Chapter 547

Fang Yuan reads in The Legends of Ren Zu that Ren Zu fell into Luo Po valley and had no way out. His daughter Desolate Ancient Moon climbs Cheng Bai mountain toward the one and only success Gu, hoping a wish to it will save him. At the foot she kills a rockman that love Gu woke in anger because her arrival ruined its dream, and at the mountain waist love Gu declares that it will topple the whole mountain. It crashes into the mound, which is entirely made up of stacked rocks, and the mountain crumbles. Love Gu leaves smugly. ^{ch. 547}

Left in a daze before the huge pile, Desolate Ancient Moon returns to cognition Gu for advice. Cognition Gu says love Gu is demanding and unreasonable, and Desolate Ancient Moon can only check the rocks one by one. Success Gu was at the peak and failure Gu, its mother, at the bottom, and every other rock is a child of failure Gu that brings unthinkably bad situations. Affirming her own self clears these disasters gradually, and holding a rock reveals which Gu it is. Holding failure Gu would leave her completely lost and her life in danger. Since wisdom and cognition can only flee fanatic love, cognition Gu asks her not to say it taught her, and she agrees and returns to the mountain. ^{ch. 547}

The first rock wounds her hand, and affirming herself heals it, leaving a light scar. The second floods her with intense fear, the third with despair, which thoughts of her father and chanting clear. The fourth turns her nose into a pig’s nose, which chanting undoes but for a slight deformity. Days pass and every rock is a child of failure Gu. Scars accumulate beyond what her chanting can clear, turning her into a monster with six heads, three arms, five tails and sixteen legs. She has also grown several hundred times as strong. ^{ch. 547}

With two rocks left, one success Gu and one failure Gu, she hesitates, then hopes that her strength and her chanting will let her endure even failure Gu, and picks one. It is failure Gu. Loss and self-doubt assault her, and her seven mouths stop moving. She falls into endless perplexity and has completely lost herself. ^{ch. 547}

Fang Yuan sighs and closes the book, wearing a very complicated expression. At the end of December, with the blizzard growing as the ten year disaster approaches, Hei Lou Lan’s army reaches the entrance of Imperial Court blessed land at the last minute, with about half of the alliance left. A large number of mortals died on the way, and many Gu Masters died to beast group attacks. ^{ch. 547}

The item that opens the blessed land is on Hei Lou Lan, and golden light forms a ring that grows into a grand city gate. The gate opens, and the snow gathers into a solid ice ladder. Hei Lou Lan climbs it first, followed by Fang Yuan, who murmurs Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Hao Ji Liu and other high level experts go in after them. About an hour later, the entire Hei tribe army has entered, the ice ladder breaks apart and the gate closes. The Gu Immortals observing in secret retract their helpless and nostalgic gazes. ^{ch. 547}