}

Many bubbles drift here, head to mountain sized, holding carcasses and inheritances, though most hold sea water and small islands. Fang Yuan finds his target and forces his way in with difficulty. Inside is another world: a green sea, with an island of wild grass and stone pillars. ^{ch. 1156}

At a stone pillar, Fang Yuan takes out flying sword Immortal Gu, and the pillars, seeming to sense the information path insignia on it, glow red and move. A vat-sized space opens, and a skeleton falls out, full of bone path dao marks, a quasi rank eight immortal material. In its hand is a dark green lump; bursting it open reveals several sleeping Gu worms, two Immortal Gu and five mortal Gu. Most are already dead, turned to ash after countless years of poor preservation. Only one rank six Immortal Gu survives, barely, and Fang Yuan quickly saves it. ^{ch. 1156}

He does not recognize it, concluding this is the so-called information path inheritance. Fang Yuan, fresh off Hei Fan’s true inheritance, feels only unsatisfied. Examining the skull, he excavates fragmented thoughts: the creator’s name is lost, but this person barely survived a battle and set up the inheritance here. It is indeed an information path inheritance, but most of its information is gone. ^{ch. 1156}

What he gains is the Immortal Gu he saved: Perceivable Dao, an information path investigative Immortal Gu whose very niche effect shows a target’s dao mark types and quantity. The skeleton was not the creator but an enemy the information path Gu Immortal had killed, its dao marks preserved inside as immortal material. A dead Gu Immortal’s dao marks normally return to their aperture, but those of an immortal zombie stay in its body. He judges the method amazing but the inheritance too incomplete, disappointed after hoping it might break his alliance agreements. Keeping the Immortal Gu, he prepares to leave. ^{ch. 1156}

A blood-red figure suddenly charges into the bubble. He calls Fang Yuan a murderer and demands where he is going, bloodshot eyes fixed fiercely on him. ^{ch. 1156}