Chapter 888

Two months later, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng wait in Eastern Sea for Shark Demon and the others. Tai Bai Yun Sheng, though himself immortal ascended, still feels insignificant before heaven and earth. He guesses only rank nine Gu Venerables could contend with it. Fang Yuan, using the name Xing Xiang Zi, answers with Legends of Ren Zu’s tale of the miniman: growing from smallness to wisdom is painful, and that pain itself shows growth. ^{ch. 888}

A Gu Immortal rises from the sea below them. He is Sha Nan Jiang, a rank six immortal zombie Shark Demon sent to fetch them. He had used an immortal killer move to probe them stealthily, but Fang Yuan’s star path investigative move exposes his traces. Fang Yuan then deduces the name of Sha Nan Jiang’s self-created scenic blue travel immortal zombie body, a secret he has told no one. Fang Yuan waves it off as a lucky guess: star path, not wisdom path, is his main cultivation. Newly respectful, Sha Nan Jiang leads them onward, saying Shark Demon and the others already attack Yu Lu blessed land. ^{ch. 888}

The three dive to the seabed, where a jade door marks Yu Lu blessed land’s entrance, its only link outward. Once closed, it becomes fully sealed off. Dealing with Fang Zheng is what keeps Hu Immortal blessed land safe: without him no one can trace Fang Yuan, and knowing the location alone will not connect an outsider inside. ^{ch. 888}

Sha Nan Jiang’s Gu worms lift the door’s veil. He explains after a failed attempt, Shark Demon paid heavily for a rank seven wisdom path immortal zombie’s help, and the alliance has since broken through vanishing immortal essence dissipation rain, controlling this entrance for a month. ^{ch. 888}

Instead of Yu Lu blessed land itself, they find a battlefield killer move called freezing rain frozen earth, a frozen white world in its third round after the dissipation rain. Hourly freezing rain and snow monsters bar the way to Shark Demon’s group. ^{ch. 888}

After gaining several star path techniques, Fang Yuan has closed his old gaps across combat, movement, investigation and healing. His battle strength now sits firmly at the peak of rank six, rising to rank seven with myriad self. He still lacks a battlefield killer move of his own. Fairy Li Shan had refused his request for one, which he wanted in order to kill and impersonate a Northern Plains Zombie Alliance immortal zombie. So he settled on an alternate plan: enter Eastern Sea as the star path cultivator Xing Xiang Zi and work, through Tai Bai Yun Sheng, into Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance’s headquarters. ^{ch. 888}

Shark Demon greets Tai Bai Yun Sheng warmly and welcomes Fang Yuan as his friend’s friend, unusually warm for a first meeting, partly valuing Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s man as before Immortal Gu. Fang Yuan, modest, calls himself only a wandering lone cultivator. Shark Demon’s wife Su Bai Man, an immortal zombie, asks him to demonstrate his reputed wisdom path attainment, and he agrees to try. She still shows the beauty and elegance she once had, for which Shark Demon sacrificed his cultivation prospects and became a zombie to stay at her side. ^{ch. 888}

Fang Yuan probes the frozen battlefield with many techniques but finds no flaw. It was made by Fairy Yu Lu, a disciple of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, who left behind history’s number one battlefield killer move inheritance. Fang Yuan notes this move fuses directly with Yu Lu blessed land’s own dao marks, more advanced than Lang Ya land spirit dared attempt. ^{ch. 888}

Most Gu Immortals avoid that risk: a battlefield killer move’s temporary dao marks can clash with an aperture’s own, destroying the world and killing its owner at worst. That risk is why Lang Ya land spirit relied on the twelve wave cloud confusion Gu formation against Qin Bai Sheng instead. Fairy Yu Lu overcame that weakness, surpassing even Lang Ya land spirit, with methods beyond Fang Yuan’s imagination. Fang Yuan hopes to obtain her inheritance, or at least one suited killer move. ^{ch. 888}