Chapter 789

Wan Xiu, Yi Kong and the rest react with disbelief. This cannot be Chang Fan, they warn, likely an illusion, since the enemy cannot break the formation. Can Yang scoffs that confusing them is pointless when they are already helpless. Everyone turns to the star will, demanding it explain itself. ^{ch. 789}

The star will only chuckles, at leisure. The phantom formation transforms again: blood colored light surges out, forming a thick veil over the ruin bat’s corpse. Wan Xiu and the rest realize the formation, thought built for attack, was in truth built to defend. ^{ch. 789}

Wan Xiu demands why. Can Yang sneers that survival comes first, since anyone offered a sliver of hope to live would take it. He asks whether this possession technique truly needs Gu Immortals sacrificed every time, which would make it too costly to spread widely. ^{ch. 789}

The star will assures him the technique lets one possess mortals and even weaker Gu Immortals. After possession the aperture becomes the target’s own, unfitting and disadvantageous. So alive, with no suitable target, he spent years building this formation instead, letting him possess a mortal while drawing on same-bloodline origin cores to forge a new wisdom path immortal aperture and become immortal. ^{ch. 789}

Sizing him up, Can Yang notes that Chang Fan now shows blood path skill too. With eight sacrificing themselves, the star will presses, he will gain abundant resources. His newly formed aperture, he adds, will be the best within high grade. ^{ch. 789}

Can Yang laughs: the star will planned well, wanting him to guard it against its coming tribulation. The star will, unashamed at its scheme exposed, says gaining anything costs something, and asks for his decision. Can Yang snickers, but inwardly admires how decisively Chang Fan gives things up. ^{ch. 789}

Chang Fan had obtained the possession technique from Eighty-Eight True Yang Building’s secluded domain, and later, among the tribe’s higher ups, uncovered Immortal Crane Sect’s infiltration. He did not expose it. Instead he traded pieces of the technique for the sect’s resources. ^{ch. 789}

Lifespan Gu were rare enough that even Immortal Crane Sect could not resist the technique’s promise, tracing as it did to Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. Chang Fan used the resources to advance and carry his tribe to glory. Can Yang, though stronger, stayed cautious with a man like Chang Fan. He accepts without long thought, having no choice as the sect’s representative, aware Chang Fan used him, mindful of its heavy reward. ^{ch. 789}

Inside, the eight tribe Immortals curse Chang Fan loudly, while Yu Liang lies motionless and unconscious. Outside, Fang Yuan looks down at an enormous blood veil covering the corpse like a mountain. The demonic path Immortals test it and find it unmoved. None, Fang Yuan included, has ever seen or heard of this formation before. ^{ch. 789}

Zhuo Zhan charges the veil, vowing to smash it, but his blood sprays out of control within breaths. Still far from the veil, he has already lost half his blood. Continuing would drain him into a corpse. They recognize the effect of menses blood Gu, a Blood Sea Ancestor inheritance Chang Fan truly took and raised to Immortal Gu level. ^{ch. 789}

Only an attack aimed at defensive abilities could break the veil, and several Immortals who try all fail. Fang Yuan, a blood path expert in his previous life who now holds no blood path Immortal Gu, can do nothing to it either. The delay worries everyone, since Yu Liang may already have finished obtaining the inheritance. ^{ch. 789}

Unfettered Scholar calls for a joint attack with long range killer moves. A mortal seizing the inheritance under so many immortals’ eyes would cost him his face in Northern Plains. The demonic path Immortals join him, uniting their attacks in countless explosions against the veil. The veil keeps shrinking but keeps regenerating too, and their attacks clearly do not do enough. ^{ch. 789}