Chapter 1254

Waiting drags on in the hall. Shi Zheng Yi paces until Yu Yi Ye Zi tells him to sit still. Zhao Lian Yun, also somewhat impatient, asks how long they must wait if the other group never comes. She presses further: could the other Gu Immortals have died in the spaceless tunnel’s final moment? Shi Zheng Yi refutes it angrily, since his father Shi Ge was among those Gu Immortals and her words sound like predicting his death. Zhao Lian Yun continues regardless: they reached Snowy Mountain only through love Gu’s power, a help the others never had, and even the Immortal Gu Houses were nearly destroyed. ^{ch. 1254}

Bu Zhen Zi allows her speculation is not impossible, but answers that Central Continent’s ten great ancient sects will send a second group even if no reinforcements come. Zhao Lian Yun questions whether that group could even reach them safely a second time through the spaceless tunnel. Bu Zhen Zi insists she trust the sect, her greatest backer, but has no answer for her doubts about timing or cost. She admits she does not want to wait any longer. Bu Zhen Zi says she must, and the two stare each other down, neither retreating. ^{ch. 1254}

Zhao Lian Yun’s true fear is that Ma Hong Yun could be harmed and refined by Old Ancestor Xue Hu while they wait, an extreme regret she could never live down after coming this close. She proposes clearing the lower peak lords first, since a rank eight Gu Immortal cannot act against rank sixes and sevens inside the formation, leaving her own side free to go straight for the first peak once reinforcements arrive. Bu Zhen Zi objects that the formation strengthens the enemy and weakens them, that leaving scatters them onto separate peaks to fight alone, and he asks what help three rank sixes can bring when he and Mu Ling Lan led the last attack. They cannot deny it; it is simply fact. ^{ch. 1254}

Zhao Lian Yun then declares she will use love Gu herself. Bu Zhen Zi scoffs that love Gu cannot be controlled, absolutely true from history, since even Giant Sun Immortal Venerable once failed to refine it. She insists no one truly knows without trying, and calls on it silently; at first nothing happens. Her plea is for love Gu to display its might and carry all five of them to another snowy peak. Then love Gu’s aura rises and bright radiance covers her, the same light that once brought all five of them here. The other four are extremely shocked as the light spreads outward to cover them too. Bu Zhen Zi’s shock is far more intense, and he guesses either that Zhao Lian Yun is the strongest fairy in Spirit Affinity House’s history or, more likely, that otherworldly demons and love Gu complement each other. ^{ch. 1254}

The space behind him ruptures into a fist sized black hole with unimaginable suction, dragging the rank seven Bu Zhen Zi in against his will. The same happens to the others, and the hall empties in an instant. Bu Zhen Zi lands alone in a different, more masculine hall on another peak, finding none of the other four Gu Immortals with him. He tells himself he was overthinking it, since love Gu remains unreliable with countless abilities, otherworldly demon or not. He worries most for Zhao Lian Yun, who would be only slightly safer grouped with the others than alone. An inky black shadow, extremely fast, creeps from the ground and attacks him, and he dodges on instinct before it strikes. At the crucial moment he uses turn phantom, his specialty as a phantom path Gu Immortal, and the shadow passes helplessly through him to reach the space at his back. ^{ch. 1254}