Chapter 1365

With Duke Long trapped in the dream, the newly rank seven Ying Wu Xie lets Purple Mountain True Monarch press his advantage. Duke Long’s defensive killer moves sit as dao marks in his body, dormant until struck, then firing on their own with only immortal essence. Fang Yuan’s ghostly concealment is more refined still, since it stays active always and costs no immortal essence at all. The two Spiraling Dragon Fang lights miss and keep circling Purple Mountain True Monarch for an opening. Purple Mountain True Monarch cannot break through yet. He keeps purple thought perception starlight active, and its specks feed him information from Duke Long’s defense. ^{ch. 1365}

From the super Gu formation, Fairy Zi Wei taunts Fang Yuan that he is beyond saving and is gradually losing control of it. Fang Yuan grants that her invasion is getting faster but tells her not to bluff him. Exposing his identity would not help her either. He concludes that Heavenly Court is bluffing about its rank eight strength, since Heaven Overseeing Tower sent nobody besides her and Duke Long had to take the field himself. ^{ch. 1365}

Fairy Zi Wei goes silent and remembers a scene from a few days earlier. She was studying Star Constellation Chessboard then. The house had sat in Heavenly Court’s treasury until Duke Long woke with the authority to release it to her. The house multiplies her deduction ability many times over, yet the clues she needs stay too few and deducing remains hard. She still cannot place Fang Yuan, nor the trapped Central Continent Gu Immortals whose location Old Ancestor Xue Hu and Longevity Heaven concealed from her deductions, leaving the reinforcements nowhere to go. As she sighs over this, the chessboard begins drawing her immortal essence on its own, and a lump of heaven’s will rises from it, taking Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s form. ^{ch. 1365}

Duke Long tells Fairy Zi Wei a truly terrifying secret: Star Constellation Immortal Venerable sacrificed herself long ago to assimilate with and reshape heaven’s will, which still carries her form. Fairy Zi Wei asks whether that puts the world on Heavenly Court’s side, and Duke Long answers that Heavenly Court stands on heaven’s will’s side, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s body gone while her will spans the five regions. The core of heaven’s will stays unchanged, but she altered the form it wears and perhaps left in a trace of human concern for Heavenly Court. Star Constellation heaven’s will announces that the great era is coming, that the five regions will become one, and that destiny has reached a crucial point, then sends a lump from her right hand that takes the shape of Southern Border’s super Gu formation. It reveals that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable is extremely weak, that all of Shadow Sect will gather there, that Fang Yuan wears Wu Yi Hai’s face among Southern Border’s righteous path, and that wiping out these fate defying people will help repair fate Immortal Gu. It rules that only Duke Long and Fairy Zi Wei may fight there. Asked why, it answers that this is fated, that the uncertainties of luck fell greatly after the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain, that fate Immortal Gu is recovering and taking back control of the world, and that they will undoubtedly win. ^{ch. 1365}

It instructs them to bring Heaven Overseeing Tower and Star Constellation Chessboard, to leave Central Continent’s ten great sects unmobilized unless it is needed, and to preserve those lives. Within ten years, Heaven Overseeing Tower will need still more rank eight Gu Immortals in hibernation. It forbids disturbing Heavenly Court’s hibernating Gu Immortals, who serve a greater purpose, because the foundation cannot be weakened any further without severe consequences. Star Constellation heaven’s will gives them many further instructions. Fairy Zi Wei is left with far more information and far more confusion, seeing that Heavenly Court’s deep foundations cannot be spent as freely as she had assumed and that the hibernation seems to serve some purpose past lifespan. ^{ch. 1365}