Chapter 593

Hei Lou Lan leaves Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s room very dissatisfied with the number one healer’s mental state, and reckons it could make the rounds far harder. Eighty-Eight True Yang Building has condensed sixty-seven floors and is forming the sixty-eighth. Hei Lou Lan perceives a rank six strength path Immortal Gu, flying bear strength Gu, assimilated into that floor moments ago. The flying bear is a desolate beast able to match Gu Immortals in battle. This Gu gives a Gu Immortal a definite probability of bursting out a flying bear phantom in battle, and with it Hei Lou Lan could advance into a strength path Gu Immortal. His plan for revenge has hope only if he gets it. ^{ch. 593}

His trusted aide Hei Shu reports daily on the great experts, and thirty percent of the Gu Masters beside Ye Lui Sang have perished. Hei Lou Lan had completely opened the building to everyone, and countless people still scramble madly for owner tokens at sky-high prices. Greed has killed many, and with Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s attempt, five rank five experts are dead: Chang Biao, Pan Ping, Hao Ji Liu, Gao Yang and Zhu Zai. This is an enormous loss to Hei Lou Lan and makes flying bear strength Gu harder to win. Survivors mostly gain strength rapidly, and many new rank four and rank five Gu Masters appear. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable arranged the building for his descendants. ^{ch. 593}

Hei Lou Lan orders Hei Shu to announce that the building is closed and everyone obeys his arrangements until the sixty-eighth floor is broken. He calls the floor the tribe’s main focus, a task handed to him by a certain supreme elder, and Hei Shu turns extremely solemn. Hei Shu obeys and withdraws. ^{ch. 593}

Hei Lou Lan plans whom to mobilize. Tai Bai Yun Sheng can fight from the rear as a healer after about half a month of rest, moved through his need for lifespan Gu. Chang Shan Yin, whose son has just perished, must pass his round to regain his reputation. He once demanded flying bear phantom Immortal Gu from Hei Lou Lan and owes him a great deal of resources. Ye Lui Sang has a fire path support type Immortal Gu and can be enticed with heavy bait. The crucial strength lies in three Gu Immortals, Xue Song Zi, Hei Cheng and Hei Bai, and letters go out to them. ^{ch. 593}

Hei Bai reads the letter, extremely excited that wooden chicken Gu has appeared within the sixty-eighth floor, and he doubts nothing, since the letter comes from Hei Cheng’s son, the Hei tribe leader. Hei Cheng asks about a strength path Immortal Gu. Hei Bai says his nephew, who has Great Strength True Martial Physique, needs one to advance to Gu Immortal, but the letter reports that none has yet appeared. Hei Cheng sighs that Immortal Gu Dark Limit can no longer mask his son’s physique, so this is almost his son’s final chance at life. The two Gu Immortals set off at once and soon arrive above Demon Blood Hill, where Hei Lou Lan asked for help. ^{ch. 593}

Eighty-Eight True Yang Building is a rank eight Immortal Gu house of innumerable small towers, which sink every ten years and resonate with the blizzard outside. A miraculous power then plunders the northern plains of precious Gu resources, which rise above the sacred palace and condense floor after floor. Long Hair Ancestor, a refinement path supreme grandmaster, rejected Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s plan and devised this design. Each time it forms, the building refines Gu again. On the sixty-eighth floor, flying bear strength Gu was absorbed and refined first, forming the hundredth round. ^{ch. 593}

Refining relies on will, and the building is no Gu Master, so Giant Sun Immortal Venerable left behind his own, genuinely majestic and vast like the sun as Fang Yuan has seen. Such a will easily extinguishes other wills, so refining never gave the building trouble. ^{ch. 593}

However, a problem exists. A will formed from thoughts, with no soul as carrier, is consumed without end and often hibernates. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable has been dead for countless years, so his will, though vast as the Sun, can no longer resist time and hibernates. The building refines Gu more slowly, and the slowdown opens a loophole that northern plains Gu Masters can exploit. ^{ch. 593}