Chapter 626

In the true inheritance secluded domain, Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun watch on in panic from inside the luck path supreme true inheritance’s protection. Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng hold the supreme true inheritance that represents ownership of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, and Hei Lou Lan’s group cuts the two sides apart. Behind them, the river-like Giant Sun’s will still fights the flying bear phantom. Further out, the main Giant Sun’s will covers the tower itself, resisting the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity to protect Giant Sun’s inheritance. ^{ch. 626}

Hearing that Fang Yuan has a method left, Tai Bai Yun Sheng urges him to use it at once. Fang Yuan gives a bitter smile. He admits the desperate situation leaves him no other choice and asks Tai Bai Yun Sheng to guard him at the crucial moment, which Tai Bai Yun Sheng agrees to as fellow disciples. Fang Yuan warns that Giant Sun’s will, coming from Giant Sun Immortal Venerable himself, must never be underestimated. If it tries to turn them against each other, Tai Bai Yun Sheng must not believe it, since Fang Yuan will be unable to argue back at the crucial moment. Tai Bai Yun Sheng reassures him they are one family and offers Fixed Immortal Travel as an escape if Fang Yuan is unsure. Fang Yuan answers only that the method has unparalleled might, strong enough that even the main Giant Sun’s will cannot escape unscathed. ^{ch. 626}

The two make no effort to hide this exchange, and the assembled fighters react with open shock and doubt. Hei Lou Lan alone holds back. Though he looks crude, the chapter calls him astute, and he does not carelessly charge in while wondering what method could possibly harm the main will. ^{ch. 626}

Fang Yuan closes his eyes and slowly releases his grip on the supreme true inheritance, at once multiplying the pressure on Tai Bai Yun Sheng several times over. He had been warned and holds on. Within a few breaths the golden light on the light lump swells to the size of a washing basin. Wary of a trick, Hei Lou Lan’s group hold back through a dozen breaths of strange silence, broken only by the true inheritances flying and colliding around them. Ye Lui Sang, furious at being tricked, calls him a crafty thief who disguised himself as Chang Shan Yin, at a dead end with his methods exhausted and still pretending to hold an unfathomable trump card. Gu Guo Long, named as Gu tribe’s leader, shouts for everyone to attack. Hei Lou Lan alone does not move. ^{ch. 626}

Standing nearest, Tai Bai Yun Sheng feels a formless heavenly power lifting Fang Yuan and asks aloud whether he is shattering his own aperture to ascend at this very moment, startling everyone present. The mortal to immortal crossing is extremely dangerous. Onlookers openly doubt his sanity, wondering aloud whether he has simply chosen an unusual way to die rather than face certain defeat. ^{ch. 626}

Giant Sun’s will’s furious roar carries across the whole domain, cursing Fang Yuan for shattering his aperture deliberately to draw down heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity onto the tower, and ordering everyone to kill him at once as the calamity already begins to change. Panic mixes with its fury this time. The chapter explains that stacking heavenly tribulations does not simply add. The once in ten years blizzard was wide but individually weak, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s own leftover chaotic lightning balls and restraining smoke, aimed mainly at wills, had already fused with it into snow war tribulation lightning, one of the ten great catastrophes. Adding Fang Yuan’s own new tribulation on top risks a merger with unparalleled power, frightening even Giant Sun’s will despite its own ability to kill Gu Immortals. ^{ch. 626}

Hei Lou Lan’s group charges forward on Giant Sun’s will’s command, unleashing strength path phantoms, fiery snakes, sword lights and snow in a converging assault. Tai Bai Yun Sheng spares it no attention. He keeps resisting Giant Sun’s will’s grip on the light lump while Fang Yuan opens his eyes, activates six arm heavenly zombie king, and turns into an eight armed monster with his aura and fighting will flaring. The flying bear phantom howls and shields them with its own body as the freed river-like Giant Sun’s will surges straight at Fang Yuan, who meets it without evading to protect Tai Bai Yun Sheng. The collision breaks six of Fang Yuan’s arms, caves in his chest, tears off his right lower leg and blinds one eye. ^{ch. 626}

Giant Sun’s will taunts that Fang Yuan is only hastening his own death by ascending now and vows to help him along, coiling into a python shape and gathering power. Fang Yuan says nothing back. His wounds heal at visible speed because he has become a heavenly zombie, feeling no pain and running on death energy instead of life energy, which needs no rank five healing Gu to work. Giant Sun’s will claws a giant hand into Fang Yuan’s back, tearing his eagle wings apart and destroying eagle rise Gu, leaving two wounds down to the bone. Fang Yuan twists so hard he breaks his own waist, then drives his fist into the giant hand before it can split apart, shattering it and pulling back before Giant Sun’s will can counter. The chapter calls it his hardest fight since rebirth. ^{ch. 626}

On the other front, Hei Lou Lan pulls dozens of strength path phantoms back into his own body, merging into a giant over a hundred feet tall, shaped like himself. Ye Lui Sang and the others have the flying bear phantom tied down, so the first fist catches it unprepared and sends it rolling. Its fist and then its axe-like heel drop batter the flying bear phantom until its body can no longer hold shape, forcing it back into Gu form and away. Hei Lou Lan claims the Gu as a trophy. Onlookers call Hei Lou Lan’s strength almost equal to destroying an Immortal Gu outright. The chapter says Hei Lou Lan’s battle strength is not inferior to Fang Yuan’s and is higher in some respects because of his Great Strength True Martial Physique. It adds that the phantom’s capture was normal, since it had no Gu worms assisting it and Fang Yuan was not manoeuvring it personally. ^{ch. 626}

With the flying bear phantom gone and Tai Bai Yun Sheng still locked into the fight over the true inheritance, Fang Yuan faces the river-like Giant Sun’s will alone. Though he has already forced it down to less than half its former size, the chapter notes his luck is shrouded in what it calls black coffin luck, leaving even Hei Lou Lan’s approach a real danger. Fang Yuan only laughs. He declares his will is like iron and steel and that the fight has only just begun, and both the river-like will and Hei Lou Lan’s giant phantom fall still in response. Heaven and earth qi gathers around him, delayed briefly by being inside the tower, and that short delay is, the chapter says, the most dangerous moment of all. Ordinary Gu worms and even Immortal Gu risk backlash or destruction this close to the gathering qi, so Hei Lou Lan, who carries only mortal Gu, has no choice but to stop. Fang Yuan’s ascension has officially begun. ^{ch. 626}