Chapter 875

Lang Ya land spirit’s voice reaches Fang Yuan as he climbs from the yellow jade lion’s body, praising his kill. This is the invaders’ first lost member. The ease of that transmission tells Fang Yuan that Lang Ya blessed land holds unusually many sound path dao marks. Fang Yuan laughs, satisfied: the dying lion served only as a pawn to draw Xue Song Zi in, at almost no cost for so large a gain. ^{ch. 875}

Fought head-on, Xue Song Zi’s borrowed immortal killer moves might have cost Fang Yuan a dozen exchanges without a win. So instead he deduced Xue Song Zi’s low battle strength, his outsider status from Snowy Mountain, and his hunger for an Immortal Gu. He then hid inside the lion’s body, concealed from Xue Song Zi’s repeated scans by vaguely familiar face. Qin Bai Sheng had never told Xue Song Zi the cloud buildings held Gu Immortal defenders. Xue Song Zi grew arrogant on victory reports, and lost for that carelessness. ^{ch. 875}

Fang Yuan asks the land spirit for his reward. He notes that Xue Song Zi’s aperture was destroyed with everything in it, though its dao marks passed into the blessed land. The land spirit promises a heavy reward once the battle ends. Mo Tan Sang, heavily injured, has barely escaped and lost his own building, and Xue Song Zi’s captured soul needs searching for the invaders’ details. This is not Fang Yuan’s first captured soul; an earlier one, in Tai Bai blessed land, stayed hidden, but here it is exposed to the land spirit. ^{ch. 875}

Standing on a cloud building’s rubble, Qin Bai Sheng announces that Xue Song Zi died. Hei Cheng is shocked. The death raises Hei Cheng’s pressure: his battle strength is weak for a rank seven of Shadow Sect, and Xue Song Zi was his natural ally. His worry is not the blessed land but the mysterious allies fighting beside him. ^{ch. 875}

Qin Bai Sheng reasons that only a rank eight could beat Xue Song Zi quickly head-on, and Lang Ya blessed land holds none. So he judges Xue Song Zi found a cloud building, kept quiet to claim the reward, and died testing his new Immortal Gu in the enemy’s trap. Hei Cheng is unsettled by so precise a deduction from so little. ^{ch. 875}

Qin Bai Sheng sighs at having been too reluctant to waste their limited means of communication. But he reveals that eight cloud buildings are already dismantled. From their cores he built a mortal killer move able to find the rest, though using it here needs immortal moves to guard it. He calls the mysterious black-robed Gu Immortal to guard him while he works it, not trusting Hei Cheng, and sends Hui Feng Zi and He Lang Zi to where Xue Song Zi died. He had tracked Xue Song Zi with an immortal-level technique when lending the Gu, in case Xue Song Zi kept it; bound by the promised reward, Xue Song Zi let him. ^{ch. 875}

The tracking leads them quickly to the scene. Hui Feng Zi correctly reads a powerful strength path killer move as the cause. It matches Fang Yuan’s own myriad self, which fuses three strength path core Gu, self strength, pulling mountain and pulling water, though he can no longer use cleanse soul Immortal Gu, rarely joined so perfectly. ^{ch. 875}

He Lang Zi, wary of human Gu Immortals, doubts the read. He then declares rank seven strength path truly rare, wonders if this is Domination Immortal, then decides to destroy the cloud building first. Fang Yuan flies out and introduces himself as Xing Xiang Zi guarding the building, asking who they are. Hui Feng Zi privately warns He Lang Zi that Xing Xiang Zi is a rank six star path immortal. He Lang Zi silently suspects a second Gu Immortal hides nearby, the two of them perhaps behind Xue Song Zi’s death. ^{ch. 875}