Chapter 776

Fang Yuan wakes in Dang Hun palace, his red eyes ruthless with light. His guts Gu have already healed the heavy soul injury from Hei Lou Lan’s dream. Little Hu Immortal appears and reports on his time healing. ^{ch. 776}

Myriad Dragon Dock’s Vicious Lightning Fiend has left closed cultivation and challenged more than twenty Gu Immortals with the killer move Lightning Deity, losing once and drawing once. His soaring reputation now draws comparison to Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei. Shi Lei, a battle maniac, stays silent instead of answering it. Combat Immortal Sect has gone quiet, and the other nine sects are investigating in secret. ^{ch. 776}

Shi Lei discovered Starry Sky grotto-heaven, where Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s dream realm sits. Combat Immortal Sect must be attacking that grotto-heaven at full force. Fang Yuan once could only flee that dream realm, but now his killer move unravel dream is a weapon against it. ^{ch. 776}

Dream path exploration is still in its earliest stage, and dream path Immortal Gu could probably be counted on one hand, leaving his own killer move far ahead of those forces. Unraveling Hei Lou Lan’s dream let him absorb much of her own strength path understanding. Fang Yuan thinks unraveling Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s own dream realm would send his wisdom path attainment shooting up. But snatching it is nearly impossible. He would need to stand inside Starry Sky grotto-heaven, where he would certainly be discovered, and his side cannot match Combat Immortal Sect’s strength. Only Tang clan of Western Desert’s immortal killer move steal dream could lift that dream realm out of the grotto-heaven for him to devour at leisure. ^{ch. 776}

Central Continent, though slightly turbulent, stays peaceful for now. Dream path is too early a field for Combat Immortal Sect to exploit the realm even if it takes the grotto-heaven. ^{ch. 776}

Fang Yuan is more concerned with Northern Plains, where his huge crime is still investigated by a powerful party that traced his Sha Huang identity soon after the auction. The region is calmer than Central Continent, with almost every attendee assimilating their gains. Old Ancestor Xue Hu has mobilized Snowy Mountain’s full strength to refine a rank eight fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu, and Yao Huang has deepened his ties to Zombie Alliance, raising its standing rapidly. Qin Bai Sheng has vanished without trace, and Prince Feng Xian has made no move. ^{ch. 776}

This calm does not ease him. Once exposed, both regions would want him, Hei Lou Lan, and the others dead, and fleeing to Eastern Sea or Western Desert would buy him no peace either, since the huge stakes touch Giant Sun Immortal Venerable’s inheritance. Unable to tell which region is hunting him, he has no plan beyond continuing as before. His one comfort is his alliance with Fairy Li Shan, whose information network tracks change quickly. ^{ch. 776}

He reasons a rank eight Gu Immortal could protect himself, but catches himself: if his rank nine wisdom Gu ever leaked, even a rank eight might be attacked from every side. His most urgent task is to absorb his gains and raise his strength. ^{ch. 776}

Days later, Fang Yuan leaves the secret room unkempt but joyful and takes flight. His bat wings have reached three pairs, and true solid bat wings, built from an auction bat corpse, is finally complete. Mid-flight he unleashes Iron Crown Eagle Strength, crossing three li in an instant at a movement immortal killer move’s speed before it lapses and he slows again. He cannot summon it at will until all-out effort Gu, his second core Gu, reaches Immortal Gu rank. ^{ch. 776}

All-out effort Gu is still only rank four. Fang Yuan has the funds to advance it but not the recipe. Lang Ya land spirit holds recipes from rank one through five yet refuses to sell them, and offering a dream path mortal Gu recipe in trade failed too. It set him a mission instead, to enter immemorial purple heaven and gather petals from the rank six immortal material poisonous flowers. Fang Yuan has no time for it, since pressing threats force him to raise his strength and guard his identity. Immemorial purple heaven is already destroyed, its surviving fragments hard to find, extremely dangerous, and thick with very common desolate beasts and plants. ^{ch. 776}