Chapter 1873

Thousand Transformations Ancestor boils with anger that Fang Yuan ignores the bigger picture. Fang Yuan laughs that he will kill one member of Heavenly Court if one comes and two if two come. The Ancestor wonders whether Fang Yuan has grown arrogant after a few victories or truly has a trump card. Back then he had barely survived a myriad tribulation and was recuperating in secret when Fang Yuan killed Fairy Cui Bo. Too injured to act, he sent Dancer Hong Yun to inspect, carrying rank eight Immortal Gu Mutation so that his weakness would not show. ^{ch. 1873}

Fang Yuan later trapped Dancer Hong Yun, and a message from Heavenly Court told the Ancestor that Fang Yuan was the true culprit. He could only send Night Temptress and Immortal Concubine Qing Lan to build a rank seven immortal formation around the dream realm. That exposed his state to Heavenly Court, and Fairy Zi Wei began plotting to kill him early, ahead of the five regions chaotic war. Sensing the plot and long rooted in his Western Desert territory, he kept halting Heavenly Court’s progress, so she tried to recruit him as she had Old Ancestor Xue Hu. He holds Reckless Savage’s true inheritance and all of myriad statue desert, while Old Ancestor Xue Hu was nearly bankrupt after failing to refine Immortal Gu Fortune Rivalling Heaven. He did not refuse directly, promising Heavenly Court that he would consider it. ^{ch. 1873}

Fang Yuan’s attack on the myriad li adaptation formation breaks that stalemate and ruins the Ancestor’s plan to stall for time, leaving him no choice but to act. After a long fight with the warship, neither side can harm the other. Fearing that Heavenly Court is watching, the Ancestor does not chase him and urges Fang Yuan to see that Heavenly Court is the true enemy, saying Fairy Cui Bo died because she was too weak. Fang Yuan laughs madly, calls him a coward unworthy of rank eight, and says he fears neither Heavenly Court nor the Ancestor. ^{ch. 1873}

Daybreak sword then splits into ten groups that pass around the Ancestor toward the formation, where the female immortals would definitely die if it broke. The Ancestor turns into a giant, a tortoise shell, a snake neck and a beast mouth, and blocks or swallows every sword. Fang Yuan cannot break that defense with the warship alone. He should also avoid close combat where possible. He says they will meet again, activates torrential charge, and leaves on a phantom River of Time. ^{ch. 1873}

Four Immortal Gu Houses and four rank eight Gu Immortals rush in from four directions and block every path. The Ancestor realizes that Heavenly Court used his stalling to lower his guard while it secretly mobilized a besieging force, and Fang Yuan lured it out. Fang Yuan proposes cooperation, and when the Ancestor calls him shameless, Fang Yuan asks if he would rather keep fighting, and the Ancestor swallows the grievance and puts their fight off. Fang Yuan mocks the Ancestor’s concubines as a huge burden. The Ancestor warns him to stay away. ^{ch. 1873}

Fairy Zi Wei had ordered the ambushers to keep watching, but when Fang Yuan tried to retreat, they had to move, since Fang Yuan was the bigger threat. Prince Feng Xian, Xing Ye Wang and Wei Feng arrive with a seductive woman who should be Wan Zi Hong by Fang Yuan’s memories of his previous life, though in that life she woke later. The four Gu Houses guard four directions while the four rank eights launch their killer moves together. Fang Yuan charges head on, and the Ancestor sees that Fang Yuan is truly a demon who can fight Heavenly Court. Fang Yuan dodges behind the formation, so that the four killer moves fly at the Ancestor, who cannot dodge because he must protect it. Fang Yuan thanks him and flies off. The Ancestor, covered in soot, coughs out a mouthful of blood. ^{ch. 1873}