Chapter 610

Immortal apertures are blessed lands at ranks six and seven and grotto-heavens at ranks eight and nine. A land spirit forms from a dead Gu Immortal’s lingering obsession, and being made of obsession it is rigid. Imperial Court blessed land’s Frost Jade Peacock holds hundreds of thousands of years of anger from being forcibly sealed by Giant Sun’s will. Now that he wants to keep sealing it, its resolute heart is finally ignited. Countless cracks split the silver and gold sky to show northern plains’ stars, and some ask whether Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s immortal ascension opened a loophole. The people inside panic, fearing the blessed land will be destroyed. ^{ch. 610}

Fang Yuan stays calm and is extremely confident that it cannot self-destruct. The blessed land belongs to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s arrangement, a set-up by a rank nine Gu Immortal that covers all of northern plains. Giant Sun’s will has only just awakened and was caught off guard, while Fang Yuan’s gruel mud Immortal Gu has drastically weakened the seal on the land spirit, letting it struggle so violently. Giant Sun used the chess piece Tai Bai Yun Sheng to win precious time. Still, the land spirit can absorb its own heaven and earth qi. ^{ch. 610}

Above Tai Bai Yun Sheng the scattered tribulation cloud gathers again, and calamity dust spreads on the ground. Ashen and furious, Tai Bai Yun Sheng protests that his inheritance never warned of this, for his own immortal aperture is forming another tribulation and calamity as his mortal Gu becomes Immortal Gu. Trouble within and without leaves him unable to advance or retreat. ^{ch. 610}

Only Fang Yuan knows the truth. He used the gruel mud Immortal Gu to awaken the land spirit. It cannot win a race against Giant Sun’s will, so it spends its own foundation to extract qi for a tribulation and calamity meant to destroy Tai Bai Yun Sheng. Mortal apertures resist devouring, but immortal ones are small worlds open to assimilation. If Tai Bai Yun Sheng dies, Imperial Court blessed land would absorb his aperture, raising the land spirit’s strength to break the seal. Purple lightning forms into chaotic lightning balls, and a crack hundreds of meters wide in the ground gushes restraining smoke. Fang Yuan frowns slightly, for the balls can ruin a Gu Master’s mind and will, and the smoke seals away the environment. ^{ch. 610}

Fang Yuan does not want Tai Bai Yun Sheng to fail. He grips the glass owner token tighter, telling himself he is still too weak and, at his current strength, very heavily affected by circumstances. Tai Bai Yun Sheng turns pale, since the balls change direction at random and smoke already surrounds him. Having lost his defensive Gu, he decides to risk it, flying up with several movement Gu and charging into the tribulation cloud. Ye Lui Sang frowns deeply, asking if he seeks death, but Hei Lou Lan praises it. Fang Yuan’s eyes shine too, for the smoke is the greater threat and this is the best decision. ^{ch. 610}

Inside the cloud Tai Bai Yun Sheng flies left and right with great control, and the crowd cheers on learning he is a flying master. Ye Lui Sang, not very surprised, credits cloud path Gu worms. Hei Lou Lan reasons that Tai Bai Yun Sheng, northern plains’ number one healing Gu Master, lacks skill in defense, so such flying is no wonder. Giant Sun’s will laughs, and Eighty-Eight True Yang Building shakes intensely as a huge pillar of light shoots out. The light of Divert Disaster, an Immortal Gu, shines around Tai Bai Yun Sheng and pierces the lightning balls and restraining smoke. One onlooker finds the help suspicious, since Tai Bai Yun Sheng is not of Giant Sun’s bloodline. Fang Yuan sighs, seeing that Tai Bai Yun Sheng is a crucial factor, the land spirit wanting to harm him and Giant Sun’s will to protect him. ^{ch. 610}