Chapter 1382

Shadow Sect loses entirely in the battle of the dream realm, and Southern Border’s righteous path similarly suffers devastating losses. Southern Border’s righteous path had already lost the super Gu formation it arranged, the Immortal Gu each clan contributed, and several Gu Immortals to direct attacks while exploring the dream realm. Heavenly Court then captures Spectral Soul’s main body and takes the super Gu formation’s remaining two layers, whose Immortal Gu belong to Southern Border’s righteous path apart from Fang Yuan’s dark limit Immortal Gu. Southern Border’s righteous path grows extremely indignant and wants an explanation from Heavenly Court. Wu Yong reaches Central Continent’s ten great ancient sects through treasure yellow heaven, but he cannot contact Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals. ^{ch. 1382}

A hidden Heavenly Court wisdom path Gu Immortal, Fairy Zi Wei, instead seeks him out with an information path mortal Gu. It names Ying Wu Xie, Purple Mountain True Monarch, Bai Ning Bing and Fang Yuan, and details their ancient battle formation Omni-directional Travel. Its most shocking content: the real Wu Yi Hai died long ago, and Fang Yuan has been posing as him inside Wu clan. Wu Yong feels shock, then anger at Fang Yuan. He is also furious at Heavenly Court, both for seizing Wu clan’s Immortal Gu in the super Gu formation and for using this information to threaten him. ^{ch. 1382}

Wu Yong’s own scheme, unknown even to his closest aide Wu Fa, is to let Wu clan defend passively while other clans encroach on its enormous territory, then retaliate later with justification and profit from every clan that overstepped. Fang Yuan’s exposure would undo this. Wu Yong had also used Wu Yi Hai many times before to raise his own reputation by showing him brotherly care, and that familial love would now turn into proof of his own incompetence, a lifetime stain. It would absolutely lower Wu clan’s reputation sharply and deal the clan a huge blow, and the prestige countless generations of Wu clan members painstakingly built would suffer enormous damage. Wu Yong resolves he must secretly kill Fang Yuan, so Wu Yi Hai’s death can be blamed on Shadow Sect instead. ^{ch. 1382}

Wu Yong recognizes that Fairy Zi Wei is using him as a tool. Yet her message carries no threat he can turn back against her. When Qiao clan’s first supreme elder Qiao Zhi Cai notices his strange expression and asks what happened, Wu Yong answers with a show of brotherly concern. Inwardly, though, he now hates Qiao Zhi Cai too, judging that Fang Yuan could not have joined Wu clan so easily without Qiao Zhi Cai. ^{ch. 1382}

Wu Yong secretly contacts Wu clan’s headquarters. Its Gu Immortals report that Wu Yi Hai last reached them to borrow six Immortal Gu from the treasury. Wu Yong realizes he personally approved that loan, and that he had taken the initiative himself to give Fang Yuan a hundred thousand immortal essence stones as well. He really wants to slap himself, and his hatred deepens: this guy really could act, truly insidious and extremely crafty enough to reap profits even on the verge of being exposed. ^{ch. 1382}