Chapter 418

Fang Yuan walks out of Dang Hun palace onto a battlefield of blood and corpses, where the swamp crab’s humongous body presses on the mountain waist like a small mountain. Dang Hun mountain has absorbed the crab’s soul, smashed by its vibrations, and killed the many Gu worms living in the crab. Little Hu Immortal, the land spirit, reports immense losses in tears. The blessed land has lost about 666km2 of land and holds only sixty-eight beads of immortal essence. The fox army has fallen from four million and seven hundred thousand to three hundred and ten thousand, and around seven hundred thousand Gu worms are gone. ^{ch. 418}

Fang Yuan, tired yet happy, tells her to stop crying, since the blessed land and Dang Hun mountain still stand. Gutstones will soon fill the mountain, and the blue charm lightning shadow is exiled. He sighs deeply that the luckiest part is that the desolate beast carried no Immortal Gu. A wild Immortal Gu might have become the next great threat after the shadow. He is satisfied that he, a mere rank four upper stage mortal Gu Master, has killed a desolate beast that troubles even Gu Immortals. ^{ch. 418}

He orders the land spirit to clean the battlefield and preserve the crab’s corpse well. Every desolate beast is a moving treasure of fine Gu refinement material. He rests, his soul and mind worn out from commanding the foxes. Waking three days later, he feels really relaxed in body and mind. The sixth earthly calamity is over, and the blessed land is now a safe place whose destruction would put him in big trouble. There he can feed Fixed Immortal Travel Gu with immortal essence, though as a mortal he could not keep it in his aperture without Gu Immortals sensing it. After ten more hours of sleep, he calls the land spirit, who has dismantled the crab. ^{ch. 418}

She hands him three letter path Gu that entered through the loophole on the day of the calamity. They are the rank three lightning symbol paper crane Gu, the rank five letter sending green bird Gu and the rank three flying sword letter Gu. The green bird becomes a letter from the rank seven Gu Immortal Feng Jiu Ge. He praises Fang Yuan, then proposes a battle with his daughter Feng Jin Huang, who seeks to reclaim her pride. The stake is the glory of Spirit Affinity House and Immortal Crane Sect. Fang Yuan refuses, since his time is tight, and he does not fear Feng Jiu Ge, whom Heavenly Court will soon call up. It puzzles him that Feng Jiu Ge and his daughter take him for a disciple of Immortal Crane Sect. ^{ch. 418}

The flying sword letter Gu holds another challenge, threatening to expose Fang Yuan as a coward if he refuses. He recognizes the rascal Jian Yi Sheng, a metal path Gu Master of very perverted appearance and one of the demonic path Gu Immortals on Tian Ti mountain. In the previous life Jian Yi Sheng often ambushed him, until Fang Yuan’s blood sea penned him in his blessed land for twenty years and he knelt to surrender. This time he is extremely unlucky. With no Immortal Gu, he met the blue charm lightning shadow that Fang Yuan threw toward Tian Ti mountain, and was thrashed until he fled into his blessed land. After finding the culprit, he sent the letter. ^{ch. 418}

Deeply suspicious, Fang Yuan opens the lightning symbol paper crane Gu. Opening it slightly, he is surprised to read that Fang Zheng is alive. Reading on, his suspicions clear, and he sees that He Feng Yang, a smart man of Immortal Crane Sect, is eliminating his competitors this way. Fang Yuan judges that He Feng Yang greatly underestimated him, for he will not join Immortal Crane Sect, yet the letter points to just what he needs now. He tells the land spirit to open the blessed land slightly and let in the Gu Master who resembles him. ^{ch. 418}