Chapter 1418

Fang Yuan grasps at once that Thousand Transformations’ will wants a transaction rather than a full alliance. Heavily injured from his own tribulation, Thousand Transformations Ancestor wants to avoid a fight with Heavenly Court, yet still owes a debt for the rescue of his concubine and stands to gain goodwill with Liu Guan Yi. Fang Yuan asks for formation path Immortal Gu. Thousand Transformations’ will cultivates no formation path himself, but offers an incomplete immortal Gu formation his group obtained from Zhen Yuan Zi’s formation path true inheritance, and has Dancer Hong Yun bring it out. The formation path Immortal Gu inside is useless to Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s main body, which makes it the perfect thing to give away. ^{ch. 1418}

The incomplete formation turns out to be a movable Immortal Gu House framework, and Fang Yuan learns it contains a rank seven formation flag Immortal Gu, one he needs. He offers a huge amount of immortal materials for the whole formation rather than the single Gu inside, then hands over a list holding only a few of them. With that Gu he expects to avoid negotiating with Lang Ya land spirit or borrowing formation plate Immortal Gu, and to set up a self cleansing immortal Gu formation that clears investigative killer move dao marks over time. Dancer Hong Yun is furious, calling Liu Guan Yi shameless and greedy. Thousand Transformations’ will agrees anyway, calling the debt for Fairy Cui Bo settled and the trade their new connection, and offers an information path Gu worm so Fang Yuan can reach him again. Fang Yuan gives his own information Gu worm in return before the group departs on the dancing red cloud. ^{ch. 1418}

Once out of sight, Fang Yuan reveals the rescue as a trap. He sends Lady White Rabbit into his aperture and uses omni-directional travel with Hei Lou Lan, Bai Ning Bing, and Fairy Miao Yin to get ahead of the group’s return route. Ying Wu Xie’s transmission gives their route back and their destination of myriad statue desert, Bai Ning Bing flies off to shadow them, and the rest set down in green ghost desert. They begin setting up an ambush formation drawn from Purple Mountain True Monarch’s inheritance, meant to trap and kill Thousand Transformations’ will and Dancer Hong Yun once their trust was secured. Keeping Ying Wu Xie alive matters beyond the ruse itself. Ying Wu Xie’s lead soul into dream gives him real battle strength, and if he died, Sixth Hair, who refines Gu for Fang Yuan, would blame Fang Yuan and spend his own life to kill him. Abandoning Ying Wu Xie would also cost the trust of Lady White Rabbit and Fairy Miao Yin, whom Fang Yuan does not control as he controls Hei Lou Lan. ^{ch. 1418}

With the formation sixty percent complete, Bai Ning Bing reports that Ying Wu Xie has already succeeded without a fight. He used a Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body rather than lead soul into dream. That other killer move would have revealed itself the moment it activated. Even rank nine Heaven Overseeing Tower does not dare enter a dream realm, and with dream path research still at its start, Thousand Transformations Ancestor’s main body would have no answer to one, let alone his will. Two hours earlier, on the dancing red cloud, Ying Wu Xie had shown Thousand Transformations’ will and Dancer Hong Yun the physique body. Ying Wu Xie claimed the body as a huge gain from the earlier ordeal and told them Heavenly Court wanted it from Liu Guan Yi. The body then exploded, and Thousand Transformations’ will, Dancer Hong Yun, and Ying Wu Xie were all engulfed together in the dream realm it created. ^{ch. 1418}