Chapter 1248

Inside Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace, South Desolation Immortal searches for the vanished Central Continent Gu Immortals and finds nothing. Giant Sun’s immortal zombie names the phenomenon spaceless tunnel, a fragment Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable left behind rather than a move Central Continent holds, and admits even he cannot say where it leads, advising them to wait. Central Continent’s ten great ancient sects have never stopped researching Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, an otherworldly demon that Heavenly Court will not ignore, and Spirit Affinity House’s Thieving Heaven true inheritance is one fruit of it. Zhao Lian Yun holds it now. Yao Huang worries the group could reappear anywhere, even inside Yao tribe itself: weakened as Central Continent’s immortals are, three Immortal Gu Houses, three rank eight Gu Immortals, and the rank nine love Gu would still beat any super force Huang Jin tribe. Pressed to guide them, the zombie only says fortune and disaster trade places and that Northern Plains’ calamity can become its blessing, since his own era ended, then falls silent, leaving them helpless. ^{ch. 1248}

In the super Gu formation, Fang Yuan drops a Gu material into his stove, and a cold pale flame burns before going out, leaving behind a mortal Gu. It shares the name Pulling Water with his rank six Immortal Gu. Its effect, though, is far weaker. He is overjoyed: since Immortal Gu are unique, a mortal duplicate lets him run two killer moves that both call for pulling water Gu at once, and with his water path attainment now at grandmaster he can detail its recipe instinctively. Pulling water Gu is a strength path Gu worm that also relates to water path, so his strength path grandmaster level alone had never been enough to deduce the mortal recipe. His grandmaster water path also deepens his grasp of five hundred years of accumulated killer moves and recipes, and with six grandmaster paths now working on each other he feels his strength has grown immensely. In his previous life he gave his focus to blood path instead, for three reasons: danger demanding raw battle strength, no method like unravel dream to make dream exploration a huge risk, and, he suspects, heaven’s will likely interfering. ^{ch. 1248}

Wu clan finally sends a rank seven Gu Immortal with the borrowed Immortal Gu, and Fang Yuan trades and leaves the super Gu formation, flying northeast. His excuse to Wu Yong is personal business in Eastern Sea. Because he wears Wu Yi Hai’s identity, Wu Yong does not press him. Fang Yuan crosses into Eastern Sea, settles in a nameless sea area, and drills his new Immortal Gu. When the moment feels right he activates qi luck sensation, and finds to his surprise that Ying Wu Xie’s group has already left Southern Border for Eastern Sea, where striking to kill will be easier. ^{ch. 1248}

Above the sea, Bai Ning Bing now flies as Ying Wu Xie’s equal ally, since days before he calmed her killing intent with yang Gu and talked her into a new alliance instead. With yang Gu back in her hands, and knowing Fang Yuan’s upper extreme heavenly eagle could lead him straight into Bai Xiang grotto-heaven, she agrees it is unwise to stay there. She presses him for his plan. Ying Wu Xie answers that matching a rank eight takes another rank eight, and that they are bound for Northern Plains, where Bai Ning Bing guesses Shadow Sect’s remnant still keeps such an existence. Bai Ning Bing scoffs that the strength went unused at Yi Tian Mountain, but Ying Wu Xie says the timing is right now, since Northern Plains and Central Continent are fighting over Fortune Rivalling Heaven at Snowy Mountain blessed land. Going there, he means to seize Fortune Rivalling Heaven, use that rank eight’s strength to kill Fang Yuan, and reclaim the sovereign immortal body. Ying Wu Xie turns and sees Fang Yuan approaching. ^{ch. 1248}