Chapter 1250

Zhao Lian Yun stands in a hall in Snowy Mountain blessed land, her four companions waking around her, Bu Zhen Zi, Yu Yi Ye Zi, Shi Zheng Yi, and the stranger Mu Ling Lan, before a female Gu Immortal on a cloud bed. The Gu Immortal asks whether their entry was unintended. Bu Zhen Zi, charged with Zhao Lian Yun’s safety and the most familiar of the four, is a rank seven supreme elder of Spirit Affinity House. Yu Yi Ye Zi is an Ancient Soul Sect rank six acknowledged for his high refinement path attainment, and Mu Ling Lan, a rank seven water path Gu Immortal, comes from Spirit Butterfly Valley. Bu Zhen Zi guesses she is Hair Mistress, the ninth peak’s lord. Zhao Lian Yun demands Ma Hong Yun, and Hair Mistress says he is not with her but likely on the first peak, where Lady Wan Shou and Old Ancestor Xue Hu guard and five would hardly make a ripple. Zhao Lian Yun vows to save him even at the cost of her life, and Mu Ling Lan bluffs more rank eight Gu Immortals are coming, though the five may be all that survived the tunnel’s collapse. ^{ch. 1250}

Hair Mistress’s expression changes slightly: she is a rank six Gu Immortal alone against five, and two of them are rank seven. Mu Ling Lan volunteers as main attacker and orders the others behind him. Hair Mistress calls out that they are friends, and Bu Zhen Zi stops the eager Mu Ling Lan to hear her out: Old Ancestor Xue Hu forces the peak lords to gather immortal materials, and they suffer, powerless. Mu Ling Lan demands she prove her sincerity by joining their ranks, and she refuses, asking whether they would believe her even then, since she would have rebelled already if she could attack. She offers instead to expose Snowy Mountain’s defenses, having no wish to protect Old Ancestor Xue Hu. ^{ch. 1250}

Hair Mistress explains that Old Ancestor Xue Hu, obsessed with refining fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu, had Sun Ming Lu arrange a super Gu formation across the mountain. It uses the snowy peak lords as its cores, linked to Reverse Flow River, and forces any invader to fight through each of the fifteen peaks in turn. A peak lord’s rank six strength becomes rank seven inside it while the charging attacker is greatly suppressed, making every peak a hurdle even for a rank eight who cannot destroy the formation. Mu Ling Lan tests her with a wave of water. Hair Mistress blocks it with a dam of her own hair, confirming her claim. ^{ch. 1250}

Bu Zhen Zi presses her for the formation’s flaw. She offers two things: the formation seals inside from outside, cutting even treasure yellow heaven off, so only Old Ancestor Xue Hu can reach the peak lords, who cannot reach each other. By her guess, each peak lord, as a formation core, can defend only from her main hall and cannot leave her own peak. Then, with no warning, she turns hostile, hair rising to entangle all five. Mu Ling Lan escapes clear, Bu Zhen Zi pulls Zhao Lian Yun free, but inside the hall the hair wraps Shi Zheng Yi and Yu Yi Ye Zi into cocoons, and the battle on the ninth peak begins. ^{ch. 1250}

Over Eastern Sea, Fang Yuan’s dragon breath keeps striking the Gu formation. He refuses to enter, and Ying Wu Xie admits he had hoped to use the formation to test the eagle’s exact strength. Fang Yuan could force his way in through the eagle’s space power, but that would reveal it holds only rank six power, a weakness he will not show. Bai Ning Bing warns their immortal essence is burning at an extremely fast rate, and Shi Nu’s offer to sortie out and lure him in wins only her scorn. Ying Wu Xie decides to leave a cover behind and slip away using Omni-directional Travel, racing for Northern Plains to meet the rank eight and return for Fang Yuan. Bai Ning Bing objects. She arranged the Gu formation, and now he wants to abandon it, mortal Gu and Immortal Gu alike. ^{ch. 1250}