Chapter 1410

Fang Yuan wakes in a small, beautiful oasis in Western Desert, fed by a natural spirit spring that could grow into a mortal settlement. He and the others will erase every trace of it before moving on, to guard against Western Desert’s enemies and against heaven’s will. Pleased, he finds his deduction since witnessing inextinguishable star target has produced results. Self cleansing is a wisdom path killer move and Fang Yuan a wisdom path grandmaster, so he can modify it, adding rank seven Perseverance Immortal Gu, which supplements the duration of other Immortal Gu and killer moves, as a second core. He succeeds, letting self cleansing run for a longer duration and continuously clear his unfavorable dao marks, though this alone will not be enough to remove them all. ^{ch. 1410}

Even used continuously, clearing the inextinguishable star target dao marks from his body would take at least a month, since the more he removes, the faster they regenerate. There is no time to spare. The others hit by the same move face the same problem. Fang Yuan’s greatest worry is Heavenly Court striking as he nears success, wasting the immortal essence and letting the dao marks regrow. Self cleansing also costs heavy immortal essence and mental energy, and since he is not proficient with it, failed casts would force him to heal and weaken him greatly. Escaping to Lang Ya blessed land is impossible too, since Heavenly Court’s surveillance would expose its location and the journey is long and dangerous, threatened by heaven’s will and by Northern Plains’ Longevity Heaven. ^{ch. 1410}

His solution is to turn self cleansing into an immortal Gu formation, since Gu formations are themselves formation path killer moves that cost much less essence and mental energy to sustain. Unlike the killer move, which cleanses only its user, a formation could let other Shadow Sect Gu Immortals enter and cleanse their own dao marks too. This needs Gu worms such as formation plate Gu, an immortal level version of which Lang Ya Sect already holds, letting a Gu Immortal build a formation on essence alone with no formation path attainment needed. Formation flag Gu stores and redeploys an already built formation, and formation chart Gu is a consumable that records a formation like formation plate Gu but with far less chance of error. All three suit his plan well. Deep beneath tremor desert, a place shaken by violent tremors, an immortal Gu formation slowly activates, and Han Li walks in nervously to face the final test of the formation path true inheritance left by Zhen Yuan Zi. ^{ch. 1410}