Chapter 1366

Star Constellation heaven’s will leaves Heavenly Court’s concerns unstated and vanishes after speaking. Duke Long tells Fairy Zi Wei that he holds fewer secrets than she credits him with, and that this is only the second time he has seen Star Constellation heaven’s will appear on its own. He urges her to trust it, insisting they will definitely win this time because it is their fate. Heaven Overseeing Tower carries Duke Long, Fairy Zi Wei, and further Gu Immortals of the ten great ancient sects into this crucial battle, moving through white heaven while Purple Mountain True Monarch’s methods obstruct it. Fang Yuan had read Heavenly Court’s thin rank eight showing correctly, though he still cannot see why it holds the rest of its strength back. On that reading, he decides to help Ying Wu Xie with the super Gu formation and tilt the fight between Duke Long and Purple Mountain True Monarch. ^{ch. 1366}

Through treasure yellow heaven Fang Yuan obtains an information path Gu worm from Ying Wu Xie, one close enough to Purple Mountain True Monarch to yield clues about him and to let the two speak directly. Purple Mountain True Monarch thanks him for bestowing the title Purple Mountain True Monarch and says he likes it. The title had begun as a lie Fang Yuan once told Tai Bai Yun Sheng, and the two grow closer over it. Fang Yuan asks for a large amount of heavenly crystals, and Purple Mountain True Monarch agrees at once, then asks whether they are for nurturing the upper extreme heavenly eagle. He calls it a sound idea since reverse flow protection seal cannot be used recklessly, then warns that even a true immemorial desolate beast might sit beyond Fang Yuan’s enslavement path method, which he says he knows about. He offers Fang Yuan a method for controlling the upper extreme heavenly eagle. Fang Yuan allows that another control method would be fine but says he has something more urgent, speaking as though he already had his own way to control the eagle, which blunts the bargaining chip. ^{ch. 1366}

Fang Yuan instead asks for an immediate ceasefire, which serves Shadow Sect and himself personally while Heavenly Court alone gains nothing. Purple Mountain True Monarch agrees at once. He recalls Shadow Sect’s Gu Immortals, and Fang Yuan orders the Southern Border Gu Immortals to pull back as well. Shadow Sect emerges with heavy losses, leaving only Ying Wu Xie, Bai Ning Bing, Hei Lou Lan, Fairy Miao Yin and a few others, while Southern Border’s losses stay light. Shadow Sect’s Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies keep hatching as the weakening dream realm breaks apart, leaving Heavenly Court worst off. ^{ch. 1366}

Duke Long stays asleep. Fairy Zi Wei speeds up her takeover of the super Gu formation. Heaven Overseeing Tower withstands a claw strike, then breaks Zuo Ye Hui’s grey night with Fate Vanquish, leaving it with broken bones and tendons. Zuo Ye Hui answers with an immortal killer move and its injuries vanish almost at once, putting it back at peak condition. It then uses a food path killer move that nearly kills two Central Continent Gu Immortals sent to reinforce Duke Long. Heaven Overseeing Tower moves to save them, and with methods of their own the two rank eights narrowly escape death uneaten. The Central Continent Gu Immortals name Zuo Ye Hui a legendary immemorial desolate beast left behind by Reckless Savage, one that targets an enemy’s weakness. ^{ch. 1366}

Purple Mountain True Monarch finally breaks through Duke Long’s defenses with Brilliant Will Dissolution and moves to finish him. Duke Long wakes at that instant. He withstands the strike, then evades instantly, and the backlash from Ying Wu Xie’s own Lead Soul Into Dream traps Ying Wu Xie in a dream instead. Purple Mountain True Monarch reads the timing as too convenient and moves to stop him, too late to matter. Duke Long, who cultivates qi path first and transformation path second, warns that his next move came from Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable and turns at last to his true methods. ^{ch. 1366}