Chapter 1235

Duke Long cannot say whether a rank ten Gu Immortal realm exists, but holds that a rank ten Immortal Gu likely can, as Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable once stated. Only three Immortal Venerables ever truly fused their immortal apertures into Heavenly Court. They were Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, creator of wisdom path, and Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, creator of wood path and owner of Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus. At Northern Plains, the blood battle martial competition reaches its final battle, with the Huang Jin tribes already set to defeat the Chu Sect and Bai Zu tribe alliance. Domination Immortal Chu Du, who has already defeated Liu Zhuan Shen and Yao Yuan Ying, faces Gong Wan Ting, Prince Feng Xian’s wife, in a last clash between the two sides’ leaders. ^{ch. 1235}

The two fight for over two hundred rounds across a day and night, a clash of two experts at the peak of rank seven that nearly destroys the Blood Plain and forces spectators back thirty thousand li. Chu Du is bloodied by the second dawn, and neither can finish the other. Rank eight Yao Huang drops a pillar of light between them and calls the match a draw, and Heavenly Lord Bai Zu, also rank eight, agrees from a cloud layer before both fly up into white heaven. The spectators stay, since the fight between Heavenly Lord Bai Zu and Yao Huang will decide everything. Chu Du accepts the result and will not kill Gong Wan Ting, since she is Prince Feng Xian’s wife and killing her would provoke him now that Chu Sect exists. Actual deaths across the competition are few, some rank six and fewer rank seven Gu Immortals, the greatest loss being Ye Lui Qun Xing, killed by Fang Yuan. Both sides had come to a subtle agreement late on, though injuries stayed costly, since dao marks make them hard to heal. ^{ch. 1235}

In white heaven, Yao Huang and Heavenly Lord Bai Zu skip actual combat. Any tea or wine counts as an incomplete food path Gu recipe, so Gu Immortals probe each other’s refinement path attainment by offering one instead of competing openly, though the probe stays shallow and vague. Instead they drink tea and eat snacks over a chess game, while two clones from Heavenly Lord Bai Zu’s method fight below at thirty percent of rank eight strength, making the noise the immortals in Blood Plain hear. From the gold leaf tea, better than the silver leaf tea he drank before, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu judges that Yao Huang is not far from refining resurrection from the dead Gu, the improvement coming from those refinement attempts. Heavenly Lord Bai Zu explains his cloning method came from repeated failed attempts to invade Hei Fan grotto-heaven, and admits it still falls short of Longevity Heaven’s Perfect Pair, a killer move of Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable’s that grants a clone full power. ^{ch. 1235}

Yao Huang assures Heavenly Lord Bai Zu that the Longevity Edict alone cannot mobilize the two of them unless Longevity Heaven’s own rank eight Gu Immortals appear. He turns to Northern Plains’ own danger, Old Ancestor Xue Hu, the highest battle strength among its rank eight Gu Immortals, who would be unstoppable if he refined fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu. But Snowy Mountain blessed land is heavily guarded now. Even they would have trouble breaking in. Both agree that the demonic path’s rise since Eighty-Eight True Yang Building’s collapse is the greater danger, and their own righteous path rivalry only an internal conflict. They also agree the competition has already killed a portion of the lone and demonic cultivators it invited, with the rest set to join either Chu Sect or Bai Zu tribe. But Yao Huang insists Chu Sect must change, since Northern Plains will not allow a sect to exist, and warns that if Chu Du wants it to remain, he must rename it Chu tribe. ^{ch. 1235}