Freely Leaving After Killing
Fang Yuan flees through the sky from Song Yi Shi and Yao Ge Pi, but he is secretly slowing himself so the pair can keep pace, since his demonic path battle experience from a previous life outmatches anything these two young Gu Immortals have faced. Song Yi Shi, too young and inexperienced, cannot catch him despite her immortal killer move and feels toyed with rather than chasing. Yao Ge Pi, a more experienced lone cultivator, has no Immortal Gu and only mortal killer moves, so he is doomed in this pursuit from the start. Passing a nearby island, two lone cultivators playing chess overhear the commotion, recognize Song Yi Shi, and decide not to interfere, since less trouble beats more. Fang Yuan turns away from the island at once. ch. 896
At web eye sea area, Chen Zhong Yong joins the chase to defend Fairy Yi Shi’s honor. At rumbling thunder sea channel, Bi Qing Tian joins too, anguished that she has been defiled. Fifteen minutes later a battle maniac, Lei Hong, joins too, furious a Northern Plains Gu Immortal targeted Eastern Sea’s own goddess. Angered by the pursuers exaggerating a single glance into far worse, Song Yi Shi secretly orders them to kill Fang Yuan quietly and promises a great reward. They fall silent at once. ch. 896
Wanting the scandal to grow rather than die down, Fang Yuan shouts his own defense, claiming he stumbled onto the underwater volcano through a hidden undercurrent while searching for an island to settle, and invites anyone to verify it. The pursuers shout him down as a liar. He presses on, hinting he could say more, and Song Yi Shi, fearing he will let slip something secret, cuts him off and demands he surrender, promising unconvincingly not to kill an innocent man. Fang Yuan keeps shouting his own defense while the other Gu Immortals, outwardly furious, secretly strain to catch every word. ch. 896
Seven Seas Snake Woman arrives, delighted by the drama, and the wary pursuers recognize her as one of the six great beauties alongside Song Yi Shi. A rank seven demonic path Gu Immortal who has clashed with Song Yi Shi before, she has never dared attack her because of Song Qi Yuan’s power, and she is sure to spread this news with false details added. Fang Yuan chose this route knowing she guards her own sea area during a crucial spawning of red tide fish, information he gathered easily from the righteous path’s warnings about her ruthlessness. She suddenly strikes at Fang Yuan’s pursuers. Lei Hong, unafraid despite his weaker battle strength, steps up to stall her, and she shows disgust at his meddling and stops to deal with him instead, letting the rest detour around her and resume the chase. ch. 896
A long stretch of time passes, more pursuers join, and though increasingly injured Fang Yuan keeps escaping, while Song Yi Shi grows exhausted at how a quiet bath became an endless, humiliating, now widely known chase. Judging the moment right, Fang Yuan casts six illusion star bodies, splitting into six figures that scatter in six directions, and the stunned pursuers split up to give chase. He casts position star swap to appear directly before Yao Ge Pi. Declaring he is not afraid to kill, he uses star cloud grindstone, and Yao Ge Pi, caught off guard, cannot resist and is sucked inside. By the time the others regroup and destroy the grindstone, Fang Yuan already holds Yao Ge Pi’s severed head, and he warns them not to push their luck. The pursuers, all only rank six, are stunned into wariness at how quickly a fellow Gu Immortal died, and they remark on the exemplary battle strength of Northern Plains barbarians. Meanwhile one of the six illusion star bodies has already flown far off, and Fang Yuan uses position star swap once more to shift his true body there, leaving abruptly and freely. ch. 896
