Chapter 846

In Dang Hun palace, Fang Yuan sits in his eight-armed immortal zombie true form as a battle of wills rages in his immortal aperture between his star will and Mo Yao’s fake will. Because her will cannot replenish and his can, he feeds in fresh batches until hers is ground to an extremely weak state. He then withdraws and lets it recover slowly for a later search. He has already taken the fake will’s most valuable secret, Red Lotus Demon Venerable’s inheritance clues. ^{ch. 846}

Mo Yao, of Spirit Affinity House, was Sword Immortal Bo Qing’s only wife, her wisdom path attainment far surpassing Fang Yuan’s. He first lost a hundred portions of star will for every one of hers in their pure battles of wills. But guided by Dong Fang Chang Fan’s wisdom path inheritance, he improved through repeated fights to four for one. Restrained, her furious fake will can do nothing about it. ^{ch. 846}

The stolen memory turns out to concern not Gu refinement but an old journey of Mo Yao and Bo Qing through Central Continent’s True Yang mountain range. There, after killing a group of desolate beasts, they found a hibiscus stalactite, a rank seven immortal material shedding a drop of rank eight stone heart liquid every year. Rather than harvest it at once, Mo Yao had Bo Qing hide the cave. This let the liquid keep accumulating behind elaborate Gu formations. ^{ch. 846}

Fang Yuan is overjoyed: if still undiscovered, an enormous stash should be waiting for him to sell or trade in treasure yellow heaven, since rank eight material is coveted by many Gu Immortals. The find teaches him more about her fake will, whose hiding technique, unrecorded in Dong Fang Chang Fan’s wisdom path inheritance, he resolves to obtain from her. He does not go to True Yang mountain range yet. ^{ch. 846}

Fang Yuan opens the prison entrance to visit his brother Fang Zheng, trapped in a nightmare Fang Yuan had inflicted on him. He ends it with a wave. ^{ch. 846}

Fang Zheng wakes breathing hard and sweat-soaked, demanding what was done to him. Fang Yuan says the vision proves Lord Sky Crane, not himself, caused the Qing Mao mountain disaster while trying to seize the blood path true inheritance. He killed the clansmen only because forced to survive, while Lord Sky Crane knew this and framed it in his own favor. Fang Yuan calls Fang Zheng a traitor; Fang Zheng, still crediting Lord Sky Crane with saving his life, calls Fang Yuan the true murderer. Enraged, Fang Zheng refuses Fang Yuan’s offer to join him as blood kin and grow strong, vowing to kill Fang Yuan himself for the clan’s death. Fang Yuan only laughs, saying Fang Zheng has learned much in Immortal Crane Sect, and leaves the cell looking forward to that desire. ^{ch. 846}

During the Refinement Path Convention, Fang Yuan advances several deductions using wisdom Gu and star thought Gu. Deduction on vaguely familiar face has reached his limit. Myriad self gains a third strength path core through pulling water Immortal Gu. Airsac Gu’s recipe becomes simpler to mass-produce, its refinement danger cut by thirty percent. He hits a wall on memory thought Gu, star thought Gu and malicious thought Gu. ^{ch. 846}

His attention has also turned to the Blood Deity Immortal Gu recipe, nearly complete: using the Gu requires killing a blood relation, and the Gu’s power then yields a blood deity. A willing sacrifice produces a deity that bonds closely and obeys with ease; one who dies in hatred produces a deity that may backlash against its owner. This is why Fang Yuan works to persuade Fang Zheng rather than force him. Fang Zheng has caused him much trouble, and Fang Yuan will not let him off. ^{ch. 846}