Chapter 761

The bidding for Reverse Misfortune ends, and Five Elements Grandmaster wins it with a rank seven and a rank six metal path Immortal Gu, plus a quantity of immortal materials. Fang Yuan finds the loss regrettable: the Gu would have cured Spring Autumn Cicada’s bad luck flaw and turned it to good fortune, but even his Gu Immortal captives could not have matched its value. He gained Hu Immortal blessed land only two years ago. His wealth still trails Five Elements Grandmaster, Yao Huang and Feng Jiu Ge, who have accumulated wealth for countless years. ^{ch. 761}

Blessing in Disguise, a rank seven Immortal Gu, doubles the dao marks a tribulation grants. It also raises that tribulation’s danger by thirty to forty percent. Qin Bai Sheng opens the bidding at a rank seven metal path Immortal Gu, and Heavenly Lord Bai Zu wins Blessing in Disguise after a hard contest. Several more Immortal Gu from the luck path true inheritance sell in turn. Fang Yuan has no metal path Immortal Gu to offer. All fall instead to Yao Huang, Feng Jiu Ge and the other powerhouses. The prices set new records, pushing Fang Yuan’s own two sales out of the auction’s top ten. ^{ch. 761}

Qin Bai Sheng then brings out the final item: the unconscious Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun. He reveals that Zhao Lian Yun was present at the crucial battle inside Imperial Court blessed land. Though not the true heir, she gained a portion of the inheritance there. Ma Hong Yun is the sole recognized inheritor. He had the rank eight Fortune Rivalling Heaven used on him. Gu Immortals recognize Fortune Rivalling Heaven, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s trump card Gu, never recorded in history yet endlessly rumored. Hall talk takes it for a consumable that can be used only once. ^{ch. 761}

Qin Bai Sheng explains that only a rank eight luck inspection Immortal Gu can see Fortune Rivalling Heaven’s true appearance. Lower ranks, including his own rank six Gu, see only a portion, and that only because the target uses no concealment method. He has already searched both captives’ souls, and promises that soul searching whichever one a buyer purchases will reveal what happened inside Imperial Court blessed land and how large a portion of the true inheritance each absorbed. He reveals that the true inheritance omits Fortune Rivalling Heaven’s own recipe. A method exists, though, to reverse refine a used Fortune Rivalling Heaven into the original, using Ma Hong Yun as the refinement’s main material. ^{ch. 761}

Qin Bai Sheng sets no base price, and a Gu Immortal in the hall opens the bidding at three hundred immortal essence stones. Feng Jiu Ge multiplies it a hundredfold to thirty thousand. Several powerhouses, Yao Huang among them, keep bidding, and the price skyrockets. The inheritance information and the reverse refinement tempt Fang Yuan, though as the Imperial Court incident’s main culprit he already knows most of its inner details. He could contest only by staking all his Gu Immortal captives, and he will not. Fortune Rivalling Heaven is rank eight against his rank six. His finances could not support refining it, and even success would leave him unable to keep it. ^{ch. 761}

The bidding runs for much of an hour and ends at the auction’s two highest prices. Feng Jiu Ge wins the second highest, taking Zhao Lian Yun. Old Ancestor Xue Hu, leader of Snowy Mountain blessed land and the demonic path’s foremost figure, wins Ma Hong Yun, having concealed his wealth through the whole auction before delivering one heavy bid at the end. Yao Huang, having spent heavily elsewhere, loses him in the final moment. Huang Jin bloodline Gu Immortals console themselves that Zhao Lian Yun remains with Northern Plains’ righteous path, not knowing that Swordmaster You Lan, representing Prince Feng Xian, is Feng Jiu Ge in disguise. ^{ch. 761}

Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had kept the luck path true inheritance a guarded secret through his life, meaning to pass it whole to his own descendants. Instead it ends up incomplete and scattered across the world. Its most important inheritors land in hands outside the Huang Jin bloodline entirely. ^{ch. 761}