Chapter 1915

The black fire clings to the heavenly spine, giant milky white bones with a sacred aura that Fang Yuan judges a rank nine bone path immortal material. It should not be a human bone, and Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable making it seems very unlikely, since its one and only use is to reinforce Dragon Whale Paradise. Fang Yuan also asks why the paradise needs reinforcing when the blue dragon whale, a legendary immemorial desolate beast, is near the world’s pinnacle. The biggest question is why such a huge black fire burns on the spine, a scale Shen Shang clearly could not have leaked. A branching rib melts away in the fire, which corrodes and destroys the spine. Fang Yuan does not know what its complete destruction would bring, but it is definitely not good. Fang Yuan attacks with the daybreak flying sword of Myriad Year Flying Warship, but it makes no difference, so he stops. ^{ch. 1915}

Back at the underwater formation, Fang Yuan tells Shen Shang, who has no recollection of the place but is sure it connects to his black fire. Shen Shang wants to see it, hoping to learn Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable’s plan, and Fang Yuan agrees. The immortals gather at the spine, but progress is extremely slight and only Shen Shang’s human path methods are effective enough. After several days Hua Die is the first to give up, and Miao Ming Shen privately suggests that Fang Yuan do the same. They have cleared less than one thousandth of the fire. ^{ch. 1915}

Fang Yuan decides to give up and complete large sized missions for merit points instead, since he fears only a venerable could handle a super mission like this with ease. Shen Cong Sheng and Shen Shang understand but will not give up, and the other Shen clan Gu Immortals follow Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan nods and leaves, while Shen Shang stays to explore along the spine. Only Shen Shang and Shen Cong Sheng remain. Shen Shang could not pass on his inheritance in the underwater formation Fang Yuan set up, but here it should be safe. ^{ch. 1915}

Shen Shang tells Shen Cong Sheng he will hand over his human path inheritance, to repay a debt he once owed the clan. He keeps his human path Immortal Gu, which he still needs, and passes on his cultivation experience, killer moves and Immortal Gu recipes. His memory is fragmented and what he remembers is limited. He used to major in sound path, then refined heal injury Immortal Gu in an accident and saw hope of human path. His secret acts to convert broke the rules of the righteous path, and the clan covered for him, but Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable found him out. Paradise Earth neither killed nor imprisoned him but, because he had spent years saving lives, gave him a chance to redeem himself and promised he might convert successfully. He then cultivated in Paradise Earth’s underwater formation. ^{ch. 1915}

With heal injury Immortal Gu as the foundation, he developed saving dead healing injuries, light injuries, heavy injuries, fatal injuries, sensory injuries, seven laborious injuries and other killer moves. From the killer move countless injury marks he deduced the recipe of injury mark Immortal Gu, refined it and replaced his vital Gu. Attacks that damage him convert into injury marks, and more marks raise the power of mutual injuries, his main offensive method, which once forced Fang Yuan to retreat. Injury mark Immortal Gu is the core of the inheritance. Shen Cong Sheng says the inheritance might found a new sub-path, and Shen Shang laughs that he fears he cannot, then tells him to switch paths if interested or choose a successor. ^{ch. 1915}

In Southern Border’s Virtue Paradise, Fairy Zi Wei, Heavenly Court’s leader, comes down the mountain haggard but in high spirits. She thanks Lu Wei Yin, who has waited at the foot, for his generosity, saying the climb benefited her and she has obtained benevolence Gu. Lu Wei Yin says his help served the five regions’ peace, not her. He warns that demonic immortals are rising, including a blood path rank eight great expert in Western Desert who targets super forces and repeatedly attacks resource points. Fairy Zi Wei promises generous rewards after the changes in the five regions and leaves. ^{ch. 1915}