Chapter 1414

Soul searching is common knowledge since Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s era, so Dancer Hong Yun easily searches Han Li’s soul and learns his experiences. She carries him to an underground cave holding a small Gu formation, where the formation spirit greets him as master. She is moved that the spirit had reassembled the formation, keeping Zhen Yuan Zi’s true inheritance intact. She tells Han Li that in return for saving his life he will hand the true inheritance over completely, and relays his agreement to the formation spirit. It hesitates. ^{ch. 1414}

She presses it point by point: it must not defy its master’s orders, and Han Li has met the requirements to become its new master. Its new master has now given it to her, and it submits without resistance. She refines it with her immortal essence, and the other Gu worms follow, giving her several Immortal Gu, many mortal Gu, and Zhen Yuan Zi’s complete formation path true inheritance. The immortal formation now lies fully open to her. She then waves at Han Li, who had never actually woken; with a soft sound his body collapses into flesh, completely dead down to his soul, because she had puppeted his will into agreeing all along. ^{ch. 1414}

A mortal who truly owns an Immortal Gu is normally hard to strip. Defiance would let the mortal destroy it, but the lion had kept Han Li from refining the formation spirit and the other Gu worms, leaving them still filled with Zhen Yuan Zi’s will, and that was her loophole. The other reason is the formation spirit itself, which cannot lie and is artless, so she could talk it round. Thousand Transformations’ will identifies Zhen Yuan Zi as a righteous path Gu Immortal of the super force Che clan, and says rumors their Gu Immortals pushed him aside seem true. He orders that once they save Cui Bo and return to myriad statue desert, she must hand the whole inheritance to his main body. She feels a loss, unsure how much will remain hers, but cannot resist a rank eight and must comply. ^{ch. 1414}

She tells herself the fortuitous encounter only happened because of his will. Her tally is three Immortal Gu, all rank seven and two of them formation path, plus the formation spirit counted as half an Immortal Gu, less than she would have gained had the formation not broken apart earlier. She privately curses Han Li as trash who deserved death for reaching at a Gu Immortal’s true inheritance. ^{ch. 1414}