Chapter 468

Old Man Yan Shi uses the Immortal Gu everlasting Gu on Bai Ning Bing’s aperture, whose walls are covered with yellow-green vines, and it will hold for three months before she must return for reinforcement. Her aptitude has recovered to a hundred percent, restoring the Northern Dark Ice Soul physique, one of the ten extreme aptitudes. The primeval essence presses extremely hard on her aperture, and without everlasting Gu she would not have survived to now. She feels no gratitude, since he sought her out through Chou Jiu to use her. He offers to turn her back into a male if she sincerely pledges allegiance to Shadow Sect with a new sea oath. She refuses. She joins only temporarily, to help Shadow Sect deal with Fang Yuan and take his Fixed Immortal Travel Gu, and will retrieve her male body herself. ^{ch. 468}

Outside the room, she dislikes this rank seven wisdom path Gu Immortal and suspects a hidden motive. She recalls three kings blessed land, where Fang Yuan flew towards heaven and refined an Immortal Gu with a mortal body. The blessed land collapsed, winds of assimilation wiped San Cha mountain to barren land, little beast king’s name spread across the whole southern border, and Gu Immortals ordered their forces to find the vanished Fang Yuan. All great forces chased Bai Ning Bing, and she would have been a captive but for Wei Yang’s letting her go and her meeting Chou Jiu when she was gravely wounded. Chou Jiu healed her and proposed that she join Shadow Sect against Fang Yuan. ^{ch. 468}

She was sure Fang Yuan had a prediction Gu, so a predictive wisdom path Gu Immortal behind Chou Jiu moved her. She was truly not resigned to dying and letting Fang Yuan live. She made a sea oath before Sea Oath Gu with Old Man Yan Shi and Chou Jiu: she may leave freely once they kill Fang Yuan, and Shadow Sect may not move against her directly or indirectly. After she leaves, Old Man Yan Shi’s face darkens, since her demonic nature is hard to control and he judges she will absolutely not stay under others for long. A divine sense from a self-styled Lang Ya old immortal then offers the second aperture Gu recipe in exchange for his divine travel Gu. He laughs that the fish has taken the bait: Fang Yuan is a small fish and Lang Ya land spirit the big one. ^{ch. 468}

He covets Lang Ya blessed land’s rumored countless recipes and many Immortal Gu, above all Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus. The land’s second aperture Gu recipe was part of his scheme, since its land spirit loves collecting recipes and refining Gu and will definitely want to refine that Gu. The trade runs through Treasure Yellow Heaven. Passing through, divine travel Gu cracks the land spirit’s connecting heaven Gu, which collapses after several breaths. The land spirit takes the divine travel Gu, calls it really too good, and buys refinement materials without restraint. ^{ch. 468}

Fang Yuan learns from Little Hu Immortal that Lang Ya old immortal bought the divine travel Gu, as he expected. Fang Yuan calls the dumping of materials on the land spirit clearly a trap. The sellers include metal path Tie Jia Zi, soul path Wang Gan Yang, wood path Fairy Tan Xiang and enslavement path Great Immortal Xue Xiong, whose names he recognises from the second wave of attacks on Lang Ya blessed land. He becomes aware of an enormous scheme unrecorded in history: in his past life that blessed land endured six waves and fell in the seventh, and manipulators stood behind the scenes. ^{ch. 468}

Old Man Yan Shi aims at Lang Ya blessed land as well as at Fang Yuan, and Fang Yuan wonders how many waves Yan Shi organized and why northern plains Gu Immortals obey him. The organization behind Yan Shi, with influence in northern plains and southern border, is the Shadow Sect he has heard of, though he does not yet know it. The seventh wave was the move of Heavenly Court, the greatest Gu Immortal organization of the five regions, which no Southern Border immortal could control, and it left with all the recipes. Heavenly Court and that organization are two giant beasts across his path. Alone and driven by a dream of eternal life, he would have no regrets even if he failed and died. He vows to carve his own path. He concentrates on connecting heaven Gu again, deciding it is time to buy relic Gu. ^{ch. 468}