Chapter 1279

Mu Ling Lan pushes Zhao Lian Yun into Ma Hong Yun’s arms and grabs Old Ancestor Xue Hu’s waist instead. Xue Hu struggles intensely but is held back. Furious, he kicks Mu Ling Lan again and again. His dao marks far surpass Mu Ling Lan’s. Mu Ling Lan’s bones break, he bleeds into the water, and more than ten breaths later he dies. Wei Ling Yang calls out that Central Continent and Heavenly Court will remember Mu Ling Lan’s sacrifice, then charges at Xue Hu. ^{ch. 1279}

Stalled, Xue Hu falls behind and is attacked by the Central Continent Gu Immortals, the fight spilling into Ying Wu Xie’s group until corpses drift downstream and both sides break apart with heavy losses. Fang Yuan arrives, and Ying Wu Xie picks Xue Hu out of the chaos to ask where their lord is. Xue Hu answers upstream. Purple Mountain True Monarch had swum ahead to seize Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun while Xue Hu held off Central Continent. Ying Wu Xie swims after him, but Tai Bai Yun Sheng blocks Fang Yuan, resolved to die so the others escape. Fang Yuan breaks his bones, but Tai Bai Yun Sheng bites and headbutts, holding on until Fang Yuan names Imperial Court blessed land to distract him and gouges his eyes. Fang Yuan takes the opening to land the finishing blow that kills him, then shrugs off the corpse and resumes chasing Ying Wu Xie. ^{ch. 1279}

Bi Chen Tian sees Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun first, Purple Mountain True Monarch second, Ying Wu Xie’s group third, Fang Yuan fourth, Xue Hu fifth, Wei Ling Yang sixth. With no one left to guard the pair, Bi Chen Tian offers Fang Yuan anything to protect them. Recalling a like choice once forced on him at Imperial Court blessed land, Fang Yuan stays silent. He keeps swimming after Ying Wu Xie instead. A long stalemate follows, and the further up the river they push the more it tests will over stamina. Ma Hong Yun urges Zhao Lian Yun on, his embrace warming her. Purple Mountain True Monarch means to catch the pair, restrain Xue Hu with them, and set him against Southern Border’s super dream realm. ^{ch. 1279}

Lady Wan Shou, who swam in to help her husband, is heavily injured and faints. A flustered Xue Hu carries her as the river sweeps them both away. Wei Ling Yang lets him go, glad to lose a competitor. Xue Hu leaves the river to stabilize her, then turns back to charge at Bi Chen Tian. Alone now, Bi Chen Tian faces him, since the immortals with him hold no Immortal Gu Houses and cannot interfere in a rank eight fight. Resolved to die, he neither evades nor dodges. But as the two near clashing, they feel an intensely strong aura: the hill-like, dog tailed ferret reaching the bank with Flood Extremity and Black Extremity. ^{ch. 1279}