Chapter 1700

Fang Yuan stands in the modified time path killer move winter coat, which blocks every furious attack from the three Central Continent rank eights. His strongest defense, reverse flow protection seal, is gone because Reverse Flow River has dried up. Hair armor and lion fur armor were eliminated long ago, and he never cultivated purple thought light shield, lacking its crucial Immortal Gu. Bloodstained conqueror’s robe and divination tortoise transformation are useless in a rank eight battle. Among his other defenses, emperor yama has incredible defense usable in rank eight battles, though it is still lower than winter coat. After he annexed Xia Cha’s immortal aperture, his time path dao marks became his highest path, so winter coat is greatly amplified and now replaces the seal. The three rank eights are very shocked. ^{ch. 1700}

They look to Zhou Xiong Xin, a recently awakened Heavenly Court member unlike the three from the ten great ancient sects. He has activated his immortal battlefield rumor cage. Inside it all other paths are suppressed and only information path is amplified, so winter coat is suppressed and so are the offensive methods of the other three. The cage is a huge ball of silver characters enveloping Fang Yuan and the four rank eights, with gaps that leave it not completely shut off. Fang Yuan has never seen this man, and he finds rumor cage the fastest immortal battlefield killer move he has ever seen. ^{ch. 1700}

Fang Yuan’s time path clone tries to deduce the battlefield. He is not skilled in information path. Zhou Xiong Xin declares that Fang Yuan will not leave alive and must face the bad karma of his slaughter. He uses two immortal killer moves, Malicious Rumors and Rumors Become Tigers, and silver tigers emerge from the shining characters. Fang Yuan’s strength path giant hand breaks in a moment, but Spring Scissors cuts the tigers down. Zhou Xiong Xin is shocked that the scissors seem modified again after the battle for Red Lotus’ true inheritance, yet he stays confident. ^{ch. 1700}

The silver tigers prove endless and regenerate, growing stronger, tougher and more agile until Spring Scissors starts to miss. The clone finally deduces that the move unifies information path and human path, drawing on the grudge of Central Continent’s mortals. Zhou Xiong Xin confirms it: Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable created the move, which uses the will of Central Continent’s people. Fang Yuan attacks the cage itself. Until he understands it, even Luo Po seal would have little effect. ^{ch. 1700}

Elsewhere in Central Continent, Shen Cong Sheng, an Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortal, says Fang Yuan is trapped, likely in an immortal formation or battlefield. When Fang Yuan went after Dragon Palace, he was unknowingly hit by Shen Cong Sheng’s investigative method, which still lets Shen Cong Sheng sense him slightly. Song Qi Yuan admires the method and recalls being hit by it. Shen Cong Sheng laughs that Song Qi Yuan stole an inheritance secretly and left the others with no gains. ^{ch. 1700}

The other Gu Immortals expect Fang Yuan to obstruct the Refinement Path Convention, since he has deep enmity with Heavenly Court. All are rank eight, among them Song Qi Yuan, Qing Yue An, Zhang Yin, Granny Rong and Shi Miao, in an unprecedented gathering. Shen Cong Sheng leads the group toward nearby Dragon Palace. Duke Long snatched that house from these Eastern Sea rank eights, who lost face, so they gather secretly to obtain it and salvage their reputation. ^{ch. 1700}