Chapter 1405

In Western Desert at night, Fang Yuan lands warily. He is uncertain why Heavenly Court sent only Feng Jiu Ge after him. He sets Hei Lou Lan, Bai Ning Bing, Lady White Rabbit and Fairy Miao Yin to guard, since the killer move he and Ying Wu Xie will use drops their own battle strength and leaves safety in the four immortals’ hands. He raises a modified mortal Gu formation from Purple Mountain True Monarch’s inheritance, cored on precaution Immortal Gu, flawed but enough for now against a sneak attack. He lacks the Immortal Gu for any of the inheritance’s four true immortal Gu formations, including the strongest, purple blood river formation, so this simpler one has to do while he races against time. ^{ch. 1405}

Inside the formation, Ying Wu Xie volunteers to go first and activates burning soul bursting luck, a move that spends soul foundation to raise luck sharply and only for a time. His luck surges but his soul weakens badly, leaving him dizzy. Fang Yuan heals him with guts Gu from his stockpile. Only Fang Yuan and Ying Wu Xie have enough soul path dao marks to use the move, and even Ying Wu Xie’s cast permanently reduces his own. Fang Yuan then uses it himself, cored on Soul Howl Immortal Gu, succeeding on his third attempt with Ying Wu Xie’s guidance after two failures. He orders Sixth Hair to keep refining, meaning to raise Sixth Hair’s luck through the connect luck Immortal Gu that still links Ying Wu Xie to him. That connection formed when Sixth Hair helped Ying Wu Xie escape, and luck is the best aid to Gu refinement, as Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s luck path help let Long Hair Ancestor refine many Immortal Gu and create Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. ^{ch. 1405}

Checking with Perceivable dao Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan finds his own soul path dao marks nearly wiped out, his long cultivation undone in one cast. He accepts the cost, since dao marks can be rebuilt later. A lost life cannot. Ying Wu Xie, as a split soul of Spectral Soul, confirms he has foundation to use the move up to two more times, four total, though repeated casts by one person add no further effect. Fang Yuan gathers everyone back into his immortal aperture and moves on, since Heavenly Court’s tracking and heaven’s will both make staying still dangerous. ^{ch. 1405}

In white heaven the two Heavenly Court Gu Immortals fire a golden beam from their Immortal Gu House to finish the eagle, and the beam homes in like a shadow, deepening the eagle’s wounds and slowing it. A black-white overturning cloud unexpectedly forms in its falling path, and the eagle vanishes inside it, escaping between the two heavens just as the beam strikes the cloud instead. The dyed cloud turns golden, grows extremely heavy and sinks, and the two stop the killer move too late. The pursuers are stunned. They believed they had already destroyed every cloud that could connect the two heavens. Furious at the coincidence, they give chase back through the heavenly wind qi wall to black heaven, still holding their investigative killer move on the eagle, and refuse to let their first mission fail. ^{ch. 1405}