Chapter 1336

Fang Yuan sizes up his situation as the two boar headed beastmen carry him up the mountain. His body is a rank four Gu Master’s, with an aperture and primeval essence but no Gu worms, and heavily injured and extremely weak, he would be no match for either beastman even in good health. Once they reach the cliff, he reasons, the fall will definitely kill him without a Gu worm’s protection, so his only chance lies somewhere on this climb. He plays his trump card, the immortal killer move unravel dream. Used repeatedly, it closes his worst wounds and returns some strength and warmth, though it leaves him no notable fighting power. Puzzled that five uses bought so little, he decides to act rather than wait. ^{ch. 1336}

He breaks free of the beastmen, but they run him down and gore him through the chest with a tusk, killing him and expelling him from the dream. Back in reality, Fang Yuan judges this the hardest dream realm he has explored, its difficulty incredibly high despite being realistic. He has already died several times without finishing even its first scene. Even unravel dream feels extremely weak here, for reasons he cannot place, leaving him very perplexed. Their huge bodies would struggle in a forest, but this bare mountain offers no trees or even scattered rocks. Unravel dream has only five uses left in him, each worth little. ^{ch. 1336}

The dream realm, he concludes, is steering him toward the bottom of the cliff. He re-enters and this time lets the beastmen carry him to the edge, husbanding unravel dream instead. Thrown off as before, he twists in midair toward the cliff face and spots jutting rocks and trees, but lands on a rock and dies instantly. On a later attempt he aims for a tree instead, breaking his fall through its branches, but a second tree impales him on sharp leaves and kills him just as fast. He dies eighteen times in all before finally reaching the valley floor alive, maimed but breathing. ^{ch. 1336}

At the bottom, unravel dream heals him a little. Some feeling returns to his right arm and left leg, though his right leg stays completely broken and twisted. Surveying a mountain of rotting corpses around him, he senses a powerful presence and looks up to find two rank seven variant beastman Gu Immortals overhead, one boar headed, one snake bodied with a human head. Their taunting shouts rouse an overwhelming presence buried in the corpse stench: a black giant with a rank eight peak aura that reads as both man and immemorial desolate beast. It names itself Zuo Ye Hui, then goes back to devouring the corpses the beastmen brought it, and Fang Yuan realizes that at this rate, he will be eaten too. ^{ch. 1336}

Elsewhere in Southern Border, at the obscure black demon pit, worthless to super forces and too tough to excavate for ordinary ones, Purple Mountain True Monarch and the others arrive. Bai Ning Bing investigates with Bai Xiang’s true inheritance but finds nothing. Purple Mountain True Monarch addresses the empty air instead, invoking a favor owed for a true inheritance he once gave. A voice answers from within the pit, an intense aura swelling from faint to strong. He names it Zuo Ye Hui and asks whether it still wants to become human; the voice recognizes him and agrees the debt is owed. Purple Mountain True Monarch asks it to do what it does best, eat people, this time immortals rather than ordinary humans, perhaps even rank eight Gu Immortals, and Zuo Ye Hui, tired of ordinary prey, welcomes the offer. ^{ch. 1336}