Chapter 1396

Bai Ning Bing dismisses the three Western Desert Gu Immortals as clowns. Hei Lou Lan reflects that Peacock Deity, Beautiful Camel Immortal and Dong Lie Feng are strong rank sevens, comparable to Wu Yi Ran though not to Old Treeman Ba De or Wu Yu Bo. Even so, they are far weaker than Fang Yuan, who can rival rank eights. Her heart is truly in a commotion at Fang Yuan’s terrifying growth, and seeing the enemies run she finally realizes their side is truly powerful, her own battle strength having surged greatly since an immortal ascension she had no chance to test. She concludes that with rank eight Gu Immortals so few, clearing the investigative killer moves would let them develop unhindered, and her ambitions grow again, for though Shadow Sect’s alliance agreement restrains her, she will not stay Fang Yuan’s obedient subordinate forever. ^{ch. 1396}

Fang Yuan calls the group to leave. The four of them use the ancient battle formation Omni-directional Travel to land far away above a sand dune. He also lets Lady White Rabbit out of his immortal aperture, since Shadow Sect’s members scattered across the other regions now obey him as leader. He sets the others to guard while he digs a small cave, reinforcing it with a mortal Gu formation as a formation path grandmaster. Racing against time, he attempts the immortal killer move Soaring Fighting Spirit, a wisdom path move from Purple Mountain True Monarch’s inheritance whose sole core is the rank seven Fight Immortal Gu he took from Corpse City, spending three beads of red date immortal essence. ^{ch. 1396}

The first activation fails. The profound light explodes, destroying many mortal Gu and dropping Fight Gu to the ground, and the backlash leaves Fang Yuan’s body only mildly hurt but his soul and mind heavily injured. He endures and heals, with Man as Before for body injuries, guts Gu for the soul, and Purple Mountain True Monarch’s wisdom path methods for the mind, his non-conflicting sovereign dao marks aiding them, though lingering mental symptoms remain. He fails a second time but succeeds on the third, and the profound light shoots into Ying Wu Xie, inert in the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body since an earlier heavy blow, reaching his brain and soul within a few breaths. ^{ch. 1396}

Ying Wu Xie revives with renewed fighting spirit, vowing to destroy fate Gu and rescue his captured main body from Heavenly Court. He tells Fang Yuan that Lord Purple acknowledged him and he will do the same, naming him the one most likely to destroy fate Gu and lead them into Heavenly Court. Fang Yuan nods in satisfaction. He judges that Ying Wu Xie has rank seven battle strength but wields the ultimate lead soul into dream killer move, which even rank eight Gu Immortals and Immortal Gu Houses cannot defend against. Had Ying Wu Xie helped fight Wu Yong with this spirit, Wu Yong might have died. ^{ch. 1396}

In Lang Ya blessed land, Lang Ya land spirit fails again at the human isolation style refinement that Fang Yuan demands, complaining that his own race’s nature method would have finished the Immortal Gu long ago. The hairy man heaven and earth style he prefers would never succeed here, since it draws heaven’s will and even heavenly tribulations, and only the human isolation style has a chance, which he does not know. Sixth Hair, a split soul of Spectral Soul, is secretly skilled at that human style, a talent he concealed through his years there. Sixth Hair says he will try to accept Fang Yuan as the leader of Shadow Sect, since Ying Wu Xie has acknowledged him, and asks the land spirit to let him help refine the Gu to raise his refinement path attainment. Exposing his talent risks Lang Ya land spirit’s suspicion, but he no longer cares. ^{ch. 1396}