Chapter 1386

Fang Yuan and the group flee across Southern Border on the upper extreme heavenly eagle, aware the whole of Southern Border’s righteous path is hunting them. Any rank eight Gu Immortal or Immortal Gu House means enormous danger to them. Heavenly Court has already left with the super Gu formation, so Duke Long could suppress Spectral Soul’s main body, but its intent to eliminate Fang Yuan and the rest has only grown more intense. The group agrees Heavenly Court definitely left hidden countermeasures beyond feeding their location to Southern Border, though what those are stays unknown. ^{ch. 1386}

Fang Yuan realizes exploring the dream realms exposed him to heaven’s will despite his Dark Limit and familiar face disguises. He deactivates reverse flow protection seal, now very costly to maintain, and relies instead on investigative methods, including three breaths future vision. The giant dream realm gave him grandmaster attainment in water, formation and dark path, while he most needed information and time path, and sword path grandmaster would send his battle strength soaring, given Bo Qing’s true inheritance and his sword path Immortal Gu. He suspects heaven’s will steered the dream realms late in his search, and that rebirth through Spring Autumn Cicada let heaven’s will strip his memory of this contamination. He is not panicking. He has prepared for this exposure since Eighty-Eight True Yang Building’s destruction. ^{ch. 1386}

Bai Ning Bing spots an Immortal Gu House approaching from the southeast, which Fairy Miao Yin identifies as Hou clan’s Flying Sand Pavilion, one of the fastest houses in Southern Border and faster than the eagle. That Immortal Gu House uses earth path dao marks to cut immortal essence expenditure and raise its speed, and those marks lie extremely dense in Southern Border’s mountains and forests. Relying on the eagle alone would let it catch them, but Fang Yuan had foreseen this and drilled the ancient battle formation Omni-directional Travel with the others, and Chi Qu You’s disruption proved only a small setback. Riding with Hou clan’s own Gu Immortals is rank eight Shang Wu Jie of the neutral Shang clan, a courtesy Hou clan would not have extended to Yao clan, Luo clan or Tie clan. When the group vanishes from his perception, Shang Wu Jie deduces they used Omni-directional Travel, maps the likely landing areas, all already covered by Southern Border righteous path Gu Immortals, and calls Wu Yong’s plan not bad. He realizes the layout will drive them toward the northwest. Wu Yong already waits there. ^{ch. 1386}

Rather than relying only on the fastest Immortal Gu House of the moment, Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building, Wu Yong travelled there by Tie clan’s Beacon Tower, the house of scattered towers by which the righteous path spread its net. Their Omni-directional Travel is incomplete: Ying Wu Xie’s version was already partial, and its core Immortal Gu were destroyed in the recent battles, so it now spends dao marks for a shorter jump. Bai Ning Bing and the others discuss changing direction to catch their pursuers off guard, but Fang Yuan insists the investigative killer move on them is the root cause. He pushes on toward Western Desert, where Heavenly Court cannot easily mobilize the righteous path. Wu Yong’s voice then reaches them through wind whisper Immortal Gu, which can theoretically cover all of Southern Border if it is fed immortal essence without limit, and Fairy Miao Yin pales in fright. Fang Yuan reassures her it is nothing more. ^{ch. 1386}

Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building, a rank eight Immortal Gu House, closes the distance so fast that Fang Yuan activates Omni-directional Travel again rather than risk a rank eight Gu Immortal at any distance. They cross less than a tenth of the distance the formation gave them before. Their expressions turn extremely unsightly. Wu Yong’s voice returns: they are trapped in his air lock, and Omni-directional Travel will not work again. Clear Jade Dripping Wind Tiny Bamboo Building appears on the horizon once more, and the Shadow Sect immortals feel an unprecedented danger as rank eight Gu Immortal Wu Yong closes in with his rank eight Immortal Gu House. ^{ch. 1386}