Chapter 1449

Zhao Lian Yun has ascended as a rank six wisdom path Gu Immortal of Spirit Affinity House. She surveys her new blessed land, Lian Yun blessed land, half grassland and half plain across 5700 square kilometers, with time flowing thirty three times faster than outside. The grassland may reflect her heart’s tie to Northern Plains and the plain her inherited Central Continent customs. Beside her rank nine love Immortal Gu, her ascension with a high grade blessed land brings her a second Immortal Gu, remembrance, a silver wisdom path Gu shaped like a flying ant with an illusory white halo. It flies at astonishing speed. Becoming an immortal brings her joy, but even more emptiness and loneliness. She holds onto Xu Hao’s deduction that Ma Hong Yun, though possibly killed by Fang Yuan in the battle of Reverse Flow River, still has a soul, and takes this as hope and motivation to cultivate toward reviving him. ^{ch. 1449}

Li Jun Ying escorts Zhao Lian Yun to secret inheritance peak for the first time. A will left by Fairy Liu Fang, a supreme elder of the neutral faction, welcomes them instead of Liu Fang herself, a break from convention that Li Jun Ying notices with a slight frown. Liu Fang’s will hands over a genuine list of benefits. Li Jun Ying advises Zhao Lian Yun to choose the sect method for raising bright eye flowers to feed remembrance Immortal Gu, then clear chance grass, an easily nurtured wisdom path resource that fetches a high price. For her third choice, Zhao Lian Yun takes immortal essence stones, needed in bulk to plant both resources at scale and valuable as currency and a source of immortal essence. ^{ch. 1449}

Zhao Lian Yun thanks Li Jun Ying and vows to work hard. Before parting, Li Jun Ying and her husband Xu Hao lend her three thousand immortal essence stones on top of the sect’s one thousand, with no time limit to repay. Li Jun Ying explains that most rank six Gu Immortals hold a hundred immortal essence stones at most, a few reach several hundred and very few a thousand. Rank seven Gu Immortals, she adds, hold at least several hundred, most over a thousand, and very few several tens of thousands. She tells Zhao Lian Yun that her standing in one of Central Continent’s ten great ancient sects and her role as the sect’s current fairy make her an exception, heavily prioritized by the sect. ^{ch. 1449}

Watching Zhao Lian Yun go, Li Jun Ying’s smile fades. Since Feng Jin Huang was taken under Duke Long and revealed as an Immortal Venerable seed with infinite prospects, life has grown harder for Li Jun Ying and Xu Hao, who belong to the Anti-Feng faction. She reads Fairy Liu Fang’s cold welcome as a sign of Spirit Affinity House’s shifting political direction. Expecting political difficulty ahead, she had accompanied Zhao Lian Yun to protect her sect benefits, and counts Zhao Lian Yun among the allies the couple must now unite with for support. ^{ch. 1449}

In Northern Plains, strength path Gu Immortal Chu Du, now first supreme elder of Chu tribe and a righteous path member, receives a letter Gu from Fang Yuan asking to borrow immortal essence stones without naming an amount. Chu Du already knows Liu Guan Yi is Fang Yuan, since Heavenly Court’s assassination of Yun Liang exposed the link while destroying Longevity Heaven’s plan and incriminating Fang Yuan. He had already suspected this himself, once testing Fang Yuan with a poem. He still wants to collaborate with him under either name. He had meant to stall with a vague attitude, but Fang Yuan’s letter gives him no such opening. As a righteous path leader with much to lose, he finds continued collaboration extremely risky, and Fang Yuan’s deliberately vague request, leaving the amount for him to decide, troubles him further. ^{ch. 1449}