Chapter 1261

Fang Yuan turns on Shi Nu, but Shi Nu tells Ying Wu Xie to leave, and Ying Wu Xie vows to remember his loyalty before retreating with the other two immortals and Tai Bai Yun Sheng in his immortal aperture. Because Shi Nu holds Fang Yuan back, the four escape the licorice regional wall into Northern Plains, where Tai Bai Yun Sheng proves awake but still in danger of dying, and they vanish using Omni-directional Travel. Shi Nu, powerless on the ground, laughs that he succeeded, insists Shadow Sect will not be defeated, and hails Spectral Soul. Fang Yuan grabs him and crushes him into rock fragments. ^{ch. 1261}

Fang Yuan picks the crucial fragment from the rubble. He carries it to Northern Plains and throws it down, where it absorbs the region’s qi and forms a blessed land. Qi luck sensation places Ying Wu Xie’s group already far away, in what seems to be the Earth Trench that hides Northern Plains Zombie Alliance and Dark Flow Giant City. Southern Border’s Zombie Alliance has fallen and Eastern Sea’s headquarters are besieged, but the Northern Plains alliance still stands, and its resources should let Ying Wu Xie’s side grow again. Still, with Shi Nu dead and the rest hurt, he judges he would hold the upper hand in another fight even outside the regional wall. He enters Shi Nu’s new blessed land but cannot subdue its land spirit or annex it, since his earth path attainment is only master, not grandmaster, so he leaves it for the moment. ^{ch. 1261}

Inside the dream, the ambush is over: every bandit is dead, but the caravan has taken heavy losses, and Big Beard lies dying from a poison Gu. The young master, also struck by the poison, owns a healing Gu that could save him but refuses to spend it on an outsider. Big Beard wakes and tells young Fang Yuan to stop opposing the young master and to stop begging, since such a precious healing Gu would never be spent on people like them. That night young Fang Yuan sneaks out alone, climbs a dangerous cliff, and returns by daybreak with a basket of medicinal herb said to relieve the poison. When the dream finally ends, Fang Yuan realizes the herbs in that basket were dream path Gu materials, richer than anything he could gather alone. He wonders whether lead soul into dream can also be used to farm such materials, not only to attack. He resumes his chase after Ying Wu Xie. ^{ch. 1261}

On Snowy Mountain, Shi Zheng Yi warns Zhao Lian Yun that love Immortal Gu already took her voice instead of immortal essence against Zhao Da Niu, leaving her mute, and that using it again could exact an unknown price. She insists Hong Yun still needs her and that Gu worms let her converse without a voice, and Shi Zheng Yi gives way. This time the Gu does not respond. She walks out of the twelfth snowy peak’s range with Shi Zheng Yi and is at once sent to a different peak alone, drawn by the sounds of battle to a blood soaked hall. There she finds refinement path Gu Immortal Yu Yi Ye Zi fighting a Snowy Mountain Gu Immortal, and Yu Yi Ye Zi warns her the enemy is a genuine blood path demonic immortal. Zhao Lian Yun is badly frightened. ^{ch. 1261}