Chapter 1563

Meng Tu is a rank seven blade path Gu Immortal with peak rank seven battle strength and a pillar of Meng tribe. He walks barefoot across autumn blade plain, leaving blood with every step. The plain, at the extreme south of the tribe, is full of blade path dao marks forming countless edge Gu. Years ago he asked to stay, guarding the tribe’s resource point and copying Ren Zu’s actions, hoping to truly reach great grandmaster. His blade path is stuck at quasi-great grandmaster, and despite some gains a thin veil still blocks him. He refuses to quit, certain he will definitely become a great grandmaster some day. ^{ch. 1563}

The Gu formation covering the plain is destroyed abruptly, and a figure with an overwhelming aura charges at Meng Tu without a word. Meng Tu counters with a knife-hand stance that could easily break ordinary rank seven defenses, yet he is sent flying while the attacker is unharmed. He judges the enemy powerful and demands a name. Fang Yuan laughs madly in a completely altered voice and answers that the dead need not know too much. ^{ch. 1563}

Fang Yuan’s recipe for myriad self Immortal Gu requires an enormous amount of edge Gu and, more importantly, drinking blade wine, a rank seven immortal material deep under the plain. The wine forms where Meng Tu’s bloodstains seep into the ground and merge with the blade path dao marks. Fang Yuan has confirmed the plain holds some, though not much, which is all he needs. From his first life he remembers that Meng Tu inserted edge Gu into his heart to imitate Ren Zu, and the incomplete killer move this produced often threw his mind into a mad demonic state. That state made him kill his own tribe’s Gu Immortals in the five regions chaotic war. He concealed the traces, but Northern Plains’ Gu Immortals slowly found the truth. ^{ch. 1563}

Meng Tu, in Fang Yuan’s first life, was instigated under huge pressure by Heavenly Court, which schemed against him until he had no way out but to side with it. Guided by it to the drinking blade wine, he reached blade path great grandmaster by the third sip. He devoted himself completely to Heavenly Court and became its spy of second highest status in Northern Plains after Prince Feng Xian. Ma Hong Yun later exposed him by luck. ^{ch. 1563}

Fang Yuan picked Meng Tu to test emperor yama, since a rank eight opponent would be looking for trouble, ordinary rank seven Gu Immortals are useless, and peak rank seven Meng Tu is an extremely good choice. Emperor yama alone blocks the attack, turning Fang Yuan into a ten feet giant in an emperor robe woven with ghostly monsters. The blow dents the bronze armor on emperor yama’s chest, but a little of Fang Yuan’s soul foundation restores it at once. Emperor yama combines ghostly concealment, which runs itself, with ghost official garment, which relies on soul foundation, so it spends soul foundation instead of immortal essence. Fang Yuan provokes Meng Tu to use any new killer moves before he dies. Laughing in anger, Meng Tu says he had the tribe take back the defensive immortal formation, since his presence alone suffices. He stomps, and endless blade lights surge up as countless blade path phantoms gather into a huge army surrounding Fang Yuan. ^{ch. 1563}