Chapter 749

Unfettered Scholar waves Qin Bai Sheng off. He and Fairy Hong Xiu walk off to choose a room. More Gu Immortals follow, most into the main hall, some into single rooms, the rest unseen through secret channels. ^{ch. 749}

From the eleventh secret room, Tai Bai Yun Sheng judges Qin Bai Sheng as strong, respectful, and well connected. Fang Yuan disagrees that the credit is entirely Qin Bai Sheng’s own. Eighty-Eight True Yang Building’s collapse left Northern Plains Gu Immortals with Immortal Gu to trade and scattered luck path inheritance, while Imperial Court blessed land’s destruction forced every super force to set new rules. This timing let the auction grow huge, and let Qin Bai Sheng and Fairy Li Shan draw rank eight Gu Immortals beyond their own reputations. ^{ch. 749}

The hall grows louder as more arrive. Even old enemies set their grudges aside for this rare gathering. ^{ch. 749}

An old man enters, and Qin Bai Sheng hurries to greet him as Lord Yao Huang, one of Northern Plains’ five rank eight Gu Immortals. The hall rises too: one calls him a benefactor, another thanks him for a cure, and Xiao Si recalls a favor. Even Gu Immortals in single rooms come out. Yao Huang answers everyone amicably, without airs. ^{ch. 749}

Like Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Yao Huang is a healing Gu Immortal, righteous path, with pure Huang Jin bloodline, first supreme elder of Yao tribe, and the highest reputation of the five. Decades earlier, while developing a new healing Immortal Gu, he spent a century drawing immortal zombies from Zombie Alliance to experiment on, and eventually became one himself. He then tried to join Zombie Alliance in disguise, but with its leader, Blazing Heaven Demoness, gone to Eastern Sea and only Yin Liu Gong and two other rank sevens guarding headquarters, none saw through him. He could not force open the discussion hall’s door, so he dropped the disguise. The immortal zombies, unwilling to offend a man of his standing, sent him off courteously all the same. ^{ch. 749}

Yao Huang and Yin Liu Gong now greet each other by name, and Yao Huang credits Zombie Alliance’s timely help for keeping his research on schedule. He pulls Yin Liu Gong close. He asks Qin Bai Sheng for a single room, and the two enter it together. ^{ch. 749}

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu, Five Elements Grandmaster, and Old Ancestor Xue Hu arrive next, each stirring a huge commotion, and all three take single rooms. Of the five, Yao Huang and Prince Feng Xian are righteous, Old Ancestor Xue Hu leads the demonic path as Snowy Mountain’s master, and the last two are neutral. Prince Feng Xian is only an external supreme elder of Gong tribe, lacking its bloodline, and helps out only in a huge crisis. The hall, now forty to fifty strong, waits on him alone. ^{ch. 749}

A cold looking female Gu Immortal walks in silently: Feng Jiu Ge, disguised as Fairy You Lan. Speaking as Fairy You Lan, he announces that Prince Feng Xian is occupied and that he attends in his place, disappointing the hall. His killer move vaguely familiar face holds, and none here would use an investigative Gu without cause or suspect such daring. He takes a single room. ^{ch. 749}

Inside, like Fang Yuan, he opens the east window Gu and finds Worldly Wave Trace and Delight in Water and Mountain listed, the core Gu of his sect’s Immortal Gu House, Water Pavilion. He reasons that his sect’s saintess, Mo Yao, carried Water Pavilion into Imperial Court blessed land, and that its fall with Eighty-Eight True Yang Building scattered its core Gu among Northern Plains’ Gu Immortals. He also finds a calamity beckoning Immortal Gu for sale. Sect records say Mo Yao once refined one for her husband, Bo Qing, whose tribulation proved too great, and though it drew off part of that tribulation both died and the Gu with them, so a new one should not exist. Feng Jiu Ge wonders whether it ties to Mo Yao’s rumored inheritance. He resolves the trip was worth it, and means to reclaim Delight in Water and Mountain and Worldly Wave Trace for Spirit Affinity House. He holds off on the rank seven calamity beckoning Gu, whose exchange price is very high. ^{ch. 749}