Chapter 211

Wall images in Immortal Crane Sect replay Lord Sky Crane’s fight with First Generation Gu Yue, the blood wight, which leaves both injured. A heavily injured iron beak flying crane king intercepts the fleeing First Generation Gu Yue, and Lord Sky Crane catches up and attacks in a pincer. The crane king’s corpse falls and the blood wight is completely destroyed. Lord Sky Crane laughs three times and cries, then flies toward Qing Mao mountain, where Bai Ning Bing’s self-detonation suppresses him and forces him to use the Life-burial Jade Gu. Breaking out of the ice, he finds only Fang Zheng, at his dying breath. ^{ch. 211}

An elder bound by the sect’s rule to report after a recorded mission, Lord Sky Crane is so senior that barely any Gu Masters in the sect can assess him, not even the current Immortal Crane Sect leader. The one who does is Supreme Elder He Feng Yang, a rank six Gu Master titled Winged Crane Flying Immortal. Lord Sky Crane is rank five, only one rank below, but rank five are mortals and rank six are immortals. He Feng Yang says that although the sect’s traitor is dead, the blood skull gu was not retrieved, and two juniors suppressed and toyed with Lord Sky Crane. One is the Northern Dark Ice Soul Physique, so the suppression is no surprise. ^{ch. 211}

Lord Sky Crane confirms after investigating that the youth brought back is really the twin of the one in the video. The one who escaped is the older brother Fang Yuan, and the one captured is the younger brother Fang Zheng. Shown the video of his brother slaughtering their clansmen, Fang Zheng hated him enough to kill him on the spot. Lord Sky Crane admits his lifespan is at its limit, with only a few days left. Even the life-burial jade gu cannot change it. The sect’s few lifespan gu are held by the sect leader and some supreme elders, and none is for him. ^{ch. 211}

Lord Sky Crane has given up his lifetime’s savings and Gu worms for a spirit incubating flea, brought Fang Zheng into the sect, and made him his pupil. He will teach Fang Zheng, refine the bloodkin worm, and incite him to kill his brother, retrieving the blood skull gu for the sect. He Feng Yang doubts that Fang Zheng will really be manipulated. Lord Sky Crane answers that Fang Zheng is only a kid, and that after death his own soul in the flea will accompany the boy and advise his cultivation. Kneeling, he begs for another chance, and He Feng Yang grants it as perhaps his last. He leaves overjoyed, promising success within twenty years. ^{ch. 211}

In Tie clan city on Wan Cheng mountain, Tie Ruo Nan stands on the clan leader pavilion beside the Tie clan leader, her uncle. He says this is the 19th time she is asking him since she came back a few days ago. He is extremely upset by her father’s death, reminds her that she lost her mother early but still has him, and will not put his niece in danger. She answers that her father spent his life eliminating evil and finished his path with resolution, so it is her turn. Stunned, he sees Tie Xie Leng’s shadow in her and recalls the oath Tie Xie Leng swore of locking all demonic Gu Masters in the demon suppression tower. That friend is no longer around. ^{ch. 211}

He tells her the path she chose is not an easy one. She looks at the demon suppression tower on the mountain peak, a steel tower in which the Tie clan has imprisoned demonic Gu Masters. She says her heart also has a demon suppression tower and she will walk the path her father could not finish. ^{ch. 211}

Chen Cui Hua’s python poison is worsening, and a day of her plan to hold on for three days has passed, so she needs a healing gu worm soon. Bai Ning Bing raises her dagger to cut off her right ear for the earth hearing ear grass, but Fang Yuan stops her because Chen Cui Hua has already left. He uses the grass himself and trails her. The two find her fighting a twin-headed boar, a hundred beast king, while her own battle strength is far below ordinary. They see that she really buried charred thunder potato gu. ^{ch. 211}

Fang Yuan hands Bai Ning Bing the stealth scales gu, and she creeps closer, hidden. The boar steps on another charred thunder potato gu and falls for good. Drained, Chen Cui Hua turns to hurry back to the cave, but Bai Ning Bing strikes in one blow. The chainsaw golden centipede smashes her brain, and her headless body drops. Bai Ning Bing finds three gu in the aperture and is slightly disappointed. ^{ch. 211}

Fang Yuan uses Plunder Gu and retrieves a rice bag grass Gu, an iron thorn thistle Gu, and a charred thunder bean mother Gu. On the body he finds a hairy leg Gu and a jumping grass Gu, and in the smashed brain matter a bookworm that Bai Ning Bing’s attack has already killed. He judges it was her inheritance item, its information having taught her about Gu Masters. Bai Ning Bing is greatly disappointed that there is no healing Gu. Fang Yuan finds her primeval essence recovery odd, matching the ten extreme physiques though she had only A grade talent and none of her Gu could explain it. ^{ch. 211}

A silver triangle tattoo on her chest shows him that she used the third watch Gu, a rank five expenditure Gu that makes time flow three times as fast. Her cultivation and primeval essence recovery thus ran three times as fast. It also shrinks lifespan to a third, and the python poison worsened three days’ worth each day. Bai Ning Bing judges from the Gu that Chen Cui Hua’s inheritance was at least rank five, and scorns it going to waste. The Gu is very useful to demonic Gu Masters, who must put survival first, and Fang Yuan says its users are courageous, while she was weak and meek. ^{ch. 211}

Bai Ning Bing’s expression turns ugly as she wonders whether she will share this fate without a healing gu. Fang Yuan laughs, pats her shoulders, and says each walks their own path, so there is nothing to worry about. She nods. His strength has increased tremendously with the Gu worms taken from Chen Cui Hua, but he knows he lacks a healing Gu and does not place hopes in luck. He might get one or die with nothing, yet all there is to do is step on his path and continue forward. ^{ch. 211}