Chapter 793

The demonic path Gu Immortals react with shock and dejection at Dong Fang Yu Liang standing as a new immortal, wondering if he snatched Chang Fan’s inheritance by ascending on the spot. Chang Fan has already completed his possession but hides the truth, still speaking in Yu Liang’s voice, and taunts the crowd for daring to attack a righteous path super force. Zhuo Zhan charges first astride a flying heavenly boar, and more than ten demonic path Gu Immortals follow with killing intent, meaning to capture Yu Liang alive and interrogate the inheritance from him. Unfettered Scholar is among them. Fang Yuan holds back with a few others, not knowing of the possession but wary of Can Yang. ^{ch. 793}

Can Yang stands concealed just behind Yu Liang, injured and hidden by a technique fine enough that none of the demonic path Gu Immortals sense him. He offers to help, but Yu Liang refuses: exposure would reveal the collusion with Central Continent, and cost him standing with both paths. Yu Liang also wants to cripple these enemies alone, his only way to rise after eight Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals died. Zhuo Zhan closes in with a sinister smile. Yu Liang stands alone, at the bottom of rank six, yet neither flustered nor scared. ^{ch. 793}

Yu Liang raises his right arm and names his move: Myriad Star Fireflies. It is Chang Fan’s strongest killer move, famous across Northern Plains. His fame as the region’s top wisdom path Gu Immortal rested on battle strength too: as first supreme elder of a righteous path super force he easily outmatched Pi Shui Han and Unfettered Scholar in his life. Zhuo Zhan, Lu Qing Ming and Divine Lord Tian Du all scoff that a newborn immortal cannot wield tens of thousands of Gu worms so easily, though Tian Du readies a strike regardless. ^{ch. 793}

Hei Lou Lan itches to join the fight. Her battle strength has been weaker since she lost her self strength Immortal Gu, though Fang Yuan is a great strength beside her. Fang Yuan means to share something he had found earlier but tells her only to wait, sensing the situation is not right. Before he can say more, the sky darkens and countless firefly-like lights burst out, one speck weak alone but tens of millions together. Unfettered Scholar, who lost to this move before, finds it stronger than in his memory, and cannot understand how a newly ascended immortal wields it so masterfully. ^{ch. 793}

Each starlight speck carries a star thought that survives the speck’s destruction and forces its way into a mind, and with the specks endless, no defense can hold forever. At best the thoughts disrupt a mind. At worst they take it over completely and turn the Gu Immortal into Yu Liang’s puppet. Zhuo Zhan’s attack veers off course under the strain and nearly strikes an ally, who accuses him of already being invaded and calls him more hindrance than help. The move’s weakness is hard to find. Since Pi Shui Han has fled and Fang Yuan stands apart, everyone turns to Unfettered Scholar, the only rank seven fighter present, hoping shelter beside him will improve their odds. ^{ch. 793}

Unfettered Scholar lost to this move once before, and studied Chang Fan closely afterward, so he understands it more deeply than anyone present. It turns a Gu Immortal’s own racing thoughts into more star thoughts, growing stronger against a crowd but weaker against one, since its strength is setting many against each other. Chang Fan built it because he so often fought many enemies alone while raising Dong Fang tribe by himself. More specks gather around Unfettered Scholar than anyone, drawn by the speed of his racing mind. He judges the chaos exactly what Yu Liang wants, and suspects a fire path Gu Immortal hides here. He fights anyway. Fleeing now, after losing to Chang Fan once already, would cost him every Gu Immortal’s respect in Northern Plains. ^{ch. 793}