First Battle in the River of Time
Myriad Year Flying Warship moves through the River of Time with Fang Yuan standing on its bow, releasing rank seven aura. Bai Ning Bing and the others inside watch him, some chilled and some seeing that he is already misleading the enemy. Fang Yuan means to keep his rank eight cultivation secret if he can, because exposing it would expose the secret of the sovereign immortal body. That secret was exposed in the previous life but seems undiscovered in this one. He expects the secret of his rebirth to be exposed after this battle, and he lets it be. ch. 1805
Present and Past Pavilion floats in the river, a simple rank seven Immortal Gu House holding the Four Xunzi, four Central Continent time path Gu Immortals. They detect the warship the moment it appears and report to Fairy Zi Wei at once. They do not attack, since the pavilion is specialized in investigation and they are still very far from Fang Yuan, who cannot see them. They are not Heavenly Court Gu Immortals, so they wait for her command. They note that he is still rank seven yet has a rank eight house, and as he scans every direction from the bow they guess he seeks Red Lotus true inheritance. ch. 1805
In Heavenly Court, Fairy Zi Wei is first happy and then puzzled. She is relieved that Fang Yuan has finally appeared and means to kill him, but a rank eight Immortal Gu House has come with no prior signs. His accumulation happened in the previous life, so she could not sense it. She estimates the house has limited strength, since it is likely a hasty experimental work, yet Heavenly Court must probe it and stop him obtaining Red Lotus’ true inheritances. She commands Qing Ye to hurry with Eternal Yacht to the pavilion, so that the two can pincer Fang Yuan from front and back. The Four Xunzi, receiving the command, plan to attack first, delay him and lure him in while Eternal Yacht strikes from behind. ch. 1805
The Four Xunzi make the river send waves at the warship. Fang Yuan had intentionally appeared near the pavilion to lure them, and Lady White Rabbit says he had already spotted it and the enemy has taken the bait. Fang Yuan senses an anomaly in the river and slightly furrows his brows, which the Four Xunzi see. Fang Yuan steers the warship at the pavilion, and its speed greatly shocks them. Shang Xunzi, the eldest, shouts to increase the intensity, but each wave only speeds the silver-lit warship further. Zhong Xunzi shouts for the pavilion’s strongest move, a whirlpool that barely immobilizes the warship. ch. 1805
The whirlpool turns into sawteeth that bite at the warship, and Xun Guo Zi is frightened that they cannot break its defensive light. Xia Xunzi comforts Xun Guo Zi that longer biting will definitely crumble the warship. Inwardly all four are astonished, since this move would cut ordinary Gu Immortals to pieces in a blink and even they could not last three breaths in it, yet the warship is completely intact. Xun Guo Zi suddenly shouts that the situation is bad. The water around the warship has turned into silver-white rapids that enlarge over ten times within seconds, and the variant human Gu Immortals laugh that the warship has river methods too. On Fang Yuan’s indifferent command to kill, the rapids push the warship through the ruined whirlpool toward the Four Xunzi, who gasp that the whirlpool held the warship for less than fifty breaths of time. ch. 1805
Named in this chapter
- Fang Yuan×35
- Myriad Year Flying Warship×22
- Present and Past Pavilion×17
- Fairy Zi Wei×14
- River of Time×7
- Bai Ning Bing
- Central Continent
- Lady White Rabbit
- Red Lotus true inheritance
- Shang Xunzi×18
- Immortal Gu House×17
- Eternal Yacht×6
- Gu Immortal×5
- Heavenly Court×4
- Xun Guo Zi×3
- Central Great Hall
- Gu Worms
- Qing Ye
- Xia Xunzi
- Zhong Xunzi