Chapter 1448

After several failures, Fang Yuan activates the modified immortal killer move ghost official garment. He moves his soul out of his sovereign immortal body. Burning soul bursting luck has left his soul foundation at only hundred man soul level. The move is named by rank, ghost soldier garment at six, ghost general garment at seven, ghost king garment at eight and ghost venerable garment at nine. In theory rank nine could resist even a venerable’s deductions, but Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, who never needed to defend against them, had only ever reached rank eight with it. ^{ch. 1448}

Fang Yuan’s own activation manifests only as rank six ghost soldier garment, short of the rank seven his cores, rank seven change soul Immortal Gu and rank six cleanse soul Immortal Gu, should produce. Beneath it lies another layer: the rank nine theft path killer move ghostly concealment. A conflict between killer moves of different paths, not his sovereign immortal body’s dao marks, has demoted the outer soul path garment by one rank. Fusing both into one move would need theft path and soul path attainment he lacks, so he abandons the idea without further improving the method. ^{ch. 1448}

Fang Yuan already holds all of Shadow Sect’s inheritances and has just traded almost all of Lang Ya Sect’s for them, though both sides withheld some crucial contents. Lang Ya Sect’s near-complete collection is enormous, only slightly inferior to Shadow Sect’s, but it centers on refinement path and cannot match Spectral Soul Demon Venerable and Shadow Sect for collection ability. Combined, Fang Yuan now holds more inheritances than any single ancient sect of Central Continent, matched only if two or three combine, though he still cannot compare to Heavenly Court, established three million years ago under three Immortal Venerables. He judges ghost official garment the most suitable of his inheritances and the one with the highest growth potential, a key part of Spectral Soul’s true inheritance. It never spends immortal essence. Once activated it can in theory last forever so long as the soul endures and the garment goes unattacked, drawing on soul foundation instead, and its might rises and falls with that foundation. ^{ch. 1448}

Other soul path moves, soul shaking flag and soul shackle, could arm his soul further, but Fang Yuan chooses only ghost official garment. With it and Lang Ya blessed land he judges he could escape even a Heavenly Court attack. His task is to destroy Heavenly Court’s fate Immortal Gu before Heavenly Court restores Fate in ten years, after which he expects no hope of winning. He recalls having already used one true inheritance of Red Lotus to kill Heavenly Court’s rank eight time path Gu Immortal, Lord Huang Shi. With Spring Autumn Cicada as the key, he judges he has a huge possibility of obtaining Red Lotus’ other true inheritances, which may hold a path to destroy fate Gu. He decides against pursuing them now, because Heavenly Court slipped up once but still gained a huge amount of precious information, and it will bring far more strength and more rank eight Gu Immortals next time. He resolves instead to keep developing and raising his battle strength first. ^{ch. 1448}

Fang Yuan currently lacks immortal essence and his essence stone storage is nearly empty, while his reverse flow protection seal is already being targeted, Feng Jiu Ge’s sound path killer move having begun to penetrate it and affect his main body. During the River of Time battle he had barely managed to kill Lord Huang Shi even with the strength of a stone lotus island. He still holds Spectral Soul’s true inheritance and countless others, along with Dang Hun Mountain, Luo Po Valley and the light of wisdom. He warns himself that not developing further would be asking for death. ^{ch. 1448}