Chapter 519

In Ni Yu blessed land, named for its rain that falls upward, Hei Bai arrives as the next guest after Tan Bi Ya and pays respect to senior Dong Fang Chang Fan. He looks like an ordinary middle aged man but is a true rank six Gu Immortal. Seventy years earlier Hei Bai was Hei tribe leader, a step from the Imperial Court, and lost by one move so that Liu tribe won. The Liu tribe leader of that time, Liu Yi Feng, had unprecedented talent but failed charging toward Gu Immortal realm. Hei Bai, commonly called Hei tribe rockman, remained standing among that generation. ^{ch. 519}

Dong Fang Chang Fan conjures a colorful smoke showing the real-time battle at Cao Fu. Both Gu Immortals watch Pan Ping behead the Tang tribe leader. Hei Bai names the Gu behind it as sole blade Gu, which Blade Demon created, a mere flash of blade light kept on a blade, and once activated it ignores defenses of the same level. It feeds on blades, and the blade it lives on gradually shrinks into dust. Dong Fang Chang Fan adds that it reaches rank six at most, and that Blade Demon once held his own with a rank six one. Blade Demon eventually died in battle to Butterfly Sword Immortal, who consumed his blessed land. The recipe was lost, but many copies remain from gifts Blade Demon handed out disguised as a mortal, and Pan Ping seems to have obtained one. ^{ch. 519}

Dong Fang Chang Fan is a famous rank seven wisdom path Gu Immortal who single handedly raised the declining Dong Fang tribe. His lifespan is at its end, and Dong Fang Yu Liang is the best candidate for his inheritance. Lifespan Gu are hard for him to find, partly because righteous path Gu Immortals secretly collude to restrict their sale to him, while demonic ones hate him. Hei Bai understands this meeting will be the last. ^{ch. 519}

In the smoke, Dong Fang Yu Liang enters the battle himself against Hei Lou Lan, and they end in a draw. At night Hei Lou Lan orders a collective attack, and night wolves under Fang Yuan’s manipulation break the final line of defense after seven minutes. Helpless, Dong Fang Yu Liang surrenders, ending the battle in Hei Lou Lan’s victory. Dong Fang Chang Fan remarks that Dong Fang Yu Liang’s only flaw is caring too much for his sister, so that part of the troops stayed back to protect her. ^{ch. 519}

Dong Fang Chang Fan says that his bloodline descends from Ancestor Giant Sun, who set up the Imperial Court to weaken other tribes and preserve that bloodline, yet even Giant Sun died when his lifespan ran out. Hei Bai hands over a list from his storage Gu. Dong Fang tribe lost and became Hei tribe’s captive, so under Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s rules it can redeem itself with the huge amount of resources listed. Dong Fang Chang Fan agrees, calling a small price fair since his tribe failed. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable made the loser pay, and tribes that refused in history were all wiped out. Dong Fang and Hei tribes are both super tribes with more than one Gu Immortal, and between such giants the Imperial Court contest is merely a game. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, one of the ten supreme invincible beings, devised it. ^{ch. 519}

A giant light door opens above the battlefield, and a young female envoy says she is here to bring back Dong Fang tribe. Hei Lou Lan checks the reparations and has earned a fortune, enough to raise his military strength by at least fifty percent with the surrendered tribes. Dong Fang Yu Liang bids him a calm farewell and leads his tribesmen through the door. Dong Fang tribe’s size has expanded by thirty percent from absorbing tribes. ^{ch. 519}

Fang Yuan watches silently. He sees the ten year blizzard as a contest of top predators, a game they play together. He watches coldly from within the game and makes his own plans. ^{ch. 519}