Analyzing Chu Ying Together
Shen Cong Sheng returns to the starting island and finds only nine merit points beside his name on the Merit Obelisk. He infers that Chu Ying took about ten missions before him. The Immortal Gu and immortal materials he wants cost over ten thousand merit points, and an Immortal Gu that someone else takes first is lost to him. He decides the group must catch up. ch. 1892
The immortals had agreed to meet after their missions. They now stand in two groups. The first is Shen Cong Sheng with Shen Tan, Shen Qi, Shen Xiao, Shen Nai He, Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua. The second is Miao Ming Shen with Feng Jiang, Immortal Hua Die, Gui Qi Ye, Tu Tou Tuo and Zeng Luo Zi. The first group is far stronger, but the paradise makes moving against the second inconvenient. Miao Ming Shen urges his side to unite, and it feels more urgency, since in three hundred days the paradise transports it out to face Shen Cong Sheng. ch. 1892
The second group shares what it found, which matches Shen Cong Sheng’s findings, and Miao Ming Shen concludes the paradise’s restrictions protect them for now. Each mission seems to pay between one and ten merit points. Zeng Luo Zi asks whether the place is completely new to Miao Ming Shen, who senses where the blue dragon whale is. Miao Ming Shen answers that information about the whale began appearing in his mind years ago, very vague at first, until he realised the whale was calling him. With real shortcuts he would not still be facing Shen Cong Sheng’s threat. Zeng Luo Zi and Tu Tou Tuo believe him. ch. 1892
Gui Qi Ye recalls that Chu Ying, chased in the sea, sped into an immemorial thunder phoenix and died of its lightning, and Feng Jiang confirms it. Tu Tou Tuo concludes that Chu Ying really knows something about this place. Fang Yuan had chosen the death method from his last life, not knowing that dying to Shen Cong Sheng would also be accepted, and it exposed a flaw. Shen Cong Sheng’s group notices the same peculiarity. ch. 1892
Shen Tan brings the first group over to offer cooperation, and Shen Cong Sheng calls the offer his own decision while admitting he attacked the second group before. He says he can only cooperate now, swears on Shen clan’s reputation to spare them even after everyone leaves the paradise, and demands all they know. The second group looks slightly moved, since a righteous path elder staking his clan’s name can be trusted to a high degree. The paradise greatly restricts information path methods, so Zeng Luo Zi and Shen Nai He, both rank seven information path Gu Immortals, cannot use theirs. The guarantee is certainly not completely assuring, yet with their lives at stake they accept. Miao Ming Shen then says there is nothing to tell. Shen Tan furiously accuses him of lying, but Shen Cong Sheng judges the words probably true. ch. 1892
Gui Qi Ye says his side finds Chu Ying very suspicious, and Ren Xiu Ping coldly calls that obvious, since Chu Ying woke first, ransacked the starting island of its immortal materials and holds nearly a hundred merit points. Then Fang Yuan appears with one hundred and two. Shen Tan greets him as Brother Chu Ying, and Fang Yuan answers scram and walks away. Shen Cong Sheng stops Shen Tan from shouting with a pat on the shoulder, then begins to propose cooperation himself. Fang Yuan interrupts with the same word and leaves on another mission. ch. 1892
Everyone is shocked that anyone would scold the first supreme elder of Shen clan like this, and Miao Ming Shen’s group warns that Fang Yuan will face Shen Cong Sheng in three hundred days. Shen Cong Sheng laughs lightly, says he looks forward to seeing this courage after they leave, and shows killing intent. Shen Tan demands to know who Chu Ying is, and Miao Ming Shen answers that he is not sure of his origin. Shen Tan takes that for a lie. Miao Ming Shen hands the question to Ren Xiu Ping, who explains all he knows. ch. 1892
Miao Ming Shen adds that he only invited Chu Ying to an auction, where Tong Hua and Tu Tou Tuo were present, and the two explain what they know. Shen Cong Sheng finds it all useless. It gives him no starting point and no way to target Chu Ying. He feels Chu Ying is not a simple person, yet stays confident that a rank seven transformation path Gu Immortal is no match for him. ch. 1892
