Chapter 850

Fang Yuan names the immortal killer move at once: blood demon body separation. An account of Song Zi Xing’s history says he devised it after betraying Myriad Dragon Dock and defeating his pursuers, while hiding in secret cultivation. The ten sects ambushed him during the current Refinement Path Convention, but he escaped. This was the move’s first public display, shocking Central Continent; his escape was credited to it. ^{ch. 850}

The move creates a clone fast enough to rival blood rainbow flash and realistic enough to fool investigative immortal killer moves. It costs a body part. Sustaining the clone also costs a huge amount of immortal essence. Its true price is the body’s blood path dao marks, spent to let the clone pass as real. Ordinary injuries return their dao marks once healed, but the move spends them outright, so a regrown limb comes back blank. ^{ch. 850}

The account continues: Song Zi Xing survived, left with only a head and half a chest, the rest of his body spent on the move. The ten sects lost face, neither reaching their goal nor avoiding casualties. He lost the violent blood dragon bat and most of his dao marks, vanishing from public view for two hundred years before reappearing fully recovered, having nurtured three violent blood dragon bats. ^{ch. 850}

Fang Yuan looks at the severed arm with a heated gaze. It is a piece of Song Zi Xing’s own body, usable through Gu refinement to create his head. Land spirits are bound only by an obsession fused with their blessed land’s heavenly power, so handing over Song Zi Xing’s head would make Fang Yuan owner of Star Form blessed land regardless of whether Song Zi Xing still lives. ^{ch. 850}

Collecting the arm is troublesome, since breaking the bell would explode it into blood mist. Fang Yuan needs another method, or his plan fails. He is at the periphery of True Yang mountain range near Yuan Yang City, where the bell was left behind by the Gu Immortal chasing Song Zi Xing. It will vanish after one night and release that mist across up to a few hundred li. ^{ch. 850}

In his previous life, Fang Yuan survived in Yuan Yang City on its missions to kill the blood beasts that mist breeds. Taking this arm now is, by that measure, a good deed. He probes the golden bell with mortal killer moves, which leave it unmoved and confirm an immortal killer move. He circles it more than a dozen times before settling on a plan. ^{ch. 850}

Before he can strike, he hears voices drawing near. Gu Masters, drawn by the earlier commotion, are closing in. At his order, thousands of strength path phantoms from his immortal aperture rush the Gu Masters, routing and killing them within a few breaths. ^{ch. 850}

Even with a plan ready, Fang Yuan waits, since haste makes waste. His phantoms cannot investigate or move faster, and a few Gu Masters try to sneak past. Fang Yuan’s own layered investigative killer moves catch and kill them all, leaving no intact corpse. ^{ch. 850}

When all falls silent, Fang Yuan uses Myriad Self First Style, Giant Hand, to grab the thinly defended golden bell. One hard grasp would break it. But he must keep the arm from exploding the instant the bell breaks. As a blood path grandmaster, he arranges over a hundred blood path killer moves under layered Gu formations, checking them carefully before he strikes. The bell breaks and the arm begins to detonate, but stays restrained and sealed in layers. Song Zi Xing had already been extremely weak when he used this arm, spending less than ten beads of immortal essence, which is why Fang Yuan is able to obtain it. ^{ch. 850}