Chapter 1227

In a dream realm, a Gu Master tells Fang Yuan that Combat Immortal Sect selects disciples by combat result, taking ten of a hundred candidates. Fang Yuan privately wonders why the dream took this shape. He guesses it formed from souls Spectral Soul Demon Venerable once absorbed through the Door of Life and Death. Offered water arrow Gu, fire cloak Gu and spirit saliva Gu, he may take only one as a rank one Gu Master, and picks fire cloak Gu, a defensive Gu that cloaks him in fire. Held to a single Gu, he reasons the trial calls for cooperation, with a hundred competing for ten spots. ^{ch. 1227}

Trusting no one enough to explore with him, Fang Yuan casts his immortal killer move, unravel dream, since his dream time is very precious and a weakened soul risks trapping him in the dream forever, as happened to some of Southern Border’s own Gu Immortals. A senior Gu Master appears and has his junior give Fang Yuan the spirit saliva Gu too, since it cannot be detected once he is hidden inside fire cloak Gu. The scene fades into a second one. Unravel dream’s effect changes to fit each dream realm, so its actual result varies from one to the next. Here unravel dream nets him only one extra mortal Gu, a rather small effect next to the immediate progress it gave him inside Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s dream realm. ^{ch. 1227}

The fog around him resolves into a Gu formation built for a hundred fighters. A young man attacks rather than ally, since Fang Yuan is said to have offended Young Master Long by trying to take his woman. Fang Yuan dodges his water arrows, wears him down, and offers an alliance again, but the young man refuses, preferring to forfeit rather than cross Young Master Long. Facing every rival alone, Fang Yuan judges Young Master Long truly a problem. Thirty youths surround him, ganged up together on every side. Fang Yuan rates this dream realm harder even than Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s, which accounts for the heavy losses that Southern Border’s righteous path Gu Immortals suffered. ^{ch. 1227}

At Bai Xiang grotto-heaven, Bai Ning Bing announces plainly that he has succeeded, his body charred black from containing raging wave rising dragon fire with his own flesh, a feat that could have turned him to ash. Bai Xiang heavenly spirit names him the grotto-heaven’s new owner. He says nothing further, fearing that another word would make him faint and leave him unable to control the fire, which would burn him to a crisp instantly. Bai Xiang heavenly spirit warns that carelessness would still kill him completely, soul included, and says the Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance Physique would have been better, but he carries the Northern Dark Ice Soul Physique. It offers a Gu refinement method using the Gu Immortal himself as material together with the fire, remaking him as a dragonman. ^{ch. 1227}

Bai Ning Bing does not speak, but the heavenly spirit reads his doubt: The Legends of Ren Zu names no dragonman. Bai Xiang heavenly spirit answers that a human great expert, Duke Long, created it, the original intention being to prolong lifespan. It names Duke Long a Heavenly Court Gu Immortal of extremely high battle strength, once on the level of Sword Immortal Bo Qing, and says Duke Long fused refinement path and transformation path into the humans alike dragons method. Bai Ning Bing’s shock deepens. His own knowledge of Gu Immortal history is wide, yet he cannot place Duke Long in any record, and he wonders whether Bai Xiang heavenly spirit is speaking nonsense. ^{ch. 1227}