Chapter 1433

With Bai Ning Bing’s group trapped in the blade river segment, Huang Shi attacks with sun moon divine shuttle, heavily suppressing them, though the volley only lightly wounds the immemorial year monkey shielding them. The monkey strikes back at close range. Its power shocks Huang Shi, who had taken the monkey for one of Fang Yuan’s transformations and now sees the group really controls a beast of rank eight battle strength. Neither a strength nor a transformation path immortal, Huang Shi retreats to a stretch of dense time path dao marks where he can fight with great strength. Reading the monkey’s wounds, he reasons it has spent thirty to forty percent of its strength getting the group this far. He then uses a yellow soil rock killer move that slows time around the monkey with dust, gradually trapping it as it grows slower. ^{ch. 1433}

A sudden wave carrying blade light strikes Huang Shi and injures him, but he intensifies the dust attack, and Bai Ning Bing’s group cannot affect it with frost, flame or sound. The River of Time greatly strengthens time path lifeforms, and its dao marks drop Bai Ning Bing’s group, already the weaker side, below their usual battle strength. Ying Wu Xie readies the invincible lead soul into dream but loses his target: Fairy Zi Wei had already given Huang Shi a defensive method that hides him from soul path senses. The waves strike only him, never the far larger monkey, and Huang Shi grows warier of the hidden Fang Yuan, who holds reverse flow protection seal and battle strength equal to Feng Jiu Ge. He suspects luck path, but luck path is suppressed here. Only supreme time path methods could move these waves, he reasons, and the territorial advantage is his. Unseen by Huang Shi, Bai Ning Bing’s group is fighting exactly as Fang Yuan predicted, deliberately holding the line to keep Huang Shi fooled. ^{ch. 1433}

Fang Yuan watches through an image from the stone lotus island, the one where Spectral Soul Demon Venerable obtained Red Lotus’ true inheritance, having arrived here long ago. Fairy Zi Wei’s investigative killer move has already been removed from Fang Yuan, but the self cleansing immortal formation cannot clear Bai Ning Bing’s group of their traces in time. Bringing them closer would expose him. Even inside an immortal aperture, heaven’s will could sense his location through them, so Fang Yuan instead used Ying Wu Xie’s group as bait to mislead Fairy Zi Wei about how far he had actually traveled. Red Lotus’ true inheritance can manipulate a nearby river segment, and Red Lotus Demon Venerable chose this blade river segment deliberately. Using it further will exhaust the already tattered stone lotus island’s foundation, breaking it apart entirely once this battle ends. ^{ch. 1433}

Fang Yuan lends his own strength to Spectral Soul’s will, which had been struggling to control the waves, and a new, unprecedented wave rises on the battlefield. Its blade light and sword qi have not shot out yet, but Huang Shi already feels a strong threat to his life. Huang Shi grits his teeth to resist it, gambling that the colossal wave will also strike the monkey and force Fang Yuan to appear. Instead the wave splits and lets the monkey pass unharmed. The whole wave then turns on Huang Shi alone. ^{ch. 1433}