Chapter 677

Hei Cheng floats above Hei Lou Lan, calling her his daughter. He admits holding the yin-yang life extension method, insists it cannot harm lives, and says her mother truly died of an earthly calamity. Hei Lou Lan does not believe him, calls him a scoundrel, and dares him to show the yin-yang life extension method if it truly cannot harm lives, adding that Xue Song Zi beside him would also be very interested to see it. Xue Song Zi, a demonic path Gu Immortal who controls the seventh peak of Snowy Mountain blessed land, once sponsored Ma tribe, and Hei tribe has heavily suppressed him ever since Ma tribe lost the Imperial Court contest. Hei Lou Lan had earlier exposed Hei Cheng’s secret, that he harmed Su Xian Er, hoping to use Xue Song Zi to ruin her father’s reputation. Xue Song Zi used it instead to blackmail Hei Cheng, and the two formed an outwardly united, secretly divided alliance, Xue Song Zi’s price the yin-yang life extension method. ^{ch. 677}

Bathed in blood in her true form, armor broken, Hei Lou Lan spits blood at her father’s words and mocks him for bringing a demonic path Gu Immortal to coerce his own daughter. Hei Cheng stays unmoved, reminding her that the Great Strength True Martial Physique makes becoming a Gu Immortal ten times harder for her, and that without his help she cannot manage it. She threatens to self-detonate rather than be used, ready to ruin his plans entirely. Dying would end any hope of avenging her mother, Hei Cheng answers. One of the ten extreme physiques lets her bully some bottom-tier rank six Gu Immortals, he says, but killing a rank seven like him is delusional. Privately he is uneasy, since he cannot capture her or stop a self-detonation, and harming his own daughter must stay secret. He has come with only Xue Song Zi, an ally he does not trust, when his standing could otherwise command at least five or six Gu Immortals. ^{ch. 677}

A jade green light bursts beside Hei Lou Lan, and Fang Yuan appears in his hair armor, six meters tall, eight armed, green faced and red eyed. Hei Lou Lan’s face brightens at her reinforcement, while Xue Song Zi demands to know who he is. Fang Yuan answers in a hoarse voice that he is the one who will kill them, and quietly tells Hei Lou Lan to enter his aperture. Hei Cheng reacts faster than the furious Xue Song Zi, ordering an immediate attack before Fixed Immortal Travel, which needs three breaths, can carry the pair away. Hei Lou Lan enters Fang Yuan’s aperture as they speak. ^{ch. 677}

Xue Song Zi hurls icy wind blade wheel, a carriage sized ice disc trailing frost that Fang Yuan judges worth at least three immortal essence stones. Fang Yuan evades it with light illusion bat wings. The wheel carves a deep trench, ice forming rock hard along its edges. Hei Cheng’s own attack is already in flight, a small black arrow from his Immortal Gu Dark Arrow that homes in and changes direction, fast enough that bat wings alone cannot shake it. ^{ch. 677}

Hair armor is only a mortal killer move that Dark Arrow can pierce in one hit, ignoring the body and heart that no longer matter to a zombie and aiming only for the brain, the one part whose loss would still end him. With no time to spare the three breaths Fixed Immortal Travel needs, Fang Yuan keeps dodging as the many mortal Gu making up his bat wings wear down. Hei Cheng laughs, calls it over, and looses a second dark arrow, boasting that his merely rank six Immortal Gu can fire three at most, and that forcing him to use two should be Fang Yuan’s honor. Fang Yuan answers only that he was toying with them. He spends green grape immortal essence to activate the Immortal Gu Worldly Wave Trace. A huge wave rises beneath his feet and carries him farther from both arrows at once than his hundred and more uses of bat wings ever had. ^{ch. 677}