Chapter 603

Tai Bai Yun Sheng wakes from another nightmare, panting and drenched in sweat. Almost every night since he failed the round, he dreams that blood beasts devour Gao Yang and Zhu Zai while he cannot move. He ends the dream kneeling helplessly and weeping, in deep guilt over their sacrifice to his own greed. Each self-examination returns a severely negative answer. ^{ch. 603}

Hei Lou Lan is awake too, watching Eighty-Eight True Yang Building still form new floors above the sacred palace. The owner token has gone missing, and no Lord of the Imperial Court has ever lost one before. He cannot use his killer move Grey Meltdown now. He vows that no difficulty will keep him from the strength path Immortal Gu, and swears revenge for his mother. ^{ch. 603}

Fang Yuan walks grimly through the sacred palace garden, vexed over subduing the Imperial Court land spirit. Facing the land spirit, Frost Jade Peacock, he has learned its condition for ownership: true love. It submits willingly only to a Gu Master couple deeply in love, which Giant Sun Immortal Venerable met very easily. For Fang Yuan, being truly in love with a certain woman is near impossible. In his previous life, he could have met that condition. A woman buried deep in his previous life’s memories seems to appear in the lake’s ripples, and he coldly dismisses her. ^{ch. 603}

The spirit is born of the original owner’s obsession and, though arrogant, acknowledges true love. Without subduing it, his takeover plan fails completely and he must stop. Gu Immortals keep deep secrets and often have extreme personalities, and true love comes harder to them than to mortals. He judges this is why the central continent Gu Immortals of his previous life destroyed Imperial Court blessed land and the building. Gruel Mud slowly melts the spirit’s seal, and after hundreds of thousands of years sealed, it will definitely try to break free. Giant Sun’s will still slumbers, but it will definitely awaken once the seal melts to a certain degree or the spirit keeps resisting. As the culprit who released the spirit, Fang Yuan would face a terrible end if targeted. ^{ch. 603}

His plan had three steps. First, he entered the northern plains, killed the Wolf King Chang Shan Yin at his last breath, took his identity and became a higher-up of Hei tribe army. Hidden within an alliance army, he reached the blessed land. Second, he would subdue the land spirit with the video from the central continent Gu Immortals and become owner without alerting the Immortal Venerable’s will. Third, he would hide and develop in secret, because exposure would bring the assault of the entirety of the northern plains. ^{ch. 603}

As owner, he would order the spirit to remain in the white jade hall while it works with the building’s operations. Its strength would let him face the Gu Immortal Tai Bai Yun Sheng safely, even if he failed to take Immortal Gu Landscape as Before. Fixed Immortal Travel would let him move between Hu Immortal blessed land, his cover, and Imperial Court blessed land, his true base. Each opening of the building would bring him vast resources, Immortal Gu included. As in his previous life, he would then subdue a blood path Gu worm and become a blood path Gu Immortal, slowly and safely. ^{ch. 603}

Fang Yuan is stuck at the second step. Unable to become owner, he cannot borrow the spirit’s strength, and Giant Sun’s will is definitely going to awaken. He could flee by hole earth Gu to Hu Immortal blessed land, but could not bring these few Immortal Gu. Even with landscape as before Immortal Gu, he could not return quickly and safely without the spirit’s help. For now the plan is to find every possible method to convince the spirit. If he takes its side, they could face Giant Sun’s will together, and he might borrow some of its strength. He really does not want to use that final method. ^{ch. 603}