Chapter 756

The cauldron strength Immortal Gu’s seller now demands a wisdom path inheritance. Neither Chu Du nor Feng Jiu Ge holds one, and Fang Yuan’s own inheritance is badly incomplete. The hall falls quiet until the seller, anxious, softens the demand through Qin Bai Sheng: an incomplete inheritance will do, though a more complete one is still better. Fang Yuan laughs and bids his incomplete inheritance at once. ^{ch. 756}

Chu Du has no inheritance, incomplete or otherwise. He can only pin his hope on Swordmaster You Lan, backed by Prince Feng Xian with an incredible foundation likely to hold one. Feng Jiu Ge carries none himself and laughs bitterly. Through hole earth Gu he reaches the other nine Central Continent Gu Immortals, who lurk near crimson reed marsh waiting to reinforce him. Two answer that they have one: Ancient Soul Sect’s Old Oracle, a wisdom path Gu Immortal, and Myriad Dragon Dock’s Chen Zhen Chi, a flying grandmaster. Feng Jiu Ge, overjoyed, settles accounts with Chen Zhen Chi and buys the inheritance from him. ^{ch. 756}

Getting it, Feng Jiu Ge hesitates: he had claimed to want only the silver, and handing it over now would raise suspicion. Before he risks it, Chu Du withdraws first, saying he has no inheritance. Feng Jiu Ge is stunned but understands at once. Chu Du judged his tie to Swordmaster You Lan too shallow to earn so large a favor for three hundred kilograms of true heaven silver, and knew Fang Yuan’s offer left him no room to stall. Feng Jiu Ge consoles himself that the free transaction period still lies ahead even if delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu changes hands. The contest for cauldron strength Immortal Gu now looks settled, Fang Yuan’s incomplete inheritance carrying the day. ^{ch. 756}

Before Qin Bai Sheng can announce it, a third bidder interrupts. The eleventh secret room offers a wisdom path Immortal Gu, an incomplete inheritance, and immortal materials to match. Tai Bai Yun Sheng is confused, having just received a transmission from Fang Yuan asking him to make exactly this bid. Since the seller can choose only one winner, Fang Yuan has broken no rule. Fang Yuan keeps bidding against him round after round, while Tai Bai Yun Sheng pieces together mismatched materials and hesitates before each bid to look uncertain. ^{ch. 756}

Tai Bai Yun Sheng then receives a letter, like the one sent to Chu Du, offering to fund him in exchange for one of his materials. He secretly reports the funder to Fang Yuan: Swordmaster You Lan. Fang Yuan reasons that she likely funded Chu Du as well, and that neither payment was about the materials but about keeping delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu from the cauldron strength seller, who would then keep rather than resell it. He recalls Swordmaster You Lan’s earlier fortune, two strength path Immortal Gu, spent to win Worldly Wave Trace. He concludes the rank seven Immortal Gu house, Water Pavilion, lies behind it all. ^{ch. 756}

Fang Yuan recalls his previous life. During the five regions chaotic war, a Spirit Affinity House supreme elder swayed Prince Feng Xian into defecting. The betrayal nearly killed Ma Hong Yun, then a rank seven Gu Immortal. It cost Northern Plains large numbers of Gu Immortals and countless territories, while Spirit Affinity House rose to first among the ten great ancient sects. Prince Feng Xian had all along been its tool. Feng Jiu Ge’s vaguely familiar face let him carry out the ten great ancient sects’ secret mission into Northern Plains undetected, every trace erased by wisdom path Gu Immortals. Yet his use of the Fairy You Lan identity has instead handed Fang Yuan the important secret Spirit Affinity House was hiding. ^{ch. 756}