Chapter 1335

Inside the super Gu formation, better informed than anyone else there, Fang Yuan tallies Northern Plains’ huge blow to Central Continent: Wei Ling Yang and Bi Chen Tian dead, Myriad Tidal Dragon escaped. The timing matches what he expects. He knows Heavenly Court’s foundation runs immensely deep next to Longevity Heaven’s, just one grotto-heaven of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s, so the loss does not threaten it. The event itself is incredibly rare, he notes, since nothing like it happened in his previous life. He wonders whether Heavenly Court will answer with revenge, thinking it would be very interesting if it did. ^{ch. 1335}

The five regional walls block any large scale war, though, and few know of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s Luck Suppression Heavenly Palace. Either way it chooses to act, Heavenly Court has an excuse. Something about the news still nags at him, though he cannot name it. He wonders whether the chain reactions from his own actions have grown too tangled, thinning his foreknowledge’s advantage and leaving him uneasy. ^{ch. 1335}

Deciding that strength matters most, Fang Yuan enters the dream realm and wakes in the wilderness at night, carried immobile up a mountain by two boar headed beastmen, extinct in the present age. Sensing something amiss, he struggles, only to find himself extremely weak and heavily injured. The beastmen notice, drop him, and stomp his skull in, ending the exploration and forcing his injured soul back out. He heals with guts Gu, whose supply through Dang Hun Mountain never runs out, rather than spend unravel dream’s limited uses, and re-enters the dream. This time he lets the beastmen carry him all the way to a cliff and throw him off; he lands in a mass grave at the bottom and is crushed to death, expelled from the dream again. ^{ch. 1335}

In Central Continent, Duke Long stands restored to his might after taking away Di Zang Sheng’s life force. Granny Sha reports that Heaven Overseeing Tower, a rank nine Immortal Gu House with incredible reputation, shattered once in Southern Border, is now repaired completely. Climbing it, the three Gu Immortals find the rank nine fate Immortal Gu that Red Lotus Demon Venerable had once wounded nearly to death using love Immortal Gu’s power. Generations of Heavenly Court’s effort had restored it to fifty percent by the last Central Continent Refinement Path Convention, after which its healing sped up sharply. Even without success dao marks, Granny Sha’s work has carried it to sixty percent. ^{ch. 1335}

Duke Long praises her as having contributed greatly to Heavenly Court and to humanity. Granny Sha, calling herself merely flattered and her effort meager, laughs even as her body crumbles into sand and scatters on the wind: her lifespan had always run short, and she has spent her last strength finishing the tower. Duke Long’s expression does not change. He tells Fairy Zi Wei that generation after generation of Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals, Wei Ling Yang and Bi Chen Tian among them, have sacrificed themselves this way. Beyond the three Immortal Venerables, that fearlessness before sacrifice is another reason Heavenly Court leads. ^{ch. 1335}

Asked what comes next, Duke Long declares that the great era is beginning and that certain people can no longer be allowed to live. Fairy Zi Wei worries that locating Fang Yuan, Ying Wu Xie, Purple and the others is too tough given the regional walls, since they are all so cunning. Duke Long waves this aside. Wherever they hide now, both know they will converge on the giant dream realm in Southern Border, and that is where Heavenly Court will move first, ahead of the lesser matter of Northern Plains and Longevity Heaven. ^{ch. 1335}