Chapter 1598

In the fourth stage, Fang Yuan reports killing Li Xin, and the old man imparts the rank seven version of time cutting edge, many times more complex than rank six. Fang Yuan practises it patiently. Meanwhile his time path clone, having partly deduced a formation, turns to time cutting edge and finds it strange that the move is missing from Spectral Soul’s true inheritance, though the dream realm came from Spectral Soul. ^{ch. 1598}

Fang Yuan destroyed Plunder Shadow Earth Trench and took all the dream realms, so Southern Border’s righteous path assembled Gu Immortals under Xia Cha, Xia clan’s first supreme elder, to track him. They cannot deduce his location, since emperor yama protects him, though with more clues they might unravel it, and if it stays unchanged, piled up deductions will eventually break it. Xia Cha feels pressured. Her reputation keeps falling while he lives, and Xia clan would suffer if it got serious. She asks everyone to use any trump cards and swears to compensate them fairly, but nobody moves. ^{ch. 1598}

Xia Cha asks Liu Hao, Wu clan’s representative, for his method. In truth he is a spy from Central Continent, sent by Fairy Zi Wei and placed by Wu Yong in Southern Border’s righteous path. He says they lack clues about Fang Yuan, and Xia Cha does not suspect him given Wu clan’s deep enmity with Fang Yuan. An unknown muscular Gu Immortal in a conical hat appears unnoticed inside their formation and offers help. The Southern Border immortals prepare to fight, but Tie clan’s representative stops them. The man says he is Lu Wei Yin. ^{ch. 1598}

In the dream realm, the old man is satisfied that Fang Yuan has mastered rank seven time cutting edge too, and sees some hope for the clan’s revenge. He warns first that the rank six version can kill rank seven opponents while the rank seven version cannot kill rank eight Gu Immortals, so Fang Yuan must not seek the enemy yet. Second, using the rank seven move at rank six is quite difficult, so he must raise his cultivation to rank seven or eight and endure until then. Then he can learn the rank eight version, which would make revenge possible. Third, the extreme move has incredible power, but its huge drawback, which grows stronger with rank, is that it removes memories related to it. The more he uses it the more he forgets, until he loses the old man, the enemy and the move itself, so he must not use it excessively. ^{ch. 1598}