Chapter 1717

Fang Yuan chases Li Huang, whose flame cloaks keep being cut apart, but Li Huang senses danger and Fang Yuan’s time path killer move misses. Wind Sweeping Building, a wind path Immortal Gu House, comes to help and is forced to a halt by Summer Fan, whose true power is time path. Li Huang can only keep escaping. Gu Immortals guarding Emperor City, where Gu Masters continue the final competition, say even Li Huang is no match for Fang Yuan. The city is the number one city of humanity, built from a vast number of mortal Gu, with an immensely long history. ^{ch. 1717}

Rank eight Qing Ye enters the fight. Li Huang stops escaping and stands beside him. Fang Yuan spends immortal essence recklessly and aims killer moves at Emperor City, forcing both back. The dazed Western Desert Gu Immortals agree to detour around him and focus on destroying Emperor City. ^{ch. 1717}

On the Infallible blessed land battlefield, Wu Yong’s farewell friend wind succeeds against Chen Yi, and the Central Continent Gu Immortals defending the immortal formation fear it deeply. Daoist Black Heart, a wind path cultivator, drew on The Legends of Ren Zu late in life and spent nearly ten years in closed cultivation creating this extraordinary method with human path profundities. After creating it, Daoist Black Heart made friends everywhere with expensive gifts, all a scheme, since the move senses and targets only friends, fake ones included. He became extremely famous until wisdom path Gu Immortals deduced the truth, and soon one weakness was exposed too: the user must touch the target directly. He ended his life extremely lonely, avoided by everyone. ^{ch. 1717}

Chen Yi, now hit, is going to die. Bai Cang Shui shrieks and charges at Wu Yong, who vanishes and reappears before the Southern Border immortals, while she grabs Chen Yi, whose eyebrows and skin begin to erode. The Southern Alliance immortals call the move equal to Fang Yuan’s reverse flow protection seal. Wu Yong praises the incredible defense of Chen Yi, the former first supreme elder of Heavenly Lotus Sect, as the slowest disintegration he has seen. ^{ch. 1717}

Inside the Gu refinement formation, Heavenly Court’s rank eight Che Wei attacks Five Elements Grandmaster with a spear and arrows, then charges in with a blade. Five Elements Grandmaster says Che Wei is about to create a new path but cannot break the protection of his five elements ring. Bull Demon attacks while Cong Yan defends. Yuan Qiong Du, still refining Gu, feels slightly eased, since the attackers seem unable to get past for now. He sees that Longevity Heaven’s duo hold back to keep the formation intact, and it seems they want to snatch fate Gu once it recovers enough. ^{ch. 1717}

Bing Sai Chuan reveals that he bought Calamity Luck Altar for the killer move of a former Demon Venerable inside it. As Heavenly Court attacks the altar, a phantom segment of the River of Time appears above it and figures walk out. The first is Nu Er Bao Xiong, whose exploding lightning drives Zhang Fei Xiong’s giant bear back. He knocks Heavenly Court attackers unconscious, and it is unknown whether they live. The second, Hei Fan, dispels the time path killer move Gu Liu Ru used on the altar and takes him as his opponent. The third, Liu Liu Liu, vanishes, and Fairy Zi Wei names all three as rank eight experts of the Northern Plains Huang Jin tribes. ^{ch. 1717}

Unlike Fairy Zi Wei, Duke Long is not confused, because the sight recalls a memory. In it, Red Lotus spat blood from severe injuries while Duke Long stood and pressed him to attack. Duke Long noted that the reborn Red Lotus and his Future Self were both only rank eight, short of Immortal Venerable battle strength. Red Lotus admitted Future Self had some flaws but said he could not attack his master. Duke Long urged him to accept fate and become a Gu Venerable again. Red Lotus replied that Duke Long did not understand his intention, and Duke Long, angrier, asked whether Red Lotus was forcing his master to kill him. ^{ch. 1717}

Red Lotus denied it, saying that after taking hits for so long, his killer move was finally ready. Gu Immortals began to step out of a phantom River of Time that rose behind him. He had made a pair of moves, call of the ancient and support of the future, and was using the latter. The move summons Gu Immortals closely tied to the user out of the River of Time to fight. Duke Long, shivering with anger, called it defying heaven and earth, a sign of a demonic nature too deeply rooted. Duke Long asked for the first move. Red Lotus answered that call of the ancient would appear before him in the future at a certain timing. ^{ch. 1717}