Chapter 1347

Fang Yuan turns into a divination tortoise and attempts a killer move. The move ends in precaution Immortal Gu as its third and most important step. The move breaks apart before precaution Immortal Gu can act, and Fang Yuan spits blood and suffers heavy injuries. Large numbers of mortal Gu are destroyed inside his immortal aperture, though precaution Immortal Gu is sturdy and comes through undamaged. He finds the cause: precaution Immortal Gu needed an eleventh breath to trigger, not the tenth he had judged. His time path attainment is only ordinary because he has never met a time path dream realm, though Hei Fan’s true inheritance and his wisdom path deduction methods cover part of the weakness. He resolves to add time path Gu worms to close the gap, and after three days of deduction a breakthrough lets his work proceed smoothly again. ^{ch. 1347}

Human Smoke Mountain Range holds more living mortals than anywhere else in Southern Border, its villages packed to the population limit. Human Smoke Mountain, at its center, is the base Chai Fu built for Chai clan by modifying the range. In his era he ranked first among Southern Border’s Gu Immortals, and The Legends of Ren Zu yielded him both a human path killer move and the method he handed down to his Chai clan descendants. That book hides human path’s true inheritance, the first in the Gu Master world’s whole history, as pure information rather than a fixed method. What a Gu Immortal draws from it depends on affinity and talent, so everyone gains something different, and every Immortal Venerable and Demon Venerable gained hugely. Chai clan grows its mortal population instead of its bloodline. Those mortals have low aptitude and rarely produce Gu Masters, while the clan’s own descendants are talented but capped at rank four or five Gu Master by limited resources. ^{ch. 1347}

Three rivers, red dragon, jade dragon, and yellow dragon river, cut Southern Border into segments. Where red dragon river crosses jade dragon river, a vast whirlpool holds huge numbers of spirit springs. Those spirit springs are unstable, and dozens of them are destroyed almost every breath. Chai clan’s Human Smoke Mountain sits north of that whirlpool, with Ba clan to the south and Xia clan to the east. Using Wu Yi Hai’s identity, Fang Yuan sends Chai clan’s first supreme elder a letter proposing that Wu clan and Chai clan ally to attack Xia clan and Ba clan. ^{ch. 1347}

The proposal throws Chai clan’s discussion hall into three days of chaos. One Gu Immortal argues against attacking, saying Wu clan only wants to use Chai clan to shed its own external pressure, and that Chai clan would then face two super forces which could ignore Wu clan and turn on it instead. A Gu Immortal in the corner counters that they could attack just one clan, since Wu clan’s request to fight both is open to negotiation and settles nothing yet. An elderly Gu Immortal sighs that Chai clan has so many mortals nearby that one enemy Gu Immortal could wipe them all out for huge losses. The human path method leaves those mortals unable to leave Human Smoke Mountain Range, so Chai clan needs a defending immortal Gu formation or an Immortal Gu House. ^{ch. 1347}

Those favoring war argue Chai clan needs more resources for its many talented, low-resourced descendants. They add that driving off one or two rival clans would bring a vast amount of resources and make Chai clan Southern Border’s number one force in no time. Chai clan’s first supreme elder stays silent through the debate. He then asks You Yan, a Gu Immortal, for his view. ^{ch. 1347}