Chapter 787

Since the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building’s collapse and Imperial Court blessed land’s destruction, Northern Plains hunts for the culprit. Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han join to slander Fang Yuan as an outsider. Fang Yuan turns the accusation back on them, naming himself a true Northern Plains Gu Immortal. ^{ch. 787}

Fang Yuan is the true culprit, though he sounds innocent. Scholar and Pi Shui Han’s slander, not meant as fact, lands on the truth anyway. Beaten in the war of words, the two attack harder instead. ^{ch. 787}

Struck by two rank sevens at once, Fang Yuan barely holds on, a rank six immortal zombie borrowing rank seven strength from myriad self against a huge gap in cultivation. Fairy Li Shan offers a rare wood path trump card. Fang Yuan declines for now, since his slow giant hands leave little hope of trapping either, and asks her to wait. ^{ch. 787}

As the two close in, Fang Yuan slams six giant hands down together. Both dodge as expected. But he drives the hands into the ground instead, a shift that catches everyone off guard, even Dong Fang Chang Fan’s star will below. ^{ch. 787}

The blow shatters the space path dao marks hiding Dong Fang Chang Fan’s arrangements, and the immemorial ruin bat corpse’s true form lies exposed. A deep wound on its back opens onto a small space that holds a run down hall. Fang Yuan’s hands break into this space. The demonic path Gu Immortals rush to reach the inheritance first. ^{ch. 787}

Pi Shui Han gives up on Fang Yuan and flies into the tunnel. Unfettered Scholar, after one long look at Fang Yuan, follows. ^{ch. 787}

New phantom beasts burst from the small space, throwing every demonic path Immortal into chaos. Old Lord Can Yang, shocked, burns Tan Wu Feng and Dong Po Kong to charcoal. The two die instantly. Dong Fang Yu Liang spits blood and drops to his knees, shouting in fury that Can Yang has killed his men and still dares attack him. Can Yang sneers that he did nothing, testing whether the star will’s methods are real. ^{ch. 787}

The star will sighs and calls everyone out. A mysterious light bursts inside the hall, and eight Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals appear surrounding Can Yang. They declare his death has come and demand to know who informed him. Panicked, Can Yang understands this was a plot against him. ^{ch. 787}

The star will confirms it: its main body, before dying, taught Dong Fang Wan Xiu the method that revealed the teleportation formation’s secret passage. Wan Xiu shared it with the seven Immortals. They ran into Chang Fan’s arrangements and were kept busy fighting desolate beasts. But the tribe’s true traitor, stalled the same way, leaked the passage to Can Yang instead. The traitor, the star will adds, stands among these eight. ^{ch. 787}

Dong Fang Wan Xiu screams for the traitor to name himself. Dong Fang Yi Kong warns that the clues already point to him. The eight are only rank six against Can Yang’s true rank seven, wary of each other instead of striking together. ^{ch. 787}

Can Yang asks why the star will waited to spring its trap. He gets only silence. He works it out himself: the star will meant to use Can Yang’s own strength against the demonic path Immortals outside. It would have let Dong Fang Yu Liang fail so Can Yang would draw every rival’s hostility, while the tribe profited as both sides wore each other down. He calls it a fine scheme, grudgingly. The star will admits his guess is right, blaming the early exposure on Fang Yuan’s six giant hands. ^{ch. 787}

Dong Fang Yu Liang stands stunned, torn between joy that the tribe stood ready and sorrow that his own hard work, and his men’s deaths, were only bait. The star will tells him not to dwell on it. The inheritance is real, since only a genuine one leaves no flaw for their true enemy, who carries a great background in Immortal Crane Sect. Shame for doubting his teacher mixes with admiration in Dong Fang Yu Liang. Grasping how strong this enemy is leaves him more ashamed of himself than ever. ^{ch. 787}