Chapter 1435

Bai Ning Bing’s group brings Huang Shi’s corpse to Fang Yuan, and Spectral Soul’s will eulogizes him as a genius who grew into a famous expert before perishing here. The group falls silent. The island is now crumbling, its foundation spent forcing Huang Shi’s death, and Spectral Soul’s will warns it will soon be destroyed entirely, with little time left. Spectral Soul Demon Venerable once praised this island’s power to watch past and present through the River of Time as proof of Red Lotus Demon Venerable’s superior time path attainment. ^{ch. 1435}

Red Lotus Demon Venerable had placed all seven of his true inheritances on stone lotus islands scattered through the River of Time. Spectral Soul Demon Venerable remade this one into Shadow Sect’s greatest information channel, and Shadow Sect has drawn on its power many times, recently to let Spring Autumn Cicada activate smoothly and to aid Ying Wu Xie and Purple Mountain True Monarch. Fang Yuan calls the trade worthwhile. Huang Shi has outstanding battle strength and is like a fish in water in the River of Time, and Fang Yuan reasons no later ambush would likely have given them this chance, which the group and Spectral Soul’s will accept. ^{ch. 1435}

Spectral Soul’s will calls Fang Yuan the final hope of Shadow Sect, crediting Purple Mountain True Monarch’s earlier choice as correct. It grants him complete initiative over whether to save Spectral Soul’s main body, saying it will not blame him even if he sets out to destroy that main body instead. Ying Wu Xie is left speechless. When Fang Yuan offers only an alliance, Spectral Soul’s will corrects him: they are one collective, since any split soul’s decision is the main body’s own. It confirms him as Shadow Sect’s leader, appointed by Purple Mountain True Monarch and approved by the other split souls. ^{ch. 1435}

Spectral Soul’s will passes down the main body’s soul path true inheritance; Fang Yuan’s self will merges with it and returns moments later, carrying a flood of information. Its most valuable part is unmistakable. Spectral Soul’s true inheritance is the most comprehensive cultivation content ever created by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, who is one of only ten venerables to have appeared since ancient times. Fang Yuan judges it the most complete venerable inheritance he holds, one that could let him approach the heights Spectral Soul once reached. He judges his own soul path attainment insufficient for now, and cultivating it would demand vast time, energy and resources. Soul path’s resource demand is the most terrifying of all, and matching Spectral Soul would mean slaughtering countless living beings as he did. ^{ch. 1435}

Second in value is Red Lotus’ true inheritance: though its true meaning was already absorbed by Spectral Soul, its contents survive, above all the complete set of Spring Autumn Cicada Immortal Gu recipes from rank six through rank nine. Spring Autumn Cicada is the crucial key to Red Lotus’ true inheritances. Fang Yuan still holds only one of Red Lotus’ seven true inheritances, but calls the recipe set a huge aid to refining Spring Autumn Cicada further. Of Thieving Heaven’s true inheritances he holds only ghostly concealment, while Zhao Lian Yun holds divine concealment. ^{ch. 1435}

Fang Yuan also gains the rest of Shadow Sect’s hundred-thousand-year collection of true inheritances; Purple Mountain True Monarch’s own legacy, abundant as it was, held not even one-hundredth of it. Fang Yuan judges the value incalculable. The haul includes Limitless Demon Venerable’s rule path true inheritance and Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable’s formation path true inheritance, neither of which Purple Mountain True Monarch held. Fang Yuan judges the gain enough, given time and resources, to build an organization no weaker than Heavenly Court. Spectral Soul’s will then declares Fang Yuan has completely inherited Shadow Sect, though it warns that cultivating these inheritances will demand time, energy and resources they no longer have. ^{ch. 1435}

Their main body delayed the great era by nearly five hundred years but has failed, and in about ten years it will completely descend, merging the five regions into history’s largest war. Central Continent has the deepest foundation and the most Gu Masters and Gu Immortals. It alone is unified under a single leader, while the other four regions stay split among independent super forces. Heavenly Court’s greatest danger is its rank nine fate Immortal Gu, whose power is mostly why Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could arrange defenses against three Demon Venerables after her death. Spectral Soul’s will names Fang Yuan, a complete otherworldly demon unbound by fate, the greatest hope of destroying that Gu, and gives him ten years before Heavenly Court restores it and becomes unbeatable, ending any rescue of their main body. ^{ch. 1435}