Chapter 1245

The star cloud storm is too vast and fast for the three Houses to escape, and Wei Ling Yang orders a charge ahead with Edge Link Camp for the rest to follow as they fly into it, tiny as ants before its scale. Wind Sweeping Building shakes violently. Zhao Lian Yun falls to the floor as glaring starlight floods the windows. Myriad Tidal Dragon is still asleep, and Bi Chen Tian alone holds the House, sweating as he dodges the huge stars racing past. Wind Sweeping Building fares better under Bi Chen Tian’s control than Canary Pavilion does. A hill sized star finally strikes; the House is under a tenth of its size, yet the star shatters instead, and the impact flings Wind Sweeping Building far from the other two Houses. Star path dao marks fill the storm and disrupt the information path communication between Wei Ling Yang and Bi Chen Tian, who still understands that he is to catch up alone, since Canary Pavilion keeps Wei Ling Yang from helping. ^{ch. 1245}

Bi Chen Tian activates Wind Sweeping Building’s strongest method, turning jade light into a tornado pillar that pushes the surrounding stars away and grants a moment of peace at its center. A huge star soon crashes into the pillar and breaks through toward the House. Bi Chen Tian drops their altitude just in time, and the star only grazes past. Even this method proves too weak against the storm, and chaotic magnetic fields repel, attract, and crush the House from every side. Only a rank eight holds the House through this, and any rank seven Gu Immortal would falter for sure. Bi Chen Tian, though rank eight, is soon drenched in sweat, his essence draining faster than in any battle he has fought. Unable to tell when he can get out of a storm this size, he orders the Gu Immortals to feed their own immortal essence into the House, and Zhao Lian Yun contributes what she has stored from refined immortal essence stones. ^{ch. 1245}

Stars keep striking the pillar as the atmosphere inside turns tense, and Zhao Lian Yun, who would not be surprised to die at the next moment, calms herself by silently repeating Ma Hong Yun’s name. Her father had died on the battlefield years before, leaving her alone and forced into marriage, until she came to rely on Ma Hong Yun instead. She remembers him once showing her a meteor shower on a hillside to lift her mood, her charge that he was flirting, and how she kicked him again and again while laughing. The memory passes, and she finds herself smiling despite the danger. She vows that after she saves him she will kick him countless more times to celebrate, and that she has no regrets even if she dies here. At that moment, the love Gu inside her phantom aperture emits a profound aura of its own accord, colorless and formless, and it spreads rapidly. Ordinary Gu Immortals cannot sense it, but Bi Chen Tian’s body shakes and he subconsciously wonders if this is love Gu’s power. ^{ch. 1245}