Chapter 637

A huge tear opens in the wind veil of assimilation, and the Gu worms trapped inside it, lifeless until now, rush for the opening in a frenzy. Formless hands reach for them as they flee. The hands catch nearly half, but most of the Gu worms still escape into the outside world of northern plains. The northern plains Gu Immortals fall into shocked ecstasy at the sight of the torrent of worms, striking and shouting over each other while a few call for restraint and an even split under a prior arrangement. ^{ch. 637}

Fang Yuan counts more than twenty Gu Immortals fighting over the worms. He judges they probably used the immortal killer move winged blade, northern plains’ first class attacking method. His memory of his previous life is still vivid, and by it many central continent Gu Immortals will die to that move in a coming battle of the five regions. The wind veil of assimilation is the number one wind in the world that few methods can restrain, but winged blade can cleave it open because the veil has not stood long and its walls are still thin. The wind blows whenever an immortal aperture faces destruction, and once it gathers enough force even rank eight Gu Immortals struggle against it, though rank nine Gu Immortals rule over it untouched. ^{ch. 637}

Fang Yuan realizes the opening is no escape for him, since he caused the harm to Giant Sun’s will and the collapse of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and is the culprit behind Imperial Court blessed land’s destruction. If the angry northern plains Gu Immortals outside caught him, even death would be a luxury. He fixes his attention on Hei Lou Lan, ready to snatch back Tai Bai Yun Sheng the moment his attention wavers. But Hei Lou Lan’s eyes never leave him. ^{ch. 637}

Hei Lou Lan wants a strength path Immortal Gu that would let him become a Gu Immortal, but he is not skilled at movement and cannot break through the formless fists himself. He has agreed to help Giant Sun’s will in exchange for such a Gu, the sole reason he has stayed at its side since the battle began. A choppy transmission sounds from above the wind veil. It is Hei Lou Lan’s own father, calling that he has come to bring his son home. The chapter names him Hei Cheng, Hei tribe’s supreme elder, and calls him the main character of the love story Su Xian’s Night Elopement. He is rank seven and cultivates the dark path, with ink colored eyes, a jade like face, and a handsome, carefree look. Floating in the air while holding some Gu worms, he calls out worriedly that he has already found the strength path Immortal Gu for his son. ^{ch. 637}

Hei Lou Lan snorts coldly, pretends not to hear his father, and grows only more hateful. He warns Fang Yuan that his patience is running out and demands the Gu worm at once, or he will kill Tai Bai Yun Sheng. Tai Bai Yun Sheng is Fang Yuan’s only reinforcement against Giant Sun’s will. Fang Yuan demands that Hei Lou Lan wake Tai Bai Yun Sheng and let him run a thousand steps away before he hands the Gu over. Hei Lou Lan refuses, insisting Fang Yuan pass the Gu to him first or he will crush Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s skull. Neither trusts the other, and with formless hands flying everywhere, releasing their Gu worms into the open at the same time is too dangerous for either side to risk. Fang Yuan sees that formless hands vanish once they capture a Gu worm and that their numbers keep dropping, meaning Giant Sun’s will would soon regain control, and both he and Hei Lou Lan grow anxious. ^{ch. 637}

Giant Sun’s will ranks exterminating the otherworldly demon above its own survival, so it ignores the passage overhead and coils instead around the luck path true inheritance, whose remaining Gu worms form that inheritance’s core. Watching the inheritance’s light shrink to a thin layer, Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun believe they are going to die. But the true inheritance suddenly bursts out in blinding light and carries the two of them up as a rainbow, charging for the opening in the wind veil, driven by a wild Gu’s will with a strong instinct for survival. Giant Sun’s will gives chase at once but cannot catch it. Seeing the inheritance about to escape, it finally abandons restraint and commits fully to exterminating the otherworldly demon Zhao Lian Yun, the primary objective Giant Sun Immortal Venerable set for it, since it cannot achieve both goals at once. It injects Giant Sun’s immortal essence into all its Immortal Gu, and the dragon of will shines with a dozen points of light that expand over three breaths, readying a powerful attack. ^{ch. 637}

Another true inheritance suddenly appears among the group of Gu worms, about the size of an adult, its thin light shifting color and forming a dense, giant halo. The halo crashes into the dragon of Giant Sun’s will, which rapidly expands and explodes with a sound like firecrackers as the halo tries to cut it in two at the waist. Giant Sun’s will howls in shock and anger, and the lethal attacks its dozen readied Immortal Gu were about to unleash are cancelled. Fang Yuan’s heart jumps as he recognizes it: the rank nine wisdom Gu. ^{ch. 637}

Fang Yuan recalls only three supreme true inheritances inside that domain. One was Eighty-Eight True Yang Building itself, already broken up by formless hands, which is why it collapsed back into Gu worms. Another was the luck path true inheritance that had fueled Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s glory and was now fleeing toward the opening. The last is this wisdom Gu, which Fang Yuan had seen once before inside the secluded domain, when only Mo Yao’s will’s warning saved him from nearly losing his life to its influence. ^{ch. 637}

The chapter records wisdom Gu inside The Legends of Ren Zu as extraordinary for reaching rank nine. It gives off a light of wisdom that burns through a basking lifeform’s lifespan rapidly as thoughts form, collide, and are destroyed at great speed, striking sparks of wisdom. Thinking itself works this way, countless thoughts created, destroyed, and colliding with each other to produce a result, which is the principle behind the wisdom path. The light pushes that process to its limit, cutting the time needed to think. This is wisdom Gu’s true effect. Fang Yuan reasons that wisdom Gu carries a wild will that has stayed hidden until now, its instinct to escape triggered by the broken wind veil, which is why it struck only after staying silent so long. ^{ch. 637}

Fang Yuan feels no shock that wisdom Gu dealt such damage, since a will is made of thoughts and wisdom path itself breaks into thought, will, and emotion. Under the light of wisdom those thoughts collide and are destroyed rapidly, and in a living person new thoughts would form to replace them. But Giant Sun Immortal Venerable is dead, and this is only a leftover will with no source of energy, like the formless hands, so no new thoughts formed and the dragon of will was easily snapped in two. Wisdom Gu, it could be said, directly counters Giant Sun’s will. He judges the advantage alone is not enough to bring Giant Sun’s will down, unless something more happens. Looking up, he sees as many as a hundred beads of immortal essence falling from the sky, skull sized, filled to the brim, and each with its aura concealed. They are rank nine yellow apricot immortal essence, which makes his own rank six green grape immortal essence pale by comparison, the essence Giant Sun Immortal Venerable left behind. ^{ch. 637}