Fang Yuan Gets Captured
In Thieving Heaven’s dream realm, Fang Yuan controls young Thieving Heaven’s body. He activates sneak attack Gu, which sends a blue baby phantom silently into the cavern wall. He judges it a top-tier Gu, outstanding among rank two, and means to refine more. Outside the dream realm he can deduce its rank one to five recipes, and with the light of wisdom rank six and seven Immortal Gu recipes, since his theft path attainment is already quasi-great grandmaster. ch. 1510
None of the rank two Gu in the small cavern suit him. He chooses three rank one Gu from the large cavern and refines them into a killer move, a giant rhino strength path phantom. It smashes the wall that sneak attack Gu has already destroyed from within, and water surges out. The cavern lies right beside the oasis pool. Under Fang Yuan’s control, young Thieving Heaven opens the wall to finish Sha Xiao’s task. ch. 1510
A membrane of light blocks most of the water, and guards rush in. Fang Yuan combines sneak attack Gu with two other Gu into a rank two killer move that raises his speed. The clan’s defenses are only mortal level, so he slips through the membrane into the pool. One guard cries traitor and chases Fang Yuan alone, shaking off the other, who urges repairing the defenses. ch. 1510
Young Thieving Heaven is only rank one with little primeval essence left, so Fang Yuan has nothing to work with against the rank three guard. The guard captures him within two or three moves and strikes his chest with a palm. The strike cuts his soul foundation by fifty million, an unprecedented level of damage. Fang Yuan wonders whether the dream realm sent the guard, a water path Gu Master rare in Western Desert, to target him. He is glad to have accumulated two hundred million man soul first, since anyone else might have died. ch. 1510
He suspects his rash charge probably brought on the strike but likely spared him many steps. To him the fifty million is no accident, since most Gu Immortals outside soul path lack such a soul foundation. He thinks of the steal dream killer move Tang Fang Ming created in Fang Yuan’s first life, when countless dream path methods were made against particular dream realms. Thieving Heaven’s dream realm corrodes the soul and has a huge demand on soul foundation, so the best remedy would be a dream and soul killer move that neutralizes or greatly reduces the corrosion. The dream realm could never be explored before the chaotic era, and well into the five regions chaotic war it was a graveyard for Gu Immortals. Fang Yuan crosses its corrosion with his robust soul foundation alone. ch. 1510
The pool’s spirit spring starts burbling as if boiling. Fang Yuan is jubilant, since his action has indeed greatly cut the steps and brought him to the most crucial juncture of the third stage. ch. 1510
