Chapter 1290

Cold green flames light a cave wall, showing Purple Mountain True Monarch, Ying Wu Xie, Bai Ning Bing, and Hei Lou Lan, first to leave the Reverse Flow River battle. Purple Mountain True Monarch brought them here before slipping back into insanity. Bai Ning Bing sneers, asking if this raving figure is the rank eight meant to kill Fang Yuan. The Snowy Mountain trip that saved Purple Mountain True Monarch cost Shi Nu and Tai Bai Yun Sheng their lives. Hei Lou Lan judges the rank eight unreliable but stays silent. ^{ch. 1290}

Ying Wu Xie, calmed by repeated setbacks, admits he underestimated Fang Yuan for becoming Reverse Flow River Lord. He judges Fang Yuan, chosen by heaven’s will as its tool, can only be killed, never defeated. Bai Ning Bing snorts but says nothing more. Purple Mountain True Monarch’s screaming stops, his body steadies, and clarity returns. Head aching, he explains that his waking in Reverse Flow River was forced and lasted only a moment, while this time he has a real stretch of lucidity ahead. ^{ch. 1290}

Ying Wu Xie reports that half a month has passed: Fang Yuan crossed the regional wall and likely reached Eastern Sea. He adds that the battle is still undecided, Central Continent’s Gu Immortals having tried to withdraw with Old Ancestor Xue Hu in pursuit until an Immortal Gu House came down from the sky and both sides carried the fight into white heaven. Purple Mountain True Monarch predicts Central Continent will likely lose: Giant Sun Immortal Venerable once claimed Northern Plains, and Longevity Heaven’s rank eights have not appeared. Ying Wu Xie asks what they do now and steps down for the woken rank eight. A wind stirs the cave, and the fires flicker. They are a Gu formation blocking outside deduction, having flickered a hundred and seven times during his insanity. Ying Wu Xie warns that Fang Yuan’s luck path move locates them inside an immortal aperture. ^{ch. 1290}

Purple Mountain True Monarch judges Fang Yuan a rare genius, and announces their plan is a truce with him, shocking the other three. Their true enemy, he says, is Heavenly Court: freeing their trapped main body’s soul from the dream realm will draw its interference, as before. Fang Yuan’s killer move alone can stand against rank eights, and his Demon Judgment Board seat makes him Heavenly Court’s enemy too. Shadow Sect’s cultivation resources could be traded for his dream-unraveling methods. Ying Wu Xie warns Fang Yuan is scheming, vicious, set on wiping them out, and needs their resources less than they need his dream methods. ^{ch. 1290}

Purple Mountain True Monarch agrees, then asks if he knows the sovereign immortal body’s real flaw, not its prized dao marks. Their original plan called for a flawless rank ten sovereign immortal fetus Gu, but they refined only a rank nine, a flaw not yet shown though it will eventually force Fang Yuan to cooperate. He will not say what the flaw is. Privately he wonders why their main body acted in haste, and decides to visit the River of Time too. ^{ch. 1290}

Fang Yuan flies toward Southern Border over Eastern Sea when he senses Dark Limit Immortal Gu’s power draining fast, a sign of deduction against him. He ducks into his aperture once unseen, blocking the deduction. Since the Reverse Flow River battle, Liu Guan Yi’s name has grown famous, with Gu Immortals across all five regions eager to learn more. Even with Dark Limit Immortal Gu he keeps stopping to hide, meeting hundreds of deductions that leave him still in Eastern Sea. ^{ch. 1290}

Without Dark Limit Immortal Gu the pressure would be worse, and such a commotion is expected now that people rank him beside Feng Jiu Ge. He judges that deducing his own killer move against these deductions has become necessary. It would not come as easily as Reverse Flow Protection Seal, since Dark Limit is dark path and his own attainment there is not outstanding. ^{ch. 1290}