Chapter 1207

Hao Zhen leaps skyward and spits a lapis lazuli thunderbolt at a burly Murong tribe Gu Immortal, his wide nose, large chin and small forehead making his head triangular. The man lets it land rather than dodge, standing unharmed but for a burnt, smoking patch, and tells Hao Zhen the hit burned a little of his hair, a little more powerful than before. Onlookers name him Murong Gang, the Gu Immortal famous in Northern Plains for his defense. Gong Wan Ting sent him out to raise morale after Fang Yuan’s killing of Ye Lui Qun Xing dealt the righteous path an extremely heavy blow. Hao Zhen admits defeat, pale and ashamed, and Chu Du consoles him. ^{ch. 1207}

Chu Du privately credits the Huang Jin tribes’ long dominance in Northern Plains for such truly powerful accumulation, first Ye Lui Qun Xing and now Murong Gang. Fang Yuan has not been gone long, and Chu Du already has no one strong enough to send. Immortal Wang suggests recalling Elder Liu, and the crowd agrees, praising Liu Guan Yi’s ancient sword dragon breath. Murong Gang himself tells Domination Immortal Chu Du to send no minor characters: besides Chu Du, only Liu Guan Yi enters his eyes. He wants to experience that dragon breath. ^{ch. 1207}

Chou Lao Wu is furious at the insult. Hao Zhen claims that in a two on two he and Chou Lao Wu could use wind thunder roar to wipe Murong Gang’s side out. Hao Zhen knows it needs a safe environment, one they had only when others shielded them during Heavenly Lord Bai Zu’s attack on Hei Fan grotto-heaven. ^{ch. 1207}

Both camps wait on Fang Yuan, but no reply comes. The righteous path wants him dead to salvage its own face. In Lang Ya blessed land, Fang Yuan runs a mortal Gu formation merging tens of thousands of green grape immortal essence into red date immortal essence, two beads already made. Chu Du’s sixth letter about Murong Gang only slightly diverts his attention, and he tosses it aside unanswered. His agreement with Chu Sect is extremely loose: short of its fundamental interests and principles, he could betray the sect or leave outright with no backlash. ^{ch. 1207}

He reads the competition as a compromise between the rank eights Heavenly Lord Bai Zu and Yao Huang. Neither would truly fight to the death. Yao Huang cannot destroy the established Bai Zu tribe alone, and he was already reluctant when he received the Longevity Edict. Fang Yuan judges that the edict alone cannot break the Chu Sect and Bai Zu tribe alliance. Hei tribe, lacking a rank eight and its Immortal Gu House, was destroyed by fellow Huang Jin tribes on mere pretexts. ^{ch. 1207}

His sovereign immortal aperture skips calamities by annexation, a shortcut he likes, and he wants chaos, the more the better, though the five regions chaotic war is over four hundred years off. The competition is too gentle for that. Without deaths there are no blessed lands to gain. He wonders how Northern Plains’ human Gu Immortals would respond to Lang Ya Sect and the four races alliance, but alliance agreements bind him, and even Do Not Care cannot resolve that underlying problem. ^{ch. 1207}

He rules out Blood Plain: neither the sect’s anticipation nor the enemy’s provocation hold value for him. Killing Ye Lui Qun Xing had taken all his effort, and moving even slightly slower would have lost that chance. Murong Gang is a foe hard to beat, let alone kill. Chu Du’s side has lost many times since it began, the righteous path not even a third as often; Fang Yuan blames internal sect conflict, a trick righteous Gu Immortals like to play. ^{ch. 1207}

He had first meant to go to Southern Border, and spent recent days almost entirely on refining dream path mortal Gu for its giant dream realm. But he judges this opening at the competition truly too rare to pass up. Southern Border’s righteous defenders hold that realm behind a super Gu formation, very difficult to meddle in now. Once his green grape immortal essence finishes converting, he quietly leaves Lang Ya blessed land for Liu tribe’s territory: he is going to do something bad. ^{ch. 1207}