Chapter 1162

Having finished testing perceivable dao Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan returns to soul path cultivation and flies toward Luo Po Valley. In Mini Southern Border of his sovereign immortal aperture, a strength path immortal zombie he controls lands on a small mountain he names Heaven Sealing Mountain. The name is very grand, but the mountain is short and uninspiring. Its peak holds a huge Gu formation sealing his own original immortal zombie body inside the hollow interior. That body stands six meters tall, with bat wings, a green face, sharp fangs, and shut eyes, its eight arms, six of them individually named beside his own original two, spread like a peacock’s tail with fingers stabbed into the ground. Sealed, its heartbeat is very slow, one beat every few minutes. ^{ch. 1162}

Inspecting with perceivable dao Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan discovers Ying Wu Xie had seeded roughly ten thousand soul path dao marks into the body, more than his own native strength path dao marks. His caution, it turns out, was truly wise. He opens a slit in the seal and forces a captive Gu Immortal’s soul into the body to test it. The body shakes, then stops, eyes opening blood red as it roars, though sealed and unable to rise. The trapped soul screams that it is melting. Fang Yuan judges the melting really fast, an amazing method, and has the zombie try pulling the soul back out. ^{ch. 1162}

A ghost face appears on the body’s chest, cackling, and an immense strength bursts out, forcing the zombie back three steps before it vanishes. The soul is completely melted, not even a trace left; the trap holds like a deep pit no pulled soul can escape. Re-inspecting, he finds the soul path dao marks have not decreased at all but risen by two thousand. The trap does not just stop a soul from leaving; it melts the soul to replenish and strengthen itself, and Fang Yuan judges it incredibly vicious and its method extraordinary. He is glad his own caution kept him from risking his own soul. ^{ch. 1162}

Probing the trap further would only strengthen it. Unless he can find a way to target the soul path dao marks in the body directly, sending more souls to test it is restricted. He reasons the Eastern Sea information path inheritance held such methods, evidenced by flying sword Immortal Gu’s added information path insignia. Further evidence lies in a skeleton: normally a dead Gu Immortal’s dao marks pass into a blessed land or scatter, but this information path Gu Immortal carved a bone path Gu Immortal’s dao marks into it instead, a very special method. He judges the complete inheritance might really have held methods against dao marks, but regrets obtaining it too late: it had sat too long, created on the verge of death, so its Gu worms were mostly dead and its methods lost. ^{ch. 1162}

Still lacking information path methods to escape his alliance agreements’ restrictions, he considers hunting an information path Immortal Gu that can break such agreements, but must keep the search from Lang Ya Sect and its land spirit. His own information path attainment is only ordinary, and though his gains from the Eastern Sea trip were not few, this original goal went unmet. His focus turns back to soul path cultivation; an hour later he leaves Luo Po Valley, his rapidly growing foundation now letting him stay there fifty percent longer. But he wavers, having seen the trap in his own zombie body. Ying Wu Xie knew he held Luo Po Valley and Dang Hun Mountain; cultivating his soul is still not wrong, but reaching enough foundation to resist the trap would cost a long time and huge effort he cannot spare. He decides the information path matter must wait: the fifth earthly calamity, unlike the previous four, is coming, and he can no longer undergo it in the northern icy plain. A few days later, Chu Du offers by letter to help him through the tribulation in exchange for Reckless Savage’s true meaning, leaving Fang Yuan’s hands tied. ^{ch. 1162}