Chapter 1810

Fang Yuan watches the third stage as an audience, and when it ends the qi path dream realm disappears and his exploration is complete. His gaze at Heavenly Court is slightly complicated, for he admits its greatness yet will destroy it if it blocks his path. He advances to qi path grandmaster, having had no qi path attainment before. His biggest realization concerns his soul: with desolate soul, dream realms are much easier to explore, while a human soul would definitely suffer much heavier injuries. He suspects a Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique body would shield his soul even better, but he does not know how to enter dreams with one. ^{ch. 1810}

He turns to an ice and snow path dream realm, now the biggest of the many stored in his immortal aperture, which also hold qi, sword and wood path realms. With desolate soul his efficiency in exploring dream realms is greatly increased, and the stock now looks somewhat insufficient. Chi Qu You, still trading, controls the goods and hands over scattered paths, with not one human path dream realm that Fang Yuan truly wants. He refuses none, since unexplored paths raise his attainment levels. ^{ch. 1810}

The hairy man Gu Immortals finish refining a rank six time anchor Immortal Gu, which Sixth Hair hands over. Time anchor Immortal Gu once belonged to the Eastern Sea immortal zombie Su Bai Man, and after her death Shadow Sect acquired it before it was destroyed in the Battle of Yi Tian Mountain. It can coordinate with Spring Autumn Cicada into a very valuable killer move that returns Fang Yuan to a specific marked time, letting him keep his attainment levels while exploring more dream realms. He cannot use spring autumn success alongside it. Without spring autumn success, the move lacks a hundred percent success rate, and a failure would be akin to suicide. He suspects that fate Gu, injured but not destroyed, can restrict merging time anchor into spring autumn success, which seems effective only once fate Gu is completely destroyed. ^{ch. 1810}

The dragonman clone has passed one heavenly tribulation and a dozen earthly calamities, and its cultivation is rising sharply. Fang Yuan hastens the time rate of its aperture to the limit with a rank eight time path killer move and deduces each tribulation beforehand. Exposing heavenly secret makes the calamities and tribulations ineffective against him. The cost is high and the clone can reach at most rank seven, so he would be reluctant but for Dragon Palace. ^{ch. 1810}

Southern Border’s Beacon Towers rise everywhere, and its righteous path Gu Immortals protest, asking him to release some captives first to show sincerity. Yi clan is dumbstruck, since Fang Yuan releases Yi Yang’s body alone, without soul or aperture. The righteous path is furious but helpless. He answers that the body is only the first step and now it is their turn. When they make a din, he turns tough and threatens to release captives to each clan’s enemies and humiliate its Gu Immortals, as he did in the previous life. The righteous path shamefully gives in, especially Ba clan and Xia clan, whose first supreme elders he holds. He then demands dream realms as chips, and when they balk, he promises to leave most behind and release a captive’s body per exchange, which they helplessly accept. ^{ch. 1810}

Chi Qu You feels a chill, knowing it is retaliation and a warning. The extortion enters its next stage, and Fang Yuan keeps his promise, releasing a body for each batch of dream realms, much larger than those traded with Chi Qu You and chosen by path. Fairy Zi Wei, extremely worried, tries many ways to ruin these transactions, and none succeed. Fang Yuan calculates the time and rides Myriad Year Flying Warship into the River of Time to start the second battle, not knowing that the time path great expert Gu Liu Ru is waiting for him. ^{ch. 1810}