Chapter 1202

With no experts left to send, Chu Du weighs fighting Ye Lui Qun Xing himself. A win would still draw fresh challengers: Gong Wan Ting, Yao tribe’s Yao Yuan Ying, Guan tribe’s Guan Yang, and Nu Er tribe’s Nu Er Gu and Nu Er Qian. Unsure he could win every fight, he falls silent as Ye Lui Qun Xing mocks the delay. Xue Wu Hen, very prideful, begs to be sent. He might battle rank seven but is only rank six, and the other side is an expert among rank sevens, so Chu Du refuses. ^{ch. 1202}

An information Gu worm from Elder Liu Guan Yi lifts Chu Du’s mood at once, and he stalls Ye Lui Qun Xing, saying his sect’s second supreme elder is arriving. Ye Lui Hui Hong dismisses the threat, since even a stronger newcomer would only reach rank seven peak strength against their own gathering of experts and geniuses. Gong Wan Ting disagrees. She says Chu Du would not rank a nobody above Hao Zhen and Chou Lao Wu. ^{ch. 1202}

A Bai Zu tribe immortal, a former Hei tribe supreme elder, asks Hao Zhen about Liu Guan Yi’s strength rather than his own tribesmen, since Bai Zu Wei’s death at Iron Eagle blessed land has made the subject nearly taboo there. Hao Zhen and Chou Lao Wu, Chu Sect’s third and fourth supreme elders, are uncomfortable ranking beneath him yet will not damage their sect’s name. They answer only that he claims to be transformation path, though neither has ever seen him use such a move, not even against Heavenly Lord Bai Zu’s invasion of Hei Fan grotto-heaven. The surrounding immortals draw sharp breaths. They wonder if even that invasion could not force his full strength. ^{ch. 1202}

Fang Yuan arrives on a multicolored cloud. His light, unfettered looks leave every watching immortal with a deep impression. Chu Du flies out personally to welcome him, lifting Fang Yuan’s standing at once, and secretly hands him the Gu worm recording the earlier battles, treating him as an equal since the Crazed Demon Agreement. He tells Fang Yuan that Ye Lui Qun Xing, a star path cultivator who has already beaten four of their side, must be defeated. ^{ch. 1202}

Privately, Fang Yuan wants more: annexing Ye Lui Qun Xing’s blessed land would carry him to rank seven and start his own red date immortal essence. Ye Lui Qun Xing, tense since Fang Yuan appeared, cannot read his gaze. He says only that he is honored. Having studied the Gu worm’s records, Fang Yuan places him at the level of Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han, or slightly weaker, an expert among rank sevens. Above that tier stand Domination Immortal Chu Du and Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei, and above Chu Du, Feng Jiu Ge and Qin Bai Sheng once his memories return. ^{ch. 1202}

Fang Yuan judges he could beat Ye Lui Qun Xing outright in ancient sword dragon transformation, though killing him openly is harder, since the man’s killer move costs little immortal essence yet is terrifying in offense and defense, and losses only make him stronger. Even Dong Fang Chang Fan found him a headache he could not kill. A hundred beads of green grape immortal essence make only one bead of red date. A rank seven Immortal Gu needs at least a hundred and thirty such beads to match that effect, so Fang Yuan doubts he could sustain a long fight himself. So he declares he will not fight. ^{ch. 1202}

Immortal Wang, resentful since Fang Yuan scapegoated him at Iron Eagle blessed land, sneers that he must be afraid. Chu Du glares him silent at once, judging him and others like him, once lone cultivators or demonic drifters, as barely disciplined despite joining Chu Sect. Chu Du’s gaze alone then asks Fang Yuan why he refuses. Fang Yuan sneers that Ye Lui Qun Xing is too weak to bother with, a mere spit enough to kill him, fighting him like using an ox-cleaver on a chicken. ^{ch. 1202}

The crowd’s stomachs churn at such arrogance. Nian Er Ping Zhi is displeased, and Xue Wu Hen, who had always thought himself very prideful, stares at him dazed, unable to match him. Ye Lui Xiao Jin, most offended since Ye Lui Qun Xing is his tribesman, shouts that Fang Yuan dares not show his skills yet judges Lord Qun Xing’s, and that such boasting is fear dressed as pride. ^{ch. 1202}