Chapter 766

Qin Bai Sheng dismisses the claim that one move will beat him. He boasts of a record spanning hundreds of years, claiming only Northern Plains’ five rank eight Gu Immortals could defeat him easily, that even they would struggle to kill him, and that very few rank seven Gu Immortals rival him. Feng Jiu Ge’s own words are the arrogant ones, and the Central Continent Gu Immortals around him grow worried. Feng Jiu Ge explains a youth’s vow to compose nine songs, six now finished; if Qin Bai Sheng can hear this one through, Feng Jiu Ge will concede and let him go. Sensing an immense threat beneath the calm offer, Qin Bai Sheng asks his name, recognizes him as first among Central Continent’s ten great ancient sects, and, since both are rank seven, doubts his claim to strongest. Naming the coming attack green jade song, Feng Jiu Ge watches the Central Continent Gu Immortals clear space as Qin Bai Sheng calls him to come. ^{ch. 766}

Fairy Li Shan thanks Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng. At Snowy Mountain’s third branch peak, she calls their narrow escape fortunate, saying even she could not have protected Hei Lou Lan had Old Ancestor Xue Hu found out. Hei Lou Lan was crucial to the collapse of True Yang Building, more important than Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun, and her discovery would bring the whole Gu Immortal world down on her. Hei Lou Lan’s exposure would implicate Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng as well. ^{ch. 766}

Fairy Li Shan asks if Hei Lou Lan can be saved. Tai Bai Yun Sheng defers to Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan calls it difficult. The dream calamity targets Hei Lou Lan, Fairy Li Shan was only pulled in by touching her, and killing Hei Lou Lan inside the dream realm would not wake her. Fairy Li Shan reads difficult as not impossible and asks if he has a plan. ^{ch. 766}

Fang Yuan reveals a Gu he won at the auction. It can be shaped into a dream path killer move able to solve the danger, though the core Gu alone will need many supporting mortal Gu. Fairy Li Shan offers to supply materials, but Fang Yuan explains dream path materials can only come from inside one’s own dream, so refining them needs him personally. Other forces guard this same knowledge closely as their most prized research. Trusting him under the Snowy Mountain Alliance, Fairy Li Shan still reassesses him, concluding such solutions cannot come from a mere lone cultivator. ^{ch. 766}

Fang Yuan asks what compensation he will get for saving them both; Fairy Li Shan offers immortal essence stones, Immortal Gu recipes or immortal materials, whatever he wants. He instead names both of Hei Lou Lan’s Self Strength Gu and Strength Qi Gu, framing them as fair payment for two lives saved. Fairy Li Shan calls it a little too harsh. Fang Yuan withdraws the demand, vows he can surely save Hei Lou Lan within three to five years, and starts to leave, breaking no rule since their agreement bars either side from forcing the other and compensation is still unsettled. ^{ch. 766}

Fairy Li Shan, with a huge headache, calls him back. She protests that the two Gu are not hers and that she can promise nothing. Fang Yuan agrees the demand was overboard, drops it, but warns refining will take long preparation, during which discovery would be dangerous. Tai Bai Yun Sheng adds that their alliance has only about two years left before Hei Lou Lan must wake. Cornered, with Hei Cheng silent about the secret for his own reasons and no major force willing to share its research, Fairy Li Shan relents. She agrees to two Immortal Gu, but Fang Yuan may pick only one of Self Strength or Strength Qi, with her supplying the other. Fang Yuan agrees to her terms, judging that pressing further would wreck the goodwill he had built with them, and adds with a smile that he has always been interested in her mountain pledge Gu. ^{ch. 766}