Chapter 1978

Fang Yuan stands under the thousand wish tree in his sovereign immortal aperture, where a blazing light in the sky is truly dazzling and sand rumbles in a wild wind. His heaven path dao marks have grown from about three thousand to nearly three thousand five hundred, while his other dao marks shrink. The light, wind and sand show light path, wind path and earth path marks rising. The tree’s surroundings will turn to barren desert if this goes on. ^{ch. 1978}

The thousand wish tree is a human path ancient desolate plant that makes fruit from human will, and it suits a bustling large city or market. The Heavenly Dao does not want it to grow properly, so heaven path marks raise a blazing sun over vast sand that cuts the tree off from living people. Inside the formation, its own desert lets the tree adapt slowly. Outside the formation, the Heavenly Dao senses the tree’s human path aura, and marks beyond Fang Yuan’s control modify the fertile land to stop its growth. The common belief that the tree bears exactly a thousand fruits now seems untrue to Fang Yuan, because the Heavenly Dao restricts it and its actual potential is much larger. Fang Yuan plans to water it with human will so that its production will definitely rise greatly. ^{ch. 1978}

Rank seven Cooking Luck Pot appears above him and shows his damaged luck. His colossal luck was almost fully consumed in the fate war and is now very low, a third hidden threat beside the qi tide and the heaven path dao marks. The main body can resist problems, but he worries about his clones. The time path clone’s luck is a chaotic river, and Zhan Bu Du’s is an eagle fallen into water. Li Xiao Bai’s luck is a flower burning intensely, and its hidden threat is huge. Wu Shuai’s coiling dragon is the strongest of them, but blade and sword qi surrounds it. ^{ch. 1978}

His earlier killer moves failed because the heaven path dao marks interfere. This time he runs the tree’s formation and the pot together, and rainbow light from the tree enters the pot. Winds and lightning rage as heaven path dao marks appear, some on his body. With the human path immortal formation he forcefully modifies his clones’ luck to a certain degree. ^{ch. 1978}

The time path clone’s river stabilizes and runs smoother, and Zhan Bu Du’s eagle sheds feathers as if turning into a fish. Li Xiao Bai’s flower crystallizes and no longer risks turning to ashes. Wu Shuai’s dragon does not change, but the surrounding qi weakens to light smoke, so a fight still awaits him, though much smaller. Fang Yuan calls the clones’ problem settled and the heaven path dao marks the truly troublesome thing. He increasingly understands the deeper intentions of Red Lotus. ^{ch. 1978}