Chapter 1362

A chaotic three way battle is under way. Heavenly Court’s forces stand first among the three. Shadow Sect ranks second on Purple Mountain True Monarch and Zuo Ye Hui’s strength, and the righteous path forces rank third. Heavenly Court and the righteous path attack Shadow Sect together, leaving it in the worst position of the three. Fang Yuan holds a righteous path identity on the surface but stands closer to Shadow Sect underneath. He judges the formation cannot hold even one more day, and that Shadow Sect’s fall would leave him hunted as a traitor by the other two sides. ^{ch. 1362}

The super Gu formation has four layers, Fang Yuan controls only the second, and the first opens solely to a Chi clan Gu Immortal by Chi Qu You’s design. Chi Gui could activate it, but Fang Yuan keeps him in reserve and will not use him unless completely helpless. Fang Yuan turns to Spring Autumn Cicada and drops it. The heaven’s will inside it now aims to eradicate him rather than help him, so a rebirth would kill him outright. Shadow Sect knows a method for reverse refining it, but he has no time for that now. He considers accelerating his immortal aperture’s time to purify Spring Autumn Cicada there, then rejects that path too. His time path attainment is too low, the acceleration would draw calamities and tribulations, and it would force him to abandon the super Gu formation. ^{ch. 1362}

Fang Yuan does not give up despite the danger, and his resolve holds even as Fairy Zi Wei keeps invading the formation. He recalls that risk touches everyone who climbs. Old Ancestor Xue Hu took a risk that destroyed Snowy Mountain, hundreds of years of his work, while his Fortune Rivalling Heaven plan failed completely, Reverse Flow River was taken away, and his wife Lady Wan Shou was left injured. Heavenly Court’s Bi Chen Tian and Wei Ling Yang died abroad with their bodies lost. Fang Yuan counts Sword Immortal Bo Qing too, and Feng Jiu Ge, who died attacking Lang Ya blessed land in the five hundred years of Fang Yuan’s earlier life. Even Ma Hong Yun died despite Fortune Rivalling Heaven’s protection, and Fang Yuan, who is no child of luck, counts himself extremely ordinary beside all of them. He decides to persevere. ^{ch. 1362}

Ying Wu Xie, outmatched as a rank six immortal zombie against a rank seven Xia clan righteous path Gu Immortal, uses soul beast summoning for a third time. His enemy has learned the counter. The Xia clan Gu Immortal lures the low intelligence soul beasts into a dream realm and destroys them there. ^{ch. 1362}

Sixth Hair relays that Fang Yuan wants to cooperate and needs an information path Gu worm, and Ying Wu Xie agrees to hand one over through the middleman. Purple Mountain True Monarch had asked to work together ever since he awakened and took control, but Fang Yuan stayed wary of Shadow Sect’s information path methods and nothing came of it. Ying Wu Xie judges the offer too late, since Shadow Sect has already begun its mission to save the main body. Fang Yuan opens by naming Ying Wu Xie’s sorry state. He asks Ying Wu Xie why lead soul into dream is going unused. Ying Wu Xie is extremely shocked and asks whether Fang Yuan is here in this battlefield, and hears back an order to stop using soul beast summoning at random, its effect fading and its immortal essence wasted. Ying Wu Xie asks whether Fang Yuan is his opponent, hears he would already be dead if so, and is told to cooperate. ^{ch. 1362}