Chapter 659

Hei Lou Lan tells Fang Yuan that Dong Fang Chang Fan’s recent deductions for the super tribes revealed much about him too. Northern plains now knows Fang Yuan is no local Gu Master, and that some local Gu Master colludes with him. Tai Bai Yun Sheng, frightened, marvels that Chang Fan deduced so much. ^{ch. 659}

Hei Lou Lan presses further: their lives are now tied, and if she dies she may expose them both. She asks whether wisdom Gu is truly in his hands. Fang Yuan calmly laughs it off, saying wisdom Gu was destroyed in the wind veil of assimilation. Unconvinced, Hei Lou Lan warns that spreading word wisdom Gu is with him, true or not, would leave him nowhere to hide from the world’s Gu Immortals. ^{ch. 659}

Fang Yuan calls this a threat; Tai Bai Yun Sheng warns the land spirit could kill her here at their word. Hei Lou Lan laughs it off: she arranged that if she fails to return within three days, all of northern plains learns they caused True Yang Building’s collapse and the whole world learns wisdom Gu is with them. Fang Yuan’s eerie question stops her laughter: has she forgotten her own hatred? Her aura dims as she asks him to state his conditions. ^{ch. 659}

Fang Yuan sets three conditions. She must return Fixed Immortal Travel to him, its rightful owner. During her revenge, loot splits four to six, her share against their two Gu Immortals’ six. And she must tell him the whole story behind needing to kill her own father. Hei Lou Lan, despite her tough personality, gives in and accepts all three. ^{ch. 659}

Fang Yuan learns the root of her revenge: Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, where a true inheritance called the yin-yang life extension method, created by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, had long been taken by Hei Cheng. It works only between a male and female Gu Immortal, transferring lifespan from one to the other through copulation. Two hundred years ago, in the legend of Su Xian’s Night Elopement, Su Xian Er, a low-status daughter of Su tribe, fell for Hei Cheng at first sight while pouring his wine. After her own tribe’s leader poisoned him and enemies hunted him, she risked an extremely dangerous night alone, at only rank one, to save him, and found him by chance. Moved, Hei Cheng vowed she would be his only wife. They became a couple and both reached Gu Immortal a century later, though Su tribe was later exterminated, and Su Xian Er was never his first wife nor his last. ^{ch. 659}

They had a daughter, Hei Lou Lan, and years later Su Xian Er died. Hei Cheng, extremely aggrieved, announced publicly that her body had deteriorated after childbirth and that she fell heavily ill and died in her blessed land’s earthly calamity. The truth, Hei Lou Lan reveals, is that he kept the method secret and lied to her mother, who trusted and cooperated without knowing the details, and took almost all her lifespan. After her death he concealed it, kept his righteous standing, and absorbed her aperture and every Gu worm she had gathered. Her mother saw through him before dying and warned her. His own cultivation problem now burns through the lifespan he took, and he faces another crisis of dwindling lifespan. His target this time is her, since her Great Strength True Martial Physique would make her foundations extremely firm as a Gu Immortal, yielding him more lifespan for less waste. ^{ch. 659}

Tai Bai Yun Sheng is disappointed to learn Hei Cheng is such a man. Fang Yuan realizes this explains why she never answered Hei Cheng’s earlier call. He sees her differently now. Born to apparent privilege, she is truly a tragedy: her own father harmed her mother and now hunts her too. Lacking family warmth and living under threat for years, she disguised herself while secretly putting in immense effort, swearing revenge for her mother, which likely forged such a formidable personality. ^{ch. 659}

Fang Yuan reflects that high achievers often sacrifice their morals to rise, thinking of Earth and his own five hundred years of previous life. He recalls the legend of Ren Zu. When Ren Zu first walked the road of life, his vision turned to pure darkness, and his first step landed him in extremely smelly mud that fouled his foot. Hesitant to go on, he hears self Gu tell him not to fear dirtiness if he means to walk his own road. ^{ch. 659}