Chapter 1236

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu tells Yao Huang not to worry about Chu Sect. Chu Du has already agreed he can concede the point. The two rank eight Gu Immortals descend from white heaven and announce that Yao Huang won by a slight margin, ending the blood battle martial competition with the Huang Jin tribes’ victory. ^{ch. 1236}

In Southern Border’s giant dream realm, deep in the sea, Fang Yuan lies badly injured, encircled by countless sea dragons he must kill to pass this ninth scene, more than his remaining uses of unravel dream can manage. Each sea dragon has desolate beast level battle strength, and the dream realm’s rules mean that breaking out to survive would fail the exploration. Most dream realms replay a lifeform’s own experience, though the severity can be exaggerated, while a rare few are strange and peculiar. He deduces this is the dream owner’s final moment, a Combat Immortal Sect Gu Master of ordinary talent who could not win sect resources after reaching rank six and went to explore Eastern Sea instead. His immortal aperture’s foundation was damaged crossing the regional walls, and he died here to the sea dragons while seeking the Immortal Gu House Dragon Palace. Fang Yuan chooses to give up rather than push deeper for greater reward. He withdraws from the dream, keeping his remaining unravel dream uses in reserve. ^{ch. 1236}

Back in reality, he heals with guts Gu. His attainment is still water path quasi-grandmaster, short of grandmaster but enough for many of City Well’s blessed lands, since most of them are rank six. He resolves to raise every attainment to at least master level, since that would let him annex any rank six blessed land. He returns to his own dream realm to refine dream path mortal Gu and deduce fusing the killer moves myriad self and sword dragon transformation. The deductions progress well, since his strength path attainment is enough and his transformation path attainment is grandmaster, with only his wisdom path deduction methods slightly lacking. ^{ch. 1236}

Lady White Rabbit reports to him on the immortal opportunity business while he keeps his eyes shut, deducing at the same time, and never once looks at her before she leaves disappointed. Outside, Wu An now treats her with new respect, since an audience with Lord Wu Yi Hai still marks her as favored. She confides that Wu Yi Hai cultivates so hard he risks his own mental state, and asks Wu An to raise it with him if he gets the chance. Wu An agrees, though he doubts he can do more than she already has. ^{ch. 1236}

From her report, Fang Yuan learns that Southern Border stays peaceful and that Wu Du Xiu has died, leaving Wu clan with only one rank eight Gu Immortal, Wu Yong, who has shown great battle strength and political skill since taking over. Ba clan, Tie clan and other rivals keep watching but hold back. Northern Plains is stabilizing now that Chu Sect has become Chu tribe, Bai Zu tribe survives, and the Huang Jin tribes have won resources. He has only vague word from treasure yellow heaven that Eastern Sea, Western Desert and Central Continent are also relatively peaceful. He reflects that peace is the ordinary state of the five regions, and that Northern Plains’ chaos traces back to his own destruction of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building compounded by Shadow Sect’s schemes. ^{ch. 1236}

Back in his own dream realm, he keeps practicing his moonlight technique. He finally lands it precisely on a tree branch after days of practice. Gu Master Big Beard, surprised that his enthusiasm has not faded after a month when most people tire within a week, asks if such training is really so interesting. Fang Yuan answers that cultivation itself is enjoyable, since a person can unleash incredible attacks with a wave of the hand. ^{ch. 1236}