Chapter 882

Fang Yuan guesses the previous land spirit hid his hairy man Gu Immortals inside the rank eight Refinement Cauldron to protect them. Long Hair Ancestor was himself a hairy man. The land spirit loved hairy men as his own. An Immortal Gu House unleashes more power the more Gu Immortals control it, as the Immortal Gu House, Profound Ice House, once showed. More hairy men also make Refinement Cauldron stronger and faster at refining, and Fang Yuan is almost certain this is how the land spirit captured the three earlier invading waves alive. ^{ch. 882}

This fourth wave overwhelmed the land spirit’s human form, forcing his hairy man obsession to take control. Fang Yuan judges this hairy man land spirit has his own flaw. He fights personally, calling his hairy man Gu Immortals out only at the last possible moment. ^{ch. 882}

Qin Bai Sheng, Hei Cheng and the hairy men fall into a stalemate. Suddenly the rank seven hairy man Gu Immortal collapses, killed by sword energy filling his body. The others cry out his name, First Hair, and a female Gu Immortal, Second Hair, kneels over him and breaks down sobbing. Many abandon the fight to console her. ^{ch. 882}

Fang Yuan and Mo Tan Sang now understand why the land spirit kept these hairy men from battle: their fighting ability is at the dregs. The land spirit seems to have raised them as refinement assistants, expert at refining Gu and not at fighting. Fang Yuan and Mo Tan Sang lose all hope in them. ^{ch. 882}

The land spirit’s face turns ashen. He closes First Hair’s eyes after a bitter sigh, and Second Hair screams and faints onto the corpse. ^{ch. 882}

Qin Bai Sheng offers to spare them for Refinement Cauldron. The land spirit refuses at once, calling it impossible. Qin Bai Sheng scoffs at the naive hope of refining his Immortal Gu, allowing no time for it. Sensing something, he pauses, then unleashes the immortal killer move City Crushing Hammer at the cloud building. ^{ch. 882}

The building crumbles, and Fang Yuan flies out, transformed again into a hairy man. This is the last of five cloud buildings; with it gone, the twelve wave cloud confusion formation is broken. Qin Bai Sheng calls the exposed white sky and cloud soil a laughable disguise. ^{ch. 882}

He grabs at the sky, calling for Refinement Cauldron. The black robed Gu Immortal and Fairy Jiang Yu grab at the cloud soil. Thunder cracks and space tears. A giant crack splits the cloud soil from east to west. Even Fang Yuan is startled: this is the true Lang Ya blessed land, and all they had seen was only its surface. Below lies a boundless ocean holding three continents, filled with countless beings and ruled entirely by hairy men. ^{ch. 882}

Mo Tan Sang realizes he stood only on the clouds above this land, and Hei Cheng and Fang Yuan are stunned that a blessed land holds space no ordinary grotto-heaven has. Below, the hairy men panic at the changing sky. Fang Yuan understands why the land spirit dreams of hairy men ruling the world. ^{ch. 882}

Space ruptures to reveal Gu worms, the pieces of Refinement Cauldron. Knowing he can delay no longer, the land spirit orders the battle formation assembled. By secret transmission he tells Mo Tan Sang and Fang Yuan to join the formation, rather than rely on the hairy men. The three of them will be the main force, he says, and holding on means every invader dies. ^{ch. 882}