Chapter 1631

The incomplete Immortal Gu House does not excel in defense and breaks apart when struck. Flame snakes burn the Gu worms in their path and close in on Fang Yuan. He casts winter coat, whose frost covers him and spreads to his time path clone, Hei Lou Lan, Ying Wu Xie, Bai Ning Bing and the rest. Reverse flow protection seal could not shield others this way. The old man on the stone lotus island turns the snakes into a flame dragon a hundred feet long that slashes through winter coat. ^{ch. 1631}

Fang Yuan has no time to store the immortals in his aperture. The dragon has extraordinary power, and even Bai Ning Bing’s Bai Xiang killer move could not escape it. Winter coat breaks and Fang Yuan suffers a rank eight killer move backlash. Many mortal Gu die, but his core Immortal Gu survive damaged but usable. The others are too low in cultivation to block the dragon. Seeing that protecting them would hand the old man control of the battle, Fang Yuan dodges away. ^{ch. 1631}

The dragon ignores him and charges at the others. Fang Yuan attacks the old man. The old man’s sinister smile makes Fang Yuan’s heart sink, since it suggests more arrangements on the island. Fang Yuan’s spring scissors lands, but the old man’s hair burns into a flame cloak that blocks it. The old man names it verdant sun flame cloak, his proudest creation, drawn from Verdant Great Sun’s flame hair in The Legends of Ren Zu. As a fire path Gu Immortal more skilled in defense than offense, he says spring scissors and summer fan are useless. ^{ch. 1631}

Then the old man’s smile fades, since the dragon returns empty-handed with everyone alive. Fang Yuan had ordered Ying Wu Xie to self-detonate. Ying Wu Xie had again taken a Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body, whose dream path dao marks let his lead soul into dream affect Jun Shen Guang. The detonated body leaves Ying Wu Xie’s soul trapped in a dream realm covering the nearby immortals. No other path can affect a dream realm. ^{ch. 1631}

Flying up as the island below him scatters into dust, the old man comes at Fang Yuan like a blazing meteor. Spring scissors cannot hurt the old man, and summer fan seems only to make his fire grow larger. The cloak mimics human path and food path, so a feeling of drunkenness strikes Fang Yuan. He clears his mind with a wisdom path killer move. ^{ch. 1631}

The stone lotus island was merely an illusion over a super time path immortal formation in the River of Time, which even Fang Yuan could not notice. It traps him in a formation space restricting Omni-directional Travel and Fixed Immortal Travel. Heavenly Court does to him what he did to Southern Border’s righteous path, with much more effort. Red Lotus Demon Venerable surpassed such formations, creating stone lotus islands as artificial secluded domains that control stretches of the River of Time. Heavenly Court has found none, but this formation is one of its gains. ^{ch. 1631}

Fang Yuan charges instead of retreating, and the old man’s waves of flames reverse back onto the old man through reverse flow protection seal. The old man defends against his own move, and Fang Yuan slams into him. Both fly backwards, nearly evenly matched, and the old man lost by a slight bit but his cloak burns again and returns him to peak condition. The seal is extremely effective against attacks, but the cloak is defensive, so the reflected damage is quite little. Meant for the time path domains of the stone lotus islands, the formation weakens time path, so spring scissors and summer fan have only a mild effect. Fang Yuan realizes this, dispels winter coat, and uses reverse flow protection seal to regain his footing. ^{ch. 1631}