Chapter 594

A ten year blizzard has turned Demon Blood Hill white, and snow monsters devastate the whole of Northern Plains. The larger the monster, the stronger: thirty feet tall matches a rank three Gu Master, forty feet a rank four, and fifty feet a rank five. Snowmen prey on them. ^{ch. 594}

Hei tribe’s two Gu Immortals, Hei Bai and Hei Cheng, wait on the summit of the hill among the corpses of hundreds of snow monsters. Flying snow hands condense from wind and snow and grab at them. Hei Bai sends out large numbers of rank five Gu worms, and Hei Cheng does the same. They do not resist as the hands seize the Gu worms, and a power takes them into Imperial Court blessed land. After a whole hour, all are captured, and the two leave. ^{ch. 594}

Hei Lou Lan senses that support has arrived. Above Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, the still-condensing sixty-eighth floor holds the captured Gu worms, some wild and some from Hei Bai and Hei Cheng. The hundredth round is already formed, and the building picks the strongest Gu worms for the rounds after it. ^{ch. 594}

Hei Lou Lan frowns slightly that Xue Song Zi is still biding his time, though he bribed Xue Song Zi into an agreement to help at a designated time. A letter Gu brings the reply: Hei tribe’s two Gu Immortals are pressuring Xue Song Zi, his snowman business runs at a loss, and he already gave many rank five Gu for wooden chicken Gu. He says he cannot send support now. Hei Lou Lan calls it lies, but his anger subsides, for he predicted this and a mortal can do nothing if a Gu Immortal reneges. Worried that a Gu Immortal’s support weakens the longer the floor condenses, he decides to obtain wooden chicken Gu first to make Xue Song Zi help. ^{ch. 594}

Wooden chicken Gu is the reward of the final round of the thirty-ninth floor, where he has concentrated his efforts for months. Having tried the round forty to fifty times, he is a paper-thin distance from success. After a pep rally the next day, he leads everyone through the hundredth round that evening and obtains rank six Immortal Gu Wooden Chicken. Morale rises greatly, sweeping away the haze of Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s defeat. He then uses the Gu to lure Xue Song Zi into helping him. ^{ch. 594}

Seven days later, the sixty-eighth floor has completely taken form. Hei Lou Lan leads everyone in but spreads the Gu Masters out rather than rush the rounds. Over a hundred carefully selected refinement path Gu Masters form a round formation, and he sits at its center with the two-edge owner token. Their grey radiance links into a giant ray that pierces the floating token. The first round’s world melts away, and the group arrives at the second round without a fight. An aged Gu Master tells a stunned young one that this is grey meltdown, a refinement path killer move held by all super tribes, though it fails on some rounds. ^{ch. 594}

In Fang Yuan’s mind, Mo Yao reads it as digging into Giant Sun’s hibernating will with coordination from outside and inside. Gu released outside are only half-refined, and the owner token connects to them to refine a round’s core directly. Time is the key, since once Giant Sun’s will completely refines them, the chance is thoroughly lost. Fang Yuan praises her thorough analysis. ^{ch. 594}

Fang Yuan, who is from the future, knows that in his previous life central continent’s Gu Immortals showed this method after breaking through Imperial Court blessed land. It was only support, and they truly relied on the glass owner token, arguably a divine treasure, now in his possession, raised to six edges. While everyone watches the second round, he secretly takes it out. He murmurs that his long planning now begins in full, with flying bear strength Gu to pair with his flying bear phantom Gu. With a thought, he instantly grasps control over this floor. ^{ch. 594}