Chapter 1625

The Gu Immortals are shocked, for they came to stop Fang Yuan from reaching rank eight and find him already there. Shang Wu Jie suspects that Fang Yuan possessed Xia Cha’s body and used familiar face to feign passing the tribulation. Xia Zhao answers that only rank eight immortal essence can activate Spring and Summer, Xia Cha’s rank eight Immortal Gu. A rank seven with red date immortal essence could not do it even with Xia Cha’s body. Shang Wu Jie hesitates. ^{ch. 1625}

Wu Yong says killing Fang Yuan will settle it. He kills Fang Yuan’s immemorial year beast and attacks with all his strength, vowing that the five regional mountain range will be Fang Yuan’s graveyard. Then the range trembles, because a backup plan of Wu Yong’s changes the earth vein’s alignment beneath it and destroys it. As it crumbles, its five colored lights dissipate, and the Southern Border immortals rejoice at being freed from the shackles, while Chi Qu You suspects Wu clan also knows Tao Zhu’s arrangements. ^{ch. 1625}

A large formation at the periphery, set up by Wu clan and Qiao clan Gu Immortals, drives the change, with Qiao Si Liu, Wu Yu Bo and others in charge. Qiao Si Liu is silent, her expression complicated. She was once close to Wu Yi Hai, who was Fang Yuan in disguise, and has no feelings left for Fang Yuan. Her feelings come from the range: Tao Zhu’s research had not quite failed as everyone thought, and Qiao clan had secretly explored clues to his inheritance found by chance. Under Wu Yong’s pressure, Qiao clan offered those findings, which let him make the lights vanish by changing the earth vein. She sighs that destroying the range ends any hope of exploring that rank eight inheritance. ^{ch. 1625}

Jun Shen Guang’s trump card, sun deity’s radiance, has dropped his aura to an extreme point. It expended a huge amount of white litchi immortal essence, permanently decreased his light path dao marks, and left him seriously injured by the range’s backlash. He considers cooperating with the Southern Border immortals to kill Fang Yuan, but rejects it and keeps escaping, since escaping would mean Fang Yuan’s failure. Fang Yuan keeps chasing him, ignoring Wu Yong. ^{ch. 1625}

Enormous pillars in five colors soar, and Tao Zhu’s will tells a junior that destroying the range passed his final test and the five regions inheritance is now his. Qiao Si Liu realizes the accidental destruction activated the inheritance. Wu Yong’s rank eight killer move answers instead, aimed at Fang Yuan, whose reverse flow protection seal reflects only a portion. Fang Yuan stays completely safe but is greatly slowed, since Wu Yong had prepared methods to restrict him. ^{ch. 1625}

Tao Zhu’s will is stunned to find vicious Gu Immortals instead of a respectful junior. The immortals dismiss the will as a dead man, saying they can take the inheritance after the battle. One would give up even a Gu Venerable’s true inheritance to kill Fang Yuan. Tao Zhu’s will, stupefied, does not recognize Fang Yuan and wonders whether this stranger became a Gu Immortal after Tao Zhu’s death. ^{ch. 1625}

Fang Yuan catches Jun Shen Guang, whom Wu Yong’s wide-ranging move has also hit, sharply cutting his speed. Fang Yuan clenches the illusory Luo Po Valley in his palm, and a gray light shoots from between his fingers. Jun Shen Guang is obstructed by a wild wind while Wu Yong chases from behind, and the light strikes him. His body is unharmed, but his soul is heavily injured, almost extinguished, by the immortal killer move luo po seal. An Immortal Gu House appears beside Fang Yuan, and Ying Wu Xie inside it casts lead soul into dream, dropping Jun Shen Guang into a dream realm he cannot leave. The house absorbs him and flies to Fang Yuan’s side. ^{ch. 1625}

Wu Yong pales in fright. He had disturbed Jun Shen Guang to test Fang Yuan’s move, since Jun Shen Guang was no Southern Border Gu Immortal, but never expected a capture in one move. The Southern Border immortals had needed a meticulously laid out time path formation to be captured, and now a few methods suffice, which Wu Yong finds horrifying. The Southern Border rank eights rush over, but their battle intent falls sharply when they see Jun Shen Guang captured. ^{ch. 1625}