Chapter 1403

In Northern Plains’ Lang Ya blessed land, Lang Ya land spirit works a refinement path super Gu formation around an icy blue fire, trying to finish rank seven Self Love Immortal Gu after months of effort. Self Love is a wisdom path Immortal Gu that must be refined at rank seven from the start. Even the super Gu formation cannot completely isolate the blazing ice fire. Sixth Hair takes from the inventory five traces of fan door wind, a rank seven material that grows only in mortal doors, holds them open, and so draws collectors, and Lang Ya land spirit sends them into the fire. The attempt fails for the fifth time: the fire extinguishes, the profound ice breaks, and the fan door wind traces vanish with it. Lang Ya land spirit is furious, blaming the human refinement method Fang Yuan demanded over his hairy man style. Sixth Hair defends Fang Yuan as having spent a vast amount of sect contribution points, too huge a price to cause trouble, and land spirit tells him to relay the failure and warn that further attempts need more points. ^{ch. 1403}

Fang Yuan flies on with his mind on the battle against Feng Jiu Ge, fought at a sand whirlpool tributary of the River of Time that Shadow Sect listed as a secret resource. Purple Mountain True Monarch, before he died, told him to reach Spectral Soul’s will inside the River of Time’s ghost face red lotus, which holds almost all of Shadow Sect’s cultivation details and a portion of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s true inheritance. Fang Yuan already knows the complete construction of twelve Immortal Gu Houses from the inheritance, but the rest, along with Red Lotus’ true inheritance, waits inside the river, and he holds the key, Spring Autumn Cicada. He is definitely bound for the River of Time but will visit two resource points first, since he should not go there before he is completely ready. Central Continent, Northern Plains and Southern Border all threaten him. Western Desert remains his safest ground. Shadow Sect still has five or six tributaries left after losing one to eliminate Heavenly Court’s pursuers, controls only one final tributary in Western Desert, and lost the Eastern Sea one to Miao Ming Shen, whom Fang Yuan himself told. ^{ch. 1403}

Fang Yuan worries the investigative killer move on him keeps exposing his location, and needs Self Love Immortal Gu as the core of a Purple Mountain True Monarch move that can dispel it. Without dark limit Immortal Gu to shield him, heaven’s will also plots constantly to get rid of him, and the core Immortal Gu he lacks would dispel the investigative move and hide him from heaven’s will again. Sixth Hair’s letter arrives reporting the fifth failure. It also says Lang Ya land spirit has given the attempt his all. Fang Yuan resolves to keep funding the refinement even if he goes bankrupt. Since his surprise use of Years Flow Like Water against Feng Jiu Ge is now exposed to Heavenly Court, he decides he cannot stay passive. He replies that Sixth Hair, not Lang Ya land spirit, will now do the actual refining while the land spirit only assists. ^{ch. 1403}

Swept into the River of Time by the flood, Feng Jiu Ge finds the time path’s power invading his body. The power is incredibly strong. He soon feels heavily resisted, since his sound path dao marks cannot coexist with the river’s time path dao marks. Wanting to leave at once, he finds the tributary already destroyed and only a huge ripple of time left, which is no exit for someone who is not a time path Gu Immortal. While he is still uncertain what to do, an explosion sounds and a huge tiger year beast surfaces from the depths. Feng Jiu Ge’s pupils shrink, his body like an ant beside an elephant, and he recognizes an immemorial year beast as the shadow of death closes over him. ^{ch. 1403}