Chapter 1628

Months earlier, Fang Yuan might have traded the Southern Border Gu Immortals for Tao Zhu’s true inheritance. Now the captives are annexed and the hostages killed. The sovereign immortal aperture annexed those rank seven Gu Immortals, Xia Cha at rank eight, and the immortal aperture blessed lands in City Well. His cultivation rose from rank seven to rank eight, skipping the final rank seven grand tribulation. Lu Wei Yin disrupted his plan to keep capturing and extorting Southern Border Gu Immortals. ^{ch. 1628}

His dao marks rose in huge numbers too. Time path, once almost at the bottom, is now his number one path at seventy-three thousand dao marks, almost all from Xia Cha. That amplifies his time path killer moves seventy-four times, so with the rank eight Gu Spring and Summer his battle strength is extremely high. Water path is second at sixty thousand, swelled by lone immortals he killed such as Zhou Li, Wu Yi Hai and You Chan. Transformation path, once first, is third at fifty thousand, and soul path fourth at thirty thousand. Spectral Soul’s true inheritance puts a thousand dao marks on a desolate soul. ^{ch. 1628}

Exploring all of Fang Yuan’s dream realms has raised every path. Refinement path is highest at quasi-supreme grandmaster attainment, and theft path and time path stand at great grandmaster. The sovereign immortal aperture has reached fifteen percent development, and Xia Cha’s aperture gave it a second year essence pool. ^{ch. 1628}

His greatest gains are Luo Po seal, an immortal killer move he only recently created, and an incomplete Immortal Gu House. Fang Yuan built the house so Hei Lou Lan, Bai Ning Bing and the rest could fight beside him, referencing many Immortal Gu Houses with Graceful Chaotic Duel Stage as the skeleton. It mainly uses time path Gu and excels at concealment. Even as a skeleton, it let Ying Wu Xie and the rest cooperate with him in capturing Jun Shen Guang. ^{ch. 1628}

Now Fang Yuan rides the house through the River of Time, his rank six time path clone beside him. Above all he means to test Heavenly Court’s arrangements and destroy them if possible, though he hopes Spring Autumn Cicada also leads him to a Red Lotus true inheritance. Luo Po seal destroyed the light path dao marks guarding Jun Shen Guang’s soul and left it near death. Ying Wu Xie’s lead soul into dream then put Jun Shen Guang to sleep. That soul is extremely weak and cannot resist Fang Yuan’s search. ^{ch. 1628}

The search turns up the time path house Present and Past Pavilion, and a huge pavilion rises on the waves toward Fang Yuan. Four rank seven Gu Immortals stand inside. He tells Ying Wu Xie and the rest it is a pure time path Immortal Gu House best at investigation, placed by Heavenly Court, which noticed his entry. The others frown, for it is like their house’s concealment advantage being countered before any fighting. The Four Xunzi say they guard the river against him. Soul searching Jun Shen Guang, Fang Yuan learns they are time path Gu Immortals, quadruplets nurtured by Spirit Butterfly Valley. Shang Xunzi, Zhong Xunzi and Xia Xunzi are three older brothers, and Xun Guo Zi is their younger sister. ^{ch. 1628}