Chapter 399

Fang Yuan looks up through a huge hole in the blessed land’s sky. Near dusk, Fang Yuan reckons it is 5:45 pm and Feng Jin Huang should have just inherited Hu Immortal blessed land. In his previous life he attacked the blessed land with demonic Gu Immortals, took Dang Hun mountain, killed Feng Jin Huang, and survived narrowly after paying a huge price. The righteous path’s biography of her lists three great opportunities, the first being dream wings, an Immortal Gu that came to her in a dream at age three. With it the inheritance is definitely hers, and he needed the second aperture Gu to avoid giving her such a huge lead. Her biography’s second opportunity is Hu Immortal blessed land, whose mountain she ascended at 5:30 pm on this day. ^{ch. 399}

He sighs that his efforts were in vain, then turns resolute, for he still has Spring Autumn Cicada. Infinite search and lock can seal rank five Gu but cannot restrict a rank six Immortal Gu. Bai Ning Bing and the others sense something amiss at his calm. Fang Yuan self-detonates. Spring Autumn Cicada bursts out in green and orange light as his Gu worms, primeval essence, flesh and soul all detonate and pour their energy into it. Carrying his remaining will, it tears through space into the river of time. ^{ch. 399}

This is his third use of the Gu, and coming prepared this time, he finally feels what going against the tides is like. Exhausted by the dangerous waves, the cicada leaps into a droplet and vanishes. ^{ch. 399}

Fang Yuan finds himself standing on Wang Xiao. Wang Xiao begs for his life and offers to tell the true path. Fang Yuan laughs aloud that he has won the bet and rebirthed again, and Wang Xiao suspects a maniac. In his aperture the cicada is extremely weak, so he wills it into a deep sleep to regain strength in the river of time. He laughs that the threat from Spring Autumn Cicada is now eased. Beside him lies the corpse of Yun clan’s young clan leader Yun Luo Tian, killed by Bai Ning Bing and sent over by expending immortal essence. ^{ch. 399}

Thinking of Bai Ning Bing stops his laughter. Bai Ning Bing betrayed him after long planning, and without Spring Autumn Cicada and his good luck Fang Yuan would have completely lost. Fang Yuan admits that he was careless, absorbed in Feng Jin Huang and the Immortal Gu, and that he is a mortal and not an invincible god. He recites a poem asking who rules the fate of the world, and his bitterness and hatred clear. ^{ch. 399}

He recalls his previous life from this point. Fang Yuan grilled Wang Xiao about the path toward Wu mountain, killed him when he would not tell, and devoured his and Yun Luo Tian’s apertures with beast strength placenta Gu. Fang Yuan exposed Spring Autumn Cicada to convince the land spirit, and Chou Jiu, Wu Shen Tong and Zhang San San died by his hand, and Zhang San San’s slavery Gu became his. After an accident he killed Long Qing Tian but gained nothing because of jade sky Gu poison. ^{ch. 399}

His past carelessness has become alertness, and he sees three dangers. Bai Ning Bing knows the refinement details and has cooperated with Tie Ruo Nan, so Tie Bai Qi may already be hidden in San Cha mountain. Xiao Mang will arrive in the last days of refinement, and Mo Wu Tian, newly rank five, will rally the leaderless demonic path, arguably hastening the outside experts’ attack. Last, Bai Ning Bing has secretly planted fixed star Gu in Fang Yuan’s left forearm, so once the four old-timers use infinite search and lock he cannot escape even at the edge of the world. Fang Yuan reasons that Tie clan held back because his killing of Tie Mu Bai greatly exceeded their expectations, and because they want others’ conflict to bring them victory. They are also extremely vigilant, wary of arresting him and still not finding the Yang Gu. They kept the move as a final trump card, and Fang Yuan is like a fish in the net. ^{ch. 399}