Chapter 607

A will blazing like the sun surges through the glass owner token and attacks Fang Yuan’s mind. Letting it erode his mind could very likely leave him a demented amnesiac. Mo Yao’s will warns him to throw the token away at once. Fang Yuan instead activates his special will Gu, which blocks Giant Sun’s will and then devours it, the small will swallowing the large one. ^{ch. 607}

Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had condensed this will from a special will Gu and placed it inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to guard his descendants against future danger, set to trigger automatically once a certain unknown condition is met. Fang Yuan already knew this from his previous life. Video clips from that life had shown him Giant Sun’s will was exactly this kind of special will. A will condensed from a Gu worm can be subdued by the matching Gu worm, which is why his special will Gu could restrain it. ^{ch. 607}

The glass owner token is no ordinary object: central continent’s Gu Immortals and several great forces spent thousands of years preparing it, an owner token rebuilt around an expended Immortal Gu. Fang Yuan sends a thought through it and launches his ambush. True Yang Building shakes hard, and the aurora filling the sky collapses by more than half. Inside the building, countless special will Gu besiege Giant Sun’s will at once, the accumulated trump card of central continent’s Gu Immortals. ^{ch. 607}

Giant Sun’s will tries to activate Gu worms to fight back, but other prepared methods seal away the yellow apricot immortal essence that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable left behind inside the building. Without that immortal essence, True Yang Building cannot move. Giant Sun’s will has no way to resolve this at once, and it falls still. ^{ch. 607}

Fang Yuan remembers from his previous life that central continent’s Gu Immortals used exactly this method to kill Giant Sun’s will and destroy Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. He regrets that he is still mortal, unable to profit from this himself. Even as a Gu Immortal, one Gu Immortal’s battle strength would not have brought a good result. In his previous life, when central continent’s Gu Immortals attacked Imperial Court blessed land, eleven of them went in as elite experts and only three returned, though the spoils were judged worth the cost. ^{ch. 607}

True Yang Building stood as a spiritual symbol of Northern Plains, and in his previous life its destruction hit the whole region hard, dropping morale and forcing retreat after retreat in the fighting that followed. Only the Gu Immortal Ma Hong Yun, repeatedly playing a vital role at the most crucial moments, kept Northern Plains from being annexed by central continent. For now, Fang Yuan judges himself safe. ^{ch. 607}

The crowd, not knowing what has happened, wonders whether Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s advance to Gu Immortal has somehow affected Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Some ask whether an advancement happening inside Imperial Court blessed land, which bars Gu Immortals from entering, breaks the arrangement old ancestor Giant Sun once made. True Yang Building falls still, and every gaze returns to Tai Bai Yun Sheng. ^{ch. 607}

Tai Bai Yun Sheng floats between sky and ground, drawing in heaven qi and earth qi and blending them with his own human qi, the mix pouring into the space where his aperture once sat. Both his body and his soul are being tempered by the process, the second of three steps in advancing to a Gu Immortal, after breaking the aperture. His intact inheritance guides him, and so far he stabilizes without trouble. ^{ch. 607}

His human qi, drawn only from himself, is limited, while the heaven qi and earth qi pouring in are endless, so the surplus the three qi cannot balance gathers outside him in the sky and on the ground. Ye Lui Sang says Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s accumulation is so deep that the excess qi is condensing into calamity and tribulation. A deeper accumulation means greater difficulty now and greater achievement later. Hei Lou Lan watches without a word, gathering what he can for his own reference. ^{ch. 607}

Golden earth qi condenses into a hill-sized one-horned tiger crouched to spring, and green heaven qi gathers into countless giant willow leaves, each the size of a boat, swaying in the sky. Fang Yuan names them the earthly calamity lofty tiger and the heavenly tribulation willow wind. Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s expression turns grave. Watching, the Imperial Court land spirit laughs that its chance to break free from captivity has finally come. ^{ch. 607}