Chapter 1258

Bai Ning Bing became an immortal only recently. Even so she carries two advantages. She holds one of the ten extreme physiques, Northern Dark Ice Soul Physique, the best for cultivating ice and snow path, with dao marks that surpass most rank six Gu Immortals in similar condition. She has also become the owner of Bai Xiang grotto-heaven, inheriting Bai Xiang’s Gu worms, among them rank seven Immortal Gu, though none of rank eight. Bai Xiang’s own standing in history sat slightly below Hei Fan’s, though the five Xiangs allied together had surpassed him by a wide margin. Her flaw is that she is still unfamiliar with these gains and risks backlash when she activates them, and unlike Fang Yuan she has very low attainment at using several killer moves at once. ^{ch. 1258}

Ying Wu Xie, Hei Lou Lan and Shi Nu shield her while Tai Bai Yun Sheng lies unconscious, and that protection buys her time to prepare unhurried, hiding her flaw for now. Fang Yuan has used qi luck sensation on her before, but lacking information path methods he cannot learn of Bai Xiang grotto-heaven, and so he greatly underestimates her true battle strength. Her gaze, a killer move she has barely managed to activate, is one of Bai Xiang’s methods, and it freezes and slows any target in her sight before Fang Yuan realizes anything is wrong. He flies back and vanishes into the wall’s poor visibility. Ying Wu Xie’s side had prepared a tactic against the trump card Fang Yuan used to break Eastern Sea’s super Gu formation, but he never uses it, and Bai Ning Bing regrets the wasted preparation. ^{ch. 1258}

She is almost certain to fail if she activates a second immortal killer move on top of this one, and a failure would throw their arrangement into disorder and open a weakness Fang Yuan would exploit. She judges that once his speed returns her gaze will no longer be able to hold him, so she changes tactics, retreating behind Shi Nu and telling Ying Wu Xie she will use her prepared killer move. Ying Wu Xie orders Shi Nu to protect Bai Ning Bing even at the cost of his own life. Shi Nu agrees without hesitation. Bai Ning Bing estimates that unless Fang Yuan has a specific method to counter her freezing sight, he needs about a dozen breaths to recover completely, and Ying Wu Xie does not doubt her. ^{ch. 1258}

Fang Yuan quickly discovers Bai Ning Bing is now heavily protected, with no way through except by force. Fang Yuan circles them from afar with dragon breath until the three immortals still able to fight have their hands tied, then bursts through their line at a speed even he cannot completely control. His claws rip off Hei Lou Lan’s left arm and open her left torso to the ribs, a heavy injury, and she immediately chooses to become an immortal zombie, which slows the bleeding enough to keep her alive. Kneeling and gasping, she still manages to laugh. The flesh and blood on Fang Yuan’s claw turns into Hei Lou Lan’s immortal killer move, Flesh Blood Fire, which climbs his scales and cannot be put out without a counter method while flesh and blood feed it. His sovereign immortal body does not repel foreign dao marks, which lets the freezing sight strike at full force but also makes him easy to heal, and only the dragon form’s toughness keeps him from freezing to death. Because his ancient sword dragon body only feeds the fire more strongly, Fang Yuan reacts quickly, drops the transformation, returns to human form, and activates a time path healing Immortal Gu, Man as Before. ^{ch. 1258}