Chapter 1385

An unseen Southern Border formation path Gu Immortal has kept Hei Lou Lan trapped in his Gu formation for over an hour, and her latest huge explosion, which leaves her fiery dress down to a few flames, fails to break it. She is completely in a disadvantageous, passive state, and has never even seen her opponent’s face. He taunts that doubling her strength still would not let her force it open. Nearly out of immortal essence, Hei Lou Lan resigns herself to dying here, grieving that she cannot avenge her mother, and that though Hei tribe is destroyed, Hei Cheng still lives. ^{ch. 1385}

The formation expert’s laughter suddenly cuts off in fright as sword light tears the dark sky and a familiar dragon roar builds. Hei Lou Lan is extremely familiar with the roar: she has been hunted by its owner before and barely survived, only with Ying Wu Xie and the others’ combined strength. Fang Yuan shatters the formation and stands beside her. The Southern Border Gu Immortal, a rank seven formation path expert weak in close combat, is jointly attacked by Fairy Miao Yin and Black Tigress. Suffering backlash from his own destroyed formation on top of their strikes, he quickly dies. ^{ch. 1385}

Fang Yuan stores the rare corpse of a rank seven formation path Gu Immortal in his sovereign immortal aperture without annexing it, and the group hurries by the upper extreme heavenly eagle to reinforce Bai Ning Bing. They arrive after the battle has already ended. Using the killer move Bai Xiang, Bai Ning Bing has won one against three: two Southern Border Gu Immortals are dead and the third, injured and terrified, is fleeing when the eagle appears. Fang Yuan does not chase him, and leaves at once with Bai Ning Bing as the eagle turns toward Western Desert. ^{ch. 1385}

Bai Ning Bing cancels Bai Xiang and immediately collapses, since the move is very taxing on the mind and drains essence extremely fast. Without the rescue, she might have died of mental exhaustion. Fang Yuan’s wisdom path knowledge can heal the side effect. She wakes only after the eagle has flown over a hundred thousand li, and asks, astonished, whether Fang Yuan came to save her. Hei Lou Lan had doubted his objective and wondered whether he had sacrificed her, and Bai Ning Bing had gone further, certain he would sacrifice them all and escape alone. ^{ch. 1385}

Fang Yuan answers that everyone has been struck with investigative killer moves, which is why Southern Border’s righteous path kept intercepting them as they fled. He cannot break the mark himself, since many of Purple Mountain True Monarch’s Immortal Gu were lost in battle and his methods need them. Hei Lou Lan thinks of Lang Ya Sect. Its extremely close ties to Fang Yuan could supply the missing Immortal Gu through refinement. Ying Wu Xie and Lady White Rabbit were both inside Fairy Miao Yin’s immortal aperture, one of the reasons Fang Yuan went back for the group. Fang Yuan had already tried this: Sixth Hair doubted his motive, would not acknowledge his status and asked him to save Ying Wu Xie, so Fang Yuan turned to Lang Ya land spirit. ^{ch. 1385}

He traded contents of Purple Mountain True Monarch’s inheritance for sect contribution points, buying the land spirit’s personal service. At his request, it uses human isolation style, since heaven’s will is watching and the hairy man heaven and earth style might have made the refinement fail no matter what. Refining has begun, but Immortal Gu cannot be created quickly. Fang Yuan judges the situation more complex still, suspecting Heavenly Court has already worked with Southern Border’s righteous path to destroy them, using it as a tool while its own Gu Immortals lie in ambush. ^{ch. 1385}