Chapter 794

Unfettered Scholar rallies the group, since the enemy is only one person, and charges Yu Liang after clearing the starlight around himself. Yu Liang welcomes the fight, advancing into the starlight to command it against the whole group alone. He is badly outnumbered at first, but the swelling starlight wrecks cooperation: Gu Immortals accidentally injure each other and stop teaming up, easing the pressure on him. Only Unfettered Scholar threads it skillfully, remaining the foe Yu Liang keeps dodging. Blocked again by his own allies, Unfettered Scholar rages that Yu Liang is too slippery and cunning. ^{ch. 794}

Can Yang stays hidden, healing, inwardly shaken by the might of Myriad Star Fireflies. He keeps glancing at Fang Yuan’s group, with vague guesses about his identity, hoping the starlight will help take him if he joins. Fang Yuan has not moved. The wait leaves Can Yang anxious. ^{ch. 794}

Unable to sustain a long fight, Unfettered Scholar unleashes his trump card, Thousand Disintegrations. Yu Liang dodges nimbly, then stops: Dong Fang Wan Xiu’s furious will surges up inside him, and he charges straight into the move, seemingly suicidal. ^{ch. 794}

Can Yang abandons his healing and shows himself, sending flame at Unfettered Scholar to split his attention while pulling Yu Liang back. Yu Liang’s skull is already breached, star thoughts fountaining out, before Chang Fan regains control. A little more delay would have disintegrated his brain entirely, and without Can Yang he might have died again. Can Yang demands to know what happened. Chang Fan had explained most of the possession beforehand but deliberately withheld its final steps, a failsafe against Can Yang that has just proven its worth. Chang Fan looks pale now, the side effect of an ascension forced under the tribulation. ^{ch. 794}

He had deceived Dong Fang tribe’s eight Gu Immortals, drawing out their origin cores and making them into a blood veil with menses blood Immortal Gu, purged of their wills by the attackers. But the tribulation proved far worse than estimated, forcing him to skip some of the tempering steps and transfer the cores directly. He passed the tribulation. But the new aperture still holds all eight wills, and the hatred of their betrayal lives on in them. ^{ch. 794}

Fighting Unfettered Scholar demands Chang Fan’s full attention, and one lapse lets the danger erupt into a nearly fatal backlash under Thousand Disintegrations. About to explain himself, his face twists ferocious. Can Yang releases his grip and retreats. Yu Liang strikes at his own benefactor, but Can Yang stays wary and the attack hits empty air. The voice cursing Chang Fan as a scoundrel who schemed against his own tribe is not Yu Liang’s but Dong Fang Yi Kong’s. ^{ch. 794}

Unfettered Scholar presses again with Thousand Disintegrations. But Chang Fan regains control and narrowly evades it. The reprieve is brief: another of the eight wills seizes the body, courting death, and Can Yang must save Chang Fan yet again. Myriad Star Fireflies flies apart in chaos, and the demonic path Gu Immortals close in, Unfettered Scholar the greatest threat. Chang Fan has help: Can Yang obstructs Unfettered Scholar with life chasing fire. ^{ch. 794}

Hei Lou Lan sneers that Chang Fan sacrificed his own tribe to possess Yu Liang, and that the scheme has not completely succeeded. Fang Yuan transmits that the fire path Gu Immortal beside Yu Liang is no Northern Plains man but Central Continent’s Old Lord Can Yang. Can Yang, of Immortal Crane Sect, probably suspects Fang Yuan. ^{ch. 794}

Hei Lou Lan frowns at the trouble, since she and Fang Yuan share one fate, and his exposure would endanger her too. Fairy Li Shan is ready to kill Can Yang, but Fang Yuan refuses: doubts alone cannot name his Central Continent identity unless he exposes himself. Fang Yuan already means to retreat, since even at full strength the three could not dominate the battlefield. Hei Lou Lan is reluctant, her revenge against Hei Cheng still unpaid. Fang Yuan says they should retreat and advance: Yu Liang has already lost control more than a dozen times, and the tribe’s headquarters must now be at its weakest. Both women catch his meaning, and Hei Lou Lan flies for the headquarters at once. ^{ch. 794}