Chapter 1383

Wu Yong had weighed that Heavenly Court’s information could be false, but Fairy Zi Wei’s evidence and witnesses who saw Fang Yuan flee the battlefield disguised, on the upper extreme heavenly eagle with Hei and Bai, convince him. Wu Yi Hai’s sudden disappearance now makes sense as Fang Yuan. Wu Yong orders Wu Yi Hai’s life tablet Gu and soul lantern Gu sent to him through treasure yellow heaven, and tells Wu Fa to take some Immortal Gu out of the treasury. He also has Chi clan’s first supreme elder Chi Qu You build a Gu formation to block escape by space path. Fang Yuan soon learns of the transfer, including his own life tablet Gu and soul lantern Gu, and feels a bad premonition he cannot act on. ^{ch. 1383}

Wu Yong messages Fang Yuan directly, offering to trade Immortal Gu for his life. Fang Yuan responds by activating reverse flow protection seal. Wu Yong then activates through those two Gu a killer move a former super clan once used, which his clan obtained and keeps secret, but the seal reflects it completely back and he coughs blood before Qiao clan’s first supreme elder Qiao Zhi Cai. He had only meant to warn and probe, and did not use the move at full might. Wu Yong covers the injury as an old wound from the purple blood river formation, and Qiao Zhi Cai, unaware, praises his devotion to his little brother. Fang Yuan concludes Wu Yong has a method that attacks his physical body through those Gu, deflected only because the killer move struck his reverse flow protection seal. ^{ch. 1383}

Fang Yuan finds it strange that Wu Yong struck without accounting for the seal, and decides his other identity Liu Guan Yi stayed hidden because the dream realm only exposed his true body. Activating the seal, however, all but announces that he is Liu Guan Yi, and he judges that Heavenly Court definitely knows of the identity now. The clash becomes a three-way hidden confrontation between Fang Yuan, Wu Yong and Heavenly Court, with Fairy Zi Wei setting the two men on each other at no cost to herself, Wu Yong’s backlash injuries not serious and Fang Yuan unhurt but exposed. Wu Yong sends another message; Fang Yuan ignores it. Maintaining the seal makes Fang Yuan a burden, so he deliberately slows the pace before the group activates the ancient battle formation Omni-directional Travel and vanishes, an intense space path turbulence the immortals outside the dream realm more or less sense. ^{ch. 1383}

Wu Yong, having predicted this escape, had already told Chi Qu You to prepare a countermeasure, and Chi Qu You believes his imperfectly arranged super Gu formation has still separated the group. Omni-directional Travel is disrupted, scattering the Shadow Sect Gu Immortals far apart, each injured except Fang Yuan, and Bai Ning Bing lands elsewhere coughing blood, realizing it is not their intended destination. Fairy Miao Yin asks Fang Yuan what to do, and he weighs escaping alone on the upper extreme heavenly eagle against regathering the others, keeping his remaining Pure Dream Reality Seeker bodies because they can detonate into dream realms to block Immortal Gu Houses. The investigative killer move on him remains unbroken, Wu clan still holds his life tablet Gu and soul lantern Gu to strike his body directly, and dark limit Immortal Gu is lost, so heaven’s will can track him constantly. The situation is extremely bad and dangerous. The upper extreme heavenly eagle cannot be trusted to risk its life against a strong enemy, and Fang Yuan settles on Western Desert, the one region Shadow Sect has not already plundered bare, as his next destination. He judges it a pity to sacrifice the others, and knows his whereabouts stay known to his pursuers while the investigative method on him holds. ^{ch. 1383}