Chapter 1340

In Southern Border’s Tie clan territory, an unnamed elder tests a young woman, Tie Ruo Nan, on a killer move he taught her; she survives a rockfall by triggering it and passes. She is overjoyed. She vows to surpass her late father as a Gu Immortal. He accepts her into his Iron Mask true inheritance, promising to teach her the path to immortality, but a sudden matter calls him away before he explains further, leaving her to practice alone. ^{ch. 1340}

After skipping an absurd dream realm, Fang Yuan enters a realistic one and takes on the body of a female Gu Immortal, Zhang Li. She is a minor enchantment emotion path cultivator who has murdered her own husband. Her husband’s brother, a young rank seven Gu Immortal, confronts her for revenge, and Fang Yuan, working through her unfamiliar Immortal Gu, briefly disarms his anger before he recovers and attacks with a jade wind dagger. Cornered, Fang Yuan uses unravel dream, and a completely unfamiliar immortal killer move activates on its own: ghost summoning, which calls up the actual soul of the murdered husband, refined by Zhang Li into a weapon. The young Gu Immortal, unwilling to destroy his brother’s soul along with it, hesitates, and Fang Yuan uses the opening to kill him and pass the dream realm. ^{ch. 1340}

The dream realm has only one scene. He passes it on the first attempt. Back in reality, Fang Yuan finds his wisdom path and soul path attainment risen, soul path now to quasi-master, and counts eight paths at grandmaster level: blood, strength, transformation, star, wisdom, water, dark, and formation. He reasons the gain came because enchantment emotion path carries no dao marks of its own, only wisdom path ones, and because Zhang Li’s ghost summoning itself belongs to soul path. He judges replicating ghost summoning worth less than an idea it sparked for improving vajra shell, adding precaution Immortal Gu to its existing cores, and turns his effort there instead. ^{ch. 1340}

Tie Mian Shen, a rank seven Gu Immortal of the Iron Mask inheritance known for uncovering the truth, arrives and rules Qiao Zhi Cai innocent: someone mimicked his signature move. Wu Yong asks, as rumored, whether the Seven Illusions true inheritance lets its holder copy almost any Gu Immortal’s method. It comes in seven layers, and each layer taken binds the inheritor to a future task, seven for the complete inheritance. Tie clan once held a Seven Illusions Demon Immortal in their Demon Suppression Tower and built a method from it to identify other inheritors. Tie Mian Shen has just used it to confirm one caused the deaths here. Wu Yong, still not knowing who is behind it, presses him further, and Tie Mian Shen’s next words begin to ease his frown. ^{ch. 1340}