Chapter 1342

Wu Ba Chong, Wu clan’s second supreme elder, stands in the ancestral hall atop Wu Yi Mountain before Wu Yong’s shattered life tablet Gu and soul lantern Gu, unable to confirm whether Wu Yong has died, and Wu Yong stays uncontactable, an undeniable fact. Life tablet Gu and soul lantern Gu are mortal Gu that certain methods can tamper with, so their ruin alone does not prove Wu Yong dead, only unreachable. With Wu Du Xiu already dead and Wu Yong now missing, Southern Border’s number one super clan has no rank eight guarding it, and Wu Ba Chong, only rank seven himself, realizes his own shoulders cannot bear that weight. He is first among the higher-ups to return, so the initiative falls to him. He briefly considers concealing the news, but it has already reached many Wu clan Gu Immortals through the rank six Gu Immortal guarding the place, so sealing it is no longer possible. Torn between sending Gu Immortals to search for Wu Yong and pulling back Wu clan’s outlying defenders to protect the base, he judges both choices dangerous. He instead resolves to call a meeting of Wu clan’s Gu Immortals as second supreme elder, and to act only once they reach a consensus. ^{ch. 1342}

Fang Yuan, wearing Wu Yi Hai’s appearance inside the giant dream realm’s super Gu formation, listens to Lady White Rabbit report on the immortal opportunity business she hosts as intermediary, a role her White Rabbit true inheritance’s purity requirement earns her trust for. She has fallen for him. He speaks to her only to seat her and dismiss her, yet she treasures the time regardless. Qiao clan’s Qiao Si Liu then enters the hall, already probing Wu Yi Hai’s circumstances while trying to draw him into marriage as Qiao clan’s son-in-law, and sends Lady White Rabbit away so she can speak to Fang Yuan alone. Lady White Rabbit, who has already heard rumors linking Fang Yuan and Qiao Si Liu, recognizes her at once. ^{ch. 1342}

Qiao Si Liu reveals that Wu Yong is missing and his life tablet Gu and soul lantern Gu are destroyed, news that has not yet spread through Southern Border even as Wu clan falls into chaos. Fang Yuan is deeply shocked. Qiao Si Liu tells him that as Wu Yong’s brother and the person closest to him in bloodline, with cultivation sufficient for the role, he must take over as first supreme elder and hold Wu clan’s authority from that day onward. ^{ch. 1342}