Chapter 1511

The pool burbles and heats. The rank three guard grabs Fang Yuan by the neck and demands to know what he did. Fang Yuan ignores the pain and concludes that the sheepskin map is definitely an immortal material, undetectable because it was processed, which reacted at once in the pool water. He also suspects that someone tampered with the oasis, too small to have lasted so long, to form a Gu refinement area. ^{ch. 1511}

The guard carries him ashore, where the elders, the clan leader with rank four cultivation and the old retired clan leader have gathered. Fang Yuan is restrained and interrogated but stays silent. Red light rises from the pool, whose spirit spring is the basis of the clan’s survival, and reddens the sky over the oasis, visible for a hundred li. The legless old clan leader stops the clan leader and kindly urges Fang Yuan to speak, promising any compensation and an apology for any past wrong. ^{ch. 1511}

Fang Yuan knows Sha Xiao would probably kill him at once if he spoke, and young Thieving Heaven’s death would fail the exploration. Silence means torture after some delay, the lesser evil, so he stays silent. The clan leader kicks him down, and Fang Yuan answers that killing him means learning nothing. Sha Xiao laughs in his ear, pleased. The old clan leader drops his affable look and orders a soul search, even if Fang Yuan’s soul is destroyed. A rank three elder grabs Fang Yuan’s head and soul searches him. ^{ch. 1511}

The dream realm wears down Fang Yuan’s soul at an intense rate, from one hundred and fifty million to ninety million within a few breaths. The corrosion stops when the red light evaporates the pool completely and becomes an enormous pillar toward the skies. Fang Yuan recognizes the phenomenon of an Immortal Gu’s creation. The old clan leader orders a retreat, and he and the other Gu Masters flee. ^{ch. 1511}

Only Fang Yuan remains in the pool, and he loses control and becomes an observer again. Young Thieving Heaven weeps with regret and slaps himself. The red light flashes across several thousand li and retracts as if time reversed. Everyone the light touches, mortal or Gu Master, turns extremely old and dies. Young Thieving Heaven turns into an old man too. ^{ch. 1511}

Young Thieving Heaven waits for death, but Sha Xiao laughs that he owns steal life Immortal Gu. The red light gathers into a scarlet bee that enters his hand, and his extracted lifespan returns, making him young again. Sha Xiao calls it a rank six Immortal Gu given as a gift and tells him to roam the world and, if he truly wants to return home, use the opportunity well. Young Thieving Heaven feels no joy and asks who he is. Sha Xiao answers faintly that he will know when the time is ripe, and the third stage concludes. Fang Yuan returns to reality and has become a theft path great grandmaster. ^{ch. 1511}