Chapter 1718

On the Heavenly Court battlefield, an explosion tears the right shoulder off the mountain-sized black bear that Zhang Fei Xiong has become. The bear faints and falls, leaving a huge pit. Above it, Nu Er Bao Xiong laughs that he has killed many transformation path Gu Immortals. A pure lightning path cultivator, he was first supreme elder of Nu Er tribe when it became the number one force of Northern Plains. A woman who also cultivates transformation path mocks him, and a red light sets him burning and drops him from the sky. ^{ch. 1718}

Gu Liu Ru shouts to save Zhang Fei Xiong, and the bear’s life is preserved. Wan Zi Hong, a wood path Gu Immortal of the demonic path until Heavenly Court recruited her, says she likes to kill, not save. She still charges into the wound and scatters into petals that grow into a sea of flowers. Zhang Fei Xiong’s flesh and blood are quickly replenished. Her healing clears Nu Er Bao Xiong’s lightning path dao marks, as if her wood path marks did not conflict with Zhang Fei Xiong’s transformation path marks. ^{ch. 1718}

Hit again, Nu Er Bao Xiong gives up chasing Zhang Fei Xiong but cannot land an attack on the flickering red light. Fairy Zi Wei names it as senior Zhu Que Er, newly woken from the immortal graveyard, whose fire and transformation path battle style counters him. She worries that Longevity Heaven’s time path killer move keeps summoning more people, and she suspects it is Red Lotus Demon Venerable’s. She wants to save Duke Long, who is near Calamity Luck Altar beneath the phantom River of Time. The risk is huge, and she has her own job. That job is to provide Immortal Gu to the newly awakened and protect Old Man Zheng Yuan. The rank nine killer move restricts Duke Long without endangering his life, so she stays back. ^{ch. 1718}

Ye Lui Kou, a metal path expert of the second batch out of the River of Time, appears before her in golden light. She retreats among the palaces. He curses the qi wall, Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable’s killer move, which discerns enemy and ally and is a huge problem for Longevity Heaven. Northern Plains Gu Immortals can only move along the road Limitless Demon Venerable made, so the rank eight fight stays in one area, while the Demon Judgment Board and the immortal graveyard stay out of reach. Northern Plains holds the upper hand, and Heavenly Court’s Gu Immortals retreat behind the qi wall at times. ^{ch. 1718}

The newly woken Gu Immortals lack compatible Gu worms, mostly Immortal Gu. They gave all their Immortal Gu to Heavenly Court while sleeping, most going into its Immortal Gu Houses and a small portion to the ten sects. Though elites among rank eights, they cannot use full power, while Red Lotus Demon Venerable’s call of the ancient lets Northern Plains stand against Heavenly Court’s foundation. ^{ch. 1718}

Duke Long, filled with pain and anger, can only watch because he cannot move. The one who created this situation is Red Lotus Demon Venerable, the beloved disciple he once entrusted hope to. ^{ch. 1718}