Chapter 1650

Miao Ming Shen keeps his face still and reads everyone’s reactions through Zeng Luo Zi’s display, which he himself arranged. Tong Hua and Tu Tou Tuo stay expressionless, while everyone else, Chu Ying, who is Fang Yuan, among them, shows changes. Miao Ming Shen trusts Gui Qi Ye, Feng Jiang and Immortal Hua Die most but did not tell them, so their reactions are genuine. He knows the backgrounds of Zeng Luo Zi, Tu Tou Tuo and Tong Hua, all rank seven experts rare in Eastern Sea. He did not want to invite Chu Ying, but the old conflict with Ren Xiu Ping, the saving of Feng Jiang and Hua Die, and a seemingly abundant supply of lifespan Gu swayed him. Miao Ming Shen wants to cooperate more deeply with Fang Yuan, whose lifespan Gu are extremely alluring. Only he knows the whale’s location, so all owe him favors. ^{ch. 1650}

Miao Ming Shen praises Zeng Luo Zi’s methods, while Tu Tou Tuo snorts and Tong Hua stares coldly. Zeng Luo Zi tosses out information path mortal Gu that record the alliance agreement. The immortals agree after suggesting small changes, and they sign it through Zeng Luo Zi’s methods. Miao Ming Shen leads them into the sea, and Fang Yuan guesses he means to use an undercurrent, because the sky is easy to watch and Ren Xiu Ping would not wait if he learned of the expedition. ^{ch. 1650}

At a huge python-like undercurrent on the seabed, Miao Ming Shen asks Zeng Luo Zi to mark everyone with an information path immortal killer move so they can sense each other’s locations. This is another way to control them, raised only after the agreement so nobody can rebuke it. Zeng Luo Zi feigns hesitation until Miao Ming Shen urges trust and the others nod, then says his move has no offensive capability. Fang Yuan mentally rolls his eyes and tells him to proceed. Every immortal is marked, Feng Jiang first. Fang Yuan inspects his marks and finds he has many methods to remove them, but now is not the time. ^{ch. 1650}

The group crosses the sea through several undercurrents, avoiding beasts and ignoring resources, and grows more cohesive as Miao Ming Shen solidifies his leadership. After several days he freezes and says they are near, but Fang Yuan’s investigative killer moves sense nothing and he cannot see how Miao Ming Shen knows. With rank eight strength Fang Yuan could kill Miao Ming Shen and search his soul, but unknown methods might cause mishaps, so he keeps lurking until inside the blue dragon whale. Ahead, the sea turns into a storm. Growing numbers of desolate beasts force the group to fight its way forward. Feng Jiang and Immortal Hua Die, the weakest, need protection, and Tu Tou Tuo, an earth path Gu Immortal, is greatly restricted there. Fang Yuan moves as a palm-sized seahorse, his strength only middling in the group. ^{ch. 1650}

Following Miao Ming Shen, the group flies into the sky, where intense tornadoes and lightning rage and the immemorial thunder phoenix hunts the clouds. The phoenix dives at them, and an immemorial octopus large as a mountain rises from the sea to take them as prey. Miao Ming Shen orders them to split up and run. The thunder phoenix reaches Fang Yuan in the blink of an eye. Immortal Hua Die screams for Chu Ying, and Fang Yuan begs to be saved, but the phoenix burns him to a crisp and he dies on the spot. The remaining seven immortals flee in even greater panic. ^{ch. 1650}