Chapter 1599

In Southern Border, Fang Yuan places the sovereign immortal aperture, and its open entrance swallows a vast amount of heaven and earth qi. His three secluded domains of heaven and earth, City Well, Reverse Flow River and Luo Po Valley, put a huge burden on the blessed land, with intense expenditure of qi. A sovereign blessed land can bear four such domains but needs dozens or even hundreds of times an ordinary one’s qi. His location is exposed to heaven’s will. Deductions by any Gu Immortal become many times harder to defend against. Short of funds, he places the aperture instead of buying immortal materials to convert into qi. ^{ch. 1599}

When qi keeps pouring in after the aperture has had its fill, Fang Yuan knows his tribulation is coming. A rank seven Gu Immortal faces earthly calamities every ten years, heavenly tribulations every fifty and grand tribulations every hundred, and setting the aperture’s time to its quickest brings them rapidly. This one is an earthly calamity. His killer move exposing heavenly secret lets him know its contents beforehand. Yellow spring ghost martial statues rise from the earth, and green lightning divine martial statues appear in the sky. Reverse Flow Protection Seal reflects their attacks, leaving him completely unharmed, and myriad dragon destroys them and the gathering qi, even when heaven’s will retries. ^{ch. 1599}

Fang Yuan concludes that the green lightning statues appeared because he had delayed the previous earthly calamity with endless trouble, a killer move from Hei Fan’s true inheritance. The move delays a tribulation to be undergone with the next, which angers heaven’s will so later ones increase greatly in strength. Heaven’s will already keeps his tribulations as weak as possible so that he gains few dao marks, so this weakness helps him. Soul path and transformation path dao marks rise, yet time path ones matter most. He had chosen an empty area so that heaven’s will had no target, and afterwards he clears away the remaining heaven’s will. ^{ch. 1599}

During the tribulation his time path clone, using the light of wisdom, deduces killer moves from Hei Fan’s true inheritance with extreme efficiency. He now has a complete set of time path methods covering offense, defense, movement and healing, needing only practice. Still, the clone is not satisfied. The clone tests time cutting edge, and a flying blade vanishes at shocking speed, but blood flows from the clone’s mouth and it is greatly disappointed. ^{ch. 1599}

The clone’s deduced methods are rank seven, but Fang Yuan will need rank eight ones against Heavenly Court’s obstruction while seeking Red Lotus’ true inheritance in the River of Time. Hei Fan’s true inheritance holds rank eight defensive killer moves built on Years Flow Like Water, but no rank eight offense. Modified time cutting edge has far lower power and a heavier backlash. Fang Yuan infers the complete move is a rank nine killer move, since even the rank six and seven versions cannot be modified without the disadvantages outweighing the advantages. Rank seven time cutting edge cannot kill rank eight experts, but it can harm them. ^{ch. 1599}

He deduces that the memory loss covers everything related to the move, even records in information path Gu worms and carvings on stones, erased from the River of Time as it is used. He infers that Spectral Soul used the move often, so its information was erased and never entered Spectral Soul’s true inheritance. Shadow Sect might have kept a small portion hidden, but that is very unlikely. He judges time cutting edge truly a divine technique, and grasping it would raise his chances in the River of Time by twenty percent. ^{ch. 1599}

A day later, Lu Wei Yin half kneels and senses changes in the earth qi, and Xia Cha, the rank eight time path great expert, lands behind him with several Gu Immortals. He says with deep certainty that Fang Yuan placed his aperture there, absorbed the qi and went through a tribulation. Xia Cha’s eyes flash at such profound earth path methods from Lu Wei Yin, indeed Paradise Earth’s inheritor. The Gu Immortals say that with Lu Wei Yin and the clue of Fang Yuan’s many secluded domains, they will definitely find Fang Yuan. One asks why Fang Yuan stays in Southern Border despite having Fixed Immortal Travel, and another says he is likely after their resources, especially the dream realms in Yi Tian Mountain. They urge killing him before they can rest at ease. ^{ch. 1599}