Chapter 1611

Fairy Zi Wei opens her eyes in Heavenly Court and frowns slightly. Fixed space Immortal Gu has self-detonated. She had prepared against great thief ghost hand when she sent Liu Hao and Jun Shen Guang. She orders Yuan Qiong Du, a newly recruited rank eight Gu Immortal, to refine fixed space Gu again. Having added refinement path dao marks to fixed space Gu and the others, he understands that Liu Hao is probably in a bad state. Yuan Qiong Du shares an ancient sect with Liu Hao and asks, and she says Liu Hao is most likely a captive of Fang Yuan but she would rather he were killed. ^{ch. 1611}

Yuan Qiong Du realizes that if Liu Hao is a captive, the other Southern Border immortals are captive too. If Fang Yuan killed them, deep-seated hatred would rule out any compromise with the Southern Border righteous path. Southern Border’s foundation would be truly damaged, leaving it the weakest of the five regions. Once the chaotic war of the five regions begins, Central Continent could devour it easily and gain huge dominance. Next to that situation, Liu Hao, a mere rank seven, is a small sacrifice. His shock gone, Yuan Qiong Du leaves to refine the Gu, which his rank eight cultivation and Heavenly Court’s grand refinement path formation make practically certain. ^{ch. 1611}

Fairy Zi Wei still feels unease. Deducing again with Star Constellation Chessboard, she gets the same result as before. Fang Yuan’s ambush worked because of a time path formation that Shadow Sect built long ago from natural dao marks beside a tributary of the River of Time. Fang Yuan, a formation path grandmaster, needs immortal materials and cannot repeat that success elsewhere. Without the formation, his dream realm battle tactic is not much of a threat. She wonders whether the unease comes from Spectral Soul. Duke Long’s captive Spectral Soul uses soul path dao marks from Dang Hun Mountain’s self-detonation to heal and resist. ^{ch. 1611}

A grand immortal formation like a huge mill is constantly grinding down the soul path dao marks around Spectral Soul. Fairy Zi Wei sneers that they will be completely ground down in another three days. Scanning him with Star Constellation Chessboard, she finds nothing odd and no concealed methods of resistance. The unease does not come from here, and she thinks of a person. ^{ch. 1611}

She goes to a nameless valley in Central Continent, where Duke Long teaches and guards Feng Jin Huang. Feng Jin Huang learns the killer move break dream and shatters a dream realm with it. Fairy Zi Wei is shocked, since killer moves of old paths fail against a dream realm and this mortal one works. Duke Long sends Feng Jin Huang off to rest. Fairy Zi Wei admits to him that she has been uneasy without finding the reason. Fairy Zi Wei praises Feng Jin Huang’s progress, Duke Long answers that it comes from the child’s own aptitude, and Fairy Zi Wei calls the child Heavenly Court’s hope of uniting the five regions. ^{ch. 1611}

Duke Long names the source by elimination: with Fang Yuan, Spectral Soul and Feng Jin Huang ruled out, only Red Lotus is left. Of the three Demon Venerables who attacked Heavenly Court, only Red Lotus Demon Venerable almost destroyed fate Immortal Gu. His true inheritance may have been left so that the inheritor completely destroys fate Immortal Gu. Asked about the search for Red Lotus’ true inheritance, Fairy Zi Wei answers that Present and Past Pavilion already sits in the River of Time, so Heavenly Court will know when Fang Yuan enters. Eternal Yacht, almost completed, will join it there in a few days. She still plans to construct Three Autumn Yellow Crane Platform and Shark Flow Lever, and says that four such time path Immortal Gu Houses will make Fang Yuan completely fail, however much he has grown. ^{ch. 1611}