Chapter 1201

At Blood Plain, starlight shines as though stars filled the sky. Golden Dawn Hall floats steady above the turbulence, while Chu Du’s Gu Immortals stand on clouds, worried. Chu Du stays expressionless, though his eyes on the fight are heavy: he judges Immortal Wang will lose. ^{ch. 1201}

In the center of the battlefield, Immortal Wang, transformed into a heaven swallowing hound, fights the righteous path Gu Immortal Ye Lui Qun Xing. Wang holds only rank seven cultivation, and lacking a matching rank eight Immortal Gu, the hound’s battle strength stays at rank seven. Ye Lui Qun Xing, tall and thin with three strands of hair for a beard, keeps his distance, hundreds of star fragments circling both fighters. A fragment strikes Wang, slowing him and exposing an opening. Three more strike, and the hound coughs blood and nearly falls. ^{ch. 1201}

Ye Lui Qun Xing calls it useless: his move takes Dong Fang Chang Fan’s myriad star fireflies as reference, its trajectory profound and inscrutable, and where six fragments once completely blocked Wang, at least thirty-six now surround him. He asks how Wang means to break through. ^{ch. 1201}

Ye Lui Qun Xing lost to Dong Fang Chang Fan repeatedly. Northern Plains read the losses as persistence, not weakness. A shared Huang Jin bloodline kept Dong Fang Chang Fan from landing a heavy blow. After a win, Dong Fang Chang Fan taught him secrets of myriad star fireflies; treasuring the lesson, Ye Lui Qun Xing withdrew into closed cultivation. Unaware it was Dong Fang Chang Fan’s scheme to rid himself of an annoyance and win Ye Lui tribe’s goodwill, Ye Lui Qun Xing never challenged him again, turning to his own development. His move makes the star fragments its main body, closer to his own creation than a copy. ^{ch. 1201}

Wang keeps coughing blood, dizzy and heavily injured. His immortal essence expenditure is enormous. Chu Du’s Gu Immortals grow more unsettled: a loss would make Wang the fourth opponent Ye Lui Qun Xing has defeated. They murmur that a few fragments could once be resisted, but a hundred cannot be. ^{ch. 1201}

Off to the side, Nian Er Ping Zhi is steadying his breath. His tribe’s position has moved toward the center because he killed the rank seven demonic path expert Granny Yin, rare for his young age. ^{ch. 1201}

By now the two alliances have fought more than ten battles; Chu Du opened with Xue Wu Hen, who won three in a row. Gong Wan Ting answered with Nian Er Ping Zhi, who used the immortal killer move sword heart clarity to kill the renowned demonic path expert Granny Yin. The two sides set a corpse exchange rule and paused the fighting. When it resumed, Yuan tribe, Meng tribe and others faced Hao Zhen, Chou Lao Wu and some Bai Zu tribe Gu Immortals, with wins, losses and injuries on both sides but no deaths. Gong Wan Ting sent Ye Lui Qun Xing. ^{ch. 1201}

Ye Lui Qun Xing is a true main strength of Ye Lui tribe. He is an expert among rank sevens whose losses came only against Dong Fang Chang Fan. Ye Lui Hui Hong holds higher seniority but weaker battle strength, and the righteous path values seniority, unlike the demonic path. ^{ch. 1201}

Chu Du concedes the battle, and Immortal Wang retreats in shame. Ye Lui Qun Xing does not press for the kill, since Wang can defend himself. Wang’s mood is complicated: an expected easy win did not come. He reports to Chu Du that the killer move is ingenious, cheap on essence, and its fragments’ mutual pull threw off his control. Qun Xing was weakest at first, Wang adds, before the array grew to a hundred. His account is sincere, but it also excuses him. ^{ch. 1201}

Chu Du pats his shoulder and says it is good he returned safely; the gesture nearly brings Wang to tears. Ye Lui Qun Xing calls for a fifth opponent. Chu Du’s expression shifts, killing intent flashing. ^{ch. 1201}

His Gu Immortals murmur that the man has beaten four, and even Wang’s transformed strength was not enough. Bai Zu tribe’s Gu Immortals stay silent. Bai Zu Wei is already dead, their strength lying in Green City Rampage, not single combat, while Hao Zhen and Chou Lao Wu’s wind thunder roar can pressure opponents but both men carry injuries, wounds hard to heal from conflicting dao marks. Chu Du has no expert left to send, while Golden Dawn Hall still holds many, and his own side, a new alliance of Bai Zu tribe and his sect, is thin and stretched to its limit. ^{ch. 1201}