Chapter 1247

Inside a huge blue tunnel lined with rainbow threads, Zhao Lian Yun asks where the group has ended up, and even the well informed Yu Yi Ye Zi has no answer. Bu Zhen Zi guesses the tunnel carrying Canary Pavilion, Edge Link Camp, and Wind Sweeping Building is a spaceless tunnel, a unique immortal killer move Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable created. In Southern Border, Fang Yuan’s risen luck path attainment exposes Ying Wu Xie’s group hiding in the region, and he prepares to leave and borrow Immortal Gu from Wu clan. Wu Yong lends the Immortal Gu readily but balks at releasing him from his post, since Wu clan’s territory is too large for its thin ranks of Gu Immortals. Without him the super Gu formation would hold no rank seven at all, and with the immortal opportunity business newly opened, rival clans could easily make trouble for Wu clan. Fang Yuan insists, and Wu Yong relents, though reshuffling roles will take time. ^{ch. 1247}

While he waits, Fang Yuan explores a dream realm inside the super Gu formation, favoring realistic ones over harder to decipher strange ones. Inside the dream, he kneels to Jing Miao Zi, who cultivates the path of calm water, names him her descendant, and sets an aptitude test: stand on a pool without using any Gu worm. She reshapes the dream into the pool, then vanishes, telling him only that his lack of Gu worms is his own problem. He circles the pool, steps in, and falls straight into the water, completely soaked. He tries unravel dream, usually so effective, and this time it does nothing. ^{ch. 1247}

Fang Yuan reasons the dream is too strong for unravel dream’s rank six core Immortal Gu to break; a dream’s strength, he decides, is not closely related to its owner’s lifetime cultivation, though what the relationship is he does not know. From old records, he identifies the dream’s owner as Sea Calming Lord, Jing Miao Zi’s true disciple, who once turned Falling Heavenly River back after an immemorial beast diverted it and flooded Central Continent’s center. He recalls not exploring dream realms deeply in his five hundred years of previous life, favoring blood path instead, though a stronger dream rewards its explorer more. He keeps trying and keeps falling in. On each entry his deep soul foundation lets him fall seventeen or eighteen times before his soul reaches its limit, and then guts Gu heals him, a mortal Gu from the secluded domain Dang Hun Mountain that is very effective. The dream bars water walking Gu, and he would refuse it anyway along with shortcuts like freezing the surface, since the test is about himself, and over several days he begins to feel something new. Jing Miao Zi finds him soaked yet again and rages that he still cannot pass so simple a test, unfit to be her disciple. ^{ch. 1247}

Fang Yuan claims he has already passed, and when she points at the water soaking him he answers that the pool in his own heart is calm and unmoving, that he stands on it and sees his reflection on its clear surface. Jing Miao Zi’s anger dissolves, and she names him her true disciple. The dream ends at once, holding only the one scene, and Fang Yuan is startled by it. His shock turns to extreme joy: his water path attainment, seemingly close to grandmaster but actually still very far from it, jumps straight to grandmaster. It is a sixth path mastered, after transformation, strength, blood, wisdom, and star. ^{ch. 1247}