Chapter 1401

A year beast army encircles Feng Jiu Ge, but he stays calm and answers with the immortal killer move Green Jade Song, corroding the nearest beasts into green jade stone. Eight ancient year beasts then charge from four sides, and his intensified sound waves shatter them into jade pieces, killing them. The Shadow Sect immortals lying in ambush voice their shock. Fang Yuan alone stays unmoved, since Purple Mountain True Monarch’s inheritance told him how Qin Bai Sheng once fought Feng Jiu Ge, and he judges Green Jade Song much stronger than at Luo Po Valley. ^{ch. 1401}

Fang Yuan unseals Years Flow Like Water, a rank eight Immortal Gu from Hei Fan’s true inheritance, and casts Year Beast Summoning with it as the core instead of ordinary year Gu. Where the ordinary version summons only one beast, this version summons an entire army, and even a rank six Gu Immortal can wield the Immortal Gu behind it. A stream of year beasts pours out to answer his call. ^{ch. 1401}

Feng Jiu Ge answers with Submission Song, drawing on wisdom, enslavement, sound and soul path, inspired by his earlier fight against Qin Bai Sheng’s five finger fist heart sword. Many desolate and ancient year beasts switch sides under it and turn on their former allies, throwing the year beast army into chaos. Fang Yuan stays calm and keeps summoning. Fang Yuan does not expect to kill so strong an enemy, and other rank eight Gu Immortals may back Feng Jiu Ge from hiding, so Fang Yuan stays concealed and spends year beasts on attrition, a time path method with enslavement path effect. As the beasts pass a hundred they ring Feng Jiu Ge in, and he holds a defensive circle inside the encirclement while the battle deadlocks. ^{ch. 1401}

Fairy Zi Wei watches from Central Continent’s Heavenly Court, using an investigative killer move and Star Constellation Chessboard to see the whole battlefield clearly. Killing Fang Yuan and taking or destroying Red Lotus’ true inheritance is her main objective, and Feng Jiu Ge, one part of that plan, is not at full strength and still holds Heavenly Court’s lent rank eight Immortal Gu. With Spectral Soul captured, she judges Fang Yuan to be Heavenly Court’s greatest threat. She shifts the chessboard to two Heavenly Court Gu Immortals fighting the injured upper extreme heavenly eagle that fled Fang Yuan’s control, and since her investigative killer move already found him, his tracking method matters less than denying him the beast. Heavenly Court holds back its full strength because Fang Yuan’s strong luck turns a crowd of pursuers to his advantage, so only a man of similar luck can check him, which is why she set Feng Jiu Ge on him. Heavenly Court also needs to develop, since the great era will dissolve the regional walls and press Central Continent on all four sides. Star Constellation heaven’s will has told Duke Long and her that many rank eight Gu Immortals must hibernate in the future. ^{ch. 1401}

A newly recruited Heavenly Court Gu Immortal, Yuan Qiong Du, once a supreme elder of one of the ten great ancient sects, reports by letter Gu that he has purchased year beasts in bulk through treasure yellow heaven. The seller may not know it, but they are filled with heaven’s will, and Yuan Qiong Du, tasked with repairing fate Gu for his refinement path, can use them as immortal materials to save time and strengthen the effect. Fairy Zi Wei is pleased. She admires Duke Long’s wise and resolute strike, which created Heavenly Court’s present advantage, and judges that Central Continent would gain most early in a five regions chaotic war whose true decider is Great Dream Immortal Venerable. In Western Desert, Fang Yuan activates Fight Immortal Gu and casts Enslavement After Victorious Fight, and countless strength path giant hands defeat the year beasts, which become his slaves under the move and gather to him instead of fleeing. ^{ch. 1401}