Chapter 872

Fang Yuan can now take far more appearances, since change form Immortal Gu is fused into vaguely familiar face. He wants to blend back into Northern Plains Zombie Alliance by secretly killing and impersonating a member, since his exposed Sha Huang identity has left the Alliance too vigilant for his old method. Carrying this out without any trace leaking would need a battlefield killer move, an independent battlefield where reinforcements usually cannot be called; immortal ones are named quasi blessed lands. Most Gu Immortals lack one, and so does Fang Yuan, even in his previous life. Fairy Li Shan does have one, pear orchard. Her help is essential, but she refuses him. ^{ch. 872}

Just then a request for reinforcements arrives instead, from Lang Ya land spirit; it surprises him, since he had stopped contacting the land spirit often after Northern Plains’s grand auction. In his previous life, ownerless Lang Ya blessed land resisted seven entire waves of invading Gu Immortals, costing even Feng Jiu Ge his life at the seventh. Its twelve cloud buildings, each above a desolate beast, are only the outer defense. ^{ch. 872}

Fang Yuan surmises the true strength lies in the Immortal Gu of its original owner, Long Hair Ancestor, said to be the number one refinement path immortal, officially credited with thirty-eight Immortal Gu and unofficially rumored to pass a hundred. The blessed land also holds the Heavenly Essence Treasure Imperial Lotus, producing endless immortal essence and letting its ownerless land spirit boldly activate them. Fang Yuan wonders whether his actions have changed Northern Plains’s course, since this call comes at only the fourth wave against seven in his previous life. He concludes the invaders certainly outmatch him alone. ^{ch. 872}

Fang Yuan judges Lang Ya’s wealth worth the risk: in his previous life even Heavenly Court seized this blessed land, and the gain outweighed losing Feng Jiu Ge. He has profited from the land spirit before, by bluffing him, but his greed after the Northern Plains auction soured the relationship to a freezing point, and recent attempts to reconcile were rebuffed. Helping now would thaw it. Fixed Immortal Travel gives him three breaths to retreat to Hu Immortal blessed land, so the risk seems manageable, and he decides to help, weighing gain against loss coldly, as a demonic path Gu Immortal. ^{ch. 872}

Tai Bai Yun Sheng, who restored Lang Ya blessed land, has an even better relationship with the land spirit and has also received a reinforcement letter. He approves the decision. Fang Yuan leaves at once by stargate, while Tai Bai Yun Sheng, past his earthly calamity, still needs time before he can retake his immortal aperture. ^{ch. 872}

Lang Ya land spirit greets Fang Yuan, looking neither tired nor injured, his attitude warmer than before, and offers the rank six Immortal Gu recipe for all-out effort Gu as reward. Fang Yuan defers it until after they repel the invaders. The land spirit teleports them to the highest floor of a cloud building, proof of many space path dao marks in Lang Ya blessed land. ^{ch. 872}

The once-clear cloud soil is now choked in fog. This is the Twelve Wave Cloud Confusion Formation, activated once the blessed land was attacked, its twelve cloud buildings all mortal Gu Houses serving as its cores. Mirrors show the invaders: Qin Bai Sheng, Jiang Yu, Hei Cheng, Xue Song Zi and He Lang Zi, with a green-robed wind path Gu Immortal and a masked, mysterious black-robed one. Fang Yuan recognizes them as a group of extraordinary strength, naming Qin Bai Sheng, the leader, a famous rank seven expert of Northern Plains. ^{ch. 872}

Their assault has already broken most of the formation. Only five buildings remain, two already guarded by Inkman City’s Gu Immortals. The land spirit assigns Fang Yuan one, takes another himself, and gives the last to Tai Bai Yun Sheng. Fang Yuan frowns: the enemies are too strong, and the cloud buildings are only mortal Gu Houses, so holding the enemies back while protecting the buildings will be quite difficult. ^{ch. 872}