Chapter 783

Fang Yuan’s giant hand shocks the watching Gu Immortals. The immortal killer move myriad self fuses enslavement path with strength path, breaking from tradition, born when Fang Yuan took a near death risk with the rank nine wisdom Gu’s unlimited inspiration. Self strength Immortal Gu lets him summon giant hand, itself a giant strength path phantom’s hand. Hei Lou Lan once controlled self strength Immortal Gu, and Fang Yuan later saved her with the killer move unravel dream and gained her strength path true meaning, the final catalyst behind giant hand. Group strength Gu carries the phantom army’s power into Fang Yuan’s own body, so here enslavement path supports strength path rather than the reverse. ^{ch. 783}

Fang Yuan chooses giant hand over releasing his phantom army, since those phantoms wear his face and his identity is already exposed to some degree since the auction. Giant hand carries incredible power without revealing who he is. The fist keeps punching Zhuo Zhan, who retreats, while Thunder Shuttle Immortal Gu breaks free and flies back to Divine Lord Tian Du. After one hit, Fang Yuan stops, and within a few breaths the giant hand vanishes. ^{ch. 783}

The attack tears at his right arm. Channeling twenty thousand phantoms’ worth of strength strains even his immortal zombie body. He reflects that giant hand still has room to grow, but that his body has already reached its limit. His zombie body’s recovery heals the arm completely within a short time. ^{ch. 783}

The surrounding Gu Immortals keep their distance, wary of what they saw. Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan, hooded, stay wary even as allies. Hei Lou Lan feels a slight dejection, sensing that giant hand carries a hint of her own killer move’s design. ^{ch. 783}

Unfettered Scholar praises the move to Fang Yuan as an impressive immortal killer move. Lu Qing Ming and the others, returned from killing the ruin bat, call this true battle strength reaching rank seven. Pi Shui Han and others guess at Fang Yuan’s identity but rule out Domination Immortal Chu Du, the one such strength path expert known in Northern Plains, since Chu Du would never hide his identity this way. Unfettered Scholar drives Tian Du back and grabs at Thunder Shuttle, but Tian Du retrieves it and gives up on him, since even Fang Yuan is now a tough opponent and the Traveling Three Elites have returned. ^{ch. 783}

Fang Yuan retracts giant hand and walks back beside Hei Lou Lan, behind Fairy Li Shan, head low and silent, as though he has done nothing worth notice. The other Gu Immortals find this far more terrifying than giant hand. They guess Hei Lou Lan beside him could match his strength, and take Fairy Li Shan, walking in front like a leader, for stronger still. Nobody stops the three as they search the Gu formation for clues, since the wisdom path inheritance is still unfound and their earlier clashes were only probing. ^{ch. 783}

After a few breaths the three gasp at the teleportation Gu formation. Hei Lou Lan calls the formation truly worthy of Chang Fan, left behind to mislead them, and Fang Yuan adds that its clues point toward the right direction, though finding Dong Fang Yu Liang still comes down to luck. When another Gu Immortal asks what he means, the three give no answer and vanish rapidly in three directions. ^{ch. 783}

Unfettered Scholar lands and confirms their words were no lie. Chang Fan never meant to destroy the formation, since it can only teleport mortals, and destroying it would only let experts read clues from its remains instead. So he left many trails hiding the true route, forcing the Gu Immortals to split up and easing pressure on whoever finds Dong Fang Yu Liang. ^{ch. 783}

Fang Yuan’s group had already chosen the three most likely directions. Unfettered Scholar picked a fourth. The remaining Gu Immortals take their own clues and depart, until only Dong Fang tribe’s Gu Immortals remain, remarking on how crafty their rivals are and deciding to look over the clues themselves. ^{ch. 783}