Chapter 1181

Five Elements Grandmaster presses that Bai Zu tribe’s creation signals fading Huang Jin influence, and warns that more Gu Immortals will follow him to Longevity Heaven. Heaven Extremity mocks the idea of merging with lone immortals and demonic cultivators like Gong tribe, recruiting a rank eight like Five Elements Grandmaster. Five Elements Grandmaster answers that they could cooperate: the Four Desolation Immortals are rank eight but short-lived, and he is not. Heaven Extremity laughs that this insults the Huang Jin tribes’ foundation and Ancestor Giant Sun. He dismisses Bai Zu tribe as a short-lived flicker with impure bloodline. The righteous path, he insists, belongs to the Huang Jin tribes. ^{ch. 1181}

At Xuan Bai blessed land, Liu tribe’s first supreme elder kneels in shock to receive the Longevity Edict, a golden token that is by nature an information path Immortal Gu. It carries an order: the Huang Jin tribes must unite against Bai Zu tribe. Liu tribe had hoped to watch Heavenly Lord Bai Zu and Chu Du weaken each other, wary of Bai Zu tribe on its new border and carrying its own old feud with Chu Du. The edict must be followed, and the elder, noting Liu tribe will face the heaviest pressure of any Huang Jin tribe, marks it and sends it on. ^{ch. 1181}

Back in the present, Chu Du and Fang Yuan receive this news inside Hei Fan grotto-heaven, surprised and overjoyed. Fang Yuan guesses that Longevity Heaven sent the edict, which Chu Du agrees must be the only explanation. Chu Du still cannot place the timing: the best moment to strike Bai Zu tribe was after Hei tribe’s destruction, yet Longevity Heaven did nothing. He wonders if it wants Hei Fan grotto-heaven for itself. The thought makes his heart sink. ^{ch. 1181}

Fang Yuan reminds him to use the remaining time to end the conflict with Heavenly Lord Bai Zu; the Immortal Gu No and Care were prepared for this moment. Chu Du agrees and sends his clone to open talks, using Gu worms planted through the grotto-heaven undetected. Heavenly Lord Bai Zu already knows Longevity Heaven sent the edict against Bai Zu tribe. Its long silence since he founded the tribe had left him believing he had probed its limits safely, so the news shocks him. Perplexed, he judges he cannot take Hei Fan grotto-heaven now, since his tribe needs every resource to survive its crisis. He does not know that Five Elements Grandmaster is already fighting Longevity Heaven, or that this crisis grew from that exchange. Then Chu Du’s Gu worm messenger reaches him. ^{ch. 1181}

Understanding Chu Du’s intention, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu remarks darkly on the Domination Immortal living up to his name. The contest for Hei Fan grotto-heaven ends at once. Northern Plains’ Gu Immortal world is shocked that Chu Du does not merely settle with him but gives up part of the grotto-heaven for an alliance that lets Heavenly Lord Bai Zu’s main body enter. Using that deterrence, Chu Du subdues the demonic path cultivators and lone immortals he recruited earlier. None dare resist a rank eight’s presence. He gathers them that same day into Chu Sect, which he calls Northern Plains’ first Gu Immortal sect. Fang Yuan watches coldly, knowing Lang Ya Sect was in truth the region’s first, but still judges that Chu Du has outdone himself. ^{ch. 1181}

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu is a deep schemer too; Northern Plains’ turn against him left him needing outside allies. Founding Chu Sect came easier to Chu Du, who had nurtured strength path Gu Immortals and the grotto-heaven as a base, than it did for Heavenly Lord Bai Zu. Chou Lao Wu and Hao Zhen, who had accidentally killed Bai Zu Wei, receive only mild punishment before being spared. Heavenly Lord Bai Zu can no longer be bothered with minor figures. Out of gratitude the two become Chu Sect’s most loyal members. ^{ch. 1181}

At the peak of his life after founding his own tribe, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu now faces every Huang Jin tribe united against him. He and Chu Du, fighting to the death days before, now stand as allies. Ordinary Gu Immortals might find these turns dizzying, but Fang Yuan sees that benefit alone has always decided everything. ^{ch. 1181}