Chapter 528

In Xiao Hun blessed land, under dense dark clouds, a thousand-foot female-shaped tree king lifts a green treehouse hung with vermillion fruits, where Hei Bai and Hei Cheng, both Gu Immortals, sit together. Hei Cheng, Hei tribe’s supreme elder and Hei Lou Lan’s father, asks about Dong Fang Chang Fan, whom Hei Bai saw at Ni Yu blessed land. Hei Bai replies that Dong Fang probably has only two or three years left and wants only to nurture his successor Dong Fang Yu Liang. Hei Cheng scoffs that Dong Fang is a genuine petty person, extremely insidious and hated by all the Gu Immortals. Hei Cheng claims his secret investigation shows Dong Fang had a hand in the death of Hei Cheng’s wife Su Xian Er. Hei Bai is extremely startled. ^{ch. 528}

Over two hundred years earlier, Su Xian Er was a concubine’s daughter in Su tribe, and Hei Cheng fell in love at first sight when she poured him wine. Su tribe’s leader poisoned and hunted him, and Su Xian Er, then only rank one, rushed out at night and saved him. She asked only for a place to stay and that he spare a trace of Su tribe’s bloodline. Hei Cheng, very grateful, swore she would be his only wife and married her. A hundred years later both became Gu Immortals. Their story, Su Xian’s night elopement, spread across northern plains and moved countless women to pursue love boldly. ^{ch. 528}

Hei Bai asks gravely whether her death over twenty years ago was not caused by the blessed land’s earthly calamity. Hei Cheng answers that there was a calamity but people influenced it, and that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had such methods. Dong Fang tribe, a Huang Jin bloodline tribe that has entered Imperial Court many times, might have received such an inheritance from Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Hei Cheng’s little evidence cannot prove Dong Fang Chang Fan the main culprit. ^{ch. 528}

Hei Cheng lets a butterfly letter Gu into the blessed land, and it brings Hei Bai a request from Hei Lou Lan. Hei Bai pleads that Hei Lou Lan is innocent, though Su Xian Er fell seriously ill bearing him and died in an earthly calamity several years later. He notes that Hei Cheng gave Hei Lou Lan to the childless Fairy Jiang Yu so her Immortal Gu Dark Limit would preserve his life under the ten extreme physique, Great Strength True Martial. To spur him, Hei Cheng also forbade the boy to light incense for his mother until he becomes a Gu Immortal. Hei Cheng sighs without replying and asks what the request says. ^{ch. 528}

The request is for a mutated wolf group and a rank five lurking soul coat Gu. Hei Cheng calls the boy insolent, but he has a lurking soul coat Gu, while Hei tribe has no mutated wolf group. Hei Bai explains that Liu Wen Wu holds Harmony Immortal’s inheritance and has two fierce sworn brothers, while Hei Lou Lan places his hopes on his great general, Wolf King Chang Shan Yin. Hei Cheng asks Hei Bai to buy the wolf group at treasure yellow heaven. Hei Bai agrees, since he needs Hei Lou Lan to enter Imperial Court, closed to Gu Immortals below rank nine, and locate Immortal Gu Wooden Chicken within Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Hei Cheng adds that Great Strength True Martial needs a strength path Immortal Gu to reach Gu Immortal, which Hei tribe lacks. ^{ch. 528}

Hei Bai returns to Ku Mu blessed land and starts buying mutated wolves. Fox Immortal offers over a hundred at a rather high price, and Hei Bai gnashes his teeth and buys them. Fox Immortal is Little Hu Immortal, acting on Fang Yuan’s instructions to buy purple crystal relic Gu and cheap wolf groups. Hu Immortal blessed land profited quite a bit. Fang Yuan calmly rests in the camp, waiting for Hei tribe’s assistance. ^{ch. 528}