Chapter 1372

Purple Mountain True Monarch senses that the female Gu Master before him is not fate’s crucial person, and that the feeling instead points to a descendant of hers. That night he visits her dream and leaves a true inheritance mixing wisdom path, transformation path and food path, a little messy by his own judgment, naming it Black Tigress true inheritance. He wonders if it will help or change anything, then leaves silently, still hoping. In a Northern Plains cave, young Lady Wan Shou means to withdraw out of respect, but Purple Mountain True Monarch judges her worthy instead. He gives her a true inheritance on condition that she report its contents to him and later help whoever carries his information path Gu worm. ^{ch. 1372}

Facing a defiant female Gu Master under threat of death, he gives her the first half of a fire path true inheritance. He tells her that at rank five she can seek the second half in Northern Plains, with a chance at becoming an immortal if she obtains it. He afterward suspects that her close relative will become a pawn of heaven’s will. Offered a choice among three of his true inheritances, young Tai Bai Yun Sheng picks the one that surpasses life and death and lets its holder aid the world. Purple Mountain True Monarch reflects that almost a hundred thousand years have passed, and hopes the hope he keeps spreading will serve his main body’s plan. ^{ch. 1372}

In the present, Duke Long’s dragon flame forces Purple Mountain True Monarch to give up an arm to block, and a crushing grip then breaks half his skeleton. Purple Mountain True Monarch keeps trying to fight and dodge despite the damage. Duke Long explains that wisdom path’s creator Lady Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had herself partially assimilated with heaven’s will ages ago, so no trick of his could pass her. Purple Mountain True Monarch spent his later life fighting heaven’s will for pawns, Duke Long says, and became one of those pawns himself. Duke Long adds that heaven’s will has infiltrated the dream realm, and that Star Constellation heaven’s will has guided Heavenly Court to Spectral Soul’s main body’s condition and location. That infiltration is how Fang Yuan, who came to explore it, was completely exposed. Duke Long declares that Fang Yuan must die for defying heaven’s will. ^{ch. 1372}

Duke Long advances through countless hostile soul beasts unharmed, using qi path strength at quasi-rank nine to destroy them. He reaches Purple Mountain True Monarch, too heavily injured to stand but still trying. Grabbing him by the neck, Duke Long taunts his ruined hopes. He notes that Purple Mountain True Monarch sent away a portion of his Immortal Gu and calls him truly unrepentant. ^{ch. 1372}

Purple Mountain True Monarch transmits his final thoughts straight to Fang Yuan. He names Fang Yuan a complete otherworldly demon, definitely different, heaven’s will’s chosen pawn against Shadow Sect who has escaped its manipulation and now carries the biggest hope. He tells Fang Yuan to take all of Shadow Sect and wreak havoc across the world. Fang Yuan accepts and agrees to become the leader of Shadow Sect. Still gripping Duke Long’s hands, Purple Mountain True Monarch truly dies from combat. He has spread hope until the end of a hundred thousand years of half clarity and half insanity, and gifts the source of chaos before death. ^{ch. 1372}