Chapter 1371

Fang Yuan, deeply shocked, asks what scheme lies behind the offer. Purple Mountain True Monarch says there is none, because he is about to die: Spectral Soul is captured and Duke Long has come in person, and will not let him off. He argues that Heavenly Court means to rule all humanity and will not spare Fang Yuan either, a complete otherworldly demon who defies fate and holds the sovereign immortal aperture and the luck path true inheritance. He would rather Shadow Sect fall to Fang Yuan than to their enemy. ^{ch. 1371}

Fang Yuan instead probes a secret, asking what huge flaw the sovereign immortal body carries. Purple Mountain True Monarch confirms his guess: since its essence is a rank nine Immortal Gu’s, it must definitely be fed. Pressed on exactly what it eats, he answers, matching what Fang Yuan already suspected, and Fang Yuan draws a sharp breath. The answer leaves him with a huge problem of his own. Fang Yuan, who asked the question only as a test, concludes from the direct answer that Purple Mountain True Monarch does seem sincere. ^{ch. 1371}

Inside Shadow Sect’s blessed land, Duke Long tears through the soul beast army unharmed. A vast number of soul beast corpses pile up around him. He is after the Door of Life and Death, a secluded domain that, once fate Immortal Gu has fully recovered, will pull every soul through it at death and make Heavenly Court’s rule absolute. Rather than risk the door with a move as strong as triple qi retraction, he chooses another method to take it intact. ^{ch. 1371}

Duke Long finds Purple Mountain True Monarch hiding among the soul beasts and slams down a huge mountain of air currents. Purple Mountain True Monarch must show himself and resist. Purple Mountain True Monarch coughs blood and is thrown aside like a cut kite. Asked coldly what hope he still has, he admits to himself that he cannot survive this final battle. His gaze grows slightly hazy as his mind drifts back more than a hundred thousand years. ^{ch. 1371}

Seven souls once emerged from the Door of Life and Death, the first generation split souls of Spectral Soul: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Azure, Blue, and Purple. With Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable dead, they founded Shadow Sect. They meant to grow strong enough to return their main body to rank nine. Years later, after they destroyed a Gu formation built by Limitless Demon Venerable, Yellow greatly praised Purple as the one who carried them through, and the group claimed Limitless true inheritance as its own. Learning Purple had reached great grandmaster in wisdom path, first among them to do so, Yellow marveled, and Purple credited the inheritance with raising their hope of executing their major plan. ^{ch. 1371}

Later, heaven’s will began to target Shadow Sect as its members grew stronger, and Azure suffered a loss under it. Purple answered by planning to refine wisdom sword Immortal Gu for Azure and searching for a way against heaven’s will itself. Azure’s second attempt to become a venerable failed completely. Purple entered deep seclusion and devised purple gold rock, a temporary assimilation with heaven’s will that risked its taking him over entirely. By the time the rock broke and woke him, most of the first generation split souls had died; only a few, himself included, remained, barely alive, though Shadow Sect had grown well. ^{ch. 1371}

Later again, Purple woke to find a young mistress and her servant beside him. The servant, her own Gu Master aura unconcealed, called him an old beggar with no place in their village. Purple looked at himself and smiled bitterly. ^{ch. 1371}