Chapter 1338

In Mushroomman Paradise, Purple Mountain True Monarch presses the mushroomman Gu Immortal to bring Hei Lou Lan and Bai Ning Bing into the melon cave where Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable once cultivated. The mushroomman refuses to help with evil deeds and offers his own life instead, but agrees to the cave alone. He orders them not to damage a single melon. Chakra melons are a very widely used rank seven immortal material carrying refinement path dao marks. Purple Mountain True Monarch adds that the cave is treasure yellow heaven’s largest chakra melon production area, holding almost sixty percent of the market share. ^{ch. 1338}

He explains the cave’s super Gu formation: built on rule path ripe Immortal Gu and rank seven dew Immortal Gu, it sharply raises killer move training effectiveness and makes immortal essence recovery very fast. He brought the two here because, having only just gained their true inheritances, neither had had time to fully convert the gain into battle strength, a weakness their fight with Fang Yuan made very obvious. He leaves them to train and departs. ^{ch. 1338}

Fang Yuan, still secretly exploring dream realms inside Southern Border’s super Gu formation, becomes a formation path grandmaster in only a month or two, far faster than Chi Shang’s more than a century of study, and separately reaches dark path grandmaster. The dark path gain gives him new uses for dark limit Immortal Gu: an immortal killer move that shields him from deduction, one that strikes like dark arrow Immortal Gu, and a way to conceal other killer moves’ auras. He judges food path and information path dream realms most valuable now. Food path would cut his Gu feeding costs. His many information path alliance agreements already cost him freedom, and raising his information path attainment would let him decipher information path traps and methods and work with Shadow Sect. But the dream realms available to him turn strange and absurd, so he waits, and turns instead to developing his immortal aperture, shaping new killer moves, and gathering information. ^{ch. 1338}

Elsewhere, a mortal Gu Master by chance discovers the bathing flames Immortal Gu recipe. It is part of the fire path true inheritance left by Stunning Immortal, over which Wu clan and Yao clan fought a thousand years ago, and the discovery draws both clans’ attention again. Wu Yong sends Wu Yi Ran, abandoning the defense of blood tide pit to do it. Once it is clear only the recipe survives, not the true inheritance itself, many Gu Immortals leave, but Yao clan sends Yao Geng, and the two fight to a draw across four rounds. Before their decisive match, Purple Mountain True Monarch meets a mysterious Gu Immortal holding the complete Seven Illusions true inheritance. ^{ch. 1338}

Purple Mountain True Monarch invokes the alliance agreement the mysterious Gu Immortal already owes him, and orders him to kill Wu Yi Ran and Yao Geng, the first two of seven tasks owed. The Gu Immortal balks but leaves without refusing outright. Alone afterward, Purple Mountain True Monarch says there is not much time left and he needs to act. ^{ch. 1338}

Days later, Wu Yi Ran and Yao Geng are both confirmed dead. Their life tablet Gu and soul lantern Gu prove it, though the manner of their deaths stays unknown. Wu Yong, enraged, is further struck when blood tide pit, undefended since Wu Yi Ran was sent out, erupts into a huge blood tide disaster, and the scene carries indisputable traces of collapsing art, a killer move Yao Geng created himself. Unsure whether Yao Geng survived, whether Yao clan is scheming, or whether another clan is striking at Wu clan, Wu Yong senses a dangerous storm building. ^{ch. 1338}