Chapter 552

Fang Yuan looks down at a mound with a huge tunnel-like hole, set in a huge swamp beside a very long river to the southwest. He suspects this is Di Qiu inheritance ground. A flight confirms the terrain matches the map that painting idea Gu on a fake grey-white stone slab etched into his brain. A terrain clue would be unreliable outside, but Imperial Court blessed land opens once every ten years and its terrain slowly recovers after each opening. He concludes that Di Qiu inheritance, set up here through that slab, must have taken huge effort and time, so it should not be bad. ^{ch. 552}

Azure wolves sent into the hole return unscathed, having found only glowing moss and rocks. Fang Yuan enters and finds nothing. He judges it very unlikely that someone took the inheritance first, since reaching it takes a skilled appraiser to decipher the grey-white stone slab and survival of the Imperial Court contest. Getting the inheritance will mean interpreting its cipher, but no answer comes, so he sets it aside. ^{ch. 552}

Fang Yuan flies with the wolf group toward the central sacred palace, the key part of his plan. Obtaining landscape as before Gu is his top priority, and next comes Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s inheritance inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. The palace is the most important of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s four resting chambers. The others lie in eastern sea, western desert and southern border, and an even grander one sits within Longevity Heaven. ^{ch. 552}

There have been ten rank nine Gu Masters, among them bloodthirsty Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, mysterious Red Lotus Demon Venerable, knowledgeable Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and peaceful Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable is one of them. Born in Northern Plains, he is a lucky demonic path Gu Master who becomes a Gu Immortal and wins the number one fairy of Spirit Affinity House as his wife. That makes him an external supreme elder of the house and converts him to the righteous path. As an Immortal Venerable he becomes the fourth generation Immortal King, builds five great resting chambers, and keeps over several tens of millions of concubines. His children, the most of any venerable, now gather mostly in Northern Plains, where those with his bloodline are collectively the Huang Jin family and control nearly the entire region. ^{ch. 552}

That night, Hei Lou Lan stands in the central control hall. A huge plaque above him reads Hereditary Monarchy. As alliance leader with the Huang Jin bloodline, he arrives in the sacred palace automatically. When Cunning Gentleman Sun Shi Han approaches, Hei Lou Lan seals away a complicated expression completely. ^{ch. 552}

Sun Shi Han brings Sole Blade General Pan Ping’s letter, which says Wolf King Chang Shan Yin devoured an inheritance alone and extorted Pan Ping in public. Hei Lou Lan demands the second letter. It is merely Zhu Zai seeking credit, but with the first it tells him what happened. He corrodes both letters into nothing and orders compensation for Pan Ping and the others at the supply camp. ^{ch. 552}

Asked about punishing Chang Shan Yin, Hei Lou Lan laughs. He would have done the same, only less ugly. Sun Shi Han urges punishment, warning that Chang Shan Yin, funded by Hei Lou Lan’s tribe, may overthrow him. Hei Lou Lan says the deed ruins Chang Shan Yin’s reputation, and that without the Huang Jin bloodline or a guest token Chang Shan Yin cannot enter True Yang Building. ^{ch. 552}

Hei Lou Lan, who now holds the Chang tribe and Ge tribe, calls Chang Shan Yin only a mortal with desires and greed. He adds that Chang Shan Yin, already rank five peak stage, will definitely want to progress further. Hei Lou Lan will reveal the method to the Gu Immortal realm only after Chang Shan Yin joins Hei tribe. He still needs Chang Shan Yin to challenge True Yang Building. He tells Sun Shi Han not to bother him with such tiny matters again. Sun Shi Han agrees with his voice slightly trembling and leaves disappointed. ^{ch. 552}