Chapter 775

In Western Desert, Tang Miao wakes with a jolt and spits blood. Her face is pale with despair at another failed dream realm exploration. Her soul is heavily injured, and she weeps that even searching deep inside the dream, she still could not find her brother. ^{ch. 775}

Tang clan’s Gu Immortals hurry in. First supreme elder Tang Yang says he did not expect that borrowing Xiao tribe’s rank seven emotion Gu at huge cost would still end in heavy loss. Tang Lan adds that this dream realm belongs to Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable himself. ^{ch. 775}

Tang clan stumbled onto Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable’s dream realm by accident years ago. Tang Fang Ming took on the mission to explore it, suffered a heavy loss, and remains lost inside the dream realm now. Tang Miao has tried many times and failed. This was her worst loss yet. She explains that the borrowed emotion Gu suppressed her emotions, keeping her an outsider unable to discover her brother’s identity. ^{ch. 775}

An elder adds that dream path Gu are needed for this work. Yet in sixty years Tang clan has created just over a dozen, all rank three or below and more than half of extremely limited use. Such pioneering needs a rare creative gift, and only Tang Fang Ming had it: most of the clan’s dream mortal Gu are his own creation. ^{ch. 775}

With Tang Fang Ming trapped inside the dream realm, the clan’s research has stalled. His body remains intact, but his soul left it for the dream and will weaken until he dies. Tang Miao asks how her brother fares. Guts Gu, the one thing that can still save him, have nearly vanished from the market. ^{ch. 775}

The elder explains that guts Gu has only one seller, who holds a monopoly and recently stopped supplying it for no known reason, so the market is drying out. Tang Miao asks why the seller has stopped. First supreme elder answers that they offered huge profits and got no response, and the guts Gu bought at great cost to keep Tang Fang Ming alive has nearly run out. Tang Miao’s heart sinks. ^{ch. 775}

Ordinary soul strengthening methods, used before guts Gu appeared in treasure yellow heaven, can no longer keep up with his weakening. Without guts Gu, Tang Fang Ming will die inside his dream. Furious, Tang Miao blames the elders for giving him the mission. Third supreme elder retorts, citing the clan’s years of effort to preserve his life, but first supreme elder silences him. ^{ch. 775}

Tang Fang Ming and Tang Miao share a close bond. Stripped of status and abandoned as children, they survived hardship until fortune made him a Gu Immortal and her a rank five peak stage Gu Master. They returned to Tang clan seeking revenge, and the clan bought him back by sacrificing mortal higher ups, since one Gu Immortal outweighs any number of mortal lives. He accepted the clan’s terms and helped raise his sister to Gu Immortal in turn, though she still carries hidden resentment against Tang clan. ^{ch. 775}

First supreme elder says he spent three days and nights with the elders and found three ways to help Tang Fang Ming. Best is to kill an ancient soul beast and fuse its soul into his body, nourishing his soul. Second is to use the clan’s blood path Immortal Gu to sense and forcibly retrieve his soul. Worst is to seek help from the lone cultivator White Sea Shatuo. ^{ch. 775}

Tang Miao sends the elders away to think. Alone, she laughs coldly through her tears. Even success with the first method would leave her brother’s soul fused with a beast’s. The second has under thirty percent odds, and even without failure the returned soul would be badly damaged and might not know her. The third holds some hope: White Sea Shatuo has extraordinary dream path skill her brother praised many times in private, though his price would be huge. She reads their reluctance as fear of losing the Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable inheritance the siblings hold, since only that inheritance can move him. Wiping her tears, Tang Miao resolves to save her brother even if it costs that inheritance. ^{ch. 775}