Chapter 788

Dong Fang Chang Fan’s star will orders Dong Fang Yu Liang to finish the Gu formation. It tells Old Lord Can Yang he will die today. Can Yang answers arrogantly that a mere will and its rank six Gu Immortals cannot take his life, since his ally sits among them and outside forces will not be held off by phantom beasts for long. His warning strikes Dong Fang tribe’s true weakness, why it has not attacked despite outnumbering him. ^{ch. 788}

The star will recalls Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s precedent: deducing matters over a million years after death, once repelling three future Demon Venerables. Though far inferior, Chang Fan claims he can somewhat deduce within a hundred years of his demise, and calls this arrangement one of his trump cards. An illusory Gu formation appears, dwarfing the one Yu Liang is completing. Can Yang’s expression turns ugly: a phantom formation, he realizes, astonished at Chang Fan’s attainment in phantom path. ^{ch. 788}

A phantom formation turns every worm in it phantom without weakening its effect, unlike an ordinary Gu formation, whose solid worms are easily destroyed once exposed. Phantom beasts outside hold off attacks the same way. The star will displays the formation openly, unafraid since it too has turned phantom, and Can Yang can only watch it activate as blinding light fills the hall. ^{ch. 788}

Can Yang laughs and charges to kill everyone, but his fire, once fast, now crawls like a snail. He realizes the slowness is not his own. An unseen change has condensed the space before him, so what looks like tens of steps is actually vast. The star will explains he spent decades shifting most of the corpse’s space path dao marks here, so the true distance is enormous. ^{ch. 788}

The star will reveals more: the formation uses his wisdom path Immortal Gu as its core and a blood path Immortal Gu as support, and its overwhelming power can kill Can Yang and slaughter every demonic path Gu Immortal in the sky. After the battle the formation may move to their blessed land, under Yu Liang’s control if he inherits. The tribe grows excited while Can Yang cannot hide his suspicion. ^{ch. 788}

Dong Fang Yi Kong protests. The tribe still harbors a traitor no vigilance can guard against. The star will admits the formation’s price: it draws on the immortal aperture origin core of the Gu Immortals inside, the foundation of the aperture. Losing it shrinks the aperture, kills the life within, and weakens the Gu Immortal against disasters. ^{ch. 788}

Shaken, the tribe wavers until Dong Fang Wan Xiu volunteers the sacrifice for the tribe’s sake, and Dong Fang Yi Kong joins him at once. The star will warns that once inside, none can move or leave, their lives in its control, though anyone unwilling may still step out. Wan Xiu challenges the traitor to reveal themselves now rather than later. When no one steps forward, he bitterly concedes his admiration for how deeply the traitor has hidden, and all enter. ^{ch. 788}

The phantom formation holds eight core points, one for each Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortal, and it begins drawing a suction force from their trembling apertures. They open their apertures, and a faint blood light surfaces as the eight origin cores fuse into one through their shared bloodline. Wan Xiu searches their faces for a flaw but finds none. The Gu Immortals cheer as the fused cores gather into a force like a slumbering beast, so vast the surrounding air ripples. The star will holds it back, watching the sky where the phantom beasts have nearly all been killed, and waits for the moment to strike. ^{ch. 788}

Yu Liang shouts that he has completed the Gu formation. The star will, pleased, tells him to enter too and stand at its center, promising the coming battle will show him a Gu Immortal’s power before he ascends himself. Moved to tears, Yu Liang leaps up and floats at the formation’s core. ^{ch. 788}

In the sky, Fang Yuan finds a clear opening past Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han and dives down, seven of his eight giant hands committing to the strike. The star will judges the moment has come. Old Lord Can Yang flies up and blocks Fang Yuan’s attack, forcing him back and stunning the watching tribe. The star will laughs in triumph, and Dong Fang Chang Fan’s soul surges into the formation’s center to possess Yu Liang’s body. Can Yang laughs maniacally: the true traitor in Dong Fang tribe has been their beloved Lord Chang Fan all along. ^{ch. 788}