Chapter 1627

News of the Southern Border battle leaves Fairy Zi Wei mumbling in perplexity. Fang Yuan has passed the tribulation to reach rank eight, then ambushed and taken Heavenly Court’s Jun Shen Guang alive in the five regional mountain range. She had known of the captured Southern Border Gu Immortals, but never imagined Heavenly Court would share that fate so quickly. His growth has greatly surpassed her expectations. With reverse flow protection seal, rank eight and Xia Cha’s methods, she judges, he now threatens Heavenly Court Gu Immortals. ^{ch. 1627}

She cannot see how he reached rank eight without commotion, and realizes he has a peerless method for raising his cultivation level. She soul searches Spectral Soul in his confinement area and returns shaken, muttering of sovereign immortal fetus Gu and the sovereign immortal aperture. His ambition shocks her, but Fang Yuan refining the fetus Gu frightens her more. ^{ch. 1627}

She reasons that Fang Yuan annexed many Southern Border Gu Immortals’ apertures to skip tribulations, and Xia Cha’s aperture too. Devouring Xia Cha’s rank eight grotto-heaven needs time path great grandmaster attainment. She realizes he gained it quickly from dream realms. ^{ch. 1627}

She thinks Spectral Soul is the more terrifying one, with Fang Yuan only a chess piece of heaven’s will who escaped its control. Had Spectral Soul truly succeeded, he would have great grandmaster attainment in all paths and could go straight to rank eight with pseudo-venerable battle strength. When the five regions chaotic war starts, he might progress further, and the Great Dream seed Feng Jin Huang might never mature. Fang Yuan now takes his place in the plan, so Spectral Soul did not succeed but did not completely fail either. She guesses Fang Yuan wants Heavenly Court’s location from Jun Shen Guang’s soul. Then, in alarm, she thinks of the River of Time. ^{ch. 1627}

Inside an Immortal Gu House, Fang Yuan looks out over the River of Time. After gaining some free time inside his immortal aperture, he escaped the battleground with an immortal killer move made with Fixed Immortal Travel. Jun Shen Guang’s soul faces constant soul searching, since Fang Yuan urgently needs to know Heavenly Court’s arrangements here. He enters directly to catch them off guard. ^{ch. 1627}

He thinks Lu Wei Yin, inheritor of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, is not simple. His rescue of the Southern Border rank sevens was too timely, and he was probably hiding nearby. No such person exists in the memories of Fang Yuan’s previous life, so those memories feel unreliable. Setting that aside, he feels a huge regret over Tao Zhu’s inheritance. He is sure it concerns the five regions’ regional walls, which will one day vanish, yet a method imitating them could still defend, especially for him. Missing it by a hairsbreadth, he strongly foresees, is a severe loss. ^{ch. 1627}