Chapter 1586

The two Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies settle in Mini Green Heaven, the least developed of the nine heavens, which Fang Yuan uses to store dream realms. Shadow Sect’s members cultivate in Mini Yellow Heaven. They stayed out of the Lang Ya fight because he might need them for Omni-directional Travel at a crucial moment. ^{ch. 1586}

In the far north of Mini Northern Plains, his time path clone places the final mortal Gu, and the snow crystal formation activates. It has a huge range of a few dozen square kilometers, with tens of thousands of mortal Gu from rank one to five, mostly ice and snow path. Its cores are two ice path Immortal Gu taken from the snowman Gu Immortals and three rank eight ice path crystal essences, each large like a mountain peak. Fang Yuan owned one essence through his marriage with Xue Er and took two more by slaughtering the snowman tribe. Their frost carves ice and snow path dao marks into the surroundings, creating a habitat for snowmen and snow monsters. The clone names the formation snow crystal formation. ^{ch. 1586}

Attainment is shared with the main body, so the clone is a formation path grandmaster too. Neither of them is a great grandmaster. A great grandmaster could use the three essences directly and free the two Immortal Gu. Unlike Spectral Soul’s split soul clones, this clone is easy to expose, though it need not fight, being meant for the light of wisdom. ^{ch. 1586}

Flying on, the clone finds several thousand snowmen, mortals and Gu Masters, whom Fang Yuan captured from the northern icy plain. So many Gu Masters make the batch worth ten times the usual number of snowman slaves. Uprooted, the snowmen are very fearful and timid, and since Fang Yuan hid the slaughter and disguised himself as a snowman Gu Immortal, they do not know the truth. Using familiar face, the clone becomes Bing Zhuo, makes a blizzard, and tells them the snow race has nothing to fear in the three mountains. Then Bing Zhuo’s figure fades with the wind. The leader and elders agree, and the group sets off much faster. ^{ch. 1586}

The formation lets snowmen and snow monsters live and grow without isolating them completely, since they must interact and conflict to develop. It also monitors and controls the area. Food path methods can maintain it. But the three essences are expendable, and their frost dao marks dissipate without raising the aperture’s total of those marks. The clone then settles the rockmen in Mini Southern Border, which has the densest earth path dao marks, by almost the same method. ^{ch. 1586}

The main body meanwhile stands at the huge, dark Plunder Shadow Earth Trench, at another end of Southern Border. He learned Omni-directional Travel there, using many Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique bodies to stop righteous path pursuers. Southern Border’s righteous path has built an immortal formation here that is not weak. A Southern Border Gu Immortal hidden in the formation warns him from the clouds to leave before he regrets it. Fang Yuan says he wants to see how, and attacks the formation by force. ^{ch. 1586}