Chapter 698

He Feng Yang still argues to keep Old Lord Can Yang, since it affects who owns Dang Hun Mountain. First supreme elder answers that Feng Jiu Ge, the publicly recognized strongest fighter of all ten sects, leads the expedition and cannot be refused without justification. He Feng Yang’s expression turns dark, and Lei Tan smiles without hiding his satisfaction. ^{ch. 698}

Reading on, He Feng Yang’s expression freezes. Feng Jiu Ge is lending him his own one’s own way Immortal Gu, raised to rank seven, with no limit on uses though it costs far more essence. The other Gu Immortals recall that He Feng Yang’s own copy had only one use left. ^{ch. 698}

Lady Sang Xin adds that with the Gu they will not be suppressed by the blessed land. They can also use mortal Gu freely. Second supreme elder reads the scheme plainly: lending the Gu earns Spirit Affinity House a share if Immortal Crane Sect succeeds, while taking Old Lord Can Yang weakens their odds. ^{ch. 698}

Third supreme elder Lord Tiger Demon smashes his wine bowl in anger. He curses the other nine sects’ repeated secret obstruction. He orders He Feng Yang to succeed this time, leave them no opening, and force them to beg for a share of the guts Gu trade. He Feng Yang bows, and the Gu Immortals spend a day and a night deciding the sect’s course for the coming months. ^{ch. 698}

Two days later, Fang Zheng opens the stone door into the blood pool, and in his aperture the spirit incubating flea carries Lord Sky Crane’s voice, telling him this is the moment to avenge his clansmen and serve the sect. Fang Zheng vows to succeed. He wades into the boiling blood until it submerges half his body, and activates iron blood Gu, which darkens and thickens his blood and skin. He then activates blood blade Gu while maintaining iron blood Gu: hundreds of iron-blood blades tear from his body, opening hundreds of molten-iron cuts. He grits his teeth and enters the crucial step, activating blood merge Gu. ^{ch. 698}

At Tian Ti mountain, two Gu Immortals arrive, both from Immortal Crane Sect. They are He Feng Yang, the rank six Winged Crane Flying Immortal, and Fairy Cang Yu. Neither has hidden their approach, since the coming commotion could not be hidden anyway, and the other nine sects are already watching to gather information. ^{ch. 698}

He Feng Yang praises Fairy Cang Yu’s investigative killer move micro sense, and she credits it to a fortuitous encounter in the reincarnation battlefield. He scatters about ten thousand mortal Gu to finish preparing. He offers her space on his white cloud cushion Gu; she declines, growing a bed of peach blossoms instead. ^{ch. 698}

At the same time in Fu Hu blessed land, Fang Zheng reaches his last step and activates failed blood demon flower Gu, turning his flesh and blood into soil and nutrients as vines coil from his skin. The pain overwhelms even iron blood Gu, and Lord Sky Crane orders cold blood Gu, which cools his blood and keeps him from being cooked alive. Lord Sky Crane then orders blood sense Gu, a rank five blood path investigative Gu that senses shared bloodline more clearly the closer and thicker the tie. Fang Zheng senses nothing at all. ^{ch. 698}

Lord Sky Crane is baffled, since the brothers’ shared blood and failed blood demon flower Gu should sharpen the effect. He has Fang Zheng reach for the hole earth Gu inside the blood pool, hoping its link to the blessed land could help him sense Fang Yuan. This brings little effect. Neither knows Fang Yuan has become an immortal zombie, his blood changed to cold jade green zombie blood, which makes him far harder to sense. Lord Sky Crane grows frantic, since Fang Zheng’s endurance has a limit from past training, and ninety percent of that time has already passed. ^{ch. 698}

He weighs their last resort. Blood path Gu worms He Feng Yang secretly placed in Fang Zheng’s body, with others in the pool, form a trump card meant to prevent any accident. But it would cost Fang Zheng his mind, burning through his soul and flesh, with an extremely high chance of death. ^{ch. 698}